78th Frasers Pipes and Drums
Grade - NA
Campbellville, ON
Campbellville, ONCompetition 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.
World champion profiles
Boghall and Bathgate Caledonia Pipe Band
Grade - NA
Glasgow, Scotland
Glasgow, Scotland
Field Marshall Montgomery Pipe Band
Grade - NA
Lisburn, Northern Ireland
Lisburn, Northern Ireland
House of Edgar Shotts & Dykehead Pipeband
Grade - NAShotts, Scotland
Shotts, Scotland
Inveraray & District Pipe Band
Grade - NAArgyll, Scotland
Argyll, Scotland
Simon Fraser University Pipe Band
Grade - NABurnaby, BC
Burnaby, BC
St. Laurence O Toole Pipe Band
Grade - NA
Maynooth, Ireland
Maynooth, Ireland
Victoria Police Pipe Band
Grade - NA
Wannon, Australia
Wannon, AustraliaChampionship results by year
| 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) |