IWGP Tag Team Championship/Champion history

The following champion history features the IWGP Tag Team Championship.
==Title history==
# 	Team 	Reign 	Date 	Days held 	Location 	Event 	Notes
1 	Kengo Kimura &Tatsumi Fujinami 	1 	December 12, 1985 	236 	Sendai, Japan 	Live event 	Kimura and Fujinami defeated Antonio Inoki & Seiji Sakaguchi in a tournament final to become the first champions.
2 	Akira Maeda & Osamu Kido 	1 	August 5, 1986 	49 	Tokyo, Japan 	Burning Spirit in Summer 	
3 	Kengo Kimura & Tatsumi Fujinami 	2 	September 23, 1986 	135 	Tokyo, Japan 	Challenge Spirit 1986 	
— 	Vacated 	— 	February 5, 1987 	— 	NA 	NA 	The championship was vacated when Kimura and Fujinami split up.
4 	Keiji Mutoh & Shiro Koshinaka 	1 	March 20, 1987 	6 	Tokyo, Japan 	Spring Flare Up 1987 	Koshinaka and Mutoh defeated Akira Maeda and Nobuhiko Takada in a tournament final to win the vacant championship.
5 	Akira Maeda & Nobuhiko Takada 	1 	March 26, 1987 	159 	Osaka, Japan 	Inoki Toukon Live II 	
6 	Kazuo Yamazaki & Yoshiaki Fujiwara 	1 	September 1, 1987 	139 	Fukuoka, Japan 	Sengoku Battle Series 1987 	
7 	Kengo Kimura & Tatsumi Fujinami 	3 	January 18, 1988 	144 	Takuyama, Japan 	New Year Golden Series 1988 	
8 	Masa Saito & Riki Chōshū 	1 	June 10, 1988 	282 	Hiroshima, Japan 	IWGP Champion Series 1988 	
9 	George Takano & Super Strong Machine 	1 	March 19, 1989 	116 	Yokohama, Japan 	Big Fight Series 	
10 	Riki Chōshū & Takayuki Iizuka 	1 	July 13, 1989 	69 	Tokyo, Japan 	Live event 	
11 	Masa Saito & Shinya Hashimoto 	1 	September 20, 1989 	219 	Osaka, Japan 	Bloody Fight Series 1989: Super Power Battle in Osaka 	
12 	Masahiro Chono & Keiji Mutoh 	1 	April 27, 1990 	189 	Tokyo, Japan 	Live event 	
13 	Hiroshi Hase & Kensuke Sasaki 	1 	November 1, 1990 	55 	Tokyo, Japan 	Dream Tour 1990 	
14 	Hiro Saito & Super Strong Machine 	1 	December 26, 1990 	70 	Hamamatsu, Japan 	King of Kings 	
15 	Hiroshi Hase & Kensuke Sasaki 	2 	March 6, 1991 	15 	Nagasaki, Japan 	Big Fight Series 1991 	
16 	The Steiner Brothers 	1 	March 21, 1991 	229 	Tokyo, Japan 	Starrcade 1991 in Tokyo Dome 	The Steiners' WCW World Tag Team Championship was also on the line.
17 	Hiroshi Hase & Keiji Mutoh 	1 	November 5, 1991 	117 	Tokyo, Japan 	Tokyo 3Days Battle 	Scott Norton substituted for an injured Scott Steiner in this match.
18 	Big, Bad, and Dangerous 	1 	March 1, 1992 	117 	Yokohama, Japan 	Big Fight Series 1992: New Japan Pro Wrestling 20th Anniversary Show 	
19 	The Steiner Brothers 	2 	June 26, 1992 	149 	Tokyo, Japan 	Masters of Wrestling 	The Steiners' WCW World Tag Team Championship was also on the line.
