LIT 2026 Winter Split: The Calendar
The engines are revving up on the Rift!
Tomorrow, January 8, the Winter Split of the Italian League of Legends Championship goes live.
The finals of the tournament will be held again in Montecatini Terme, on February 27 and 28, giving us the opportunity to experience the emotions of the Italian esports scene in person.
The number of the teams officially returns to 8 since P11 Esports and Deacoy Esport officially join the Championship.
aNc Legends are officialy stepping aside, but not completely, as they simply rebrand to HMBLE Legends, forming a partnership with Team HMBLE, the Brawl Stars world champions.
The regular season of the Championship will be live from January 8 to 23, then after a short break, the Playoffs phase will begin on January 28.
LIT 2026 Winter Split: The Rosters
Colossal Gaming
- Toplane : TheMountain 🇮🇹
- Jungle: Fragola 🇮🇹
- Midlane : Bisgaard 🇩🇰
- ADC : PiskHello 🇮🇹
- Support : Centu 🇬🇷
- Coaching Staff: Herna 🇮🇹, Crest 🇮🇹
After losing the Summer 2025 Finals, Colossal Gaming completely renews its roster, keeping only Herna and Crest as the team’s Head Coach and Assistant Coach respectively.
After 2 splits with aNc Legends, Fragola and PiskHello join Colossal Gaming in search of better results and the chance to secure a good placement in the Championship.
ZENA Esports
- Toplane : Raffy 🇮🇹
- Jungle: Jekko 🇬🇪 / Ocram 🇮🇹
- Midlane : Sadaz 🇮🇹 / Memo 🇮🇹
- ADC : RaptoSaurus 🇮🇹
- Support : OrthoZero 🇮🇹
- Coaching Staff: Druk 🇮🇹, Pinguino 🇮🇹, Franzizkuz 🇧🇪
Just like Colossal Gaming, the defending champions also completely renew their roster.
Two familiar names remain in the Genovese house though: OrthoZero and Sadaz, players who already competed for ZENA during Spring 2025.
On the staff side, Druk gets promoted from Assistant to Head Coach, Franzizkuz stays on as Individual Coach, while Pinguino makes his debut as Assistant Coach.
AVE Axolotl
- Toplane: Cripple 🇷🇸
- Jungle: Elix1r 🇬🇷
- Midlane: Shack 🇮🇹
- ADC: JakorHS 🇮🇹 / Padawii 🇮🇹
- Support: Tigrot 🇮🇹 🇨🇭 / Kiwii 🇨🇭
- Coaching Staff: NanoCR 🇨🇷 , Claud 🇮🇹
Axolotl, keeping their Italian core of Shack, Padawii, and Tigrot, plus the addition of two foreign players in top lane and jungle, could give them the boost they lacked to reach the competition’s final stages.
EKO Esports
- Toplane: Iobellan 🇮🇹 / Sala 🇮🇹
- Jungle: Balyy 🇪🇸
- Midlane: DVN 🇮🇹 / BeWhite 🇮🇹
- ADC: Toti 🇮🇹
- Support: S1D 🇮🇹
Both Divine and Iobellan return to EKO, they will be joined by S1DBellino who returns to LIT after several splits in BTL.
The topside triptych has already had the opportunity to experiment together in Circuito Tormenta, reaching third place at the Lucca Comics Qualifier.
GMBLERS
- Toplane: Diobello 🇮🇹
- Jungle: Mario 🇮🇹
- Midlane : DejaVu 🇮🇹
- ADC: Rharesh 🇮🇹
- Support: Shredder 🇮🇹
- Coaching Staff: Memento 🇮🇹, Feed 🇮🇹
Full Italian roster for GMBLERS in collaboration with Macko, they managed to Shredder back to the Italian Championship, with Rharesh returning as ADC alongside him.
After 3 years, DejaVu makes his competitive return, as he is one of the few Italian Challenger-level players.
Young top side for GMBLERS made by Mario, who played in AAXL during Summer 2025, and Diobello, who has played in BTL for years and finally gets his chance to make his debut in LIT.
DEACOY Esports
- Toplane: Fratellin 🇮🇹
- Jungle: Hamudis 🇩🇪 / Yesu 🇮🇹
- Midlane : Sharon 🇹🇷
- ADC: Kyte 🇮🇹
- Support: Fornari 🇮🇹
- Coaching Staff: Rozest 🇮🇹, Paolocannone 🇮🇹
Deacoy makes their First Division debut with a fresh and innovative lineup, featuring 3 players who participated in the Breeze of Glory.
HMBLE Legends
- Toplane: APP 🇷🇸
- Jungle: Adi1 🇵🇱
- Midlane : Vigil 🇮🇹
- ADC: Tyrone 🇮🇹
- Support: Click 🇮🇹
- Coaching Staff: Cristo 🇮🇹, Brizz 🇮🇹, Noodlez 🇮🇹
Likely the top contenders in the Championship, this team boasts a support of Click’s caliber, fresh off a year of experience in LVP, Spain’s first division.
Vigil and Tyrone join him in the team to complete the Italian triptych, both finalists from Summer Split 2025.
The Serbian Toplaner APP arrives to our league at only 19 years old after his split with CZN in the EBL.
Jungler Adi1 brings extensive experience from Ultraliga, Prime League, and Hitpoint Masters.
It was him, with Nightbirds, who knocked out aNc Legends in the last EMEA Masters.
P11 Esports
- Toplane: Haruhiro 🇮🇹
- Jungle: Izo 🇵🇱 / Gremy 🇧🇪
- Midlane : Xen0gan 🇮🇹
- ADC: Showman 🇬🇷
- Support: Downfall 🇮🇹
- Coaching Staff: Tia 🇮🇹
P11 find themselves thrust into the championship at the last minute.
The team decides to keep part of the roster that already competed in BTL, confirming Izo and Haruhiro.
Impossible not to dwell on Haruhiro, who after several splits in First League with Inferno returns to top division competition after years of inactivity.
