Pokémon World Championships past champions list, historic winners by Year.
The Pokémon World Championships are the pinnacle of competitive Pokémon play. Typically occurring in August of each year, the Pokémon World Championships feature the best Pokémon players from around the globe.
Players will compete in the three-day event for a prize pool of over 2 million dollars (the highest prize pool in the Championship Series circuit), the title of Pokémon World Champion, and return invitations for the following year’s Worlds.
- The Pokemon World Championships is invite-only event where the best players of the season compete organized by Play! Pokémon, a franchise of "The Pokémon Company". The Pokemon company organized Pokemon Video games (VG) & Pokemon Trading Card Games (TCG).
- Play! Pokémon was started in 2003 by the Pokemon company Internationally.
- In this best players got scholarship money, prizes and the title of World Champion...
- In the TCG World championship there are 3 disciplines, Juniors under 13 years, Seniors 13-16 years old, the Master 17+ years old.
- The 2024 Pokémon World Championships will be held in Honolulu, Hawaii... since the previous World Championships in the state was held back in 2012.
Pokémon World Championships currently 20 - Playable Character (rosters) ..
Blazikena - Braixena - Chandelurea - Charizard - Croagunka - Empoleona -
Darkraia - Garchompa - Gardevoir - Gengar - Lucario - Machamp - Mewtwoa -
Pikachu - Pikachu Librea - Sceptilea - Scizora - Shadow - Mewtwoab - Suicune -
Weavile -
Pokemon Champions: Pokemon Worlds Winners List by Year, 2004-2025
Pokémon World Championships-tournament TCG World Champions - Winners List by Year history Since 2004-2025..
Trading Card Game (TCG)
Year - Junior Senior Master
2004: Hayato Sato , - Takuya Yoneda , - Tsuguyoshi
2005: Curran Hill , - Stuart Benson , - Jeremy Maron
2006: Hiroki Yano , - Miska Saari , - Jason Klaczynski
2007: Jun Hasebe , - Jeremy Scharff-Kim , - Tom Roos
2008: Tristan Robinson , - Dylan Lefavour , - Jason Klaczysnki
2009: Tsubasa Nakamura , - Takuto Itagaki , - Stephen Silvestro
2010: Yuka Furusawa, - Jacob Lesage, - Yuta Komatsuda
2011: Gustavo Wada, - Christopher Kan, - David Cohen
2012: Shuto Itagaki, - Chase Moloney, - Igor Costa
2013: Ondrej Kujal, - Kaiwen Cabbabe, - Jason Klaczynski
2014: Haruto Kobayashi, - Trent Orndorff, - Andrew Estrada
2015: Rowan Stavenow, - Patrick Martinez, - Jacob Van Wagner
2016: Shunto Sadahiro, - Jesper Eriksen, - Cory Connor .
2017: Tobias Stromdahl, - Zachary Bukhari, - Diego Cassiraga.
2018: Naohito Inoue - Magnus Pedersen - Robin Schulz
2019: Haruki Miyamoto - Kaya Lichtleitner - Henry Brand
2022: Rikuto Ohashi - Liam Halliburton - Ondřej Škubal
2023: Shao Tong Yen - Gabriel Fernandez - Vance Kelley
2024: Sakuya Ota -- Evan Pavelski -- Fernando Cifuentes
Video Game Championships (VGC)
Year Juniors (U13) Seniors (13-16) Masters (17+)
2009 United States Jeremiah Fan Japan Kazuyuki Tsuji N/A
2010 Japan Shota Yamamoto United States Ray Rizzo N/A
2011 United States Brian Hough United States Kamran Jahadi United States Ray Rizzo
2012 United States Abram Burrows United States Toler Webb United States Ray
Rizzo
2013 United States Brendan Zheng United States Hayden McTavish Italy Arash Ommati
2014 Japan Kota Yamamoto United States Nikolai Zielinski South Korea Se Jun Park
2015 Japan Kotone Yasue United Kingdom Mark McQuillan Japan Shoma Honami
2016 United States Cory Connor United States Carson Confer United States Wolfe Glick
2017 Australia Nicholas Kan South Korea Hong Juyoung Japan Ryota Otsubo
2018 Japan Wonn Lee United States James Evans Ecuador Paul Ruiz
2019 Taiwan Pi Wu Japan Ko Tsukide Japan Naoto Mizobuchi
2022 Japan Kosaku Miyamoto Japan Yasuharu Shimizu Portugal Eduardo Cunha
2023 Japan Sora Ebisawa Japan Tomoya Ogawa Japan Shohei Kimura
2024 United States Kevin Han Japan Ray Yamanaka Italy Luca Ceribelli
When & where is the next Pokémon World Championship 2025?
On Sunday, Tsunekazu Ishihara, the company’s CEO and president, revealed next year’s tournament will take place in Anaheim from Aug. 15 to 17, while the 2026 Pokemon Worlds will be held in San Francisco from Aug. 28 to 30.
The last time the tournament was held in Anaheim and San Francisco back-to-back was in 2017 and 2016 respectively. Those were also the most recent years the tournament was held in the Golden State.
Who has the most Pokémon World Championships?
The best players in a season in their Regions can also win Travel Awards to this event and the format used is respective to the year. As of 2025 there have been 15 World Championships held with 23 different players crowned as World Champion across all divisions. Ray Rizzo holds the record at 3 titles.
Who Is the Most Famous Pokémon Player?
Ray Rizzo is an American professional Pokémon player who has won the World Championships three times in 2010, 2011, and 2012. He is known for his expertise in the competitive gameplay and his mastery of different Pokémon types.
Noteable
Se Jun Park is a professional Pokémon player from South Korea and is considered one of the best players of all time. He won the Pokémon World Championships in 2014 and is known for his strategic gameplay.
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