20 	Scott Norton & Tony Halme 	1 	November 22, 1992 	222 	Tokyo, Japan 	Wrestling Scramble 1992: Battle Zone Space I 	
21 	The Hell Raisers 	1 	December 14, 1992 	234 	Tokyo, Japan 	Battle Final 1992 	
22 	The Jurassic Powers 	1 	August 5, 1993 	152 	Tokyo, Japan 	G1 Climax 1993 	
23 	The Hell Raisers 	2 	January 4, 1994 	325 	Tokyo, Japan 	Battlefield 	
24 	Hiroshi Hase & Keiji Mutoh 	2 	November 25, 1994 	162 	Iwate, Japan 	NJPW Battle Final 1994 	
— 	Vacated 	— 	 	— 	NA 	NA 	The title was vacated by Mutoh after he won the IWGP Heavyweight Championship.
25 	Cho-Ten 	1 	June 10, 1995 	27 	Osaka, Japan 	Fighting Spirit Legend 	Tenzan and Chono defeated Junji Hirata and Shinya Hashimoto to win the vacant championship.
— 	Vacated 	— 	July 7, 1995 	— 	NA 	NA 	The title was vacated when Chono missed a title defense due to his father's death.
26 	Junji Hirata & Shinya Hashimoto 	1 	July 13, 1995 	335 	Sapporo, Japan 	Best of the Super Jr. II 	Hashimoto and Hirata defeated Mike Enos and Scott Norton to win the vacant championship.
27 	Kazuo Yamazaki & Takashi Iizuka 	1 	June 12, 1996 	34 	Osaka, Japan 	NJPW Best of the Super Jr. III - Night 18 	
28 	Cho-Ten 	2 	July 16, 1996 	172 	Sapporo, Japan 	Summer Struggle 1996 	
29 	Kengo Kimura and Tatsumi Fujinami 	4 	January 4, 1997 	98 	Tokyo, Japan 	Wrestling World 1997 	
30 	Kensuke Sasaki and Riki Chōshū 	1 	April 12, 1997 	21 	Tokyo, Japan 	NJPW Battle Formation 1997 	
31 	The Bull Powers 	1 	May 3, 1997 	99 	Osaka, Japan 	Strong Style Evolution in Osaka Dome 	
32 	Kazuo Yamazaki & Kensuke Sasaki 	1 	August 10, 1997 	70 	Nagoya, Japan 	The Four Heaven in Nagoya Dome 	
33 	Keiji Mutoh & Masahiro Chono 	2 	October 19, 1997 	184 	Kobe, Japan 	nWo Typhoon 1997 	
— 	Vacated 	— 	April 21, 1998 	— 	NA 	NA 	The title was vacated due to Mutoh having surgery on his knee.
34 	Cho-Ten 	3 	June 5, 1998 	40 	Tokyo, Japan 	Live event 	Tenzan and Chono defeated Genichiro Tenryu and Shiro Koshinaka in a tournament final to win the vacant championship.
35 	Genichiro Tenryu & Shiro Koshinaka 	1 	July 15, 1998 	173 	Sapporo, Japan 	Summer Struggle 1998 	
36 	Ten-Koji 	1 	January 4, 1999 	77 	Tokyo, Japan 	Wrestling World 1999 	
37 	Kensuke Sasaki & Shiro Koshinaka 	1 	March 22, 1999 	97 	Amagasaki, Japan 	Hyper Battle 1999 	
38 	The Mad Dogs 	1 	June 27, 1999 	62 	Shizuoka, Japan 	Summer Struggle 1999 	
39 	Manabu Nakanishi & Yuji Nagata 	1 	August 28, 1999 	327 	Shizuoka, Japan 	Jingu Climax 	
40 	Ten-Koji 	2 	July 20, 2000 	430 	Tokyo, Japan 	Summer Struggle 2000 	
41 	Osamu Nishimura & Tatsumi Fujinami 	1 	September 23, 2001 	35 	Osaka, Japan 	G1 World 2001 	
42 	BATT 	1 	October 28, 2001 	97 	Fukuoka, Japan 	Survival 2001: Fighting Destination in Fukuoka 	
— 	Vacated 	— 	February 2, 2002 	— 	NA 	NA 	The title was vacated due to Mutoh leaving NJPW.
