List of winners 1977 The 1977 Tag League, featuring 9 teams, was held from December 2 to December 15.
1978 The 1978 Tag League, featuring 6 teams, was held from December 1 to December 15.
Abdullah the Butcher used both
The Sheik and
Tor Kamata as partners.
1979 The 1979 Tag League, featuring 7 teams, was held from November 30 to December 13.
1980 The 1980 Tag League, featuring 7 teams, was held from November 28 to December 11.
1981 The 1981 Tag League, featuring 9 teams, was held from November 27 to December 13. Winners Bruiser Brody and Jimmy Snuka were the first winners to never win the World Tag Team Championship or its predecessors the International or PWF titles, as
Stan Hansen, who had recently jumped from
New Japan Pro-Wrestling and helped Brody and Snuka win the final, became Brody's new regular tag team partner beginning the following year.
1982 The 1982 Tag League, featuring 7 teams, was held from November 26 to December 13.
1983 The 1983 Tag League, featuring 8 teams, was held from November 25 to December 12.
1984 The 1984 Tag League, featuring 8 teams, was held from November 22 to December 12.
1985 The 1985 Tag League, featuring 8 teams, was held from November 23 to December 12.
1986 The 1986 Tag League, featuring 9 teams, was held from November 22 to December 12.
1987 The 1987 Tag League, featuring 12 teams, was held from November 21 to December 11.
1988 The 1988 Tag League, featuring 11 teams, was held from November 19 to December 16. It was also to decide the vacant
World Tag Team Championship.
1989 The 1989 Tag League, featuring 10 teams, was held from November 17 to December 6. It was also to decide the vacant
World Tag Team Championship.
1990 The 1990 Tag League, featuring 13 teams, was held from November 15 to December 7. It was also to decide the vacant
World Tag Team Championship.
1991 The 1991 Tag League, featuring 13 teams, was held from November 16 to December 6. It was also to decide the vacant
World Tag Team Championship.
1992 The 1992 Tag League, featuring 11 teams, was held from November 14 to December 4. It was also to decide the vacant
World Tag Team Championship.
1993 The 1993 Tag League, featuring 8 teams, was held from November 13 to December 2. It was also to decide the vacant
World Tag Team Championship.
Giant Baba replaced
Ted DiBiase as
Stan Hansen's partner after one match due to injury. 1Hansen and Ted DiBiase originally defeated Slinger and Smothers in 7:11; however, when Baba replaced DiBiase, the teams wrestled a rematch.
1994 The 1994 Tag League, featuring 10 teams, was held from November 19 to December 10. It was also to decide the vacant
World Tag Team Championship.
1995 The 1995 Tag League, featuring 10 teams, was held from November 18 to December 9.
1996 The 1996 Tag League, featuring 7 teams, was held from November 16 to December 6. In an alteration of previous years, each team faced each other twice during the group stage.
1997 The 1997 Tag League, featuring 10 teams, was held from November 15 to December 5.
1998 The 1998 Tag League, featuring 8 teams, was held from November 14 to December 5.
1999 The 1999 Tag League, featuring 8 teams, was held from November 13 to December 3.
2000 The 2000 Tag League, featuring 8 teams, was held from November 19 to December 9. Due to a four-way tie for first place, the four teams were placed into a semifinals instead of the traditional one-match final.
2001 The 2001 Tag League, featuring 8 teams, was held from November 24 to December 7. As with the previous year, the top four teams faced off in the semifinals as a result of a four-way tie.
2002 The 2002 Tag League, featuring 8 teams, was held from November 23 to December 6.
2003 The 2003 Tag League, featuring 7 teams, was held from November 22 to December 2.
2004 The 2004 Tag League was held from November 21 to December 1. It was the first to utilize a multi-block system, featuring 10 teams in two blocks, with the winners of each block facing each other in the final.
