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{{Short description|Cricket competition in Australia}}
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{{Infobox cricket tournament main
| tournament name          = Sheffield Shield
| image                    = Marsh Sheffield Shield.png
| size                     = 
| caption                  =
| country                  = {{flag|Australia}}
| administrator            = [[Cricket Australia]]
| cricket format           = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| first                    = [[1892–93 Sheffield Shield season|1892–93]]
| last                     = [[2024–25 Sheffield Shield season|2024–25]]
| next                     = 2025–26
| tournament format        = Double [[round-robin tournament|round-robin]], then final
| participants             = 6
| champions                = {{cr-Aus|SA}} (14th title)
| qualification            =
| most successful          = {{cr-Aus|NSW}} (47 titles)
| most runs                = [[Darren Lehmann]] ([[South Australia cricket team|South Australia]] and [[Victoria cricket team|Victoria]])<br />12,971 runs
| most wickets             = [[Clarrie Grimmett]] ([[Victoria cricket team|Victoria]] and [[South Australia cricket team|South Australia]])<br />513 wickets
|website=[http://www.cricket.com.au Cricket Australia]
| TV                       = Cricket Network<br />[[Kayo Sports]]<br />[[Fox Cricket]] (selected matches)
| current                  = 
}}

The '''Sheffield Shield''' is the domestic [[first-class cricket]] competition of [[Australia]]. The tournament is contested between teams representing the six states of Australia. The Sheffield Shield is named after [[Henry Holroyd, 3rd Earl of Sheffield|Lord Sheffield]].

Prior to the Shield being established, a number of [[List of Australian intercolonial cricket matches|intercolonial matches]] were played. The Shield, donated by Lord Sheffield, was first contested during the [[1892–93 Sheffield Shield season|1892–93 season]], between [[New South Wales cricket team|New South Wales]], [[South Australia cricket team|South Australia]] and [[Victoria cricket team|Victoria]]. [[Queensland cricket team|Queensland]] was admitted for the 1926–27 season, [[Western Australia cricket team|Western Australia]] for the 1947–48 season, and [[Tasmania cricket team|Tasmania]] for the 1977–78 season.

The competition is contested in a double-[[round-robin tournament|round-robin]] format, with each team playing every other team twice, i.e. home and away. Points are awarded based on wins, draws, ties and bonus points for runs and wickets in a team's first 100 batting and bowling overs, with the top two teams playing a final at the end of the season. Regular matches last for four days; the final lasts for five days.

The Sheffield Shield is supported by a [[Second XI (Australian cricket competition)|Second XI]] reserves competition.

==Origin of the shield==
[[File:Shield 1989.png|thumb|left|The Sheffield Shield as it appeared in 1989 with blue felt.]]
In 1891–92 the [[Henry Holroyd, 3rd Earl of Sheffield|Earl of Sheffield]] was in Australia as the promoter of the English team led by [[W. G. Grace]]. The tour included three [[Test cricket|Tests]] played in [[Melbourne]], Sydney and [[Adelaide]].

At the conclusion of the tour, Lord Sheffield donated £150 to the [[New South Wales Cricket Association]] to fund a trophy for an annual tournament of [[intercolonial cricket in Australia]]. The three colonies of [[New South Wales]], [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]] and [[South Australia]] were already playing each other in ad hoc [[List of Australian intercolonial cricket matches|matches]]. The new tournament commenced in the summer of 1892–93, mandating home and away fixtures between each colony each season. The three teams competed for the Sheffield Shield, named after its benefactor. A Polish immigrant, [[Phillip Blashki]] of Melbourne,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.join.org.au/letters/tubshvat.htm|title=J.O.I.N. Letters from Jewish Australia – Say NO to Prejudice|website=Join.org.au|access-date=18 November 2021|archive-date=3 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190303101706/http://join.org.au/letters/tubshvat.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> won the competition to design the trophy, a {{convert|36|x|23|in|cm|abbr=on}} silver shield.<ref>{{cite journal |title=The Sheffield Shield |journal=The Herald |date=2 June 1894 |page=2 |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/241592171}}</ref>

The competition therefore commenced some 15 years after Australia's first [[Test cricket|Test]] match.

==Sponsorship and name changes==
In 1999, the Australian Cricket Board (now [[Cricket Australia]]) announced a sponsorship deal which included renaming the '''Sheffield Shield''' to the '''Pura Milk Cup''', then to the '''Pura Cup''' the following season.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/CRICKET_NEWS/1999/NOV/009267_CI_17NOV1999.html|title=Aussie state champions to drink from the Milk Cup|work=[[Cricinfo]]|date=17 November 1999|author=Rick Eyre|access-date=2016-07-18|archive-date=29 October 2004|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041029220545/http://www.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/CRICKET_NEWS/1999/NOV/009267_CI_17NOV1999.html|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Pura Milk|Pura]] is a brand name of [[National Foods]], a wholly owned subsidiary of [[Bega Cheese]]. The sponsorship increased total annual prize money to A$220,000, with the winners receiving A$75,000 and the runners up A$45,000.

On 16 July 2008 it was announced that [[Weet-Bix]] would take over sponsorship of the competition from the start of the [[2008–09 Sheffield Shield season|2008–09 season]], and that the name would revert to the "Sheffield Shield" or the "Sheffield Shield presented by Weet-Bix".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cricket.com.au/default.aspx?s=newsdisplay&id=41629|title=Cricket Australia and Weet-Bix bring Sheffield Shield back|work=Cricket Australia|date=16 July 2008|access-date=2008-07-17|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080726145616/http://cricket.com.au/default.aspx?s=newsdisplay&id=41629|archive-date=26 July 2008}}</ref> Weet-Bix is a breakfast cereal manufactured by [[Sanitarium Health Food Company|Sanitarium]].

In the 2019–20 season, [[Marsh & McLennan Companies]] took over the sponsorship for the competition. This followed Marsh & McLennan's acquisition of JLT, which had sponsored the competition since 2017.

==Teams==
[[File:Australia-coloured-locator.png|thumb|right]]
Since 1977–78, all six states of Australia have fielded their own teams. Details of each team are set out below.

