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League of Ireland Premier Division

League of Ireland Premier Division: top tier of men's football in the Republic of Ireland, SSE Airtricity-sponsored, founded 1985, summer season since 2003, 10 clubs, average attendance 3,775 in 2025, Shamrock Rovers champions 2020-2023.

League of Koreans in Japan

The League of Koreans in Japan, known as Choryŏn or Chōren, was the main organization of Korean residents in occupied Japan, founded in October 1945.

League of Left-Wing Writers

The League of Left-Wing Writers (中国左翼作家联盟, Zuolian) was a revolutionary literary organization founded in Shanghai in 1930 under Communist Party direction and led publicly by Lu Xun.

League of Legends

League of Legends (LoL), Riot Games' free-to-play MOBA since 2009, born from the DotA Allstars mod: 5v5 Summoner's Rift matches, 170+ champions, 100M+ monthly players, franchised esports, and the Netflix series Arcane.

League of Legends Champions Korea (리그 오브 레전드 챔피언스 코리아)

League of Legends Champions Korea (LCK, 리그 오브 레전드 챔피언스 코리아) is South Korea's top League of Legends league: ten Seoul-based teams, franchised since 2021, single-season format since 2025, three Worlds slots.

League of Legends Championship Pacific

League of Legends Championship Pacific (LCP) is Riot Games' top-tier APAC LoL esports league, launched 2025, hosted in Taipei, with 8 partner and guest teams from Vietnam, Taiwan, Japan, and Southeast Asia; Team Secret Whales swept the 2026 titles.

League of Legends EMEA Championship

The League of Legends EMEA Championship (LEC), formerly the EU LCS, is Riot Games' top League of Legends league for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

League of Legends Pro League

League of Legends Pro League (LPL, 英雄联盟职业联赛), China's Tier 1 LoL esports league founded 2013 with 8 teams, now 14 teams; sole Mainland China path to First Stand, MSI, and Worlds.

League of Legends World Championship

League of Legends World Championship (Worlds), Riot Games' annual international esports tournament since 2011, held September to November. Play-In, Swiss, and knockout stages decide the Summoner's Cup; South Korea leads with eight titles, T1 reigning three-time champion.

League of Legends: Wild Rift

League of Legends: Wild Rift is Riot Games' free-to-play 5v5 mobile MOBA, announced October 2019, in regional beta from September 2020, with ~20-minute matches, no PC cross-play, and a China-centered esports scene.

League of Lezhë

The League of Lezhë (Lidhja e Lezhës) was a military alliance of Albanian nobles, founded in 1444 and led by Skanderbeg against the Ottoman Empire.

League of Mayapan

The League of Mayapan (Liga de Mayapán) was a confederation of Maya lineages centered on the walled city of Mayapán in northwest Yucatán, dominant from the late 13th century.

League of Militant Atheists

The League of Militant Atheists (Союз воинствующих безбожников) was a mass Soviet anti-religious organization founded in 1925, led by Em. Yaroslavsky, and formally dissolved in 1947.

League of Nations

The League of Nations (Société des Nations), 1920–1946, was the first intergovernmental organization for international peace and security, headquartered in Geneva, predecessor of the UN, dissolved April 1946.

League of Nations financial reconstruction of Austria

The League of Nations financial reconstruction of Austria was a 1922 internationally supervised stabilization program, funded by a 650-million-gold-crown loan, that ended Europe's first hyperinflation.

League of Nations mandate

League of Nations mandate: post-WWI legal status under Article 22 of the Covenant, placing former German and Ottoman territories under mandatory powers in A, B, and C classes, supervised by the Permanent Mandates Commission, later replaced by UN trusteeship.

League of Nations Treaty Series

The League of Nations Treaty Series (LNTS) was the official publication of treaties registered with the League of Nations Secretariat, published in 205 volumes from 1920 to 1946.

League of Peace and Freedom

League of Peace and Freedom, also recorded as Ligue Internationale de la Paix et de la Liberté: a British pacifist organization founded in London in August 1915 for educational peace propaganda, publishing Towards Ultimate Harmony and penny pamphlets including Bertrand Russell's The Pacifist Philosophy of Life.

League of Peja

The League of Peja (Lidhja e Pejës), also known as Besa-Besë, was an Albanian national organization founded in January 1899, led by Haxhi Zeka to campaign for Albanian autonomy.

League of Polish Families

League of Polish Families (Liga Polskich Rodzin, LPR), Polish nationalist Catholic-conservative party active 2001–2011; won 7.78% in 2001, governed 2006–2007 under Roman Giertych's circle, collapsed to 1.5% by 2007.

League of Prizren

The League of Prizren, Albanian Lidhja Shqiptare e Prizrenit, was an Albanian political and military organization founded in 1878, the first organized framework of Albanian nationalism.

League of Social Democrats

The League of Social Democrats (LSD; 社会民主连线) was a left-wing pro-democracy party in Hong Kong, founded in 2006 and known as the camp's most radical faction before its 2025 disbandment.

League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class

The League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class (Союз борьбы за освобождение рабочего класса) was a Petersburg Marxist organization founded in 1895 and led by Vladimir Lenin.

League of the Three Emperors

League of the Three Emperors (Dreikaiserbund): conservative alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Russia, formed 1872–73, revived by the secret 1881 treaty, lapsed 1887, replaced by the Reinsurance Treaty.

League of Women Voters

League of Women Voters (LWV): American nonpartisan grassroots nonprofit founded February 14, 1920 in Chicago by Carrie Chapman Catt's NAWSA suffragists; runs VOTE411.org, sponsored 1976-1988 presidential debates, advocates voting rights, litigates, Leagues in all 50 states.