2005 The 2005 Tag League, featuring 10 teams in two blocks, was held from November 20 to December 5.
2006 The 2006 Tag League, featuring 7 teams, was held from November 19 to December 2.
2007 The 2007 Tag League featured 8 teams and was held from November 23 to December 9.
2008 The 2008 league was held from November 22 to December 8 and featured 8 teams.
2009 The 2009 Tag League, featuring 9 teams, was held from November 23 to December 6.
2010 The 2010 Tag League, featuring 9 teams, was held from November 20 to December 7.
2011 The 2011 Tag League, featuring 9 teams, was held from November 19 to December 4.
2012 The 2012 Tag League was held from November 17 to November 30. It was only the second to utilize a multi-block system, featuring 10 teams in two blocks, with the winners of each block facing each other in the final, contested for the vacant
World Tag Team Championship.
Kenso and
Great Sasuke were forced to pull out of the tournament and forfeit all of their matches after Sasuke suffered a shoulder injury.
2013 The 2013 Tag League, featuring 8 teams, will be held from November 30 to December 8.
Bambi Killer was originally scheduled to take part in the tournament, but was forced to pull out due to a neck injury and was replaced by
Kenso.
2014 The 2014 Tag League, featuring 8 teams, took place from November 16 to December 6.
Atsushi Aoki and
Hikaru Sato earned a spot in the tournament by winning the
2014 Jr. Tag Battle of Glory in October. The tournament was contested for the
World Tag Team Championship, which
Jun Akiyama and
Takao Omori vacated on October 23 in time for the tournament.
2015 The 2015 World's Strongest Tag Determination League took place from November 23 to December 6. After their win, Suwama and Miyahara turned on each other.
2016 The 2016 edition of the World Strongest Tag Determination League took place from December 3 through December 18.
2017 The 2017 edition of the World Strongest Tag Determination League took place from November 19 through December 12.
2018 The 2018 edition of the World Strongest Tag Determination League took place from November 13 through December 11.
2019 The 2019 edition of the World Strongest Tag Determination League took place from November 11 through December 9.
2020 The 2020 edition of the World Strongest Tag Determination League, featured 8 teams in a single block, taking place from November 18 to December 7. The tournament featured outside participation from
Big Japan Pro Wrestling's
Daisuke Sekimoto and
Abdullah Kobayashi and from
Pro Wrestling Zero1's
Masato Tanaka. On November 17, it was announced that
Zeus had tested positive for coronavirus (COVID-19), leading him to pull out of the tournament and be replaced by his Purple Haze stablemate
Izanagi.
2021 The 2021 edition of the World Strongest Tag Determination League, featured 16 teams in 4 blocks, taking place from November 13 to December 5.
2022 The 2022 edition of the World's Strongest Tag Determination League reverts back to the single-block format featuring 8 teams. The tournament takes place from November 13 to December 7. The tournament features outside participants from
New Japan Pro-Wrestling's
Yuji Nagata and
Big Japan Pro Wrestling's
Takuya Nomura. On November 25, it was announced that
Shotaro Ashino would be absent for the remainder of the tournament, due to injury, leading to him and
Ryuki Honda to forfeit the remainder of their matches.
2023 The 2023 edition of the World's Strongest Tag Determination League featured one single block with 10 teams. The tournament took place from November 12 to December 6. The tournament featured outside participants from
DDT Pro-Wrestling's
Yukio Sakaguchi and
Hideki Okatani,
JTO's
Ren Ayabe,
IWRG's
Galeno del Mal and
Gleat's
Hayato Tamura.
2024 The 2024 edition of the World Strongest Tag Determination League featured 14 teams in 2 blocks, taking place from November 9 to December 8.
2025 The 2025 edition of the World Strongest Tag Determination League will take place between November 22 and December 10. It will feature the debuts of foreign wrestlers
Xyon,
Oddyssey, and
Talos. On November 26, AJPW announced that
Yuma Aoyagi would be suspended for three months after causing a traffic accident while driving with an expired license. As a result, he and partner
Yuma Anzai forfeited the rest of their tournament matches. ==References==