| Cricket Format: | First-class cricket (3 days) |
| Tournament Format: | League system |
| Champions: | Yorkshire |
| Count: | 5 |
| Participants: | 15 |
| Matches: | 164 |
| Most Runs: | (2,605 for Lancashire) |
| Most Wickets: | (196 for Yorkshire) |
| Previous Year: | 1900 |
| Previous Tournament: | 1900 County Championship |
| Next Year: | 1902 |
| Next Tournament: | 1902 County Championship |
The 1901 County Championship was the 12th officially organised running of the County Championship, and ran from 6 May to 4 September 1901. Yorkshire County Cricket Club won their fifth championship title, their second title in successive seasons. Middlesex finished in a distant second place.
| width=175 | Team | width=20 abbr="Played" | Pld | width=20 abbr="Won" | W | width=20 abbr="Lost" | L | width=20 abbr="Drawn" | D | width=20 abbr="Abandoned" | A | width=25 abbr="Points" | Pts | width=20 abbr="Finished matches" | Fin | width=50 abbr="Percentage of finished matches" | %Fin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yorkshire | 28 | 20 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 19 | 21 | 90.48 | |||||||||
| Middlesex | 18 | 6 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 50.00 | |||||||||
| Lancashire | 28 | 11 | 5 | 12 | 0 | 6 | 16 | 37.50 | |||||||||
| Sussex | 24 | 8 | 4 | 12 | 0 | 4 | 12 | 33.33 | |||||||||
| Warwickshire | 16 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 27.27 | |||||||||
| Surrey | 28 | 7 | 6 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 7.69 | |||||||||
| Hampshire | 18 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0.00 | |||||||||
| Kent | 22 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 0.00 | |||||||||
| Nottinghamshire | 20 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 1 | -1 | 11 | -9.09 | |||||||||
| Essex | 22 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 1 | –1 | 9 | –11.11 | |||||||||
| Worcestershire | 22 | 7 | 10 | 4 | 1 | –3 | 17 | –17.65 | |||||||||
| Leicestershire | 20 | 4 | 10 | 5 | 1 | –6 | 14 | –42.86 | |||||||||
| Somerset | 18 | 4 | 10 | 3 | 1 | –6 | 14 | –42.86 | |||||||||
| Gloucestershire | 24 | 3 | 10 | 11 | 0 | –7 | 13 | –53.85 | |||||||||
| Derbyshire | 20 | 0 | 13 | 7 | 0 | –13 | 13 | –100.00 | |||||||||
| Source: CricketArchive[1] |
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