| Cricket Format: | First-class cricket (3 days) |
| Tournament Format: | League system |
| Champions: | Yorkshire |
| Count: | 8 |
| Participants: | 16 |
| Most Runs: | (1,874 for Surrey) |
| Most Wickets: | (167 for Kent) |
| Previous Year: | 1907 |
| Previous Tournament: | 1907 County Championship |
| Next Year: | 1909 |
| Next Tournament: | 1909 County Championship |
The 1908 County Championship was the 19th officially organised running of the County Championship, and ran from 4 May to 31 August 1908. Yorkshire won their eighth championship title, while Kent finished in second place. The previous season's winners, Nottinghamshire, finished in eighth place. In May, Yorkshire bowled out Northamptonshire for 27 and 14,[1] the lowest aggregate in first-class cricket at that point.[2]
| 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=20 abbr="Points" | Pts | width=20 abbr="Finished matches" | Fin | width=40 abbr="Percentage of finished matches" | %Fin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yorkshire | 28 | 16 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 16 | 16 | 100.00 | |||||||||
| Kent | 26 | 17 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 14 | 20 | 70.00 | |||||||||
| Surrey | 30 | 13 | 4 | 12 | 1 | 9 | 17 | 52.94 | |||||||||
| Middlesex | 20 | 6 | 3 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 33.33 | |||||||||
| Sussex | 28 | 6 | 4 | 18 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 20.00 | |||||||||
| Worcestershire | 18 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 9.09 | |||||||||
| Lancashire | 26 | 10 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 5.26 | |||||||||
| Nottinghamshire | 20 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 0 | –1 | 13 | –7.69 | |||||||||
| Hampshire | 22 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 0 | –2 | 16 | –12.50 | |||||||||
| Gloucestershire | 24 | 8 | 11 | 5 | 0 | –3 | 19 | –15.78 | |||||||||
| Essex | 22 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 0 | –2 | 12 | –16.66 | |||||||||
| Warwickshire | 22 | 5 | 9 | 7 | 1 | –4 | 14 | –28.57 | |||||||||
| Leicestershire | 22 | 4 | 8 | 9 | 1 | –4 | 12 | –33.33 | |||||||||
| Derbyshire | 22 | 5 | 13 | 4 | 0 | –8 | 18 | –44.44 | |||||||||
| Northamptonshire | 22 | 3 | 14 | 5 | 0 | –11 | 17 | –64.70 | |||||||||
| Somerset | 20 | 2 | 13 | 5 | 0 | –11 | 15 | –73.33 | |||||||||
| Source:[3] |
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