43 	Cho-Ten 	4 	March 24, 2002 	446 	Hyōgo, Japan 	Hyper Battle 2002 	Tenzan and Chono defeated Manabu Nakanishi and Yuji Nagata in a tournament final to win the vacant championship.
44 	Hiroshi Tanahashi & Yutaka Yoshie 	1 	June 13, 2003 	184 	Tokyo, Japan 	Crush 	
45 	Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Osamu Nishimura 	1 	December 14, 2003 	49 	Nagoya, Japan 	Battle Final 2003 	
46 	Minoru Suzuki & Yoshihiro Takayama 	1 	February 1, 2004 	294 	Sapporo, Japan 	Fighting Spirit 2004 	
— 	Vacated 	— 	November 21, 2004 	— 	NA 	NA 	The title was vacated due to Takayama being sidelined with an injury.
47 	Hiroshi Tanahashi & Shinsuke Nakamura 	1 	December 11, 2004 	323 	Osaka, Japan 	Battle Final 2004 	Tanahashi and Nakamura defeated Kensuke Sasaki & Minoru Suzuki to win the vacant title.
48 	Cho-Ten 	5 	October 30, 2005 	325 	Kobe, Japan 	Toukon Series 2005 	
— 	Vacated 	— 	September 20, 2006 	— 	NA 	NA 	NJPW president Simon Kelly Inoki stripped Chono & Tenzan of the title after Chono & Tenzan ceased teaming.
49 	Wild Child 	1 	September 28, 2006 	164 	Sapporo, Japan 	Circuit2006 Final: Next Progress 	A provisional tag team title was created on July 2, 2006 when Tenzan and Chono showed signs of inactivity; Shiro Koshinaka and Togi Makabe were the first champions. Nakanishi & Ōmori were recognized as the official champions on September 28, 2006 after they won the Provisional Tag Team Championship on July 17, 2006.
50 	RISE 	1 	March 11, 2007 	343 	Nagoya, Japan 	New Japan Pro Wrestling 35th Anniversary Tour Circuit 2007 New Japan Evolution: New Japan Cup 2007 	
51 	The Most Violent Players 	1 	February 17, 2008 	322 	Tokyo, Japan 	Circuit2008 New Japan Ism 	
52 	Team 3D 	1 	January 4, 2009 	198 	Tokyo, Japan 	Wrestle Kingdom III in Tokyo Dome 	
53 	The British Invasion 	1 	July 21, 2009 	89 	Orlando, Florida 	TNA Impact 	This was a tables match that aired on the July 30, 2009 episode of Total Nonstop Action Wrestling's Impact!. NJPW did not sanction the match, nor initially recognize nor sanction the title change until August 10.
54 	Team 3D 	2 	October 18, 2009 	78 	Irvine, California 	Bound for Glory (2009) 	This was a four-way Full Metal Mayhem Tag Team match, which also included Beer Money, Inc. and Booker T & Scott Steiner and was contested also for the TNA World Tag Team Championship, which was won by The British Invasion.
55 	No Limit 	1 	January 4, 2010 	119 	Tokyo, Japan 	Wrestle Kingdom IV in Tokyo Dome 	This was a three-way hardcore match, which also included Bad Intentions (Giant Bernard & Karl Anderson).
56 	Seigigun 	1 	May 3, 2010 	47 	Fukuoka, Japan 	Wrestling Dontaku 2010 	This was a three-way match, which also included Bad Intentions (Giant Bernard & Karl Anderson).
57 	Bad Intentions 	1 	June 19, 2010 	564 	Osaka, Japan 	Dominion 6.19 	This was a three-way elimination match, which also included No Limit (Tetsuya Naito & Yujiro Takahashi).
