All All-England Winners Since 1899

Since the first edition, in 1899, the All-England Open Championships – popularly referred to as All-England Open or just All-England – has become the most prestigious annual badminton tournament in the world.

Past winners of All-England is a long list of the whos-who in badminton. F.ex. Sir George Thomas, the founder of The Thomas Cup, has won a whopping 21 All-England titles. On the women’s side, American Judy Devlin (married name: Judy Hashman) won 17 titles. She won 10 women’s singles titles. Scroll down to see a searchable list of every single All-England Champion since 1899.

Until the 1930s there weren’t very many foreign players competing at the All-England. The winners from 1899 to 1937 were all from either England or Ireland.

But that soon changed.

In 1947 and 1948 all five categories were won by players from Denmark. (Conny Jepsen, the men’s singles champion in 1947, was born in Denmark, later emigrated to England, and after the war to Sweden. In 1947 he represented Sweden at the All England).

The following year, in 1949, the first All-England Champions from Asia were celebrated when Ooi Teik Hock and Teoh Seng Khoon from Malaysia won the men’s doubles. That same year, American David Freeman won the men’s singles category.

Soon more players from all parts of the world found their way to the All-England Open Championships.

The Chinese joined for the first time in 1982. In spite of their late arrival to the championships, China is currently the 3rd most victorious nation at the All England with a total of 85 titles won.

Most titles – as of 2022 – have been won by England with a total of 194 titles. Denmark, as the second most victorious nation, has bagged 89 titles, and Indonesia is in fourth place with 49 titles. So far 17 different countries have won one or more All-England Championship title

All-England winners from 1899 until now

Here is the complete list of all All-England winners from the inaugural tournament in 1899 up to the most recent tournament. If you are looking for a specific name, you can search the list. You can also sort the columns if you so desire.

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