Every MLB franchise with at least two World Series championships, ranked by total titles across its whole history. Current as of 2026-10-04, through the 2025 World Series.
Pictured: the New York Yankees clinching their 27th World Series title in 2009, #1 with 27 titles.
| Rank | Franchise | Titles | First title | Most recent title | League | Title years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New York Yankees | 27 | 1923 | 2009 | AL | 1923, 1927, 1928, 1932, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1941, 1943, 1947, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1956, 1958, 1961, 1962, 1977, 1978, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2009 |
| 2 | St. Louis Cardinals | 11 | 1926 | 2011 | NL | 1926, 1931, 1934, 1942, 1944, 1946, 1964, 1967, 1982, 2006, 2011 |
| 3 | Athletics | 9 | 1910 | 1989 | AL | 1910, 1911, 1913, 1929, 1930, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1989 |
| 3 | Boston Red Sox | 9 | 1903 | 2018 | AL | 1903, 1912, 1915, 1916, 1918, 2004, 2007, 2013, 2018 |
| 3 | Los Angeles Dodgers | 9 | 1955 | 2025 | NL | 1955, 1959, 1963, 1965, 1981, 1988, 2020, 2024, 2025 |
| 6 | San Francisco Giants | 8 | 1905 | 2014 | NL | 1905, 1921, 1922, 1933, 1954, 2010, 2012, 2014 |
| 7 | Cincinnati Reds | 5 | 1919 | 1990 | NL | 1919, 1940, 1975, 1976, 1990 |
| 7 | Pittsburgh Pirates | 5 | 1909 | 1979 | NL | 1909, 1925, 1960, 1971, 1979 |
| 9 | Detroit Tigers | 4 | 1935 | 1984 | AL | 1935, 1945, 1968, 1984 |
| 9 | Atlanta Braves | 4 | 1914 | 2021 | NL | 1914, 1957, 1995, 2021 |
| 11 | Chicago Cubs | 3 | 1907 | 2016 | NL | 1907, 1908, 2016 |
| 11 | Baltimore Orioles | 3 | 1966 | 1983 | AL | 1966, 1970, 1983 |
| 11 | Minnesota Twins | 3 | 1924 | 1991 | AL | 1924, 1987, 1991 |
| 11 | Chicago White Sox | 3 | 1906 | 2005 | AL | 1906, 1917, 2005 |
| 15 | Philadelphia Phillies | 2 | 1980 | 2008 | NL | 1980, 2008 |
| 15 | New York Mets | 2 | 1969 | 1986 | NL | 1969, 1986 |
| 15 | Kansas City Royals | 2 | 1985 | 2015 | AL | 1985, 2015 |
| 15 | Toronto Blue Jays | 2 | 1992 | 1993 | AL | 1992, 1993 |
| 15 | Miami Marlins | 2 | 1997 | 2003 | NL | 1997, 2003 |
| 15 | Cleveland Guardians | 2 | 1920 | 1948 | AL | 1920, 1948 |
| 15 | Houston Astros | 2 | 2017 | 2022 | AL | 2017, 2022 |
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Counts are as of 2026-10-04, through the 2025 World Series. The 2026 World Series has not been played yet (it runs in late October), and this table will be updated after it. Franchise history is counted across relocations and renames: Athletics (Philadelphia, Kansas City, Oakland), Dodgers (Brooklyn), Giants (New York), Braves (Boston, Milwaukee), Twins (Washington Senators), Orioles (the 1902-1953 St. Louis Browns won no World Series), Guardians (Indians) and Marlins (Florida). League is each club's current league. Ties share a rank.
No franchise in North American major-league sport is close to the Yankees: 27 World Series wins, more than twice the total of any other club. They won five straight from 1949 to 1953, and their most recent title came in 2009 over the Phillies, with Mariano Rivera recording the final out.[1][2]
The Cardinals' 11 championships are the most of any National League club. The most recent, in 2011, came after a Game 6 comeback against the Texas Rangers and a Game 7 win at Busch Stadium, with Jason Motte getting the final out.[1][2]
The franchise's nine titles are counted across its homes: five as the Philadelphia Athletics (1910-1930) and four as the Oakland Athletics (1972-74, 1989), with none in its Kansas City years (1955-67). The 1989 title came in the earthquake-interrupted Bay Bridge Series against the Giants, delayed ten days by the Loma Prieta quake.[1][3]
Boston won five of the first fifteen World Series, then waited 86 years after 1918 for the next one. The 2004 sweep of the Cardinals ended that drought, and the club has since added titles in 2007, 2013 and 2018.[1][4]
The Dodgers count their Brooklyn years: their only Brooklyn title came in 1955, and the other eight were won in Los Angeles. In 2025 they beat the Blue Jays in an 11-inning Game 7 to become the first repeat champions since the 2000 Yankees, which moved them into a tie for third on this list.[1][5][6]
Five of the Giants' eight titles were won in New York (1905-1954) and three in San Francisco. The 2010 title, clinched when Brian Wilson struck out Nelson Cruz, was their first since moving west in 1958; they followed it with wins in 2012 and 2014.[1][7]
The Reds won back-to-back titles in 1975 and 1976 with the "Big Red Machine", who beat the Red Sox in seven games in 1975 and swept the Yankees in 1976. Their most recent title was a 1990 sweep of the favored Oakland Athletics, closed out when Randy Myers got Carney Lansford to pop out.[1][8]
Bill Mazeroski's ninth-inning home run beat the Yankees in Game 7 of the 1960 World Series, still the only time the Series has ended on a Game 7 walk-off homer. The Pirates' fifth and most recent title was the 1979 "We Are Family" team, which rallied from a 3-1 deficit against Baltimore.[1][9]
Detroit won its fourth title in 1984, beating the Padres in five games after Kirk Gibson's three-run homer off Goose Gossage in the eighth inning of Game 5. The 1968 Tigers had earlier come back from a 3-1 deficit against the Cardinals.[1][10]
The Braves are the only franchise to win the World Series in three different cities: Boston (1914), Milwaukee (1957) and Atlanta (1995, 2021). The 2021 title came with a 7-0 Game 6 win over the Astros.[1][11]