Competition history
World Pipe Band Champions
Grade 1 World Pipe Band Championship winners, runners-up, and third-place bands by year.
Browse the recorded history of the World Pipe Band Championships. Winning bands with directory profiles are also grouped under the World Champions affiliation.
| Year | World champion | Runner-up | Third place |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Simon Fraser University | Field Marshal Montgomery | Peoples Ford Boghall and Bathgate Caledonia Pipe Band |
| 2025 | Inveraray & District | Field Marshal Montgomery | Shotts & Dykehead Caledonia |
| 2024 | Inveraray & District | Field Marshal Montgomery | Simon Fraser University |
| 2023 | Peoples Ford Boghall and Bathgate Caledonia Pipe Band | Field Marshall Montgomery | Inveraray and District |
| 2022 | Field Marshal Montgomery (C) | Inveraray & District | ScottishPower Pipe Band |
| 2021 | No Championships were held during global pandemic | — | — |
| 2020 | No Championships were held during global pandemic | — | — |
| 2019 | Inveraray & District (C) | Field Marshal Montgomery | St. Laurence O'Toole* |
| 2018 | Field Marshal Montgomery | Inveraray & District (C) | St. Laurence O'Toole* |
| 2017 | Inveraray & District* (C) | Field Marshal Montgomery | St. Laurence O'Toole |
| 2016 | Field Marshal Montgomery | Inveraray & District (C) | St. Laurence O'Toole* |
| 2015 | Shotts & Dykehead Caledonia | St. Laurence O'Toole* | Inveraray & District |
| 2014 | Field Marshal Montgomery (C) | Inveraray & District | St. Laurence O'Toole |
| 2013 | Field Marshal Montgomery* (C) | Boghall & Bathgate | ScottishPower Pipe Band |
| 2012 | Field Marshal Montgomery (C) | ScottishPower Pipe Band | Simon Fraser University |
| 2011 | Field Marshal Montgomery (C) | Simon Fraser University | ScottishPower Pipe Band |
| 2010 | St. Laurence O'Toole * | Field Marshal Montgomery (C) | Simon Fraser University |
| 2009 | Simon Fraser University* | Field Marshal Montgomery (C) | St. Laurence O'Toole |
| 2008 | Simon Fraser University* | Field Marshal Montgomery | House of Edgar - Shotts & Dykehead |
| 2007 | Field Marshal Montgomery (C) | Simon Fraser University | House of Edgar - Shotts & Dykehead |
| 2006 | Field Marshal Montgomery (C) | Simon Fraser University | House of Edgar - Shotts & Dykehead |
| 2005 | House of Edgar - Shotts & Dykehead* | Field Marshal Montgomery | Simon Fraser University |
| 2004 | Field Marshal Montgomery | Simon Fraser University* | House of Edgar - Shotts & Dykehead |
| 2003 | House of Edgar - Shotts & Dykehead* | Field Marshal Montgomery | Simon Fraser University |
| 2002 | Field Marshal Montgomery | Simon Fraser University | Shotts & Dykehead* |
| 2001 | Simon Fraser University | Shotts & Dykehead | Field Marshal Montgomery |
| 2000 | Shotts & Dykehead | Field Marshal Montgomery | Simon Fraser University |
| 1999 | Simon Fraser University* | Shotts & Dykehead | Field Marshal Montgomery |
| 1998 | Victoria Police | Shotts & Dykehead* | Field Marshal Montgomery |
| 1997 | Shotts & Dykehead* | Simon Fraser University | Victoria Police |
| 1996 | Simon Fraser University | Field Marshal Montgomery | Shotts & Dykehead* |
| 1995 | Simon Fraser University | Field Marshal Montgomery | Shotts & Dykehead* |
| 1994 | Shotts & Dykehead* | Boghall & Bathgate | Victoria Police |
| 1993 | Field Marshal Montgomery | Shotts & Dykehead* | Boghall & Bathgate |
| 1992 | Field Marshal Montgomery | Strathclyde Police | Victoria Police |
| 1991 | Strathclyde Police | Polkemmet Grorud | Power of Scotland |
| 1990 | Strathclyde Police | Power Of Scotland | ScotRail Vale Of Atholl |
| 1989 | Strathclyde Police | Power Of Scotland | ScotRail Vale Of Atholl |
| 1988 | Strathclyde Police | Simon Fraser University | 78th Fraser Highlanders |
| 1987 | 78th Fraser Highlanders* | Simon Fraser University | Strathclyde Police |
| 1986 | Strathclyde Police | 78th Fraser Highlanders | Boghall & Bathgate* |
| 1985 | Strathclyde Police | Simon Fraser University | Polkemmet Grorud |
| 1984 | Strathclyde Police | Shotts & Dykehead* | 78th Fraser Highlanders |
| 1983 | Strathclyde Police | Boghall & Bathgate* | Shotts & Dykehead |
| 1982 | Strathclyde Police | Boghall & Bathgate* | Dysart and Dundonald |
| 1981 | Strathclyde Police | Shotts & Dykehead | Boghall & Bathgate |
| 1980 | Shotts & Dykehead | Strathclyde Police | Polkemmet Colliery |
| 1979 | Strathclyde Police | Dysart and Dundonald | Shotts & Dykehead |
| 1978 | Dysart and Dundonald | Strathclyde Police | Shotts & Dykehead* |
| 1977 | Dysart and Dundonald | Strathclyde Police | Shotts & Dykehead |
