# PSL Winners List: Every Champion from 2016 to 2026

Source: https://cricketin.org/blog/psl-winners

[By Anjali Deshmukh](/authors/cricket-analyst), Cricket Analyst. [Reviewed by Rajeev Sathe](/authors/editor-in-chief), Editor-in-Chief. Updated 2 Sep 2026. Editorial policy: https://cricketin.org/editorial-policy

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Every PSL champion from 2016 to 2026 with the runner-up, the margin and the venue, read from the ball-by-ball record of eleven Pakistan Super League finals.

The Pakistan Super League has played twelve seasons since 2016. Eleven of them have a final in the open archive we read, and those eleven are the champions listed below.

- Islamabad United and Lahore Qalandars lead with three titles each.
- Islamabad have won all three finals they played. Lahore have played four and lost one.
- Peshawar Zalmi have two titles. Multan Sultans, Quetta Gladiators and Karachi Kings have one each.
- The closest final was won by a single run: Lahore Qalandars beat Multan Sultans in March 2023.
- The 2019/20 season has no final in the archive. Its play-offs were moved from March to November 2020, and we name no champion for that season.

## Every PSL final, 2016 to 2026

The table lists each final with the beaten side, the margin, the host city and the date. Every row is read from the ball-by-ball record of the match itself, not from a summary, so the margin is the one the scorers wrote down. Season labels are the ones the archive uses, which is why most of them run across two years.

**Every PSL final, 2016 to 2026**

| Season | Champion | Runner-up | Won by | City | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Peshawar Zalmi | Hyderabad Kingsmen | 5 wkts | Lahore | 3 May 2026 |
| 2025 | Lahore Qalandars | Quetta Gladiators | 6 wkts | Lahore | 25 May 2025 |
| 2023/24 | Islamabad United | Multan Sultans | 2 wkts | Karachi | 18 Mar 2024 |
| 2022/23 | Lahore Qalandars | Multan Sultans | 1 run | Lahore | 18 Mar 2023 |
| 2021/22 | Lahore Qalandars | Multan Sultans | 42 runs | Lahore | 27 Feb 2022 |
| 2021 | Multan Sultans | Peshawar Zalmi | 47 runs | Abu Dhabi | 24 Jun 2021 |
| 2020/21 | Karachi Kings | Lahore Qalandars | 5 wkts | Karachi | 17 Nov 2020 |
| 2019/20 | no final in the archive | — | — | — | — |
| 2018/19 | Quetta Gladiators | Peshawar Zalmi | 8 wkts | Karachi | 17 Mar 2019 |
| 2017/18 | Islamabad United | Peshawar Zalmi | 3 wkts | Karachi | 25 Mar 2018 |
| 2016/17 | Peshawar Zalmi | Quetta Gladiators | 58 runs | Lahore | 5 Mar 2017 |
| 2015/16 | Islamabad United | Quetta Gladiators | 6 wkts | not recorded | 23 Feb 2016 |

Seven clubs have reached a PSL final and six of them have won one. The seventh, Hyderabad Kingsmen, lost the 2026 final on their first appearance.

## Titles and lost finals by club

Eleven finals give twenty-two places, and they are shared by seven clubs. The second column is the count that most winners lists stop at; the fourth is the one that changes how the first reads.

**PSL titles and lost finals by club**

| Club | Titles | Seasons won | Finals lost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Islamabad United | 3 | 2015/16, 2017/18, 2023/24 | 0 |
| Lahore Qalandars | 3 | 2021/22, 2022/23, 2025 | 1 |
| Peshawar Zalmi | 2 | 2016/17, 2026 | 3 |
| Multan Sultans | 1 | 2021 | 3 |
| Quetta Gladiators | 1 | 2018/19 | 3 |
| Karachi Kings | 1 | 2020/21 | 0 |
| Hyderabad Kingsmen | 0 | — | 1 |

## Three titles each, two different routes

Islamabad United and Lahore Qalandars are level at the top with three titles, and that is where the similarity ends. Islamabad have played three finals and won all three, in 2015/16, 2017/18 and 2023/24 — eight years between the first and the last, with two different opponents beaten by three wickets or fewer. They are the only club with more than one title and no defeat in a final. Their season-by-season record sits on our page for [Islamabad United](/teams/psl-islamabad-united).