Before 1993, all states were known solely by their state names or cricket association titles. Queensland was the first to adopt a nickname when it became known as the ‘Bulls’ from 1993; and following the success of that, other states adopted nicknames from 1995. The nicknames have since mostly fallen out of official use.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! !! Team name<br /> !! Team nickname!! Home ground/s{{efn|Each team has used several venues to host matches. For a full list, see [[list of cricket grounds in Australia]].}} !! Inaugural season !! First title !! Last title !! Shield titles !! Team captain/s
|-
| bgcolor="#{{Cricket NSW colour}}" | &nbsp; || [[New South Wales cricket team|New South Wales]]<br /><small> </small>|| Blues<BR><small>(1995–2022)</small> ||
[[Cricket Central]]<br />
[[Drummoyne Oval]]<br />
[[North Dalton Park]]<br />
[[Bankstown Oval]]<br />
[[Sydney Cricket Ground]]
| align="center" |[[1892–93 Sheffield Shield season|1892–93]] || align=center |[[1895–96 Sheffield Shield season|1895–96]] || align=center | [[2019–20 Sheffield Shield season|2019–20]] || align=center | 47
|[[Moises Henriques]]
|-
| bgcolor="#{{Cricket Qld colour}}" | &nbsp; || [[Queensland cricket team|Queensland]]|| Bulls<BR><small>(1993–pres)</small> ||
[[Allan Border Field]]<br />
[[Brisbane Cricket Ground]]
| align="center" |[[1926–27 Sheffield Shield season|1926–27]] || align=center |[[1994–95 Sheffield Shield season|1994–95]] || align=center | [[2020–21 Sheffield Shield season|2020–21]] || align=center | 9 
|[[Marnus Labuschagne]]
|-
| bgcolor="#{{Cricket SA colour}}" | &nbsp; || [[South Australia cricket team|South Australia]]|| Redbacks<BR><small>(1995–2024)</small><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.saca.com.au/news/3942710/state-cricket-teams-return-to-historical-name-of-south-australia|title=State cricket teams return to historical 'South Australia' name|website=[[South Australian Cricket Association]]|date=27 March 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240328115912/https://www.saca.com.au/news/3942710/state-cricket-teams-return-to-historical-name-of-south-australia|archive-date=28 March 2024|url-status=live}}</ref> ||
[[Adelaide Oval]]<br />
[[Karen Rolton Oval]]
| align=center | [[1892–93 Sheffield Shield season|1892–93]] || align=center |[[1893–94 Sheffield Shield season|1893–94]] || align=center | [[2024–25 Sheffield Shield season|2024–25]] || align=center | 14 
|[[Nathan McSweeney]]
|-
| bgcolor="#{{Cricket Tas colour}}" | &nbsp; || [[Tasmania cricket team|Tasmania]]|| Tigers<BR><small>(1995–pres)</small> ||
[[Bellerive Oval]]
| align=center | [[1977–78 Sheffield Shield season|1977–78]] || align=center | [[2006–07 Sheffield Shield season|2006–07]] || align=center | [[2012–13 Sheffield Shield season|2012–13]] || align=center | 3 
|[[Jordan Silk]]
|-
| bgcolor="#{{Cricket Vic colour}}" | &nbsp; || [[Victoria cricket team|Victoria]] || Bushrangers<BR><small>(1995–2018)</small><ref>{{cite web |title=Victorian Cricket Team name update |url=https://www.cricketvictoria.com.au/victorian-cricket-team-name-update/ |website=[[Cricket Victoria]] |publisher=Cricket Victoria |access-date=24 January 2020 |date=24 May 2018 |archive-date=20 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190420115133/https://www.cricketvictoria.com.au/victorian-cricket-team-name-update/ |url-status=live }}</ref> ||
[[Junction Oval]]<br />
[[Melbourne Cricket Ground]]
| align="center" |[[1892–93 Sheffield Shield season|1892–93]] || align=center | [[1892–93 Sheffield Shield season|1892–93]] || align=center | [[2018–19 Sheffield Shield season|2018–19]] || align=center | 32 
|[[Will Sutherland]]
|-
| bgcolor="#{{Cricket WA colour}}" | &nbsp; || [[Western Australia cricket team|Western Australia]]|| Warriors<BR><small>(1995–2019)</small><ref>{{Cite web |title=Domestic Cricket Changes |url=https://www.waca.com.au/news/domestic-cricket-changes/2019-07-29 |website=[[Western Australian Cricket Association|WA Cricket]] |publisher=WA Cricket |access-date=29 October 2021 |date=29 July 2019 |archive-date=25 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210325113047/https://www.waca.com.au/news/domestic-cricket-changes/2019-07-29 |url-status=live }}</ref> ||
[[Perth Stadium]]<br />
[[WACA Ground]]
| align="center" |[[1947–48 Sheffield Shield season|1947–48]] || align=center | [[1947-48 Sheffield Shield season|1947–48]] || align=center | [[2023–24 Sheffield Shield season|2023–24]] || align=center | 18 
|[[Sam Whiteman (Australian cricketer)|Sam Whiteman]]
|}

{{notelist}}

== Venues ==
Below are the venues that hosted Sheffield Shield matches during the 2024–25 season.
{| class="wikitable"
![[Adelaide Oval]]
![[Allan Border Field]]
![[Bellerive Oval]]
![[Cricket Central]]
![[The Gabba]]
|-
|[[Adelaide]], [[South Australia]]
|[[Brisbane]], [[Queensland]]
|[[Hobart]], [[Tasmania]]
|[[Sydney]], [[New South Wales]]
|[[Brisbane]], [[Queensland]]
|-
|Capacity: 53,500
|Capacity: 6,500
|Capacity: 20,000
|Capacity: 3,000
|Capacity: 42,000
|-
![[Junction Oval]]
![[Karen Rolton Oval|Karen Rolten Oval]]
![[Melbourne Cricket Ground]]
![[Sydney Cricket Ground]]
![[WACA Ground]]
|-
|[[Melbourne]], [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]]
|[[Adelaide]], [[South Australia]]
|[[Melbourne]], [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]]
|[[Sydney]], [[New South Wales]]
|[[Perth]], [[Western Australia]]
|-

|Capacity: 5,000
|Capacity: 7,000
|Capacity: 100,024
|Capacity: 48,000
|Capacity: 24,000
|-
|}

==Competition format==
Each side has played each other both home and away every season with the following exceptions:
* South Australia had no home game with: Victoria in 1901–02 or 1903–04; either opponent in 1907–08; New South Wales in 1910–11.
* Queensland and South Australia played only once (in South Australia) in 1926–27.
* Western Australia played each team only once from their debut in 1946–47 until 1955–56 inclusive.
* Tasmania played each team only once from their debut in 1977–78 until 1981–82 inclusive.
* In [[2019–20 Sheffield Shield season|2019–20]] the season was curtailed after nine rounds due to the [[COVID-19 pandemic]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-17/sheffield-shield-goes-to-nsw-as-coronavirus-ends-cricket-season/12062938|title=NSW handed Sheffield Shield as coronavirus bring season to abrupt finish|date=17 March 2020|access-date=18 November 2021|website=Abc.net.au|archive-date=6 April 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220406225542/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-17/sheffield-shield-goes-to-nsw-as-coronavirus-ends-cricket-season/12062938|url-status=live}}</ref>
* The [[2020–21 Sheffield Shield season|2020–21]] season was heavily affected by COVID-19 lockdowns, with QLD playing 9 games, Tasmania and South Australia 8, and Western Australia, New South Wales and Victoria playing 7 each. Unusually for the Sheffield Shield, Victoria and New South Wales played each other 3 times during the home and away portion of the season.

Where the teams played an unequal number of games, their final points were calculated on a pro-rata basis.

Matches were timeless (i.e. played to an outright result, weather and schedule permitting) up to 1926–27. A four-day time limit has applied since 1927–28.<ref name="Frindall">{{cite book|last1=Frindall|first1=Bill|title=The Wisden Book of Cricket Records|date=1998|publisher=Headline Book Publishing|location=London|isbn=0747222037|pages=391|edition=Fourth}}</ref>

In 1940–41, however, the Sheffield Shield was not contested but ten first-class “friendly” matches were played between the States for [[Patriotic Funds|patriotic funds]];<ref>‘Sheffield Shield Cricket Cancelled’; ''[[The Courier-Mail]]'', 10 July 1940, p. 1</ref> however financially these were unsuccessful.<ref name="No">‘No Inter-State Cricket’; ''[[The Age]]'', 3 July 1941, p. 3</ref>

The Sheffield Shield was not contested during the 1941–42 Australian first-class season - instead an “Interstate Patriotic Competition” was held, with all proceeds going to the war effort. Only one match was played (Queensland v NSW at the Gabba) before the competition was cancelled due to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.<ref>{{cite web |title=Queensland versus NSW |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/other-australia-domestic-1941-42-452737/queensland-vs-new-south-wales-452738/full-scorecard |website=www.espncricinfo.com |access-date=9 October 2023}}</ref>

