| 1950 | 3 | 1 | 
Held 11 to 17 November, the match was between representatives of the American Contract Bridge League and the European Bridge League consisting of 320 boards using the 15-point International Match Point (IMP) scaling table for the first time. The USA team won by 116 IMPs.
| Year | Entries | Rank | | | 1951 | 2 | 1 |
The United States team won its third consecutive championship by 8,260 points. Crawford, Rapée, Schenken, and Stayman were also members of the previous two winning teams. The 256 boards were played against Sweden at the Sherry-Netherlands Hotel in New York, 5 to 10 January 1953.
| Year | Entries | Rank | | | 1953 | 2 | 1 |
France won the 1953 European championship with a six-man national team and the right to represent Europe in the Bermuda Bowl to be held 9–14 January 1954. Jean Besse of Switzerland and Karl Schneider of Austria replaced one of the French pairs; the team is also referred to as France. Schneider had been a member of the 1937 world champion Austrian team. The USA team had won the right to represent that country by winning the ACBL summer nationals held in St. Louis in August 1953; the five members of that team invited Lew Mathe to round out the team to six first-timers for the Bermuda Bowl event.
The USA defeated Europe by 49 IMPs representing 4,400 points.
| Year | Entries | Rank | | | 1954 | 2 | 1 |
The 1955 event was held 9–14 January at the Hotel Beekman, New York. The British team had defeated 13 others to win the European title in 1954 in Montreux, Switzerland. The American team had won the 1954 ACBL summer nationals in Washington, D.C.; that team of five was augmented by Alvin Roth.
Great Britain won by a margin of 5,420 points.
| Year | Entries | Rank | | | 1955 | 2 | 1 | 
1956 Paris, FranceFrance made it two in a row for Europe. Bacherich and Ghestem were veterans from 1954.
| Year | Entries | Rank | | | 1956 | 2 | 1 | 
1957 New York City, USAItaly's Blue Team won its first of ten consecutive Bermuda Bowls. Chiaradia, Forquet, Siniscalco, and captain Carl'Alberto Perroux were veterans from the 1951 team. Avarelli, Belladona, D'Alelio, and Forquet played in every one.
| Year | Entries | Rank | | | 1957 | 2 | 1 | 
1958 [Como], ItalyFor 1958 the Bermuda Bowl tournament permanently included the champion of South America, whose federation and annual tournament were then ten years old. In the next several years, expansion covered other geographic zones and the defending champion.
| Year | Entries | Rank | | | 1958 | 3 | 1 |
1959 New York City, USA| Year | Entries | Rank | | | 1959 | 3 | 1 |
1960sThere was no Bermuda Bowl in 1960, 1964 or 1968 to avoid conflict with the World Team Olympiad.
The Blue Team won its fourth Bermuda Bowl, with Benito Garozzo now in the same lineup. This began a new string of annual world championships for Italy, after ranking only sixth in the inaugural World Team Olympiad, won by France.
At the same time, the Bermuda Bowl tournament expanded to include the defending champions. Throughout the 1960s that would mean Italy plus one from the rest of Europe. Italy would use the European Team Championships to give some international experience to new players or new partnerships.
| Year | Entries | Rank | | | 1961 | 4 | 1. |
1962 New York City, USA| Year | Entries | Rank | | | 1962 | 4 | 1. |
Italy won again. This was the last for "Professor" Eugenio Chiaradia and the only one of the ten in a row that Walter Avarelli missed.
| Year | Entries | Rank | | | 1963 | 4 | 1. |
Playing at home, Argentina represented South America for the sixth time and finally defeated one of the Europeans or Americans, namely Great Britain.
This was the fifth consecutive world championship for the Blue Team, as it had won the second Olympiad in 1964. Italy would continue to win annually with the identical lineup through 1969, plus a successful comeback in 1972.
| Year | Entries | Rank | | | 1965 | 4 | 1. |
The tournament expanded to five with Asia, represented by Thailand. Venezuela took Argentina's usual place and won another third for South America. Canadians Sami Kehela and Eric Murray joined four US Americans for North America.
| Year | Entries | Rank | | | 1966 | 5 | 1. |
1967 Miami Beach">Miami Beach, Florida">Miami Beach, USAThailand and Venezuela returned to the field. More than forty years later, 1966/1967 remain their best national performances.
| Year | Entries | Rank | | | 1967 | 5 | 1. |
Taiwan appeared on the world bridge scene with a shocking second-place performance, represented by six players using the Precision Club bidding system recently invented by C. C. Wei.
The Blue Team of Italy retired after winning its tenth consecutive Bermuda Bowl and ninth consecutive annual world championship in open teams.