Lahore Qalandars took their three in a shorter span: 2021/22, 2022/23 and 2025, three titles inside four seasons. Their fourth final was the earliest, the 2020/21 defeat to Karachi Kings, which is the single loss on their record. Two of the three titles came against the same opponent, Multan Sultans, in back-to-back finals at Lahore. The club record is on our page for [Lahore Qalandars](/teams/psl-lahore-qalandars).

Peshawar Zalmi sit third on two titles, but they have played more finals than anyone: five. They won the second season and the twelfth, and lost the three in between, in 2017/18, 2018/19 and 2021. Just over nine years separate their two titles, the longest gap between titles in the league.

## Multan Sultans: four finals in four years

Multan Sultans reached the final in four consecutive seasons — 2021, 2021/22, 2022/23 and 2023/24 — and came away with one title. They won the first, beating Peshawar Zalmi by 47 runs at Abu Dhabi in June 2021, then lost the next three: by 42 runs, by one run, and by two wickets.

Two of those defeats were to Lahore Qalandars and the third to Islamabad United. Added together the three losing margins come to 43 runs and two wickets. Peshawar Zalmi have also lost three finals in a row, but theirs were spread over five seasons; Multan are the only club to lose three in three consecutive seasons. Their full record, including the seasons after 2023/24, is on our page for [Multan Sultans](/teams/psl-multan-sultans).

## One run decided the 2022/23 final

The narrowest PSL final is the 2022/23 match at Lahore, where Lahore Qalandars beat Multan Sultans by one run. It is the only final in the league decided by fewer than 40 runs, and no final has been closer.

The widest margin by runs is 58, Peshawar Zalmi over Quetta Gladiators at Lahore in 2016/17. The widest by wickets is eight, Quetta Gladiators over Peshawar Zalmi at Karachi in 2018/19. The narrowest by wickets is two, Islamabad United over Multan Sultans in 2023/24.

Seven of the eleven finals were won by the chasing side and four by the side batting first. Of those four, three were won by 42 runs or more; the fourth was the one-run match. A PSL final is either a chase or a wide win — with a single exception.

## Quetta lost the first two finals of the league

Quetta Gladiators lost the first PSL final in February 2016, to Islamabad United by six wickets, and the second in March 2017, to Peshawar Zalmi by 58 runs. They won the third final they reached, beating Peshawar Zalmi by eight wickets at Karachi in 2018/19 — the widest wicket margin in a PSL final.

Their fourth final was 2025, lost to Lahore Qalandars by six wickets. That gives them one title from four finals, the same tally as Multan Sultans and, unlike them, spread across the full history of the league. The record is on our page for [Quetta Gladiators](/teams/psl-quetta-gladiators).

## What the league table predicted

We hold complete points tables for five PSL seasons. In two of them the club that finished top of the league also won the final. In three it did not. That is a small sample, and we would not build a rule on it, but it is the sample we can show working.

**League leader against champion, in the five seasons we hold complete**

| Season | Top of the table | Champion | Same club? |
|---|---|---|---|
| [2016/17](/tables/psl-2016-17) | Peshawar Zalmi | Peshawar Zalmi | yes |
| [2018/19](/tables/psl-2018-19) | Peshawar Zalmi | Quetta Gladiators | no |
| [2021/22](/tables/psl-2021-22) | Multan Sultans | Lahore Qalandars | no |
| [2022/23](/tables/psl-2022-23) | Lahore Qalandars | Lahore Qalandars | yes |
| [2025](/tables/psl-2025) | Quetta Gladiators | Lahore Qalandars | no |

Two of the three mismatches ended with the table-topper losing the final itself: Multan Sultans in 2021/22 and Quetta Gladiators in 2025. Peshawar Zalmi in 2018/19 topped the table and still reached the final, where Quetta beat them by eight wickets.

