List of ICC Champions Trophy Winners Till Now

The ICC Champions Trophy has been an intriguing competition in the 50-over format ever since its inception in 1998. What started as the ICC Knockout Trophy in its first edition with 9 teams taking part, saw its popularity rise in just a couple of editions, and then the ICC rebranded it to what it is today, the ICC Champions Trophy from 2002 onwards. Over the years, it has seen various world-class performances, and thrilling action while receiving warmth from cricket fans all across the globe in the 8 editions so far. With the prestigious tournament all set to return after a gap of 8 years, for the first time since 2017, the cricketing world is buzzing with excitement.

ICC Champions Trophy Winner List

The table below provides all the information about the winners of the ICC Champions Trophy year-wise in all of its 8 editions so far:

There have been 7 different winners across the 8 editions of the ICC Champions Trophy with Australia and India claiming 2 titles each. However, India’s first victory which came in 2002 saw them share the trophy with Sri Lanka as rain played spoilsport in the final. It is interesting to note that no host team has won the trophy on its own, Sri Lanka were the joint-winners when they hosted it while there have been two instances when the host team has gone on to lose in the final, both being England in 2004 and 2013.

We will now rank the past winners of the ICC Champions Trophy in terms of their performances in the respective editions they went on to win the whole thing keeping different factors in mind like a number of matches won as opposed to played, the margin of wins, oppositions faced to name a few.

Here are the rankings of the past winners of the ICC Champions Trophy (in reverse order):

7. Sri Lanka (Joint-winners in 2002)

Out of all the 7 winners of the ICC Champions Trophy, Sri Lanka are the only team who did not hold the trophy on their own and that is why they are ranked the lowest among all previous winners.

They played hosts to the tournament in 2002, the same year in which it was called the ICC Champions Trophy for the first time and remained unbeaten throughout the tournament, technically. The final was washed out due to rain, not once but twice, as the rains did not allow the summit clash to be completed on the reserve day as well with Sri Lanka batting their full quota of 50 overs twice in two days and the rain coming down during the Indian run chase.

Sri Lanka won both their group matches against Pakistan and Netherlands after which they produced a world-class performance against World Champions Australia to brush them aside. Opener Sanath Jayasuriya led them with the bat while Muthiah Muralidaran emerged as the highest wicket-taker of the tournament, unsurprisingly.

6. New Zealand (Winners in 2000)

The Kiwis find themselves at the sixth spot in the list with one title to their name which they won in the year 2000. This also happened to be the first ICC title for New Zealand. Back then, the tournament was in its infancy as it was just the second edition of what is today called the ICC Champions Trophy but in that edition, it was played under the name of ICC Knockout and was staged in Kenya.

As the name suggests, the tournament consisted only of knockout (do-or-die) matches and there was no room for error in the 11-team competition. New Zealand started their journey from the Quarter-Final stage after the three pre-quarter-finals were done with.

They got past Zimbabwe comfortably but the real test lay ahead for the team from down under. They were up against Pakistan in the semi-finals who were a powerhouse at the turn of the century. It was a close encounter and New Zealand went on to complete a successful run-chase with 4 wickets in hand.

Up next was the big final and they had India to contend with. Once again, they had to chase a target and this time they did so successfully on the back of a century from Chris Cairns who went on to become the player of the match in the final as the Kiwis got past a very strong Indian unit to clinch the title in Nairobi.

Till date, this remains the only white-ball ICC title that New Zealand have managed to win.

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5. South Africa (Winners in 1998)

Up next are the inaugural winners of the tournament, South Africa, who were the first team to lay hands on the trophy. The trophy, which was first known as the Wills International Cup was played in Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1998 and featured 9 teams.

Just like New Zealand clinched their first ICC trophy in 2000 with the knockout cup, South Africa did so before them in the very first edition which had a similar format. The format was similar, the result was similar even the number of matches played was also the same but the thing that differentiated both the campaigns and put South Africa ahead of New Zeland in this list is the quality of opposition they faced enroute their championship win and also the greater ease with which the Proteas won their matches.

South Africa chased down a (then) stiff target of 282 set by England rather comfortably to get past them in the Quarter-Finals which was the first assignment for them. Their next challenge was facing the World Champions at that time, Sri Lanka, in the semis and that was a tough proposition, especially in subcontinental conditions. They brushed the world champions aside, to the surprise of many and went into the finals where they executed another comfortable run-chase against West Indies and clinched the inaugural title.

For his player-of-the-match performances in both the semis as well as the finals, Jacques Kallis was adjudged the Player of the Series as he ended up as the highest wicket-taker and the second-highest run-getter of the competition.

The next two positions are occupied by West Indies and Pakistan who also have won the tournament once, just like all the other teams before this, but what has been special in the case of both these teams has been their journey in the respective editions and their fight against the odds to emerge as champions. Let’s have a look –

4. West Indies (Winners in 2004)

When West Indies won the Champions Trophy in 2004, the tournament’s format had changed and the matches were no longer straight shootouts between teams. A 12-team round-robin format had been adapted and this edition was the second straight time the same format was used.

