# The Hundred Winners: Every Champion from 2021 to 2026

Source: https://cricketin.org/blog/the-hundred-winners

[By Anjali Deshmukh](/authors/cricket-analyst), Cricket Analyst. [Reviewed by Karthik Iyengar](/authors/data-editor), Data Editor. Updated 2 Sep 2026 · Sources cited: 3. Editorial policy: https://cricketin.org/editorial-policy

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Every winner of The Hundred with the runner-up and margin, read from the ball-by-ball record of all six finals at Lord's, and why three clubs changed name in 2026.

Six editions of The Hundred have been played, from 2021 to 2026, and all six are on this page. Every final has been held at Lord's.

- Oval Invincibles have won three, in 2023, 2024 and 2025, and have never lost a final.
- Southern Brave won the first in 2021, Trent Rockets the second in 2022, and Manchester Super Giants the most recent in 2026.
- Three of the eight clubs have never reached a final: London Spirit, Welsh Fire and the club now called Sunrisers Leeds.
- From 2026 three teams carry the names of IPL franchises — MI London, Manchester Super Giants and Sunrisers Leeds — which is why the honours list below changes names halfway down.

## Every Hundred final, 2021 to 2026

Each row is read from the ball-by-ball record of the match the archive marks as the final. Club names are given as the archive wrote them in that season, which matters here more than in most competitions.

| Year | Champion | Runner-up | Margin | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Southern Brave | Birmingham Phoenix | 32 runs | Lord's |
| 2022 | Trent Rockets | Manchester Originals | 2 wickets | Lord's |
| 2023 | Oval Invincibles | Manchester Originals | 14 runs | Lord's |
| 2024 | Oval Invincibles | Southern Brave | 17 runs | Lord's |
| 2025 | Oval Invincibles | Trent Rockets | 26 runs | Lord's |
| 2026 | Manchester Super Giants | Trent Rockets | 5 wickets | Lord's |

Counting titles against finals lost, and treating a renamed club as the same club:

| Club | Titles | Finals lost | Finals played |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oval Invincibles, from 2026 MI London | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Trent Rockets | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Southern Brave | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Manchester Originals, from 2026 Manchester Super Giants | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Birmingham Phoenix | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| London Spirit | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Welsh Fire | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Northern Superchargers, from 2026 Sunrisers Leeds | 0 | 0 | 0 |

## Why three clubs changed name in 2026

This is visible directly in the data, and it is the reason a Hundred honours list is harder to read than most. For the first five seasons the archive records the same eight clubs every year. In 2026 three of those names are gone and three new ones appear in their place:

| 2021 to 2025 | From 2026 |
|---|---|
| Oval Invincibles | MI London |
| Manchester Originals | Manchester Super Giants |
| Northern Superchargers | Sunrisers Leeds |

The three new names belong to IPL franchise families: Mumbai Indians, Lucknow Super Giants and Sunrisers Hyderabad. The England and Wales Cricket Board sold stakes in the eight Hundred teams to outside investors, and the club identities followed the money; the current ownership of each team is listed on the [official Hundred site](https://www.thehundred.com/), which is the source to check rather than this page.

For a reader in India this is the practical point: three of the eight clubs in an English competition now share a name and an owner with a club in the [IPL](/leagues/ipl). The same pattern is even stronger in South Africa's [SA20](/leagues), where all six teams carry IPL franchise names.

## Oval Invincibles have never lost a final

The Invincibles won three finals in a row — 2023, 2024 and 2025 — and have not lost one. No other club in the competition has more than a single title. All three wins were by runs after batting first: 14 against Manchester Originals, 17 against Southern Brave and 26 against Trent Rockets.

Their 2025 league campaign is the strongest single season in any table we hold. In our [Hundred points tables](/leagues/the-hundred) they finished 2025 with a net run rate of +1.786, the second-highest figure across all 286 team-seasons we have counted in any competition. Only Delhi Capitals in the first WPL season, at +1.856, are ahead of them.

From 2026 the same club appears in the archive as MI London. The three titles belong to it under either name.

## The three clubs that have never reached a final

London Spirit, Welsh Fire and Northern Superchargers — now Sunrisers Leeds — have played every season since 2021 without reaching a final. That is three of the eight clubs shut out across six years.

