List of English Twenty20 cricket champions

Leicestershire (pictured celebrating their semi-final win in 2011) have won the joint-most English Twenty 20 titles, winning on three occasions.

The English Twenty20 cricket champions are the winners of the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) Twenty20 competition for first-class cricket counties, most recently the Friends Life t20, although from 2014 this has been replaced with the NatWest t20 Blast. The competition culminates with 'Finals Day': a single day on which both semi-finals and the final are contested at the same ground. ^[1] Somerset are the current champions, claiming their third title in the 2025 season.

Twenty20 cricket was developed by the ECB to attract new, younger audiences to cricket. ^[2] Replacing the 50 overs-per-side 'Benson & Hedges Cup', ^[3] the 'Twenty20 Cup' was introduced in 2003, and was over two hours shorter than its predecessor, and matches also featured greater entertainment off the field, such as live music, barbecues, fancy dress and karaoke. ^[4] The competition was rebranded as the 'Friends Provident t20' in 2010, ^[5] and a season later as the 'Friends Life t20'. ^[6] In 2014, the competition became known as the NatWest t20 Blast. For the first seven years of the competition, teams were allowed one overseas player, as in the other domestic tournaments, but from the 2010 season, each team was allowed two. ^[7] The finalists in both 2009 and 2011 qualified for the Champions League Twenty20, an international competition between the leading domestic teams from the major cricketing nations. ^{[8] [9]}

The competition was won in its inaugural season by Surrey, and in the twenty-one seasons that it has run, it has been won by thirteen different counties. Leicestershire, Hampshire and Somerset have won the competition on the most occasions, doing so three times. ^[10] Somerset have contested more finals than any other team; as well as winning the competition in 2005, 2023 and 2025, they were losing finalists in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2021 and 2024. ^[11]

Men's champions

List of English men's Twenty20 cricket champions

Year	Winner	Runners-up	Venue of final	Leading run-scorer		Leading wicket-taker		Notes
				Player (club)	Runs	Player (club)	Wickets
2003	Surrey	Warwickshire	Trent Bridge, Nottinghamshire	Brad Hodge (Leicestershire)	301	Adam Hollioake (Surrey)	16	[12] [13]
2004	Leicestershire	Surrey	Edgbaston, Warwickshire	Darren Maddy (Leicestershire)	356	Adam Hollioake (Surrey)	20	[14] [15]
2005	Somerset	Lancashire	The Oval, London	Owais Shah (Middlesex)	410	Nayan Doshi (Surrey)	17	[16] [17]
2006	Leicestershire	Nottinghamshire	Trent Bridge, Nottinghamshire	Justin Langer (Somerset)	464	Nayan Doshi (Surrey)	21	[18] [19]
2007	Kent	Gloucestershire	Edgbaston, Warwickshire	Luke Wright (Sussex)	346	Chris Schofield (Surrey), Simon Cook (Kent)	17	[20] [21]
2008	Middlesex	Kent	The Rose Bowl, Hampshire	Joe Denly (Kent)	451	Yasir Arafat (Kent)	23	[22] [23]
2009	Sussex	Somerset	Edgbaston, Warwickshire	Jonathan Trott (Warwickshire)	525	Alfonso Thomas (Somerset)	18	[24] [25]
2010	Hampshire	Somerset	The Rose Bowl, Hampshire	Jimmy Adams (Hampshire)	668	Alfonso Thomas (Somerset)	33	[26] [27]
2011	Leicestershire	Somerset	Edgbaston, Warwickshire	Andrew McDonald (Leicestershire)	584	Tim Phillips (Essex)	26	[28] [29]
2012	Hampshire	Yorkshire	Sophia Gardens, Glamorgan	Phillip Hughes (Worcestershire)	402	Mitchell Starc (Yorkshire)	21	[30] [31]
2013	Northamptonshire	Surrey	Edgbaston, Warwickshire	Craig Kieswetter (Somerset)	517	Azharullah (Northamptonshire)	27	[32] [33]
2014	Birmingham Bears [a]	Lancashire		Jason Roy (Surrey)	677	Jeetan Patel (Birmingham Bears)	25	[34] [35]
2015	Lancashire	Northamptonshire		James Vince (Hampshire)	710	James Faulkner (Lancashire)	25	[36] [37]
2016	Northamptonshire	Durham		Michael Klinger (Gloucestershire)	548	Benny Howell (Gloucestershire)	24	[38] [39]
2017	Nottinghamshire	Warwickshire		Joe Denly (Kent)	567	Clint McKay (Leicestershire)	23	[40] [41]
2018	Worcestershire	Sussex		Laurie Evans (Sussex)	614	Pat Brown (Worcestershire)	31
2019	Essex	Worcestershire		Babar Azam (Somerset)	578	Ravi Rampaul (Derbyshire)	23
2020	Nottinghamshire	Surrey		Daniel Bell-Drummond (Kent)	423	Jake Ball (Nottinghamshire)	19
2021	Kent	Somerset		Josh Inglis (Leicestershire)	531	Naveen-ul-Haq (Leicestershire)	26
2022	Hampshire	Lancashire		James Vince (Hampshire)	678	Richard Gleeson (Lancashire)	25
2023	Somerset	Essex		James Vince (Hampshire)	670	Matt Henry (Somerset)	31
2024	Gloucestershire	Somerset		Daniel Hughes (Sussex)	596	David Payne (Gloucestershire)	33
2025	Somerset	Hampshire		Toby Albert (Hampshire)	633	Riley Meredith (Somerset)	28

