# IPL Winners List: Every Champion from 2008 to 2026

Source: https://cricketin.org/blog/ipl-winners-list

[By Karthik Iyengar](/authors/data-editor), Data Editor. [Reviewed by Anjali Deshmukh](/authors/cricket-analyst), Cricket Analyst. Updated 2 Sep 2026. Editorial policy: https://cricketin.org/editorial-policy

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Every IPL champion from 2008 to 2026 with the runner-up and the winning margin, read from the ball-by-ball record of all nineteen finals.

Nineteen IPL seasons have been played, from 2008 to 2026, and every one of them has a champion.

- Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians lead with five titles each.
- Kolkata Knight Riders have three; Royal Challengers Bengaluru have two, both in the last two seasons.
- Four clubs have won once: Rajasthan Royals, Deccan Chargers, Sunrisers Hyderabad and Gujarat Titans.
- The closest final was decided by a single run, and it happened twice — in 2017 and again in 2019.

## Every IPL final, 2008 to 2026

The table lists each final with the beaten side and the margin. We read every row from the ball-by-ball record of the match itself rather than from a summary, so the margin is the one the scorers wrote down.

**Every IPL final, 2008 to 2026**

| Season | Champion | Runner-up | Won by |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Royal Challengers Bengaluru | Gujarat Titans | 5 wkts |
| 2025 | Royal Challengers Bengaluru | Punjab Kings | 6 runs |
| 2024 | Kolkata Knight Riders | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 8 wkts |
| 2023 | Chennai Super Kings | Gujarat Titans | 5 wkts |
| 2022 | Gujarat Titans | Rajasthan Royals | 7 wkts |
| 2021 | Chennai Super Kings | Kolkata Knight Riders | 27 runs |
| 2020 | Mumbai Indians | Delhi Capitals | 5 wkts |
| 2019 | Mumbai Indians | Chennai Super Kings | 1 runs |
| 2018 | Chennai Super Kings | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 8 wkts |
| 2017 | Mumbai Indians | Rising Pune Supergiant | 1 runs |
| 2016 | Sunrisers Hyderabad | Royal Challengers Bangalore | 8 runs |
| 2015 | Mumbai Indians | Chennai Super Kings | 41 runs |
| 2014 | Kolkata Knight Riders | Kings XI Punjab | 3 wkts |
| 2013 | Mumbai Indians | Chennai Super Kings | 23 runs |
| 2012 | Kolkata Knight Riders | Chennai Super Kings | 5 wkts |
| 2011 | Chennai Super Kings | Royal Challengers Bangalore | 58 runs |
| 2010 | Chennai Super Kings | Mumbai Indians | 22 runs |
| 2009 | Deccan Chargers | Royal Challengers Bangalore | 6 runs |
| 2008 | Rajasthan Royals | Chennai Super Kings | 3 wkts |

**Titles by franchise**

| Team | Titles | Seasons |
|---|---|---|
| Chennai Super Kings | 5 | 2010, 2011, 2018, 2021, 2023 |
| Mumbai Indians | 5 | 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2020 |
| Kolkata Knight Riders | 3 | 2012, 2014, 2024 |
| Royal Challengers Bengaluru | 2 | 2025, 2026 |
| Rajasthan Royals | 1 | 2008 |
| Deccan Chargers | 1 | 2009 |
| Sunrisers Hyderabad | 1 | 2016 |
| Gujarat Titans | 1 | 2022 |

## The two clubs on five titles each

Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians have won five finals apiece, but they got there by very different routes. Chennai have played ten finals, more than any other club, and lost five of them — the most losses in the competition. Mumbai have played six and lost only one, the 2010 final against Chennai. On the evidence of nineteen seasons, Chennai are the side that reaches the last match most often and Mumbai are the side that wins it when they do.

The two have met in the final three times, in 2010, 2013 and 2015, and Mumbai took two of those. Both clubs keep a full season-by-season record on our pages for [Chennai Super Kings](/teams/ipl-chennai-super-kings) and [Mumbai Indians](/teams/ipl-mumbai-indians), with points, position and net run rate for every season we hold complete.

**Titles by franchise**

| Team | Titles | Seasons |
|---|---|---|
| Chennai Super Kings | 5 | 2010, 2011, 2018, 2021, 2023 |
| Mumbai Indians | 5 | 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2020 |
| Kolkata Knight Riders | 3 | 2012, 2014, 2024 |
| Royal Challengers Bengaluru | 2 | 2025, 2026 |
| Rajasthan Royals | 1 | 2008 |
| Deccan Chargers | 1 | 2009 |
| Sunrisers Hyderabad | 1 | 2016 |
| Gujarat Titans | 1 | 2022 |

## The widest and the narrowest finals

The biggest win by runs is Chennai Super Kings by 58 in 2011, against Royal Challengers Bangalore in Chennai. The biggest by wickets is also Chennai, eight wickets against Sunrisers Hyderabad in 2018. No other final has been won by more than fifty runs.

The narrowest is a single run, and it has happened twice, both times to Mumbai Indians: against Rising Pune Supergiant in 2017 and against Chennai Super Kings in 2019. Five finals in nineteen have been decided by ten runs or fewer, or by two wickets or fewer — roughly one in four.

## The clubs that reached a final and never won it

Three clubs have played an IPL final without winning one. Punjab lost in 2014 as Kings XI Punjab and again in 2025 as Punjab Kings — the same franchise under two names. Rising Pune Supergiant lost the one-run final of 2017 and were dissolved the following year. Delhi Capitals lost the 2020 final in Dubai.

