Asia Cup Winners List: Every Champion From 1984 to 2025

India has won the men’s Asia Cup nine times, more than Sri Lanka’s six and Pakistan’s two combined. Those are the only three champions across 17 editions from 1984 through 2025.

Asia Cup winners and runners-up by year

The 1984 edition used a three-team round robin and had no final. Every later completed edition in the table ended with a final.

Year	Format	Winner	Runner-up	Final result
1984	ODI	India	Sri Lanka	India topped round-robin table
1986	ODI	Sri Lanka	Pakistan	Sri Lanka won by 5 wickets
1988	ODI	India	Sri Lanka	India won by 6 wickets
1990-91	ODI	India	Sri Lanka	India won by 7 wickets
1995	ODI	India	Sri Lanka	India won by 8 wickets
1997	ODI	Sri Lanka	India	Sri Lanka won by 8 wickets
2000	ODI	Pakistan	Sri Lanka	Pakistan won by 39 runs
2004	ODI	Sri Lanka	India	Sri Lanka won by 25 runs
2008	ODI	Sri Lanka	India	Sri Lanka won by 100 runs
2010	ODI	India	Sri Lanka	India won by 81 runs
2012	ODI	Pakistan	Bangladesh	Pakistan won by 2 runs
2014	ODI	Sri Lanka	Pakistan	Sri Lanka won by 5 wickets
2016	T20I	India	Bangladesh	India won by 8 wickets
2018	ODI	India	Bangladesh	India won by 3 wickets
2022	T20I	Sri Lanka	Pakistan	Sri Lanka won by 23 runs
2023	ODI	India	Sri Lanka	India won by 10 wickets
2025	T20I	India	Pakistan	India won by 5 wickets

The edition name follows the year in which the tournament finished. “1990-91” is retained because that competition crossed the calendar-year convention used in historical records.

Asia Cup titles by team

Team	Titles	Winning years	Runner-up finishes
India	9	1984, 1988, 1990-91, 1995, 2010, 2016, 2018, 2023, 2025	2
Sri Lanka	6	1986, 1997, 2004, 2008, 2014, 2022	7
Pakistan	2	2000, 2012	4
Bangladesh	0	—	3

Sri Lanka has appeared in more finals than any other team once its 1984 second-place finish is included. India leads the measure that matters most: titles.

1984: India wins the first Asia Cup

The inaugural competition in Sharjah had only India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan. Each team played the other once. India beat both opponents and finished first, so there was no separate final.

That format explains why historical tables call Sri Lanka the runner-up but cannot supply a final margin. Pakistan lost both matches and finished third.

1986-95: Sri Lanka’s first title, then India three times

India did not enter the 1986 tournament in Sri Lanka. The hosts beat Pakistan by five wickets in the final to claim their first title.

India returned to win three consecutive editions it contested: 1988, 1990-91 and 1995, beating Sri Lanka in every final. Mohammad Azharuddin captained the latter two victories and made an unbeaten 90 in the 1995 chase.

1997-2008: Sri Lanka dominates the finals

Sri Lanka won three of the next five editions. It chased India’s 239 with eight wickets left in Colombo in 1997, then defended 228 by 25 runs in the 2004 final.

The 2008 final produced the largest winning margin in tournament history. Ajantha Mendis took 6 for 13 as India was dismissed for 173, 100 short of Sri Lanka’s 273. Sanath Jayasuriya had earlier made 125.

Pakistan’s first title came in 2000. It defended 277 against Sri Lanka in Dhaka, with captain Moin Khan making an unbeaten 56 and Abdul Razzaq taking four wickets.

2010-14: India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka trade titles

India ended a 15-year wait in 2010, beating Sri Lanka by 81 runs. Dinesh Karthik’s 66 set up 268 for 6, and Ashish Nehra took four wickets.

The 2012 final was much tighter. Pakistan made 236 for 9 and beat Bangladesh by only two runs in Mirpur. Bangladesh needed nine from the last over but finished at 234 for 8, its first of three Asia Cup final defeats.

Sri Lanka completed an unbeaten 2014 tournament by beating Pakistan by five wickets. Lahiru Thirimanne’s century led the chase after Lasith Malinga took all five Pakistan wickets to fall.

Why some Asia Cups are T20 and others ODI

The Asian Cricket Council aligns the tournament with the next men’s global championship. Before a T20 World Cup it uses 20-over T20I rules; before an ODI World Cup it uses 50-over ODI rules.

That made 2016 the first T20 Asia Cup. The competition returned to ODI cricket in 2018, switched to T20 in 2022, back to ODI in 2023 and to T20 again in 2025.

Edition	Format	Global event it preceded
2016	T20I	2016 T20 World Cup
2018	ODI	2019 ODI World Cup
2022	T20I	2022 T20 World Cup
2023	ODI	2023 ODI World Cup
2025	T20I	2026 T20 World Cup

Our ODI full-form guide explains the 50-over rules; the T20 World Cup winners list covers the shorter format’s global champions.

2016 and 2018: India wins both formats

Rain reduced the 2016 T20 final against Bangladesh to 15 overs a side. Bangladesh made 120 for 5, and India reached the target with seven balls left after Shikhar Dhawan’s 60.

The 2018 ODI final also went to the last over. Bangladesh posted 222 after Litton Das’s 121. India lost seven wickets in the chase before Kedar Jadhav returned from injury and completed the winning run off the final ball.

2022: Sri Lanka wins in the UAE

Sri Lanka was the designated host, but economic and political instability moved the tournament to the UAE. The team recovered from losing its opening match to win every remaining game.

In the final, Sri Lanka slipped to 58 for 5 before Bhanuka Rajapaksa’s unbeaten 71 carried it to 170 for 6. Pakistan was dismissed for 147, giving Sri Lanka a sixth title by 23 runs.

2023: India bowls Sri Lanka out for 50

The 2023 ODI final lasted only 21.3 overs. Mohammed Siraj took 6 for 21, including four wickets in one over, as Sri Lanka collapsed to 50 in Colombo.

India chased the target in 6.1 overs without losing a wicket. The ten-wicket result was India’s eighth title and the shortest completed ODI final in the tournament’s history by balls bowled.

2025: India beats Pakistan in their first Asia Cup final

India and Pakistan had never met in an Asia Cup final before 28 September 2025. Pakistan reached 113 for 1 in Dubai, then lost nine wickets for 33 runs to finish at 146.

India fell to 20 for 3 in reply. Tilak Varma rebuilt the chase with an unbeaten 69 from 53 balls, and Rinku Singh hit the winning four with two deliveries remaining. India won by five wickets for a record ninth title.

The post-match presentation became a separate controversy when India’s players declined to receive the trophy and medals from ACC president and PCB chairman Mohsin Naqvi. That did not affect the match result or title record.

The Asia Cup is a continental tournament, distinct from the Champions Trophy winners and Cricket World Cup winners histories. More tournament records live on the cricket records hub.