This is a list of division champions (since ) and wild-card winners (since ) in

Major League Baseball Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball organization and the oldest major professional sports league in the world. MLB is composed of 30 total teams, divided equally between the National League (NL) and the American League (A ...

Division champions

indicates the winner of the

World Series The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB) in the United States and Canada, contested since 1903 between the champion teams of the American League (AL) and the National League (NL). The winner of the Worl ...

Four-division alignment (1969–1993)

*Team names link to the season in which each team played † Due to the strike that took place in the middle of the 1981 season, Major League Baseball crowned both a "first half" (pre-strike) and "second half" (post-strike) division champion. The teams were then matched against each other in a special division series.

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won the

1981 American League Division Series The 1981 American League Division Series (ALDS), the opening round of the 1981 American League playoffs, began on Tuesday, October 6, and ended on Sunday, October 11. The Division Series were approved by team owners on August 6 in response to the ...

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and

Montreal Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the second-most populous city in Canada and most populous city in the Canadian province of Quebec. Founded in 1642 as '' Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", it is named after Mount Royal, the triple- ...

won the

1981 National League Division Series The 1981 National League Division Series (NLDS), the opening round of the 1981 National League playoffs which began on Tuesday, October 6, and ended on Sunday, October 11. The Division Series was created on August 6 in response to the 1981 Major ...

Six-division alignment (1994–present)

*Team names link to the season in which each team played ‡ The 1994 season was shortened by a strike that resulted in the cancellation of the rest of the season, including the

. The teams listed were leading their divisions at the time the strike began.

Wild card winners

indicates the winner of the

. Italics indicates the winner of the division series. Bold indicates the winner of the League Championship Series

One Wild Card (1995–2011)

*Team names link to the season in which each team played

Two Wild Cards (2012–2019, 2021)

*Winner of the wild card game in bold † For the 2020 season, the postseason consisted of eight teams per league; the top two teams in each division and two wild card teams from among the remaining teams.