The United States team included two members of the professional Dallas Aces, Eisenberg–Goldman and two young players who would be Aces, Hamman and Kantar.
| Year | Entries | Rank | | | 1969 | 5 | 1. |
1970sThe Aces won the 17th Bermuda Bowl, the first for a United States or North America team since they won the first four. Taiwan finished second again, with only five players and only two veterans from 1969. Norway and Brazil also finished ahead of Italy, the defending champion bridge nation represented by a wholly new team.
| Year | Entries | Rank | | | 1970 | 5 | 1. |
The Aces won as defending champions while the field expanded to include Australia.
| Year | Entries | Rank | | | 1971 | 6 | 1. |
The Blue Team had successfully completed a comeback by winning the 1972 Olympiad with its 1964–69 lineup. Three then retired permanently but its three greatest players continued to play for Italy, and to win.
The second-place Aces were defending champions with one personnel change.
| Year | Entries | Rank | | | 1973 | 5 | 1. |
Italy defended its championship at home. The World Bridge Federation inaugurated its Venice Cup for "Women Teams", which increased in size and frequency to match the biennial Bermuda Bowl tournament for "Open Teams" in 1985. No woman had played for a Bermuda Bowl winner; only two had finished second. Meanwhile, the quadrennial Olympiad ran two tournaments, open and women, side by side from its start in 1960.
| Year | Entries | Rank | | | 1974 | 6 | 1. |
1975 Southampton">Southampton Parish, Bermuda">Southampton, BermudaFor the 25th anniversary of the inaugural tournament, the 21st returned to Bermuda, as the 34th tournament would do for the 50th anniversary. Italy won its thirteenth Bermuda Bowl, its third in a row, and its last before 2005. Pietro Forquet missed this one, leaving Giorgio Belladonna alone with 13 Bowls.
| Year | Entries | Rank | | | 1975 | 5 | 1. |
The 22nd was the only Bermuda Bowl contested during a World Team Olympiad year. The two Open tournaments were played back to back during three weeks in May, with Italy beaten first by the United States and then by Brazil in the finals.
Israel finished third as the second representative of Europe.
| Year | Entries | Rank | | | 1976 | 6 | 1. |
1977 [Manila], PhilippinesBoth teams "North America" and "Defending Champions" comprised six men from the US. The six defending champion players divided two and four, as the Aces with defending players Eisenberg and Soloway regrouped as "North America".
| Year | Entries | Rank | | | 1977 | 6 | 1. |
The 24th Bermuda Bowl was the first to be decided by a margin that is commonly scored on a single deal, merely 5 IMPs. Malcolm Brachman's professional team of US Americans defeated Italy by that much.
The defending champion team was not invited after 1977, so the tournament again matched one team from each WBF geographic zone that chose to participate. The number of teams remained at six because "Central America & the Caribbean" sent a team for the first time, three players from Panama and three from Venezuela with a Guadeloupe captain. Brachman from North America and national teams from Italy, Australia, Taiwan, and host Brazil represented the other four zones.
| Year | Entries | Rank | | | 1979 | 6 | 1. |
1980sThe Bermuda Bowl made several changes around 1980. The defending champion team was dropped in 1979. For 1981 Europe was awarded two places in the tournament, the first expansion beyond zonal champions. There would be nine teams if every WBF zone sent a champion. For 1983, European and North American champions would have two places in the 4-team semifinal round. European and North American runners up would contend with champions of the other zones and the host country for two other semifinal slots. Beginning in 1985, the Bermuda Bowl for open teams and Venice Cup for women would run side by side with the same structure in a venue outside Europe and North America.
Pakistan represented "Asia and the Middle East", a novelty, and finished second, a shock. This was the third silver medal for teams from outside Europe and North America, joining Taiwan 1969–70. "Pakistani preempts" were notable and team's best player Zia Mahmood was recognized as a great one.
For the United States, led by Bud Reinhold—who played, but not enough to qualify personally as a world champion— Levin, Rodwell, and Meckstroth made their international debuts at 23 to 25 years old, Levin being the youngest winner on record.
Europe was represented by both Poland and Great Britain, first and second in the 18-team open flight of the European championships.
| Year | Entries | Rank | | | 1981 | 7 | 1. |
Beginning in 1983, North America joined Europe with double representation, and the host country was automatically included too, so the potential size of the field increased by two. United States teams finished first and second in North America while France, Italy, and world host Sweden ranked 1, 2, and 7 among 24 teams in the open European championship. Under the new structure, USA1 and France earned byes to the Bermuda Bowl semifinal while USA2, Italy, and Sweden contended with the champions of other zones for two more semifinal slots. Five other zones were represented, ten teams in all.
