The World Correspondence Chess Championship determines the World Champion in correspondence chess. Men and women of any age are eligible to contest the title. The official World Correspondence Chess Championship is managed by the International Correspondence Chess Federation (ICCF).

The world championship comprises four stages: Preliminaries, Semi-Finals, Candidates' Tournament, and Final. ICCF tournament rules define which players can access each stage. The first-, second- and third-placed finishers from the previous Final, and the first- and second-placed finishers from the Candidates' Tournaments have access to the World Correspondence Chess Championship Final.

The ICCF also manages the Ladies World Correspondence Chess Championships, that comprises Semi-Finals and Final.

Dates given are the period in which the final of the championship took place, as given on the ICCF website.^[1][2]

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N°	Years	Champion	Runner-up
01.	1950–1953[3]	Cecil Purdy	Harald Malmgren
02.	1956–1959[4]	Viacheslav Ragozin	Lucius Endzelins
03.	1959–1962[5]	Albéric O'Kelly de Galway	Piotr Dubinin
04.	1962–1965[6]	Vladimir Zagorovsky	Georgy Borisenko
05.	1965–1968[7]	Hans Berliner	Jaroslav Hybl
06.	1968–1971[8]	Horst Rittner	Vladimir Zagorovsky
07.	1972–1976[9]	Yakov Estrin	Jozef Boey
08.	1975–1980[10]	Jørn Sloth	Vladimir Zagorovsky
09.	1977–1983[11]	Tõnu Õim	Fritz Baumbach
10.	1978–1984[12]	Victor Palciauskas	Juan Morgado
11.	1983–1989[13]	Fritz Baumbach	Gennadi Nesis
12.	1984–1991[14]	Grigory Sanakoev	Josef Franzen
13.	1989–1998[15]	Mikhail Umansky	Eric Bang
14.	1994–2000[16]	Tõnu Õim	Ove Ekebjaerg
15.	1996–2002[17]	Gert Jan Timmerman	Joop van Oosterom
16.	1999–2004[18]	Tunç Hamarat	Rudolf Maliangkay
17.	2002–2007[19]	Ivar Bern	Wolfgang Rohde
18.	2003–2005[20]	Joop van Oosterom	Hans Elwert
19.	2004–2007[21]	Christophe Léotard	Frank Gerhardt
20.	2004–2011[22]	Pertti Lehikoinen	Stefan Winge
21.	2005–2008[23]	Joop van Oosterom	Alexander Ugge
22.	2007–2010[24]	Aleksandr Dronov	Jürgen Bücker
23.	2007–2010[25]	Ulrich Stephan[26]	Thomas Winckelmann
24.	2009–2011[27]	Marjan Šemrl[28]	Hans-Dieter Wunderlich
25.	2009–2013[29]	Fabio Finocchiaro[30]	Richard Hall
26.	2010–2014[31]	Ron Langeveld[32]	Florin Serban
27.	2011–2014[33]	Aleksandr Dronov	Matthias Kribben
28.	2013–2016[34]	Leonardo Ljubičić	Horacio Neto
29.	2015–2018[35]	Aleksandr Dronov	Jacek Oskulski
30.	2017–2019[36]	Andrey Kochemasov	Enver Mikhailovich Efendiyev Detlef Buse Fred Kunzelmann
31.	2019–2022[37]	Ron Langeveld Christian Muck Fabian Stanach	N/A
32.	2020–2022[38]	Jon Edwards	Michel Lecroq Sergey Adolfovich Osipov Horácio Neto

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