===Final===
Since 1982–83, the top two teams after the home and away rounds have met in a final, played over five days at the home ground of the top-ranked team. Between 1982–83 and 2017–18, in the event of a [[Draw (cricket)|draw]] or [[Tie (cricket)|tie]], the Shield was awarded to the top-ranked team.<ref name="Frindall" /> Since the 2018–19 summer, in the event of a draw or tie, the team which scores more first innings bonus points, based on the system used in regular season matches, wins the Shield.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cricket.com.au/news/sheffield-shield-final-rule-change-bonus-points-victoria-nsw-blues-draw/2019-03-24|title=Rule change set to liven up Shield final|website=cricket.com.au|language=en|access-date=2019-03-25|archive-date=5 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190405171146/https://www.cricket.com.au/news/sheffield-shield-final-rule-change-bonus-points-victoria-nsw-blues-draw/2019-03-24|url-status=live}}</ref> No final was played in [[2019–20 Sheffield Shield season|2019–20]] due to the [[COVID-19 pandemic]].<ref>{{cite web |title=New South Wales named Sheffield Shield winners as final cancelled |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/new-south-wales-named-sheffield-shield-winners-as-final-cancelled-1219470 |access-date=17 March 2020 |work=ESPN Cricinfo |archive-date=16 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210316032153/https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/new-south-wales-named-sheffield-shield-winners-as-final-cancelled-1219470 |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Points system==
A points system has been used since the [[2014–15 Sheffield Shield season|2014–15 season]],<ref name="newsystem" /> and currently points are awarded for each match during the home and away season according to the following table.

{| class="wikitable"
|- style="background:#efefef;"
! Result!! Points <ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.cricket.com.au/news/sheffield-shield-first-class-domestic-fixtures-day-night-pink-ball-wollongong-townsville/2016-07-19|title=Sheffield Shield schedule revealed|newspaper=cricket.com.au|access-date=2017-02-13|language=en|archive-date=22 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160722084558/http://www.cricket.com.au/news/sheffield-shield-first-class-domestic-fixtures-day-night-pink-ball-wollongong-townsville/2016-07-19|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|An outright win || 6
|-
|A [[Result (cricket)#Tie|tie]] where both teams have completed two innings || 3
|-
|An outright loss || 0
|-
|[[Result (cricket)#Abandoned|Abandoned]] or [[Result (cricket)#Draw|drawn]] matches || 1
|-
|Bonus batting points || 0.01 for every run above 200 in the first 100 overs of the first innings of each team
|-
|Bonus bowling points || 0.1 for taking each wicket in the first 100 overs of the first innings of each team
|}

*Bonus points example – If after 100 overs the score is 8/350, the batting team would receive 1.5 points ({{nowrap|[350 − 200] × 0.01}}), and the bowling side would receive 0.8 points (0.1 for each wicket)
*[[Runs Per Wicket Ratio|Quotient]] (team's batting average divided by its bowling average) is used to separate teams which finish on an equal number of points.
*Teams can be penalised points for failing to maintain an adequate [[over rate]].
*The bonus bowling points were modified for the 2016–17 season. For the 2014–15 and 2015–16 seasons, the bowling team received 0.5 points for taking the 5th, 7th and 9th wickets (a maximum 1.5 points).

===Previous systems===
* The Shield was initially envisaged as a match-by-match challenge trophy; it was originally determined on 4 January 1893 that it would first be awarded to the winner of the next inter-colonial match (which was, in fact, the fourth of the season), and then would pass in perpetuity to any team which defeated the holder of the trophy;<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=South Australian Register|title=The Sheffield Shield|date=5 January 1893|page=7|publication-place=Adelaide, SA}}</ref> But on 30 January, it was decided instead to award the Shield to the team which won the most intercolonial matches across the season.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=South Australian Register|title=Correspondence|date=22 February 1893|page=4|publication-place=Adelaide, SA}}</ref>
* The quotient has been used as a tie-breaker for teams on equal points since 1893–94.
* First innings points were introduced in 1932–33 and used until 1970–71.<ref>{{cite book|last=Wynne-Thomas|first=Peter|title=The Hamlyn A-Z of Cricket Records pages 133-137|year=1983|publisher=Hamlyn Publishing Group|isbn=0-600-34667-6}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Engel|first=Matthew|title=Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2004, pages 1344-1345|year=2004|publisher=John Wisden & Company Ltd|isbn=0-947766-83-9}}</ref>
* Bonus points for first innings batting and bowling were used from 1971–72 to 1980–81 inclusive. During the first 100 (eight-ball) overs of each side's first innings, a maximum of 10 batting bonus points could be attained. They were awarded for every 25 runs scored from 175 to 400 inclusive. A maximum of 5 bowling bonus points were available, initially upon capture of the second, fourth, sixth, eighth and last wickets. This was later changed to wickets 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9 as batting teams often declared when 9 wickets down to deny the bowling side the additional bonus point. Teams were awarded an extra 10 points for an outright win.{{fact|date=March 2025}}
* From 1981–82 to 2013–14 there were no bonus points. Teams were awarded 6 points for an outright win, and 2 points for drawing or losing after holding a first innings lead.<ref name="newsystem">[https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/new-era-for-sheffield-shield-748635 New era for Sheffield Shield], Daniel Brettig, [[ESPNcricinfo]], 29 May 2014</ref>

==Competition placings==
Prior to the introduction of a Final in 1982–83, the team with most points after the home and away rounds was declared the winner. With the introduction of the Final, the top team hosts the second placed team in a five-day match. Until 2018–19, the visiting team was required to win the Final to win the championship; the home team won the championship in the event of a tied or drawn Final. Since the 2018–19 summer, in the event of a draw or tie, the team which scores more first innings bonus points, based on the system used in regular season matches, wins the Shield. Further details including match scorecards are available at Cricinfo<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://stats.espncricinfo.com/australia/engine/records/index.html?id=114&type=trophy|title=Sheffield Shield Cricket Team Records & Stats &#124; ESPNcricinfo.com|website=Cricinfo|access-date=18 November 2021}}</ref> and the Cricket Archive.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/AUS.html|title=The Home of CricketArchive|website=Cricketarchive.com|access-date=18 November 2021|archive-date=6 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181006071748/http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/AUS.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