USA2 and Italy won the preliminary stage; USA1 and Italy won semifinal matches to meet in the final, the international swan song for Giorgio Belladonna and for the legendary Belladonna–Garozzo partnership.
| Year | Entries | Rank | | | 1983 | 10 | 1. | efn|name=usa
Beginning in 1985 the Bermuda Bowl and the Venice Cup for women have been side-by-side tournaments with the same structure. From 1985 to 2000 they were always sited outside Europe and North America.
For three cycles, 1985 to 1989, one team each from the United States and Canada represented North America. All three US teams were based on the San Francisco-area team anchored by Chip Martel–Lew Stansby and Peter Pender–Hugh Ross. They won the annual US Grand National Teams in 1982-83-85-87.
Austria and Israel finished 1–2 among 21 open teams in Europe and placed 2–3 behind USA in São Paulo.
| Year | Entries | Rank | | | 1985 | 10 | 1. |
The "San Francisco" GNT with world veterans Hamman–Wolff defended successfully. Great Britain and Sweden reversed their European finish.
| Year | Entries | Rank | | | 1987 | 10 | 1. |
1989 Perth">Perth, Western Australia">Perth, AustraliaBrazil won its first Bermuda Bowl, defeating a team of three "San Francisco" pairs in the final.
| Year | Entries | Rank | | | 1989 | 10 | 1. | 
1990sIceland won the Bermuda Bowl after finishing fourth in Europe, the last to qualify from Zone 1. Europe's fourth, third, and second place teams won all three medals while European champion Great Britain finished 5th to 8th in the world.
The tournament expanded from 10 teams with a 4-team knockout conclusion to 16 teams with an 8-team KO, without any playoffs to distinguish the four quarterfinal losers. Defending champion Brazil finished fourth, Argentina 5th to 8th. The two USA teams also finished 5th to 8th.
| Year | Entries | Rank | | | 1991 | 16 | 1. | 
Netherlands won its first Bermuda Bowl. Netherlands and Norway were fourth and third in Europe, as finalists Iceland and Poland had been two years earlier.
De Boer, Leufkens, and Westra had played on the Netherlands 1987 world champion junior team. Helgemo of Norway played on the contemporary junior team and thus won two silver medals in 1993.
| Year | Entries | Rank | | | 1993 | 16 | 1. | 
1995 Beijing, ChinaThis was the first win for Nick Nickell's professional team.
Canada made its best showing by far and South Africa finished fifth while the European and US champions did not reach the quarterfinal.
| Year | Entries | Rank | | | 1995 | 16 | 1. | efn|name=usa
France won its second Bermuda Bowl as the fifth and last qualifier from Europe following another Bermuda Bowl tournament expansion.
| Year | Entries | Rank | | | 1997 | 18 | 1. |
2000s2000 Southampton">Southampton Parish, Bermuda">Southampton, BermudaThe Bermuda Bowl cycle continued as usual in 1998/1999 but the concluding tournament was in January 2000, marking the 50th anniversary of the inaugural contest in Hamilton.
In contrast to that three-way competition among teams representing America, Britain, and Europe, there were now eight geographic zones from which twenty teams qualified in numbers influenced by past bridge population and performance.
| Year | Entries | Rank | | 2000
| 20 | 1. | efn|name=usa
2001 Paris, France| Year | Entries | Rank | | | 2001 | 18 | 1. | efn|name=usa
Expansion to 22 teams. Perennial European champions Italy returned to the top ranks of the Bermuda Bowl competition, but lost to USA 1 in the finals.
| Year | Entries | Rank | | | 2003 | 22 | 1. | efn|name=usa
Italy's 14th Bermuda Bowl win was its first since 1975.
| Year | Entries | Rank | | | 2005 | 22 | 1. | ref|aref|a
The 38th Bermuda Bowl saw Norway win its first title, after two second, one third, and two fourth from 1993. Helgemo–Helness and Glenn Grøtheim were members of all six teams.
| Year | Entries | Rank | | | 2007 | 22 | 1. | 
This was the fourth win for Nick Nickell's professional teams representing the United States. Meckstroth–Rodwell and Bob Hamman were also members of all four teams.
| Year | Entries | Rank | | | 2009 | 22 | 1. | efn|name=usa
2010sThe 40th Bermuda Bowl tournament concluded Saturday, 29 October.
Italy had routed the USA champions 167–69 in a one-day match for the bronze medal while the host Netherlands faced USA 2 in a three-day final. The Dutch hosts led by 55 IMP after two days and scored very well in the first session on Saturday to lead by 83 and coast to victory.
| Year | Entries | Rank | | | 2011 | 22 | 1. | 
2013 [Bali], IndonesiaItaly won its 15th Bermuda Bowl with a 210–126 defeat of Monaco, represented by Pierre Zimmermann's immigrant professional team. Poland won the bronze medal by a fraction less than 5 IMPs.
| Year | Entries | Rank | | | 2013 | 22 | 1. | 
The two-week tournament in Chennai, India, began on Sunday, 27 September, with one week of round-robin play through Saturday, 3 October.