58 	Ten-Koji 	3 	January 4, 2012 	120 	Tokyo, Japan 	Wrestle Kingdom VI in Tokyo Dome 	
59 	Chaos 	1 	May 3, 2012 	44 	Fukuoka, Japan 	Wrestling Dontaku 2012 	
— 	Vacated 	— 	June 20, 2012 	— 	NA 	NA 	Iizuka and Yano were stripped of the title, after a title match between them and Ten-Koji (Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima) on June 16 ended in a no contest.
60 	Ten-Koji 	4 	July 22, 2012 	78 	Yamagata, Japan 	Kizuna Road 	Tenzan and Kojima defeated Chaos (Takashi Iizuka and Toru Yano) to win the vacant title.
61 	Killer Elite Squad 	1 	October 8, 2012 	207 	Tokyo, Japan 	King of Pro-Wrestling 	
62 	Ten-Koji 	5 	May 3, 2013 	190 	Fukuoka, Japan 	Wrestling Dontaku 2013 	This was a four-way match, which also included Chaos (Takashi Iizuka and Toru Yano) and Muscle Orchestra (Manabu Nakanishi & Strong Man).
63 	K.E.S. 	2 	November 9, 2013 	56 	Osaka, Japan 	Power Struggle 	This was the second fall of a two-fall three-way tornado tag team match which also included The IronGodz (Jax Dane & Rob Conway).
64 	Bullet Club 	1 	January 4, 2014 	365 	Tokyo, Japan 	Wrestle Kingdom 8 in Tokyo Dome 	
65 	Meiyu Tag 	1 	January 4, 2015 	38 	Tokyo, Japan 	Wrestle Kingdom 9 in Tokyo Dome 	
66 	Bullet Club 	2 	February 11, 2015 	53 	Osaka, Japan 	The New Beginning in Osaka 	
67 	The Kingdom 	1 	April 5, 2015 	91 	Tokyo, Japan 	Invasion Attack 2015 	
68 	Bullet Club 	3 	July 5, 2015 	183 	Osaka, Japan 	Dominion 7.5 in Osaka-jo Hall 	
69 	G.B.H. 	1 	January 4, 2016 	97 	Tokyo, Japan 	Wrestle Kingdom 10 in Tokyo Dome 	
70 	Guerrillas Of Destiny 	1 	April 10, 2016 	70 	Tokyo, Japan 	NJPW Invasion Attack 2016 	
71 	Briscoe Brothers 	1 	June 19, 2016 	113 	Osaka, Japan 	 	
72 	Guerrillas Of Destiny 	2 	October 10, 2016 	86 	Tokyo, Japan 	King of Pro-Wrestling 	
73 	Chaos 	1 	January 4, 2017 	61 	Tokyo, Japan 	Wrestle Kingdom XI in Tokyo Dome 	This was a three-way match, which also included G.B.H. (Togi Makabe & Tomoaki Honma).
74 	Ten-Koji 	6 	March 6, 2017 	43 	Tokyo, Japan 	Hataage Kinenbi 	
75 	War Machine 	1 	April 9, 2017 	63 	Tokyo, Japan 	Sakura Genesis 2017 	
76 	Guerrillas Of Destiny 	3 	June 11, 2017 	20 	Osaka, Japan 	NJPW Dominion 6.11 	
77 	War Machine 	2 	July 1, 2017 	85 	Long Beach, California 	G1 Special in USA 	It was a No Disqualification Match
78 	K.E.S. 	3 	September 24, 2017 	102 	Kobe, Japan 	Destruction in Kobe 	This was a 3-Way Tornado Tag Team Match, which also included Guerrillas Of Destiny (Tama Tonga & Tanga Loa).
