ICC Champions Trophy History: Complete Winners List 1998–2025 — All 9 Tournaments Explained

The ICC Champions Trophy has been played 9 times between 1998 and 2025 — originally conceived as a mini-World Cup for the eight best ODI teams in the world, designed to be played in under two weeks and deliver a compressed tournament format that created high-stakes knockout cricket between the top cricket nations. The tournament began as the ICC Knockout Trophy (later renamed Wills International Cup) in 1998 before being rebranded as the Champions Trophy from 2002. Its history includes co-hosted editions, cancelled editions (2020), joint-winner declarations (2002 when rain intervened), and the hybrid-model 2025 edition hosted in Pakistan with India's matches moved to Dubai due to the BCCI-PCB security arrangement. The nine editions have produced seven different winners — South Africa (1998), New Zealand (2000), India and Sri Lanka jointly (2002), West Indies (2004), Australia (2006), India (2013), West Indies (2016), Pakistan (2017), and India (2025) — with India emerging as the most successful team with three titles and the only team to win the tournament three times. The Champions Trophy occupies a specific place in the ICC calendar as an intermediate competition between World Cups — it is less frequent than bilateral ODI series but less demanding than the 10-week ODI World Cup, and the compressed round-robin plus knockout format creates intense, high-pressure fixtures between top-8 teams who must win every game or face early elimination. The 2025 edition in Pakistan — the first Champions Trophy held in Pakistan — returned the tournament to the international schedule after a 6-year gap (the 2021 and 2022 tournament slots were used for T20 World Cups) and produced one of the tournament's most memorable editions with India defeating New Zealand in the final at Dubai to claim their third CT title.

Champions Trophy Tournament by Tournament: 1998–2025

The 1998 ICC Knockout Trophy in Dhaka, Bangladesh, was won by South Africa, who defeated West Indies in the final. South Africa's title came in their first participation in a major ICC event as a non-Test-touring nation following their readmission to international cricket in 1991 — the Dhaka 1998 win represented South Africa's first ICC limited-overs title. The 2000 ICC Knockout Tournament was held in Kenya and won by New Zealand, who defeated India in the final in Nairobi — New Zealand's only ICC CT title and their first major ODI tournament win. The 2002 Champions Trophy in Sri Lanka ended without a decisive result when persistent rain prevented India and Sri Lanka from completing the final — the trophy was shared between the two sides, making this the only time in major ICC tournament history that a title was declared joint. The 2004 Champions Trophy in England was won by West Indies, who defeated England in the final at The Oval — West Indies' first ICC tournament win since the 2000 Knockout and their last major ICC ODI title for over a decade. The 2006 Champions Trophy in India was won by Australia, who defeated West Indies in the final in Mumbai — Australia's only Champions Trophy title and part of their dominant early-2000s era in ODI cricket that included the 2003 and 2007 ODI World Cup wins. The 2013 Champions Trophy in England was won by India, who defeated England in the final at Edgbaston — India's second CT title after 2002 (where the title was shared) and a significant Dhoni-era win on English conditions. India's 2013 final victory over England on English soil was achieved through a rain-affected match in which India chased 130 runs in 20 overs (DLS target) — a result that generated controversy about the format but was confirmed as the match result. The 2016 ICC World Twenty20 — not the CT — was won by West Indies. The 2016 CT was not played. The 2017 Champions Trophy in England was won by Pakistan, who defeated India by 180 runs in the final at The Oval in London — Pakistan's only Champions Trophy title, Fakhar Zaman's century in the final, and the largest winning margin in a CT final. The 2025 Champions Trophy was played in Pakistan (Karachi, Lahore, Rawalpindi) and Dubai — the first CT in Pakistan — and was won by India, who defeated New Zealand by 4 wickets in the Dubai International Stadium final on March 9, 2025.

India's Three Titles: 2002, 2013, 2025 — The CT's Most Successful Team

India have won the Champions Trophy three times — more than any other team — in three different eras of Indian cricket history. The 2002 title was shared with Sri Lanka when rain prevented the final from being completed, and India's half-title reflected the generation of Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, and Rahul Dravid. The 2013 title was won under MS Dhoni's ODI captaincy in England — the Dhoni era's signature CT win, with Mohammed Shami making his debut in that tournament and Virat Kohli in the middle order. The 2025 title was won under Rohit Sharma's captaincy (with Shubman Gill as vice-captain — soon to succeed Rohit) against New Zealand in Dubai — a final in which Rohit's side chased down 252 with 4 wickets remaining, Virat Kohli contributing a half-century in what was potentially his final ODI major tournament before international retirement. India's three CT titles are particularly notable because they came against different opponents (WI in 2004 was India's loss, not win — that was Pakistan 2017), on different continents (Sri Lanka 2002, England 2013, Pakistan/Dubai 2025), and under different captains (2002 Ganguly, 2013 Dhoni, 2025 Rohit) — demonstrating consistency across multiple generations of Indian ODI cricket. Pakistan's only CT title came in 2017, winning the final against the same India side who had beaten them in the group stage — the turnaround was credited to Fakhar Zaman's century and a Hasan Ali bowling performance (13 wickets in the tournament) that produced the 180-run winning margin. The 2025 Champions Trophy also represented Pakistan hosting a major ICC tournament for the first time since the 1996 Cricket World Cup — with India's group-stage matches and the final played in Dubai under the hybrid arrangement agreed between the BCCI and ICC.