===1892–93 to 1925–26===
{| class="wikitable"
|- style="background:#efefef;"
! Season !! Winner !! Second !! Third
|-
| [[1892–93 Sheffield Shield season|1892–93]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia
|-
| [[1893–94 Sheffield Shield season|1893–94]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria
|-
| [[1894–95 Sheffield Shield season|1894–95]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales
|-
| [[1895–96 Sheffield Shield season|1895–96]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia
|-
| [[1896–97 Sheffield Shield season|1896–97]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria
|-
| [[1897–98 Sheffield Shield season|1897–98]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales
|-
| [[1898–99 Sheffield Shield season|1898–99]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia
|-
| [[1899–1900 Sheffield Shield season|1899–1900]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia
|-
| [[1900–01 Sheffield Shield season|1900–01]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia
|-
| [[1901–02 Sheffield Shield season|1901–02]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia
|-
| [[1902–03 Sheffield Shield season|1902–03]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia
|-
| [[1903–04 Sheffield Shield season|1903–04]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia
|-
| [[1904–05 Sheffield Shield season|1904–05]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia
|-
| [[1905–06 Sheffield Shield season|1905–06]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia
|-
| [[1906–07 Sheffield Shield season|1906–07]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia  ||  style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria
|-
| [[1907–08 Sheffield Shield season|1907–08]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales
|-
| [[1908–09 Sheffield Shield season|1908–09]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia  ||  style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria
|-
| [[1909–10 Sheffield Shield season|1909–10]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria
|-
| [[1910–11 Sheffield Shield season|1910–11]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia  ||  style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria
|-
| [[1911–12 Sheffield Shield season|1911–12]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia
|-
| [[1912–13 Sheffield Shield season|1912–13]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria
|-
| [[1913–14 Sheffield Shield season|1913–14]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia  ||  style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria
|-
| [[1914–15 Sheffield Shield season|1914–15]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia
|-
| 1915–16 || colspan="3"|'''Not contested due to [[World War I]]'''
|-
| 1916–17 || colspan="3"|'''Not contested due to [[World War I]]'''
|-
| 1917–18 || colspan="3"|'''Not contested due to [[World War I]]'''
|-
| 1918–19 || colspan="3"|'''Not contested due to [[World War I]]'''
|-
| [[1919–20 Sheffield Shield season|1919–20]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia
|-
| [[1920–21 Sheffield Shield season|1920–21]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia
|-
| [[1921–22 Sheffield Shield season|1921–22]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia
|-
| [[1922–23 Sheffield Shield season|1922–23]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia
|-
| [[1923–24 Sheffield Shield season|1923–24]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia
|-
| [[1924–25 Sheffield Shield season|1924–25]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia
|-
| [[1925–26 Sheffield Shield season|1925–26]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia
|-
|}

===1926–27 to 1946–47===
{{legend|#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}|<small>''[[Queensland cricket team|Queensland joined in 1926–27]]''</small>}}
{| class="wikitable"
|- style="background:#efefef;"
! Season !! Winner !! Second !! Third !! Fourth
|-
| [[1926–27 Sheffield Shield season|1926–27]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland
|-
| [[1927–28 Sheffield Shield season|1927–28]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland
|-
| [[1928–29 Sheffield Shield season|1928–29]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia
|-
| [[1929–30 Sheffield Shield season|1929–30]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland
|-
| [[1930–31 Sheffield Shield season|1930–31]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia
|-
| [[1931–32 Sheffield Shield season|1931–32]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia  ||  style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria  || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland
|-
| [[1932–33 Sheffield Shield season|1932–33]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland
|-
| [[1933–34 Sheffield Shield season|1933–34]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland
|-
| [[1934–35 Sheffield Shield season|1934–35]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia  || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland
|-
| [[1935–36 Sheffield Shield season|1935–36]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland
|-
| [[1936–37 Sheffield Shield season|1936–37]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria  || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland
|-
| [[1937–38 Sheffield Shield season|1937–38]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia  ||  style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria  || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland
|-
| [[1938–39 Sheffield Shield season|1938–39]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia  || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales
|-
| [[1939–40 Sheffield Shield season|1939–40]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales  || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland
|-
| 1940–41 || colspan="4"|'''Not contested due to [[World War II]]'''
|-
| 1941–42 || colspan="4"|'''Not contested due to [[World War II]]'''
|-
| 1942–43 || colspan="4"|'''Not contested due to [[World War II]]'''
|-
| 1943–44 || colspan="4"|'''Not contested due to [[World War II]]'''
|-
| 1944–45 || colspan="4"|'''Not contested due to [[World War II]]'''
|-
| 1945–46 || colspan="4"|'''Not contested due to [[World War II]]'''
|-
| [[1946–47 Sheffield Shield season|1946–47]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia
|-
|}

===1947–48 to 1976–77===
[[File:Sheffield Shield WA cricket team 1948.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|Western Australia team with the [[1947–48 Sheffield Shield season|1947–48]] Sheffield Shield. The state won the shield despite playing three fewer games than other states with having the better average than their rivals.]]
{{legend|#{{Cricket WA light colour}}|<small>''[[Western Australia cricket team|Western Australia joined in 1947–48]]''</small>}}
{| class="wikitable"
|- style="background:#efefef;"
! Season !! Winner !! Second !! Third !! Fourth !! Fifth
|-
| [[1947–48 Sheffield Shield season|1947–48]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales ||  style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria
|-
| [[1948–49 Sheffield Shield season|1948–49]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria ||  style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland || style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia
|-
| [[1949–50 Sheffield Shield season|1949–50]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales  || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia
|-
| [[1950–51 Sheffield Shield season|1950–51]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia
|-
| [[1951–52 Sheffield Shield season|1951–52]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia
|-
| [[1952–53 Sheffield Shield season|1952–53]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales  || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland
|-
| [[1953–54 Sheffield Shield season|1953–54]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia
|-
| [[1954–55 Sheffield Shield season|1954–55]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia
|-
| [[1955–56 Sheffield Shield season|1955–56]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria ||  style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland || style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia ||style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia
|-
| [[1956–57 Sheffield Shield season|1956–57]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria ||  style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia ||style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia
|-
| [[1957–58 Sheffield Shield season|1957–58]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria ||  style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland || style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia ||style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia
|-
| [[1958–59 Sheffield Shield season|1958–59]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria ||  style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia ||style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia
|-
| [[1959–60 Sheffield Shield season|1959–60]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria ||  style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia
|-
| [[1960–61 Sheffield Shield season|1960–61]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria ||  style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia
|-
| [[1961–62 Sheffield Shield season|1961–62]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria ||  style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia
|-
| [[1962–63 Sheffield Shield season|1962–63]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland
|-
| [[1963–64 Sheffield Shield season|1963–64]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland || style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia
|-
| [[1964–65 Sheffield Shield season|1964–65]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland
|-
| [[1965–66 Sheffield Shield season|1965–66]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland
|-
| [[1966–67 Sheffield Shield season|1966–67]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland
|-
| [[1967–68 Sheffield Shield season|1967–68]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland
|-
| [[1968–69 Sheffield Shield season|1968–69]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales
|-
| [[1969–70 Sheffield Shield season|1969–70]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland
|-
| [[1970–71 Sheffield Shield season|1970–71]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland
|-
| [[1971–72 Sheffield Shield season|1971–72]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria ||  style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland
|-
| [[1972–73 Sheffield Shield season|1972–73]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria ||  style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland
|-
| [[1973–74 Sheffield Shield season|1973–74]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia
|-
| [[1974–75 Sheffield Shield season|1974–75]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia
|-
| [[1975–76 Sheffield Shield season|1975–76]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland || style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia  || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria
|-
| [[1976–77 Sheffield Shield season|1976–77]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia
|-
|}

