The sun shone on Glasgow and Shotts & Dykehead Caledonia after they won the 2015 World Pipe Championship held at Glasgow Green. Led by Pipe Major Ryan Canning this was the bands’s 16th victory at the Worlds since their first Worlds win in 1948.
The competition was live streamed to thousands of fans around the world and the final provided the perfect opportunity to watch and listen to the very best pipe bands in the World.
Shotts’ win marks the first time in 10 years that a Scottish band has won the World Pipe Band Championships.
- Shotts & Dykehead Caledonia
- St Laurence O’Toole
- Inveraray & District
- Field Marshall Montgomery
- Simon Fraser University
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World Pipe Band Champions
- 2015 Shotts & Dykehead
- 2014 Field Marshal Montgomery
- 2013 Field Marshal Montgomery
- 2012 Field Marshal Montgomery
- 2011 Field Marshal Montgomery
- 2010 St. Laurence O’Toole
- 2009 Simon Fraser University
- 2008 Simon Fraser University
- 2007 Field Marshal Montgomery
- 2006 Field Marshal Montgomery
- 2005 House of Edgar – Shotts & Dykehead
- 2004 Field Marshal Montgomery
- 2003 House of Edgar – Shotts & Dykehead
- 2002 Field Marshal Montgomery
- 2001 Simon Fraser University
- 2000 Shotts & Dykehead
- 1999 Simon Fraser University
- 1998 Victoria Police
- 1997 Shotts & Dykehead
- 1996 Simon Fraser University
- 1995 Simon Fraser University
- 1994 Shotts & Dykehead
- 1993 Field Marshal Montgomery
- 1992 Field Marshal Montgomery
- 1991 Strathclyde Police
- 1990 Strathclyde Police
- 1989 Strathclyde Police
- 1988 Strathclyde Police
- 1987 78th Fraser Highlanders
- 1986 Strathclyde Police
- 1985 Strathclyde Police
- 1984 Strathclyde Police
- 1983 Strathclyde Police
- 1982 Strathclyde Police
- 1981 Strathclyde Police
- 1980 Shotts & Dykehead
- 1979 Strathclyde Police
- 1978 Dysart and Dundonald
- 1977 Dysart and Dundonald
- 1976 Strathclyde Police
- 1975 Edinburgh Police Pipe Band
- 1974 Shotts & Dykehead
- 1973 Shotts & Dykehead
- 1972 Edinburgh Police Pipe Band
- 1971 Edinburgh Police Pipe Band
- 1970 Shotts & Dykehead
- 1969 Muirhead & Sons Pipe Band
- 1968 Muirhead & Sons Pipe Band
- 1967 Muirhead & Sons Pipe Band
- 1966 Muirhead & Sons Pipe Band
- 1965 Muirhead & Sons Pipe Band
- 1964 Edinburgh Police Pipe Band
- 1963 Edinburgh Police Pipe Band
- 1962 277 Btn. Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders
- 1961 Muirhead & Sons Pipe Band
- 1960 Shotts & Dykehead
- 1959 Shotts & Dykehead
- 1958 Shotts & Dykehead
- 1957 Shotts & Dykehead
- 1956 Muirhead & Sons Pipe Band
- 1955 Muirhead & Sons Pipe Band
- 1954 Edinburgh Police Pipe Band
- 1953 Clan MacRae Society Pipe Band
- 1952 Shotts & Dykehead
- 1951 City of Glasgow Police Pipe Band
- 1950 Edinburgh Police Pipe Band
- 1949 City of Glasgow Police Pipe Band
- 1948 Shotts & Dykehead
- 1947 Bowhill Colliery Pipe Band
- 1946 City of Glasgow Police Pipe Band
- 1945 – 1940 (No Championships were held during World War II)
- 1939 City of Glasgow Police Pipe Band
- 1938 City of Glasgow Police Pipe Band
- 1937 City of Glasgow Police Pipe Band
- 1936 City of Glasgow Police Pipe Band
- 1935 MacLean Pipe Band
- 1934 Clan MacRae Society Pipe Band
- 1933 Clan MacRae Society Pipe Band
- 1932 Clan MacRae Society Pipe Band
- 1931 Glasgow Corporation Transport
- 1930 Millhall Pipe Band
- 1929 Glasgow Corporation Transport
- 1928 MacLean Pipe Band
- 1927 MacLean Pipe Band
- 1926 Millhall Pipe Band
- 1925 Clan MacRae Society Pipe Band
- 1924 Millhall Pipe Band
- 1923 Clan MacRae Society Pipe Band
- 1922 Clan MacRae Society Pipe Band
- 1921 Clan MacRae Society Pipe Band
- 1920 City of Glasgow Police Pipe Band
- 1919 Edinburgh City Police Pipe Band
- 1918 – 1914 (No Championships were held during World War I)
- 1913 7th Battalion Highland Light Infantry
- 1912 5th Battalion Highland Light Infantry
- 1911 5th Battalion Highland Light Infantry
- 1910 5th Battalion Highland Light Infantry
- 1909 Stonehouse Pipe Band
- 1908 5th Battalion Highland Light Infantry
- 1907 3rd Volunteer Battalion H.L.I.
- 1906 1st Volunteer Battalion H.L.I.
