The LCK Cup 2025 groups have been announced and fans are in for a treat. With a revamp to the LCK format coming into effect in the new season, fans are eagerly awaiting the start of a brand new era in the LCK. Gone are the standard two splits with double round robin best-of-threes, and in with a revamped format.

The action kicks off with the LCK Cup, a new kick-off style tournament that will eventually send one team to the inaugural First Stand 2025, the third and newest international event on the professional League of Legends calendar.

Without further ado, let's take a look at what the groups will be for the 2025 LCK Cup:

LCK Cup 2025 groups

Unfortunately, fans will have to wait a little while longer to watch Zeus play against his former team in T1 as they have both been drafted into the same group. To give a little refresher, 10 teams will be drawn into two groups of five. The teams will then play the five teams from the other group in a single round-robin.

Although we won't get to see Zeus take on T1, we will get to see a historic matchup in T1 versus Gen.G, one of the biggest rivalries competitive League of Legends has to offer. This will be an exciting event for LCK fans as this will be the first time they get to experience Fearless Draft being used by the tier-one teams. It is confirmed that the LCK teams will be playing on Hard Fearless Draft, which means a champion can only be picked once in the series, once they've been used, they're gone.

Here's a complete rundown of the two groups for the LCK Cup:

The 2025 LCK Cup officially kicks off on January 15. This article will be updated once the official schedule is released.