===1977–78 to present===
{{legend|#{{Cricket Tas light colour}}|<small>''[[Tasmania cricket team|Tasmania joined in 1977–78]]''</small>}}
{| class="wikitable"
|- style="background:#efefef;"
! Season !! Winner !! Second !! Third !! Fourth !! Fifth !! Sixth
|-
| [[1977–78 Sheffield Shield season|1977–78]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Tas light colour}}"| Tasmania
|-
| [[1978–79 Sheffield Shield season|1978–79]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Tas light colour}}"| Tasmania
|-
| [[1979–80 Sheffield Shield season|1979–80]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland || style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Tas light colour}}"| Tasmania
|-
| [[1980–81 Sheffield Shield season|1980–81]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Tas light colour}}"| Tasmania || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia
|-
| [[1981–82 Sheffield Shield season|1981–82]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Tas light colour}}"| Tasmania || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria
|-
| [[1982–83 Sheffield Shield season|1982–83]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Tas light colour}}"| Tasmania || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria
|-
| [[1983–84 Sheffield Shield season|1983–84]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Tas light colour}}"| Tasmania || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia  || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria
|-
| [[1984–85 Sheffield Shield season|1984–85]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia  || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria  || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Tas light colour}}"| Tasmania
|-
| [[1985–86 Sheffield Shield season|1985–86]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Tas light colour}}"| Tasmania
|-
| [[1986–87 Sheffield Shield season|1986–87]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Tas light colour}}"| Tasmania
|-
| [[1987–88 Sheffield Shield season|1987–88]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland ||  style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Tas light colour}}"| Tasmania
|-
| [[1988–89 Sheffield Shield season|1988–89]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland ||  style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Tas light colour}}"| Tasmania || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria
|-
| [[1989–90 Sheffield Shield season|1989–90]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Tas light colour}}"| Tasmania || style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria
|-
| [[1990–91 Sheffield Shield season|1990–91]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland || style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Tas light colour}}"| Tasmania
|-
| [[1991–92 Sheffield Shield season|1991–92]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Tas light colour}}"| Tasmania
|-
| [[1992–93 Sheffield Shield season|1992–93]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland || style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Tas light colour}}"| Tasmania || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria
|-
| [[1993–94 Sheffield Shield season|1993–94]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Tas light colour}}"| Tasmania || style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland
|-
| [[1994–95 Sheffield Shield season|1994–95]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria ||  style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Tas light colour}}"| Tasmania
|-
| [[1995–96 Sheffield Shield season|1995–96]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Tas light colour}}"| Tasmania || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria
|-
| [[1996–97 Sheffield Shield season|1996–97]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland || style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales ||  style="background-color:#{{Cricket Tas light colour}}"| Tasmania || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia
|-
| [[1997–98 Sheffield Shield season|1997–98]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Tas light colour}}"| Tasmania || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia
|-
| [[1998–99 Sheffield Shield season|1998–99]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Tas light colour}}"| Tasmania || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales
|-
| [[1999–2000 Sheffield Shield season|1999–2000]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Tas light colour}}"| Tasmania || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales
|-
| [[2000–01 Sheffield Shield season|2000–01]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Tas light colour}}"| Tasmania || style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia
|-
| [[2001–02 Sheffield Shield season|2001–02]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Tas light colour}}"| Tasmania || style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales
|-
| [[2002–03 Sheffield Shield season|2002–03]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Tas light colour}}"| Tasmania
|-
| [[2003–04 Sheffield Shield season|2003–04]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Tas light colour}}"| Tasmania || style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia
|-
| [[2004–05 Sheffield Shield season|2004–05]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland || style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Tas light colour}}"| Tasmania
|-
| [[2005–06 Sheffield Shield season|2005–06]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Tas light colour}}"| Tasmania || style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales
|-
| [[2006–07 Sheffield Shield season|2006–07]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Tas light colour}}"| Tasmania || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales ||  style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland || style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia
|-
| [[2007–08 Sheffield Shield season|2007–08]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales  || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Tas light colour}}"| Tasmania || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland
|-
| [[2008–09 Sheffield Shield season|2008–09]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia ||style="background-color:#{{Cricket Tas light colour}}"| Tasmania  ||style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales
|-
| [[2009–10 Sheffield Shield season|2009–10]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Tas light colour}}"| Tasmania|| style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia
|-
| [[2010–11 Sheffield Shield season|2010–11]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Tas light colour}}"| Tasmania|| style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland ||  style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia
|-
| [[2011–12 Sheffield Shield season|2011–12]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Tas light colour}}"| Tasmania|| style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales ||  style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia
|-
| [[2012–13 Sheffield Shield season|2012–13]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Tas light colour}}"| Tasmania|| style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia
|-
| [[2013–14 Sheffield Shield season|2013–14]] ||  style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales  || style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Tas light colour}}"| Tasmania || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria
|-
|-
| [[2014–15 Sheffield Shield season|2014–15]] ||  style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria ||   style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland  || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Tas light colour}}"| Tasmania || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia
|-
| [[2015–16 Sheffield Shield season|2015–16]] ||  style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria ||   style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland  || style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Tas light colour}}"| Tasmania
|-
| [[2016–17 Sheffield Shield season|2016–17]] ||  style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria ||   style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia ||  style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Tas light colour}}"| Tasmania
|-
| [[2017–18 Sheffield Shield season|2017–18]] ||  style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland ||   style="background-color:#{{Cricket Tas light colour}}"| Tasmania ||  style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia
|-
| [[2018–19 Sheffield Shield season|2018–19]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}" | Western Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Tas light colour}}"| Tasmania || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia
|-
| [[2019–20 Sheffield Shield season|2019–20]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Tas light colour}}"| Tasmania || style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia
|-
| [[2020–21 Sheffield Shield season|2020–21]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales ||  style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Tas light colour}}"| Tasmania ||  style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria  ||  style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia
|-
| [[2021–22 Sheffield Shield season|2021–22]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria  || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Tas light colour}}"| Tasmania || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland ||  style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia
|-
| [[2022–23 Sheffield Shield season|2022–23]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria  || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Tas light colour}}"| Tasmania || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales
|-
| [[2023–24 Sheffield Shield season|2023–24]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Tas light colour}}"| Tasmania  || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland
|-
| [[2024–25 Sheffield Shield season|2024–25]] || style="background-color:#{{Cricket SA light colour}}"| South Australia || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Qld light colour}}"| Queensland || style="background-color:#{{Cricket Vic light colour}}"| Victoria || style="background-color:#{{Cricket NSW light colour}}"| New South Wales|| style="background-color:#{{Cricket Tas light colour}}"| Tasmania  || style="background-color:#{{Cricket WA light colour}}"| Western Australia 
|}
[[File:South Australia Sheffield Shield 2025.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|right|The South Australian team celebrate winning the Sheffield Shield in 2025.]]