Royal Challengers belong on this list only until 2025. They lost three finals — 2009, 2011 and 2016 — and then won in 2025 and 2026. Their record sits on [the club page](/teams/ipl-royal-challengers-bangalore), filed under the name the archive uses for most of their history.

## Two clubs on this list no longer exist

Deccan Chargers won in 2009 and were terminated in 2012; the Hyderabad slot was taken by Sunrisers Hyderabad, who won their own title in 2016. The two are separate franchises, and we count their titles separately.

The same care applies to renames that are *not* new clubs. Royal Challengers Bangalore became Royal Challengers Bengaluru in 2024, so the 2025 and 2026 titles and the three earlier losing finals belong to one club. Kings XI Punjab became Punjab Kings in 2021. Getting this wrong is the most common error in winners lists: it either invents a club or merges two that were never the same.

## What the toss is worth in a final

The side that won the toss has gone on to win eleven of the nineteen finals. That is 58 percent, close enough to a coin flip that it says very little on its own — nineteen matches is a small sample, and a run of results either way would move the figure by several points.

The choice made at the toss splits almost evenly too: ten captains batted first, nine fielded. Of the ten who batted, six won. Of the nine who fielded, five won. There is no pattern here worth acting on, and we would rather say so than dress up noise as a trend.

## Where the finals were played

Ahmedabad has hosted four finals, more than anywhere else, all of them since 2022. Mumbai and Chennai have hosted three each, Kolkata and Bangalore two. Two finals were played outside India: in Johannesburg in 2009, when the season moved to South Africa during the general election, and in Dubai in 2020.

Home advantage is thin. Only twice has a club lifted the trophy in its own city — Chennai in 2011 and Gujarat Titans in Ahmedabad in 2022.

## Topping the league has rarely been enough

Eleven of the nineteen seasons have a complete points table in our records, and in only four of those eleven did the club that finished the league stage first go on to win the title: Mumbai Indians in 2019 and 2020/21, Gujarat Titans in 2022 and Royal Challengers Bengaluru in 2026. In the other seven the trophy went to a side that had finished below the top.

Chennai Super Kings have made a habit of it. They won from second in 2018, 2021 and 2023, and from third in 2009/10. Four of their five titles fall in seasons where we hold a complete table, and all four came from behind. The furthest anyone has come is Sunrisers Hyderabad in 2016, who finished the league stage fourth and won the title anyway.

This is the IPL playoff doing what it was designed to do. Four teams qualify, the top two get a second chance through Qualifier 1 and Qualifier 2, and a side that finishes third or fourth can still reach the final by winning the Eliminator. Across the 40 complete tables we hold in all competitions the split is 18 champions who topped their league against 22 who did not; the IPL, at four in eleven, is further from the league leader than most.

One record from those same tables is worth noting because it is shared. The highest points total in any table we publish, in any competition, is 22 — reached by Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians in the same 2013 season, by Kings XI Punjab in 2014, and by Perth Scorchers in the [Big Bash League](/blog/big-bash-league-winners) in 2022/23. Of those four, two went on to win their title and two did not.

## How we read these results

A champion is taken from the match the archive marks as the final: the outcome field names the winner, and the margin comes with it. That is one match per season, and it is either present in the record or it is not. For the IPL it is present for all nineteen seasons.

Points tables are a different problem. A table is only correct if every league match is counted, because one missing game changes both the points and the net run rate. Our [IPL points tables](/leagues/ipl) therefore cover eleven of the nineteen seasons — the ones where the open archive holds a complete league stage. The other eight are listed on that page with the reason.

This is why a winners list can be complete while a table set is not: the two answers need different amounts of data. If you want to see how the net run rate in those tables is worked out, we set out the arithmetic in [our guide to net run rate](/guides/how-net-run-rate-works).

## Where the numbers come from

All nineteen finals come from the open [Cricsheet](https://cricsheet.org/) archive, published under the Open Data Commons Attribution License 1.0. We parse the ball-by-ball files ourselves; nothing on this page is copied from another list. Team names are given as the archive writes them for that season, which is why the 2016 winner appears as Sunrisers Hyderabad and the 2011 runner-up as Royal Challengers Bangalore.

Season and fixture details can be checked against the official [IPL site](https://www.iplt20.com/) and the match archives at [ESPNcricinfo](https://www.espncricinfo.com/). Where their spelling of a club differs from ours, the difference is the era the name belongs to, not a different team.

## Questions people ask

### Who has won the most IPL titles?

Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians are level on five each. Chennai won in 2010, 2011, 2018, 2021 and 2023; Mumbai in 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2020.

### Has Royal Challengers Bengaluru ever won the IPL?

Yes, twice — in 2025 and 2026. Before that they had lost three finals, in 2009, 2011 and 2016.

### What was the closest IPL final?

One run, and it has happened twice: Mumbai Indians beat Rising Pune Supergiant by a single run in 2017, and beat Chennai Super Kings by the same margin in 2019.

### Which IPL winner no longer plays?

Deccan Chargers, champions in 2009. The franchise was terminated in 2012 and replaced by Sunrisers Hyderabad, which is a separate club with its own 2016 title.

### Which club has lost the most IPL finals?

Chennai Super Kings, with five defeats from ten final appearances. They also hold the record for most finals reached.

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