## The worst net run rate in our tables

Across every team-season in the PSL tables we publish, the lowest net run rate belongs to Multan Sultans in 2025.

**Multan Sultans, 2025: net run rate −2.449.** That is the lowest figure in any PSL points table we hold, and it comes from our own calculation over the published [2025 table](/tables/psl-2025).

The highest figure we hold comes from the same season: Quetta Gladiators at +1.393, on their way to topping the table and losing the final. One season therefore contains both ends of our range, which is worth remembering before treating net run rate as a measure of a club rather than of a particular set of matches.

Net run rate is a per-over figure across a whole league stage, so it moves slowly and a value near −2.4 needs a run of heavy defeats rather than one bad night. We set out the arithmetic, and what happens to it when a side is bowled out, in [our guide to net run rate](/guides/how-net-run-rate-works).

## What the toss was worth in a final

The side that won the toss went on to win five of the eleven finals and lost six. On this evidence the toss is close to a coin flip, and eleven matches is far too few to say anything stronger.

The choice made at the toss splits six to five. Six captains batted first after winning the toss and two of them won. Five chose to field and three of them won. Both splits sit inside the range you would expect from chance at this sample size, so we report them and stop there.

## Where the finals were played

Lahore has hosted five finals, Karachi four and Abu Dhabi one. The city of the first final, in February 2016, is not recorded in the archive file we read, so we leave it blank rather than fill it in from memory.

Four finals were won by the club named after the host city. All three Lahore Qalandars titles were won at Lahore, and the Karachi Kings title was won at Karachi. The other five finals played in those two cities went to visiting clubs, including both Peshawar Zalmi titles, at Lahore in 2016/17 and 2026.

## How we read these results, and where the gap is

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 in the record or it is not.

For the PSL it is missing once. The 2019/20 season holds 28 matches in the archive and none of them is the final: the play-offs were postponed from March to November 2020 during the pandemic, and the matches played that November are filed under the following season label, 2020/21, whose final Karachi Kings won at Karachi on 17 November 2020. We list 2019/20 with no champion rather than move a result between season labels to close the gap.

Points tables are a harder problem than finals. A table is only correct if every league match is counted, because one missing game moves both the points and the net run rate. Our [PSL points tables](/leagues/psl) therefore cover five of the twelve seasons — the ones where the open archive holds a complete league stage. The other seven are named on that page with the reason, and 2019/20 is one of them.

Club names are given as the archive writes them. The same method produces our [IPL winners list](/blog/ipl-winners-list), which is why the two pages agree on what counts as a final and what counts as a gap.

## Where the numbers come from

All eleven 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. The net run rate figures are our own calculation over those same files.

Fixtures, season formats and club details can be checked against the official [Pakistan Super League site](https://www.psl-t20.com/) and the match archives at [ESPNcricinfo](https://www.espncricinfo.com/). Where a spelling differs from ours, the difference is the era or the sponsor the name belongs to, not a different club. Where any of them contradicts a figure on this page, tell us and we will check the file again.

## Questions people ask

### Who has won the most PSL titles?

Islamabad United and Lahore Qalandars, with three each. Islamabad won in 2015/16, 2017/18 and 2023/24; Lahore in 2021/22, 2022/23 and 2025.

### Which PSL season has no champion on this list?

2019/20. The archive holds 28 matches from that season and no final, because the play-offs were moved from March to November 2020. We do not name a champion for it.

### What was the closest PSL final?

One run — Lahore Qalandars over Multan Sultans at Lahore on 18 March 2023. The narrowest win by wickets is the two-wicket final of 2023/24.

### Have Multan Sultans won the PSL?

Once, in 2021, beating Peshawar Zalmi by 47 runs at Abu Dhabi. They then lost the next three finals, in 2021/22, 2022/23 and 2023/24.

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

Three clubs have lost three each: Peshawar Zalmi, Multan Sultans and Quetta Gladiators. Peshawar Zalmi have played the most finals overall, five, and won two of them. Karachi Kings and Islamabad United have never lost one.

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