==Player of the Year==

The Player of the Year award is announced at the end of each season.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www1.cricinfo.com/db/STATS/AUS/DOMESTIC/SS/SS_PLAYERS_OF_THE_YEAR.html|publisher=Cricinfo.com|title=Sheffield Shield Player of the Year|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050427232626/http://www.cricinfo.com/db/STATS/AUS/DOMESTIC/SS/SS_PLAYERS_OF_THE_YEAR.html|archive-date=27 April 2005}}</ref> Since its inception in 1976 it has been awarded to the best-performed player/s over the season, as determined a panel of judges. [[Victoria (Australia)|Victorian]] and [[South Australia]]n batsman [[Matthew Elliott (cricketer)|Matthew Elliott]] has won the award the most times, being awarded Player of the Year on three separate occasions.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Season !! Winner(s)
|-
| 1975–76 || [[Ian Chappell]] (SA), [[Greg Chappell]] (Qld)
|-
| 1976–77 || [[Richie Robinson]] (Vic)
|-
| 1977–78 || [[David Ogilvie (cricketer)|David Ogilvie]] (Qld)
|-
| 1978–79 || [[Peter Sleep]] (SA)
|-
| 1979–80 || [[Ian Chappell]] (SA)
|-
| 1980–81 || [[Greg Chappell]] (Qld)
|-
| 1981–82 || [[Kepler Wessels]] (Qld)
|-
| 1982–83 || [[Kim Hughes]] (WA)
|-
| 1983–84 || [[Brian Davison (cricketer)|Brian Davison]] (Tas), [[John Dyson (cricketer, born 1954)|John Dyson]] (NSW)
|-
| 1984–85 || [[David Boon]] (Tas)
|-
| 1985–86 || [[Allan Border]] (Qld)
|-
| 1986–87 || [[Craig McDermott]] (Qld)
|-
| 1987–88 || [[Dirk Tazelaar]] (Qld), [[Mark Waugh]] (NSW)
|-
| 1988–89 || [[Tim May]] (SA)
|-
| 1989–90 || [[Mark Waugh]] (NSW)
|-
| 1990–91 || [[Stuart Law]] (Qld)
|-
| 1991–92 || [[Tony Dodemaide]] (Vic)
|-
| 1992–93 || [[Jamie Siddons]] (SA)
|-
| 1993–94 || [[Matthew Hayden]] (Qld)
|-
| 1994–95 || [[Dean Jones (cricketer)|Dean Jones]] (Vic)
|-
| 1995–96 || [[Matthew Elliott (cricketer)|Matthew Elliott]] (Vic)
|-
| 1996–97 || [[Andy Bichel]] (Qld)
|-
| 1997–98 || [[Dene Hills]] (Tas)
|-
| 1998–99 || [[Matthew Elliott (cricketer)|Matthew Elliott]] (Vic)
|-
| 1999–2000 || [[Darren Lehmann]] (SA)
|-
| 2000–01 || [[Jamie Cox]] (Tas)
|-
| 2001–02 || [[Brad Hodge]] (Vic), [[Jimmy Maher]] (Qld)
|-
| 2002–03 || [[Clinton Perren]] (Qld)
|-
| 2003–04 || [[Matthew Elliott (cricketer)|Matthew Elliott]] (Vic)
|-
| 2004–05 || [[Michael Bevan]] (Tas)
|-
| 2005–06 || [[Andy Bichel]] (Qld)
|-
| 2006–07 || [[Chris Rogers (cricketer)|Chris Rogers]] (WA)
|-
| 2007–08 || [[Simon Katich]] (NSW)
|-
| 2008–09 || [[Phillip Hughes]] (NSW)
|-
| 2009–10 || [[Chris Hartley]] (Qld)
|-
| 2010–11 || [[James Hopes]] (Qld)
|-
| 2011–12 || [[Jackson Bird]] (Tas)
|-
| 2012–13 || [[Ricky Ponting]] (Tas)
|-
| 2013–14 || [[Marcus North]] (WA)
|-
| 2014–15 || [[Adam Voges]] (WA)
|-
| 2015–16 || [[Travis Head]] (SA)
|-
| 2016–17 || [[Chadd Sayers]] (SA) 
|-
| 2017–18 || [[Chris Tremain (cricketer)|Chris Tremain]] (Vic)
|-
| 2018–19 || [[Scott Boland]] (Vic)
|-
| 2019–20 || [[Moises Henriques]] (NSW), [[Nic Maddinson]] (Vic)
|-
| 2020–21 || [[Nathan Lyon]] (NSW)
|-
| 2021–22 || [[Henry Hunt (cricketer)|Henry Hunt]] (SA), [[Travis Dean]] (Vic)
|-
| 2022–23 || [[Michael Neser]] (Qld)
|-
| 2023–24 || [[Beau Webster]] (Tas)
|-
| 2024–25 || [[Fergus O'Neill]] (Vic)
|}

==Records==

===Individual records===

====Most matches played====
{| class="wikitable" style="width:70%;"
|-
! Rank !! Matches !! Player !! Period
|-
| 1 || 161 || [[Jamie Cox]] (Tas) || 1987–88 to 2005–06
|-
| 2 || 159 || [[John Inverarity]] (WA/SA) || 1962–63 to 1984–85
|-
| 3 || 147 || [[Darren Lehmann]] (SA/Vic) || 1987–88 to 2007–08
|-
| 4 || 146 || [[Jamie Siddons]] (SA/Vic) || 1985 to 2000
|-
| 5 || 142|| [[Stuart Law]] (QLD) || 1988 to 2004
|-
| colspan=4 | <small>''Source: [http://stats.espncricinfo.com/australia/engine/records/individual/most_matches_career.html?id=114;type=trophy]''. Last updated: 26 March 2018.</small>
|}

====Players representing three states====

{| class="wikitable" style="width:70%;"
|-
! Player !! Career !! States !! Matches
|-
| [[Graeme Watson (cricketer)|Graeme Watson]] || 1964–65 to 1976–77 || NSW, Vic, WA || 60
|-
| [[Gary Cosier]] || 1971–72 to 1980–81 || Vic, SA, Qld || 46
|-
| [[Trevor Chappell]] || 1972–73 to 1984–85 || NSW, SA, WA || 63
|-
| [[Rod McCurdy]] || 1980–81 to 1984–85 || SA, Tas, Vic || 33
|-
| [[Dirk Wellham]] || 1980–81 to 1991–92 || NSW, Qld, Tas || 99
|-
| [[Colin Miller (cricketer)|Colin Miller]] || 1985–86 to 2001–02 || Vic, SA, Tas || 84
|-
| [[Michael Bevan]] || 1989–90 to 2006–07 || SA, NSW, Tas || 118
|-
| [[Shane Watson]] || 2000–01 to 2015–16 || Tas, Qld, NSW || 81
|-
| [[Shane Jurgensen]] || 1999–2000 to 2006–07 || WA, Tas, Qld || 23
|-
| [[Aiden Blizzard]] || 2007–08 to 2012–13 || Vic, SA, Tas || 21
|-
| [[Michael Klinger]] || 1998–99 to 2018–19 || Vic, SA, WA || 122
|-
| [[Gurinder Sandhu]] || 2012–13 to 2021–22 || NSW, Tas, Qld || 33
|-
| colspan=4 | <small>''Source: A Century of Summers: 100 years of Sheffield Shield cricket, Geoff Armstrong, p.&nbsp;278''. Last updated: 30 Nov 2008.</small>
|}

Six other players have represented three Australian states in top-level cricket, but without playing Sheffield Shield games for all three – [[Neil Hawke]] (SA, Tas, WA); [[Walter McDonald (cricketer)|Walter McDonald]] (Qld, Tas, Vic); [[Percy McDonnell]] (NSW, Qld, Vic); [[Karl Quist]] (NSW, SA, WA); [[Greg Rowell]] (NSW, Qld, Tas); [[Wal Walmsley]] (NSW, Qld, Tas), [[Dan Christian]] (NSW, SA, Vic).