During the preceding month, revelations of cheating by two of the leading pairs, at events including the 2014 European Team Championships, had led to withdrawal from the Bermuda Bowl by the Israel and Monaco teams that had placed first and second in that event. Germany had dropped from the 22-team field after one of its three pairs confessed "preemptively". On the last day before the first matches in Chennai, the World Bridge Federation had announced its withdrawal of credentials for one of three pairs on the Poland team, making that pair ineligible to play, however Poland were not forced to withdraw.
The Bermuda Bowl was won by Poland, who defeated Sweden in the final by 308.5 IMPs to 293. The bronze medal went to USA2, who defeated England in the third-place match 252.3 to 243.
| Year | Entries | Rank | | | 2015 | 22 | 1. |
Piotr Gawrys, Krzysztof Jassem, Jacek Kalita, Michal Klukowski, Marcin Mazurkiewicz, Michal Nowosadzki, Piotr Walczak npc | | | 2. |
Tommy Bergdahl, Fredrik Nyström, Johan Sylvan, Johan Upmark, Niklas Warne, Frederic Wrang, Jan Lagerman npc | | | 3. | 2
Vincent Demuy, Paul Fireman, John Hurd, John Kranyak, Gavin Wolpert, Joel Wooldridge, Shane Blanchard npc |
England finished fourth.
2017 Lyon, France| Year | Entries | Rank | | | 2017 | 22 | 1. | 2
Martin Fleisher, Joe Grue, Chip Martel, Brad Moss, Jacek Pszczoła, Michael Rosenberg, Jan Martel npc | | | 2. |
Thomas Bessis, Francois Combescure, Cédric Lorenzini, Jean-Christophe Quantin, Jerome Rombaut, Frederic Volcker, Lionel Sebbane npc | | | 3. |
Viktor Aronov, Diana Damianova, Georgi Karakolev, Vladimir Mihov, Ivan Nanev, Julian Stefanov, Viktor Aronov pc, Marta Nikolova coach |
New Zealand finished fourth.
2019 Wuhan, China| Year | Entries | Rank | | | 2019 | 24 | 1. |
Krzysztof Buras, Bartosz Chmurski, Jacek Kalita, Grzegorz Narkiewicz, Michal Nowosadzki, Piotr Tuczynski, Marek Pietrasek, Marek Wojcicki | | | 2. |
Simon De Wijs, Bob Drijver, Bauke Muller, Bart Nab, Ricco van Prooijen, Louk Verhees Jr., Anton Maas, Ton Bakkeren | | | 3. |
Terje Aa, Boye Brogeland, Nils Kare Kvangraven, Espen Lindqvist, Allan Livgard, Ulf Haakon Tundal, Christian Venneroed, Sten Bjertnes |
USA 1 finished fourth.
2020s2022 Salsomaggiore, ItalyTournament scheduled for 2021 but held in 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic
| Year | Entries | Rank | | | 2022 | 24 | 1. |
Sjoert Brink, Bas Drijver, Piotr Gawryś, Michał Klukowski, Fernando Piedra, Pierre Zimmermann, Krzysztof Martens | | | 2. |
Simon de Wijs, Bauke Muller, Berend van den Bos, Joris van Lankveld, Ricco van Prooijen, Louk Verhees Jr, Gert-Jan Ros, Ton Bakkeren | | | 3. |
Terje Aa, Christian Bakke, Boye Brogeland, Geir Helgemo, Tor Helness, Allan Livgård, Tolle Stabell, Sten Bjertnes | | | 3. | 1
Eric Greco, Geoff Hampson, Ralph Katz, Bobby Levin, Nick Nickell, Steve Weinstein, Jill Levin, Eric Kokish |
| Year | Entries | Rank | | | 2023 | 24 | 1. |
Sjoert Brink, Bas Drijver, Jacek Kalita, Michał Klukowski, Michal Nowosadzki, Pierre Zimmermann, Fernando Piedra, Luis Lantaron | | | 2. |
Terje Aa, Christian Bakke, Boye Brogeland, Tor Eivind Grude, Geir Helgemo, Allan Livgård, Tolle Stabell, Sten Bjertnes | | | 3. |
Massimiliano di Franco, Giovanni Donati, Andrea Manno, Giacomo Percario, Antonio Sementa, Alfredo Versace, Alessandro Piana |
USA 2 finished fourth.
2025 Herning, Denmark| Year | Entries | Rank | | | 2025 | 24 | 1. |
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