Esports Charts published its annual year-end ranking of the ten most-watched esports teams across all esports titles, measured by total hours watched. The stats are taken from every major tournament they participated in.
South Korean organization T1 tops the chart yet again at 196,031,887 hours watched, with Esports Charts estimating the gap to second-place Gen.G to be at roughly 65%.
One big caveat to consider is that the ranking excludes Battle Royale titles and viewership data from Chinese streaming platforms, and it aggregates across games and platforms into a single table. Essentially, the list is mainly a scoreboard for the biggest esports ecosystems that Esports Charts tracks.
While T1 remains at the top of the ranking, the spots below changed significantly compared to 2024. Last year was mainly dominated by League of Legends, with six teams, but this time around, Counter-Strike is level with Riot’s game, with four teams. Mobile Legends: Bang Bang remains the only other team in the ranking.
Here’s the 2025 top 10 esports teams by hours watched:
- T1 – League of Legends – 196.031,887
- Gen.G – League of Legends – 118,442,645
- ONIC Esports – Mobile Legends: Bang Bang – 96,596,393
- RRQ Hoshi – Mobile Legends: Bang Bang – 95,207,000
- Team Vitality – Counter-Strike – 90,343,436
- Hanwha Life Esports – League of Legends – 87,456,881
- KT Rolster – League of Legends – 79,985,201
- Team Spirit – Counter-Strike – 79,168,484
- MOUZ – Counter-Strike – 69,939,384
- Team Falcons – Counter-Strike – 68,686,503
T1’s watch time basically didn’t change year over year, while Gen.G climbed from 108.2M hours watched to 118.4M, a 9.5% increase. Gen.G dominated the entire year, but T1 pulled the same trick again by winning Worlds and completing the three-peat.
Compared to last year, League of Legends lost Bilibili Gaming, Dplus KIA, and G2 from the list, while Hanwha Life stepped down one position, and KT Rolster jumped straight to seventh thanks to an unexpected run to the grand finals.
Counter-Strike lost both last year’s representatives in NAVI and G2. Instead, we have Team Vitality as a clear number one in fifth, with Team Spirit, MOUZ, and Team Falcons rounding out the top ten.
To claim that CS is up there with League now would be unserious, but it’s not as outlandish a statement if we take T1’s immense popularity as an outlier. Still, we think the Korean powerhouse will once again dominate the chart in 2026, unless the roster catastrophically underperforms with their new AD Carry, Kim “Peyz” Su-hwan.
