Czechia beat Ukraine 2-0 in Shenzhen on Sept. 27, 2026, to win the Billie Jean King Cup for the 12th time and the first time since 2018. Karolina Muchova beat Anhelina Kalinina 6-2, 6-3, and Linda Noskova clinched it against Elina Svitolina, 6-3, 7-6 (5). Only the United States, with 18, has won the women’s team competition more often.
This page collects the competition’s main records: titles by nation, the most successful players and captains, and the team marks that have stood since the first edition in 1963. Figures marked as coming from the ITF’s April 2026 notes were correct before that year’s Qualifiers and can move with every tie.
Titles by nation
Thirteen nations have won the competition, which began as the Federation Cup, was later known as the Fed Cup and was renamed the Billie Jean King Cup in September 2020. The counts below combine the ITF’s April 2026 title list with Czechia’s 2026 win. Czechia holds Czechoslovakia’s historical record, and Russia’s total includes the 2021 title won as the Russian Tennis Federation.
| Nation | Titles | Title years (where confirmed by the ITF) |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 18 | First in 1963; 1996, 1999, 2000; most recent 2017 |
| Czechia | 12 | 1975, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1988 (as Czechoslovakia); 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2026 |
| Australia | 7 | 1964, 1965, 1968, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1974 |
| Italy | 6 | 2006, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2024, 2025 |
| Spain | 5 | 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1998 |
| Russia | 5 | 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2021 (as Russian Tennis Federation) |
| France | 3 | — |
| Germany | 2 | — |
| Belgium | 1 | 2001 |
| Canada | 1 | 2023 |
| Slovakia | 1 | — |
| South Africa | 1 | 1972 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 2022 |
Italy have won back-to-back titles twice, in 2009-10 and 2024-25, and Czechia won three in a row from 2014 to 2016, the last time any nation retained the trophy before Italy did it again, according to the ITF. Czechia’s six titles between 2011 and 2018 came against Russia (twice), Serbia, Germany, France and the United States.
The most recent finals
- 2026: Czechia d. Ukraine 2-0, Shenzhen. Ukraine’s first final.
- 2025: Italy d. United States 2-0, Shenzhen.
- 2024: Italy d. Slovakia.
- 2023: Canada d. Italy, Seville. Canada’s first title.
- 2022: Switzerland d. Australia 2-0. Switzerland’s first title.
- 2021: Russian Tennis Federation d. Switzerland 2-0.
Winning as player and captain
Billie Jean King is the most successful individual in the competition’s history, with 10 titles, according to the ITF: seven as a player, one of them as a playing captain, and three more as captain. She was on the United States team that won the first edition in London in 1963.
Barbora Strycova’s first year as Czechia’s captain ended with the 2026 title, making her the fourth woman to win the competition as both a player and a captain, after Margaret Court, Chris Evert and King, AP reported. AP credits Strycova with three titles as a player. The ITF’s April 2026 notes record that she was part of all six Czech title-winning seasons from 2011 to 2018 and played in the 2015, 2016 and 2018 finals, winning all four matches she contested in those ties.
Player records
Spain’s Arantxa Sanchez Vicario holds the all-time records for total wins, with 72, and singles wins, with 50, according to the ITF. Conchita Martinez is second on both lists, with 68 and 47. Together they led Spain to 10 finals and won 18 doubles matches as a pair, the most by any partnership.
The national leaders for the two most successful nations, from the ITF’s April 2026 notes:
- United States: Chris Evert has the most wins by an American, 57-4, including 40-2 in singles, and the most ties played, 42. Billie Jean King is second on the wins list at 52-4.
- Czechia: Helena Sukova leads for wins (57-16), singles wins (45-11) and ties played (54). Hana Mandlikova is second on the wins list at 49-12.
Team records
- Most ties won: the United States, the only nation with more than 150 victories. They had 163 before the April 2026 Qualifiers.
- Most ties played: Great Britain, with 226 before April 2026. Britain and the United States are the only nations to have played 200 or more.
- Ever-present nations: Australia, France, Great Britain and Italy have competed in every season since 1963.
- Comebacks from 0-2 down: nine since best-of-five ties were adopted in 1995. The most recent before April 2026 was Romania’s 3-2 win over Ukraine in the 2024 Qualifiers.
- Nations Ranking No. 1: since the ranking was launched at the end of 2002, eight nations have held the top spot: Australia, Canada, Czechia, France, Italy, Russia, Slovakia and Switzerland.
Britain have reached four finals without winning one, losing to the United States in 1967 and 1981, Australia in 1971 and South Africa in 1972. The first edition, at Queen’s Club in London, drew 16 nations; the ITF says 148 entered in 2026, a record.
Related
For the format, see how the Billie Jean King Cup works and our 2026 Finals guide. The men’s equivalents are our Davis Cup winners and Laver Cup winners pages. Players from this year’s final: Linda Noskova, Karolina Muchova, Katerina Siniakova and Elina Svitolina.