===Team records===

====Team results====

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:70%;"
|-
! Rank !! Team !! Entered !! Matches !! Won !! Lost !! Drawn !! Tied !! % Won
|-
| 1 || {{Cr-Aus|NSW}} || 1892–93 || 900 || 378 || 257 || 264 || 1 || 42
|-
| 2 || {{Cr-Aus|Vic}} || 1892–93 || 896 || 347 || 253 || 295 || 1 || 38.72
|-
| 3 || {{Cr-Aus|WA}} || 1947–48 || 665 || 237 || 205 || 223 || 0 || 35.63
|-
| 4 || {{Cr-Aus|Qld}} || 1926–27 || 786 || 250 || 269 || 266 || 1 || 31.8
|-
| 5 || {{Cr-Aus|SA}} || 1892–93 || 885 || 241 || 406 || 237 || 1 || 27.23
|-
| 6 || {{Cr-Aus|Tas}} || 1977–78 || 438 || 109 || 172 || 157 || 0 || 24.88
|-
| colspan=6 | <small>''Source: [http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/records/team/results_summary.html?id=114;type=trophy]''. Last updated: 26 March 2023.</small>
|}

====Highest team totals====

{| class="wikitable" style="width:70%;"
|-
! Rank !! Total !! Team !! Opponent !! Venue !! Season
|-
| 1 || 1107 || {{Cr-Aus|Vic}} || {{Cr-Aus|NSW}} ||Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne|| 1926–27
|-
| 2 || 918 || {{Cr-Aus|NSW}} || {{Cr-Aus|SA}} || Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney || 1900–01
|-
| 3 || 900/6d || {{Cr-Aus|Qld}} || {{Cr-Aus|Vic}} || Brisbane Cricket Ground, Brisbane || 2005–06
|-
| 4 || 821/7d || {{Cr-Aus|SA}} || {{Cr-Aus|Qld}} || Adelaide Oval, Adelaide || 1939–40
|-
| 5 || 815 || {{Cr-Aus|NSW}} || {{Cr-Aus|Vic}} || Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney || 1908–09
|-
| colspan=6 | <small>''Source: [http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/records/team/highest_innings_totals.html?id=114;type=trophy]''. Last updated: 31 March 2019.</small>
|}

====Lowest team totals====

{| class="wikitable" style="width:70%;"
|-
! Rank !! Total !! Team !! Opponent !! Venue !! Season
|-
| 1 || 27 || {{Cr-Aus|SA}} || {{Cr-Aus|NSW}} || [[Sydney Cricket Ground]], Sydney || 1955–56
|-
| 2 || 29 || {{Cr-Aus|SA}} || {{Cr-Aus|NSW}} || [[Sydney Cricket Ground]], Sydney || 2004–05
|-
| 3 || 31 || {{Cr-Aus|Vic}} || {{Cr-Aus|NSW}} || [[Melbourne Cricket Ground]], Melbourne || 1906–07
|-
|4
|32
|{{Cr-Aus|NSW}}
|{{Cr-Aus|Tas}}
|[[Bellerive Oval]], Hobart
|2020–21
|-
| 5 || 35 || {{Cr-Aus|Vic}} || {{Cr-Aus|NSW}} || [[Sydney Cricket Ground]], Sydney || 1926–27
|-
| colspan=6 | <small>''Source: [http://stats.espncricinfo.com/australia/engine/records/team/lowest_innings_totals.html?id=114;type=trophy]''. Last updated: 31 March 2019.</small>
|}

===Batting records===

====Highest individual scores====

{| class="wikitable" style="width:70%;"
|-
! Rank !! Runs !! Player !! Match !! Venue !! Season
|-
| 1 || 452* || [[Don Bradman]] (NSW) || New South Wales v Queensland || Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney || 1929–30
|-
| 2 || 437 || [[Bill Ponsford]] (Vic) || Victoria v Queensland || Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne || 1927–28
|-
| 3 || 365* || [[Clem Hill]] (SA) || South Australia v New South Wales || Adelaide Oval, Adelaide || 1900–01
|-
| 4 || 359 || [[Bob Simpson (cricketer)|Bob Simpson]] (NSW) || New South Wales v Queensland || Brisbane Cricket Ground, Brisbane || 1963–64
|-
| 5 || 357 || [[Don Bradman]] (SA) || South Australia v Victoria || Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne || 1935–36
|-
| colspan=6 | <small>''Source: [http://stats.espncricinfo.com/australia/engine/records/batting/most_runs_innings.html?id=114;type=trophy]''. Last updated: 31 March 2019.</small>
|}

====Most career runs====
{| class="wikitable" style="width:70%;"
|-
! Rank !! Runs !! Player !! Career
|-
| 1 || 13,635 (266 inns.) || [[Darren Lehmann]] (SA/Vic) || 1987–88 to 2007–08
|-
| 2 || 10,821 (295 inns.) || [[Jamie Cox (cricketer)|Jamie Cox]] (Tas) || 1987–88 to 2005–06
|-
| 3 || 10,643 (259 inns.) || [[Jamie Siddons]] (Vic/SA) || 1984–85 to 1999–2000
|-
| 4 || 10,621 (211 inns.) || [[Michael Bevan]] (SA/NSW/Tas) || 1989–90 to 2006–07
|-
| 5 || 10,474 (254 inns.) || [[Brad Hodge]] (Vic) || 1993–94 to 2009–10
|-
| colspan=4 | <small>''Source: [http://stats.espncricinfo.com/australia/engine/records/batting/most_runs_career.html?id=114;type=trophy]''. Last updated: 25 March 2015.</small>
|}

====Most runs in a season====

{| class="wikitable" style="width:70%;"
|-
! Rank !! Runs !! Player !! Average !! Season
|-
| 1 || 1,506 (17 inns.) || [[Simon Katich]] (NSW) || 94.12 || 2007–08
|-
| 2 || 1,464 (18 inns.) || [[Michael Bevan]] (Tas) || 97.60 || 2004–05
|-
| 3 || 1,381 (20 inns.) || [[Matthew Elliott (cricketer)|Matthew Elliott]] (Vic) || 81.23 || 2003–04
|-
| 4 || 1,358 (20 inns.) || [[Adam Voges]] (WA) || 104.46 || 2014–15
|-
| 5 || 1,254 (18 inns.) || [[Graham Yallop]] (Vic) || 69.66 || 1982–83
|-
| colspan=5 | <small>''Source: [http://stats.espncricinfo.com/australia/engine/records/batting/most_runs_series.html?id=114;type=trophy]''. Last updated: 31 March 2019.</small>
|}

====Highest batting averages====
{| class="wikitable" style="width:70%;"
|-
! Rank !! [[Batting average (cricket)|Average]] !! Player !! Career
|-
| 1 || 110.19 (96 inns.) || [[Don Bradman]] (NSW/SA) || 1927–28 to 1948–49
|-
| 2 || 100.09 (12 inns.) || [[Barry Richards]] (SA) || 1970–71
|-
| 3 || 83.27 (70 inns.) || [[Bill Ponsford]] (Vic) || 1920–21 to 1933–34
|-
| 4 || 70.88 (95 inns.) || [[Alan Kippax]] (NSW) || 1918–19 to 1935–36
|-
| 5 || 68.00 (81 inns.) || [[Monty Noble]] (NSW) || 1893–94 to 1919–20
|-
| 6 || 67.03 (64 inns.) || [[Bill Woodfull]] (Vic) || 1921–22 to 1933–34
|-
| colspan=4 | ''Qualification: 10 innings''.
<small>''Source: [http://stats.espncricinfo.com/australia/engine/records/batting/highest_career_batting_average.html?category=3;id=114;type=trophy]''. Last updated: 26 January 2020.</small>
|}

====Most centuries====
{| class="wikitable" style="width:70%;"
|- style="background:#87cefa;"
! Rank !! [[Century (cricket)|Centuries]] !! Player !! Matches
|-
| 1 || 45 || [[Darren Lehmann]] (SA/Vic) || 147
|-
| 2 || 42 || [[Michael Bevan]] (SA/NSW/Tas) || 118
|-
| 3 || 36 || [[Don Bradman]] (NSW/SA) || 62
|-
| 4 || 33 || [[Chris Rogers (cricketer)|Chris Rogers]] (WA/Vic) || 120
|-
| 5 || 32 || [[Matthew Elliott (cricketer)|Matthew Elliott]] (Vic/SA) || 122
|-
| colspan=4 | <small>''Source: [http://stats.cricinfo.com/australia/engine/records/batting/most_hundreds_career.html?id=114;type=trophy]''. Last updated: 25 March 2015.</small>
|}

