List of years in sumo
The following is a list of year in sumo articles listed in chronological order from the most recent. Each gives an overview of the happenings in sumo for each year listed. The highlights below refer only to top division championships.
2010s
- 2016 in sumo - Kotoshogiku wins the first championship by a Japanese-born wrestler in ten years
- 2015 in sumo - Hakuhō wins a record-breaking 33rd top division championship
- 2014 in sumo - Kakuryū wins first championship and is promoted to yokozuna
- 2013 in sumo - Sokokurai becomes the first expelled wrestler to be reinstated
- 2012 in sumo - Baruto and Kyokutenhō win their first championships. Harumafuji becomes yokozuna
- 2011 in sumo - A match-fixing scandal leads to the cancellation of the March tournament
- 2010 in sumo - Asashōryū retires after an alleged nightclub brawl, several wrestlers are suspended for illegal baseball gambling, Hakuhō goes on record postwar winning streak
2000s
- 2009 in sumo - Harumafuji's 1st championship, Hakuho has 3 championships and all-time record of 86 wins out of 90 in one year
- 2008 in sumo - Asashōryū returns, Kotoōshū first European champion, marijuana scandals begin
- 2007 in sumo - Hakuho dominance begins, Asashōryū is first suspended yokozuna, Tokitsukaze stable hazing scandal
- 2006 in sumo - Asashōryū's general dominance continues, Hakuho wins first championship
- 2005 in sumo - Asashōryū is first to sweep all championships in his "grand slam" year
- 2004 in sumo - Asashōryū just misses all championship sweep, Kaiō wins 5th and last championship
- 2003 in sumo - Takanohana and Musashimaru retire, Asashōryū debuts as yokozuna
- 2002 in sumo - Takanohana out most of year due to injury, Asashōryū wins first of many championships
- 2001 in sumo - number of wrestlers win championships in spite of injury, Kotomitsuki wins his only and all 3 special prizes
- 2000 in sumo - 3 wrestlers win championships for first time, Akebono wins his last
1990s
- 1999 in sumo - Musashimaru dominates, Chiyotaikai and Dejima win their first championships
- 1998 in sumo - between them, the Futagoyama brothers dominate, Kotonishiki becomes only wrestler to win two championships at maegashira rank
- 1997 in sumo - Futagoyama wrestlers continue championship dominance
- 1996 in sumo - Takanohana takes 4 championships, and stablemate Takanonami one for a near year sweep
- 1995 in sumo - Takanohana takes 4 championships to dominate; his brother Wakanohana takes 1
- 1994 in sumo - Musashimaru wins 1st championship, Takanohana achieves necessary criteria for promotion to yokozuna
- 1993 in sumo - Akebono becomes first foreign-born yokozuna, has most dominant year at 4 championships, Futagoyama brothers take one each
- 1992 in sumo - Asahifuji retires leaving no yokozuna for the next eight months, championships are split Takahanada* 2, Akebono 2, and 1 each for Konishiki and Mitoizumi
- 1991 in sumo - Hokutoumi and Asahifuji win their last championships, Kotonishiki wins his first, Kirishima and Kotofuji win their only championships
- 1990 in sumo - championships split at two each between Ōzeki Asahifuji, and yokozunas Hokutoumi and Chiyonofuji, the second win would be Chiyonofuji's last
*Takahanada would later become the 2nd Takanohana.
1980s
- 1989 in sumo Chiyonofuji and Hokutoumi vie for dominance at three and two championships respectively, Konishiki gets first tournament win
- 1988 in sumo Asahifuji has first win, Chiyonofuji takes the last four tournaments and record for longest bout winning streak in modern sumo history - later surpassed by Hakuho
- 1987 in sumo - Hokutoumi and Onokuni are promoted to yokozuna; Futahaguro is forced to retire