Welsh Fire have had the hardest time of it. In our [2022 table](/tables/the-hundred-2022) they finished the season without a single win, eight defeats from eight matches. Only one other side in any competition we cover has managed a completely winless season: St Lucia Stars in the CPL in 2017.

## Every final has been played at Lord's

All six Hundred finals have been held at Lord's in London. No other competition we cover concentrates its finals like that. The BBL has used six different cities in fifteen finals, and the [T20 World Cup](/blog/t20-world-cup-winners) has used nine venues in ten tournaments — only Kensington Oval in Barbados has hosted two.

Lord's has one other final in the records we hold: the 2009 T20 World Cup, won by Pakistan. It is the only ground to have staged both a Hundred final and a men's world final.

The effect on the result is not obvious. London Spirit, whose home ground is Lord's, have never reached the final at all, so the venue has been neutral for every side that played there.

## Topping the table matters more here than anywhere else

Four of the six seasons have a complete points table in our records, and in three of those four the club that finished the league stage first went on to win the final: Trent Rockets in 2022 and Oval Invincibles in 2024 and 2025. Only 2026 broke the pattern, when Manchester Super Giants finished second and beat Trent Rockets at Lord's.

That ratio is unusual, and we can say so because we have counted the same thing everywhere else. Across the 40 complete league tables we hold in all competitions, only 18 champions had also finished the league stage first — fewer than half. In the IPL it is four in eleven. The Hundred, on this small sample, is the competition where the best league record has translated into the trophy most reliably.

The likely reason is structural rather than sporting. The Hundred runs a short knockout after a league stage of eight matches a side, so there are fewer rounds in which a lower-placed team can get hot, and the top side has less exposure to a single bad afternoon. A four-season sample cannot prove that, and the 2026 final is a reminder of how quickly such a pattern breaks.

## No player has won the final award twice

Six finals have produced six different players of the match. That is a small thing, but it holds across the leagues we have checked: fifteen different names in fifteen BBL finals and four in four SA20 finals. The only repeat we have found anywhere is Marlon Samuels, who took the award in both of West Indies' [T20 World Cup](/blog/t20-world-cup-winners) final wins.

## Why the scores look different from a T20

An innings in The Hundred is 100 balls, not the 120 of a T20 innings. That is a fifth less batting, and it shows in the totals: the highest score in any of the six finals is 168, where a T20 final regularly passes that.

One detail from the ball-by-ball record is worth knowing if you compare scorecards. The delivery count in a Hundred innings usually reads higher than 100 — 104, 107, sometimes 113 — because wides and no-balls are extra deliveries that do not count towards the hundred. The rule is the same principle as an over in a T20; our guide to [how T20 cricket is played](/guides/t20-rules-explained) covers how those extras work.

## How we read these results

A champion comes from one match: the archive marks the final, and the outcome field names the winner and the margin. For The Hundred that match is present for all six years, so this list covers every season the competition has played.

A points table needs every league match counted, because one missing game moves both the points and the net run rate. Our [Hundred tables](/leagues/the-hundred) therefore cover four of the six seasons — 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The 2021 and 2023 league stages are incomplete in the open archive, so we publish their champions here but no table for them. The arithmetic behind the net run rate column is in our [guide to net run rate](/guides/how-net-run-rate-works).

## Where the numbers come from

All six 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 and count the totals from the deliveries. Club names are given as the archive writes them for that season, which is why the same team appears under two names across the table above.

Fixtures, current squads and the ownership of each club can be checked on the [official Hundred site](https://www.thehundred.com/), and match archives at [ESPNcricinfo](https://www.espncricinfo.com/).

## Questions people ask

### Who has won The Hundred the most times?

Oval Invincibles, with three titles in 2023, 2024 and 2025. From 2026 the club is called MI London.

### Where is The Hundred final played?

Lord's in London, and it has been for all six finals so far.

### Why are some Hundred teams named after IPL clubs?

Stakes in the eight teams were sold to outside investors, and three clubs took the names of IPL franchise families from 2026: MI London, Manchester Super Giants and Sunrisers Leeds. The official Hundred site lists the current owners.

### How many balls are in a Hundred innings?

One hundred legal deliveries a side, against 120 in a T20. Wides and no-balls are bowled again, so a scorecard often shows more than 100 deliveries in total.

### Which Hundred teams have never reached a final?

London Spirit, Welsh Fire and Northern Superchargers, now Sunrisers Leeds.

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