===Bowling records===

====Most career wickets====

{| class="wikitable" style="width:70%;"
|-
! Rank !! [[Wicket]]s !! Player !! Matches !! [[Bowling average|Average]]
|-
| 1 || 513 || [[Clarrie Grimmett]] (SOA/VIC) || 79 || 25.29
|-
| 2 || 441 || [[Michael Kasprowicz]] (QLD) || 101 || 24.56
|-
| 3 || 430 || [[Andy Bichel]] (QLD) || 89 || 23.24
|-
| 4 || 419 || [[Jo Angel]] (WA) || 105 || 24.86
|-
| 5 || 397 || [[Jackson Bird]] (NSW/TAS) || 91 || 22.10
|-
| colspan=5 | <small>''Source: [http://stats.cricinfo.com/australia/engine/records/bowling/most_wickets_career.html?id=114;type=trophy]''. Last updated: 18 February 2025.</small>
|}

====Most wickets in a season====

{| class="wikitable" style="width:70%;"
|-
! Rank !! [[Wicket]]s !! Player !! Matches !! Season
|-
| 1 || 67 || [[Colin Miller (cricketer)|Colin Miller]] (Tas) || 11 || 1997–98
|-
| 2 || 65 || [[Shaun Tait]] (SA) || 10 || 2004–05
|-
| 3 || 62 || [[Chadd Sayers]] (SA) || 11 || 2016–17
|-
| 4 || 60 || [[Chuck Fleetwood-Smith]] (Vic) || 6 || 1934–35
|-
| 5 || 60 || [[Andy Bichel]] (Qld) || 11 || 2004–05
|-
| 6 || 60 || [[Ben Hilfenhaus]] (Tas) || 11 || 2006–07
|-
| colspan=5 | <small>''Source: [http://stats.espncricinfo.com/australia/engine/records/bowling/most_wickets_series.html?category=4;id=114;type=trophy]''. Last updated: 31 March 2019.</small>
|}

====Best career average====
{| class="wikitable" style="width:70%;"
|-
! Rank !! [[Bowling average|Average]] !! Player !! Overs !! [[Wicket]]s
|-
| 1 || 17.10|| [[Bill O'Reilly (cricketer)|Bill O'Reilly]] (NSW) || 1,342.4 || 203
|-
| 2 || 17.74|| [[Joel Garner]] (SA) || 403.1 || 55
|-
| 3 || 17.87 || [[Geff Noblet]] (SA) || 1,394.4 || 190
|-
| 4 || 18.09 || [[Pat Crawford]] (NSW) || 314.5 || 61
|-
| 5 || 19.08 || [[CTB Turner|Charlie Turner]] (NSW) || 653.2 || 73
|-
| colspan=5 | ''Qualification: 200 overs bowled''.
<small>''Source: [http://stats.espncricinfo.com/australia/engine/records/bowling/best_career_bowling_average.html?category=4;id=114;type=trophy]''. Last updated: 31 March 2019.</small>
|}

====Hat-tricks====
Many bowlers have taken a [[Hat-trick (cricket)|hat-trick]] in the Sheffield Shield. [[Mitchell Starc]] is the only bowler to take two hat-tricks in a Sheffield Shield match. In round two of the [[2017–18 Sheffield Shield season|2017–18]] competition, Starc became the only bowler to take a [[hat-trick#Cricket|hat-trick]] in each innings of a [[first-class cricket]] match in Australia, doing so against [[Western Australia cricket team|Western Australia]] at [[Hurstville Oval]].<ref name="Starc">{{cite web |date=7 November 2017 |title=Starc's second hat-trick delivers victory for NSW |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/sheffield-shield-2017-18-1118861/new-south-wales-vs-western-australia-5th-match-1118868/match-report-4 |access-date=7 November 2017 |work=ESPN Cricinfo |archive-date=11 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210811143109/https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/sheffield-shield-2017-18-1118861/new-south-wales-vs-western-australia-5th-match-1118868/match-report-4 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="HTrecords">{{cite web |url=http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/records/283444.html |title=Two hat-tricks in the same match |date=7 November 2017 |access-date=7 November 2017 |work=ESPN Cricinfo |archive-date=7 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107160205/http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/records/283444.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Wicket-keeping records===

====Most dismissals====

{| class="wikitable" style="width:70%;"
|-
! Rank !! [[Dismissal (cricket)|Dismissals]] !! [[Wicket-keeper|Player]] !! Matches
|-
| 1 || 546 (499 c. 47 st.) || [[Darren Berry]] (SA/Vic) || 139
|-
| 2 || 545 (530 c. 15 st.) || [[Chris Hartley]] (Qld) || 128
|-
| 3 || 488 (474 c. 14 st.) || [[Wade Seccombe]] (Qld) || 101
|-
| 4 || 350 (322 c. 28 st.) || [[Tim Zoehrer]] (WA) || 107
|-
| 5 || 343 (310 c. 33 st.) || [[Rod Marsh]] (WA) || 86
|-
| colspan=4 | <small>''Source: [http://stats.cricinfo.com/australia/engine/records/keeping/most_dismissals_career.html?id=114;type=trophy]''. Last updated: 26 January 2020.</small>
|}

====Most dismissals in a season====

{| class="wikitable" style="width:70%;"
|-
! Rank !! [[Dismissal (cricket)|Dismissals]] !! [[Wicket-keeper|Player]] !! Season
|-
| 1 || 59 (57 c. 2 st.) || [[Alex Carey (cricketer)|Alex Carey]] (SA) || 2016–17
|-
| 2 || 58 (57 c. 1 st.) || [[Wade Seccombe]] (Qld) || 2000–01
|-
| 3 || 58 (56 c. 2 st.) || [[Chris Hartley]] (Qld) || 2011–12
|-
| 4 || 57 (57 c. 0 st.) || [[Matthew Wade]] (Vic) || 2008–09
|-
| 5 || 54 (52 c. 2 st.) || [[Wade Seccombe]] (Qld) || 1995–96
|-
| 6 || 54 (52 c. 2 st.) || [[Adam Gilchrist]] (WA) || 1996–97
|-
| 7 || 54 (52 c. 2 st.) || [[Darren Berry]] (Vic) || 1999–2000
|-
| 8 || 54 (50 c. 4 st.) || [[Adam Gilchrist]] (WA) || 1995–96
|-
| 9 || 54 (52 c. 2 st.) || [[Chris Hartley]] (Qld) || 2008–09
|-
| 10 || 54 (54 c. 0 st.) || [[Wade Seccombe]] (Qld) || 1999–2000
|-
| colspan=4 | <small>''Source: [http://stats.espncricinfo.com/australia/engine/records/keeping/most_dismissals_series.html?category=10;id=114;type=trophy]''. Last updated: 26 January 2020.</small>
|}

==See also==
{{portal|Cricket}}
*[[Intercolonial cricket in Australia]]
*[[One-Day Cup (Australia)]]
*[[Big Bash League]]

==Further reading==
*''The History of the Sheffield Shield'', Chris Harte
*''A Century of Summers: 100 years of Sheffield Shield cricket'', Geoff Armstrong
*''A History of Australian Cricket 1993'', Chris Harte

==External links==
*{{Cite web |title=2024/25 Sheffield Shield / Second XI Playing Conditions|url=https://resources.cricket-australia.pulselive.com/cricket-australia/document/2024/11/20/2ae5f990-8ea2-4ae8-9d5e-eacd0df555bf/2024-25-Sheffield-Shield-Second-XI-FINAL.pdf |access-date=10 April 2025 |website=[[Cricket Australia]]}}

==References==
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