Performance by county (Men's)

Titles won by club (%)

1. Leicestershire – 3 13.6 (13.5%)
2. Hampshire – 3 13.6 (13.5%)
3. Somerset - 3 13 (12.9%)
4. Kent – 2 8.7 (8.61%)
5. Northamptonshire - 2 8.7 (8.61%)
6. Nottinghamshire - 2 8.7 (8.61%)
7. Others – 8 34.8 (34.4%)

Titles	Club	Title-winning seasons
3	Leicestershire	2004, 2006, 2011
	Hampshire	2010, 2012, 2022
	Somerset	2005, 2023, 2025
2	Kent	2007, 2021
	Northamptonshire	2013, 2016
	Nottinghamshire	2017, 2020
1	Essex	2019
	Gloucestershire	2024
	Lancashire	2015
	Middlesex	2008
	Surrey	2003
	Sussex	2009
	Birmingham Bears	2014
	Worcestershire	2018

Women's champions

Main articles: Women's Cricket Super League, Charlotte Edwards Cup, and Women's T20 Blast

Former England captain Charlotte Edwards led the Southern Vipers to the inaugural WCSL title in 2016

List of English Women's Twenty20 cricket champions

Year	Winner	Runners-up	Venue of final	Leading run-scorer		Leading wicket-taker		Notes
				Player (club)	Runs	Player (club)	Wickets
2016	Southern Vipers	Western Storm	County Cricket Ground, Chelmsford	Stafanie Taylor (Western Storm)	289	Stafanie Taylor (Western Storm)	11	[42] [43]
2017	Western Storm	Southern Vipers	County Cricket Ground, Hove	Rachel Priest (Western Storm)	261	Nat Sciver (Surrey Stars)	12	[44] [45]
2018	Surrey Stars	Loughborough Lightning		Smriti Mandhana (Western Storm)	421	Kirstie Gordon (Loughborough Lightning)	17
2019	Western Storm	Southern Vipers		Danielle Wyatt (Southern Vipers)	466	Freya Davies (Western Storm)	19
2021	South East Stars	Northern Diamonds	Rose Bowl, Southampton	Evelyn Jones (Central Sparks)	276	Bryony Smith (South East Stars)	14	[46] [47]
2022	Southern Vipers	Central Sparks	County Ground, Northampton	Amy Jones (Central Sparks)	289	Katie Levick (Northern Diamonds)	15	[48] [49]
2023	Southern Vipers	The Blaze	New Road, Worcester	Danni Wyatt (Southern Vipers)	273	Nadine de Klerk (The Blaze)	15	[50] [51]
2024	The Blaze	South East Stars	County Ground, Derby	Kathryn Bryce (The Blaze)	478	Kirstie Gordon (The Blaze)	22	[52] [53]
2025	Surrey	Birmingham Bears	The Oval, London	Suzie Bates (Durham)	439	Millie Taylor (Birmingham Bears)	22

Performance by team (Women's)

Titles won by club (%)

1. Southern Vipers – 3 (33.3%)
2. Western Storm – 2 (22.2%)
3. Surrey Stars – 1 (11.1%)
4. South East Stars – 1 (11.1%)
5. The Blaze – 1 (11.1%)
6. Surrey – 1 (11.1%)

Titles	Club	Title-winning seasons
3	Southern Vipers	2016, 2022, 2023
2	Western Storm	2017, 2019
1	Surrey Stars	2018
	South East Stars	2021
	The Blaze	2024
	Surrey	2025

Notes

1. Since 2014, Warwickshire's Twenty20 team has been known as the Birmingham Bears.

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