West Indies emerged as the unlikely winners of Pool B in the group stages and advanced to play the semi-finals ahead of South Africa who were placed in their group as well as Bangladesh who were an emerging powerhouse in the early 2000s.

In the semi-finals, they got the better of an underwhelming Pakistan team who did not turn up with the bat and West Indies ended up steamrolling them. The greatest challenge, however, for the Caribbean nation was coming up in the finals in the form of the hosts, England.

England walked into the final as favorites and for a large part, it did look like their trophy drought in the ICC events was going to end. Chasing 218, West Indies looked down and out at 147/8 but a resilient 71-run 9^th wicket stand between wicketkeeper Courtney Browne and left-armer Ian Bradshaw left the England team and their supporters at the Oval stunned as the West Indies scripted a famous victory and took home the Champions Trophy for the first time.

3. Pakistan (Winners in 2017)

We fast-forward to 13 years later when the Champions Trophy last took place, in 2017. By then, we had seen several iterations and since the last three editions there were 8 teams in total divided into two groups followed by the knockouts and this edition continued with the same.

Pakistan, for the first time in the tournament’s history, lost to arch-rivals India and it was a denting loss to kick off their campaign. Things looked gloomy for the team in Green and they were forced into a do-or-die situation straightaway.

The team, led from the front by Sarfaraz Khan, went on a run and took apart every opposition that came their way displaying a fabulous turnaround. South Africa and Sri Lanka were the recipients of a solid team performance in the group stage while hosts England were outclassed by Pakistan who had hit top gear by the time they reached the summit clash in a repeat encounter against defending champions India in what was one of the most-anticipated finals to have taken place.

Fakhar Zaman led the way with a scintillating century for Pakistan while Mohammad Amir and Hasan Ali (player of the series in that edition) destroyed the famous Indian batting lineup as Pakistan went on to register a massive win and were crowned the winners of the Champions Trophy and are now the defending champions as they get ready to host the tournament for the first time ever.

2. India (Winners in 2013 & joint-winners in 2002)

We now move into the multiple-time winners of the Champions Trophy and first up occupying the second position in the list is India. The cricket-crazy nation has managed to win the Champions Trophy twice, once when the final was abandoned due to rain in 2002 and the trophy was shared between India and hosts Sri Lanka, and the second time was in 2013 when India marched through the entirety of the tournament being unbeaten and emerged as the winners eventually under MS Dhoni.

India were unbeaten in the 2002 edition as well getting past Zimbabwe and England in the group stage and defeating South Africa in the semis but when they came up against the hosts Sri Lanka in the final, rain played spoilsport, not once but twice and eventually the trophy had to be shared among the neighbors as discussed earlier. In that edition, Virender Sehwag led the run charts opening the batting for India.

Cut to 2013, India marched on unbeaten to the finals of the Champions Trophy once again getting the better of sides like South Africa, West Indies, Pakistan and Sri Lanka led with the bat by am opener from Delhi once more in the form of Shikhar Dhawan and were yet again scheduled to play the hosts in the final, this time England.

Rain threatened to spoil the party once more but eventually it ceased and the 50-over final was cut short to 20 overs a side India got past England in a nail-biting encounter going down to the last ball.

For his all-round heroics, Ravindra Jadeja was adjudged the Player of the Match while Shikhar Dhawan walked away with the Player of the Series honour.

1. Australia (Winners in 2004 & 2006)

The only team which had won the Champions Trophy twice, outrightly, and are deservingly at the top of this ranking are none other than Australia. The Kangaroos won the tournament in 2006 and 2009 and are also the only team to successfully defend the Champions Trophy so far.

Needless to say, Australia were near on unbeatable in the first decade of the 21^st century, their three successive 50-over world trophies came in that time as well, and unsurprisingly they went back-to-back with the Champions Trophy as well, a format they absolutely loved ruling.

It was a surprise to many that they lost their opening match in 2006 to the then defending champions West Indies but that only proved to be a one-off as the Aussies hit the ground running from the next game, as they needed to, and went on a winning spree registering successive wins against England, hosts India, New Zealand and then eventually capping it off with a sweet revenge victory against West Indies in the final.

They started off the next time, in 2009 in South Africa, against West Indies again and this time the tables had turned as the Aussies were the defending champions and they comfortably went past the team from the Caribbean. Rain marred their encounter against India and they finished off the group stages with a thrilling last-ball win against Pakistan. They defeated England and New Zealand in the semis and the finals respectively and went on to become a 2-time Champions Trophy winner.

In both their campaigns, a young Shane Watson owned the finals and was awarded the player-of-the-match awards in both while skipper Ricky Ponting was the player-of-the-series in the 2009 edition.