California has won the most Little League World Series championships of any U.S. state — eight titles, from El Cajon in 1961 to El Segundo’s walk-off in 2023 — and no other state is particularly close. Connecticut, Hawaii, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey sit next with four apiece, and in all just 15 of the 50 states have ever produced a champion in the tournament’s 78 editions.
The distribution tells you where youth baseball’s centers of gravity have been. Pennsylvania and New Jersey dominated the early years when the tournament was a regional event; California’s titles span seven decades of year-round baseball; and Hawaii’s four have all come since 2005, the most of any state in the 21st century. Southern powers Georgia and Texas, Michigan’s two bookend titles 62 years apart, and one-off champions from Roswell to River Ridge fill out the map.
The full state table and every champion by state are in the chart below. Take a look, then we’ll get into the states still waiting.
LITTLE LEAGUE WORLD SERIES
Which State Has Won the Most LLWS Titles?
California leads with 8 — and only 15 states have ever won one
MOST TITLES
California, 8
1961 to 2023
TIED AT 4
HI, PA, NJ, CT
Four states
STATES WITH A TITLE
15
Of 50
LATEST FIRST-TIMER
Florida
Lake Mary, 2024
Every state with a championship
The full table
| Rank | State | Titles | Champions (year — team) |
|---|
| 1 | California | 8 | 1961 El Cajon; 1962 San Jose (Moreland); 1963 Granada Hills; 1992 & 1993 Long Beach; 2009 Chula Vista (Park View); 2011 Huntington Beach (Ocean View); 2023 El Segundo |
| 2 (tie) | Connecticut | 4 | 1951 Stamford; 1952 Norwalk; 1965 Windsor Locks; 1989 Trumbull |
| 2 (tie) | Hawaii | 4 | 2005 Ewa Beach; 2008 Waipahu (Waipio); 2018 & 2022 Honolulu |
| 2 (tie) | Pennsylvania | 4 | 1947 Williamsport (Maynard Midgets); 1948 Lock Haven; 1955 Morrisville; 1960 Levittown |
| 2 (tie) | New Jersey | 4 | 1949 Hammonton; 1970 Wayne; 1975 Lakewood; 1998 Toms River |
| 6 (tie) | New York | 3 | 1954 Schenectady; 1964 Staten Island (Mid-Island); 2016 Endwell (Maine-Endwell) |
| 6 (tie) | Georgia | 3 | 1983 Marietta (East Marietta National); 2006 Columbus; 2007 Warner Robins |
| 8 (tie) | Texas | 2 | 1950 Houston; 1966 Houston (Westbury American) |
| 8 (tie) | Michigan | 2 | 1959 Hamtramck; 2021 Taylor (Taylor North) |
| 10 (tie) | Alabama | 1 | 1953 Birmingham |
| 10 (tie) | New Mexico | 1 | 1956 Roswell |
| 10 (tie) | Washington | 1 | 1982 Kirkland |
| 10 (tie) | Kentucky | 1 | 2002 Louisville (Valley Sports) |
| 10 (tie) | Louisiana | 1 | 2019 River Ridge (Eastbank) |
| 10 (tie) | Florida | 1 | 2024 Lake Mary |
Per the official tournament record through 2025; U.S. teams have 40 of the 78 titles.
The details behind the table
Spans, streaks, and footnotes
| Fact | Detail |
|---|
| A four-way tie at second | Connecticut (1951, ’52, ’65, ’89), Hawaii, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey all sit at four titles behind California |
| California’s span | 62 years between its first title (1961) and its most recent (2023) — titles in the 60s, 90s, 2000s, 2010s, and 2020s |
| Hawaii owns the modern era | Four titles since 2005 lead all states this century; Honolulu LL’s 2018 and 2022 wins make it one of only a few leagues with two |
| Michigan’s bookends | 62 years between Hamtramck (1959) and Taylor North (2021) — the longest gap between titles for any state |
| The Nevada footnote | Las Vegas was retroactively awarded the 2014 U.S. championship after Chicago’s disqualification, and reached the world final again in 2025 — but Nevada has never won the world title |
STATE FACTS
The early Northeast era
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Connecticut, and New York won 13 of the first 19 tournaments — the LLWS began as a Mid-Atlantic event that the rest of the country caught up to.
California’s eight came the hard way
Golden State teams have also lost more finals than anyone — over a dozen runner-up finishes, including five in Taiwan’s dynasty years alone.
35 states still waiting
Baseball hotbeds like Arizona, Ohio, Illinois, and Tennessee have reached the final without winning; Nevada has now lost two world finals, most recently in 2025.
Which U.S. states have won the Little League World Series.
The States Still Waiting
The near-miss list is its own history. Illinois has lost three finals (Kankakee twice in the 50s and 60s, Chicago’s vacated 2014 run); Arizona’s Tucson teams lost twice to peak Taiwan; Florida’s Belmont Heights of Tampa lost three finals with future MLB stars before Lake Mary finally broke through for the state in 2024; and Ohio’s Hamilton took Michigan to the wire in the all-U.S. 2021 final. Nevada’s case is the freshest — a retroactive 2014 U.S. title, a 2025 world-final run that ended in a 7-0 shutout, and still no championship. With Hawaii and California pumping out contenders annually, the map’s blank spaces fill slowly.
The Bottom Line
California’s eight championships lead all states, Connecticut quietly joins Hawaii, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey at four, and just 15 states have ever won the Little League World Series across 78 editions. The early trophies lived in the Northeast; the modern ones fly west and south. For the complete game log behind the map, see our LLWS results by year, the team-by-team list of every U.S. champion, and the global ledger in titles by country.