| 1976 | Strathclyde Police | — | — |
| 1975 | Lothian & Borders Police Pipe Band | Muirhead & Sons Pipe Band | — |
| 1974 | Shotts & Dykehead | Dysart and Dundonald Pipe Band | — |
| 1973 | Shotts & Dykehead* | City of Glasgow Police Pipe Band | Red Hackle Pipe Band |
| 1972 | Edinburgh City Police Pipe Band | — | — |
| 1971 | Edinburgh City Police Pipe Band | Shotts & Dykehead* | City of Glasgow Police Pipe Band |
| 1970 | Shotts & Dykehead* | Muirhead & Sons Pipe Band | Edinburgh City Police Pipe Band |
| 1969 | Muirhead & Sons Pipe Band | — | — |
| 1968 | Muirhead & Sons Pipe Band | — | Red Hackle Pipe Band |
| 1967 | Muirhead & Sons Pipe Band | City of Glasgow Police Pipe Band | Invergordon Distillery Pipe Band |
| 1966 | Muirhead & Sons Pipe Band | City of Glasgow Police Pipe Band | Invergordon Distillery Pipe Band |
| 1965 | Muirhead & Sons Pipe Band | — | — |
| 1964 | Edinburgh City Police Pipe Band | — | — |
| 1963 | Edinburgh City Police Pipe Band | — | — |
| 1962 | 277 (Argyll And Sutherland Highlanders) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (T.A.) | Edinburgh City Police Pipe Band | Renfrew Pipe Band |
| 1961 | Muirhead & Sons Pipe Band | — | — |
| 1960 | Shotts & Dykehead* | — | Bucksburn & District Pipe Band |
| 1959 | Shotts & Dykehead* | — | — |
| 1958 | Shotts & Dykehead* | — | Edinburgh City Police Pipe Band |
| 1957 | Shotts & Dykehead* | Renfrew Pipe Band | — |
| 1956 | Muirhead & Sons Pipe Band | Renfrew Pipe Band | Shotts & Dykehead |
| 1955 | Muirhead & Sons Pipe Band | — | — |
| 1954 | Edinburgh City Police Pipe Band | Red Hackle Pipe Band | Muirhead & Sons Pipe Band |
| 1953 | Clan MacRae Society Pipe Band | Muirhead & Sons Pipe Band | Red Hackle Pipe Band |
| 1952 | Shotts & Dykehead | — | — |
| 1951 | Muirhead & Sons Pipe Band | — | — |
| 1950 | Edinburgh City Police Pipe Band | — | — |
| 1949 | City of Glasgow Police Pipe Band | — | — |
| 1948 | Shotts & Dykehead | — | — |
| 1947 | Bowhill Colliery Pipe Band | Clan MacRae Society Pipe Band | Bonhill Parish Pipe Band |
| 1946 | City of Glasgow Police Pipe Band | — | — |
| 1945 | No Championships were held during World War II | — | — |
| 1944 | No Championships were held during World War II | — | — |
| 1943 | No Championships were held during World War II | — | — |
| 1942 | No Championships were held during World War II | — | — |
| 1941 | No Championships were held during World War II | — | — |
| 1940 | No Championships were held during World War II | — | — |
| 1939 | Glasgow Corporation Transport | Glasgow Corporation Transport | Edinburgh City Police Pipe Band |
| 1938 | Glasgow Corporation Transport | Glasgow Corporation Transport | Clan MacRae Society Pipe Band |
| 1937 | City of Glasgow Police Pipe Band | — | — |
| 1936 | City of Glasgow Police Pipe Band | — | — |
| 1935 | MacLean Pipe Band | — | — |
| 1934 | Clan MacRae Society Pipe Band | — | — |
| 1933 | Clan MacRae Society Pipe Band | — | — |
| 1932 | Clan MacRae Society Pipe Band | — | — |
| 1931 | Clan MacRae Society Pipe Band | — | — |
| 1930 | Millhall Pipe Band | Glasgow Corporation Transport | MacLean Pipe Band |
| 1929 | Glasgow Corporation Transport | — | — |
| 1928 | MacLean Pipe Band | — | — |
| 1927 | MacLean Pipe Band | Clan MacRae Society Pipe Band | — |
| 1926 | Millhall Pipe Band | Clan MacRae Society Pipe Band | — |
| 1925 | Clan MacRae Society Pipe Band | — | — |
| 1924 | Millhall Pipe Band | Clan MacRae Society Pipe Band | — |
| 1923 | Clan MacRae Society Pipe Band | — | — |
| 1922 | Clan MacRae Society Pipe Band | — | — |
| 1921 | Clan MacRae Society Pipe Band | — | — |
| 1920 | City of Glasgow Police Pipe Band | — | — |
| 1919 | Edinburgh City Police Pipe Band | — | — |
| 1918 | No Championships were held during World War I | — | — |
| 1917 | No Championships were held during World War I | — | — |
| 1916 | No Championships were held during World War I | — | — |
| 1915 | No Championships were held during World War I | — | — |
| 1914 | No Championships were held during World War I | — | — |
| 1913 | 7th Battalion Highland Light Infantry | — | — |
| 1912 | 5th Battalion Highland Light Infantry | — | Stonehouse Pipe Band |
| 1911 | 5th Battalion Highland Light Infantry | — | — |
| 1910 | 5th Battalion Highland Light Infantry | — | — |
| 1909 | Stonehouse Pipe Band | — | — |
| 1908 | 5th Battalion Highland Light Infantry | — | — |
| 1907 | 3rd Volunteer Battalion H.L.I. | — | — |
| 1906 | 1st Volunteer Battalion H.L.I. | Govan Police | Tie: 3rd Volunteer Battalion H.L.I. Queen's R.V.B. (Royal Scots) |