79 	Los Ingobernables de Japón 	1 	January 4, 2018 	156 	Tokyo, Japan 	Wrestle Kingdom 12 	
80 	Young Bucks 	1 	June 9, 2018 	113 	Osaka, Japan 	NJPW Dominion 6.9.18 In Osaka-Jo Hall 	
81 	Guerrillas Of Destiny 	4 	September 30, 2018 	96 	Long Beach, California 	NJPW Fighting Spirit Unleashed 	
82 	Los Ingobernables de Japón 	2 	January 4, 2019 	50 	Tokyo, Japan 	Wrestle Kingdom 13 	This was a 3-Way Match, which also included Young Bucks (Matt Jackson & Nick Jackson).
83 	Guerrillas Of Destiny 	5 	February 23, 2019 	315 	Tokyo, Japan 	ROH-NJPW Honor Rising: Japan 2019 - Night 2 	
84 	FinJuice 	1 	January 4, 2020 	28 	Tokyo, Japan 	Wrestle Kingdom 14 - Night 1 	
85 	Guerrillas Of Destiny 	6 	February 1, 2020 	20 	Atlanta, Georgia 	 	
86 	Hiroshi Tanahashi & Kota Ibushi 	1 	February 21, 2020 	142 	Tokyo, Japan 	 	
87 	Dangerous Tekkers 	1 	July 12, 2020 	176 	Osaka, Japan 	Dominion In Osaka-Jo Hall 	
88 	Guerrillas Of Destiny 	7 	January 4, 2021 	148 	Tokyo, Japan 	 	
89 	Dangerous Tekkers 	2 	June 1, 2021 	40 	Tokyo, Japan 	 	
90 	Los Ingobernables de Japón 	1 	July 11, 2021 	14 	Tokyo, Japan 	 	
91 	Dangerous Tekkers 	3 	July 25, 2021 	163 	Tokyo, Japan 	 	
92 	CHAOS 	1 	January 4, 2022 	95 	Tokyo, Japan 	Wrestle Kingdom 16 - Night 1‎ 	
93 	United Empire 	1 	April 9, 2022 	22 	Tokyo, Japan 	Hyper Battle 2022 - Night 5 	
94 	BULLET CLUB 	1 	May 1, 2022 	42 	Fukuoka, Japan 	Wrestling Dontaku 2022 	
95 	United Empire 	2 	June 12, 2022 	14 	Osaka, Japan 	Dominion 6.12 In Osaka-Jo Hall 	
96 	FTR 	1 	June 26, 2022 	192 	Chicago, Illinois 	AEW-NJPW Forbidden Door 	
97 	Bishamon 	2 	January 4, 2023 	94 	Tokyo, Japan 	Wrestle Kingdom 17 	
98 	Aussie Open 	1 	April 8, 2023 	43 	Tokyo, Japan 	NJPW Sakura Genesis 2023 	
Championship vacated on May 21, 2023 after Mark Davis is announced as injured and is unable to compete.	Championship vacated on May 21, 2023 after Mark Davis is announced as injured and is unable to compete.	Championship vacated on May 21, 2023 after Mark Davis is announced as injured and is unable to compete.	Championship vacated on May 21, 2023 after Mark Davis is announced as injured and is unable to compete.	Championship vacated on May 21, 2023 after Mark Davis is announced as injured and is unable to compete.	Championship vacated on May 21, 2023 after Mark Davis is announced as injured and is unable to compete.	Championship vacated on May 21, 2023 after Mark Davis is announced as injured and is unable to compete.	Championship vacated on May 21, 2023 after Mark Davis is announced as injured and is unable to compete.
99 	Bishamon 	3 	June 4, 2023 	214 	Osaka, Japan 	Dominion 6.4 	
100 	Guerrillas of Destiny 	1 	January 4, 2024 	38 	Tokyo, Japan 	Wrestle Kingdom 18 	
101 	BULLET CLUB 	1 	February 11, 2024 	Osaka, Japan 	The New Beginning In Osaka 2024 	 	
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