| Tournament Format: | League system |
| Champions: | Yorkshire |
| Count: | 17 |
| Previous Year: | 1932 |
| Previous Tournament: | 1932 County Championship |
| Next Year: | 1934 |
| Next Tournament: | 1934 County Championship |
The 1933 County Championship was the 40th officially organised running of the County Championship. Yorkshire County Cricket Club won the championship title for the third successive year.[1] The method for deciding the championship was changed once again as follows[2] -
| width=175 | Team | width=20 abbr="Played" | Pld | width=20 abbr="Won" | W | width=20 abbr="Lost" | L | width=20 abbr="Drawn" | DWF | width=20 abbr="Drawn" | DLF | width=20 abbr="No Result" | NR | width=20 abbr="Points" | Pts | width=40 abbr="Percentage of possible points" | %PC |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yorkshire | 30 | 19 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 315 | 70.00 | |||||||||
| Sussex | 32 | 18 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 311 | 64.79 | |||||||||
| Kent | 30 | 15 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 253 | 56.22 | |||||||||
| Essex | 28 | 13 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 224 | 53.33 | |||||||||
| Lancashire | 28 | 9 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 210 | 50.00 | |||||||||
| Derbyshire | 28 | 11 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 189 | 45.00 | |||||||||
| Warwickshire | 28 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 188 | 44.76 | |||||||||
| Nottinghamshire | 28 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 176 | 41.90 | |||||||||
| 26 | 6 | 5 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 159 | 40.76 | ||||||||||
| Gloucestershire | 30 | 10 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 181 | 40.22 | |||||||||
| Somerset | 26 | 6 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 127 | 32.56 | |||||||||
| Middlesex | 26 | 7 | 14 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 125 | 32.05 | |||||||||
| Northamptonshire | 24 | 5 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 109 | 30.27 | |||||||||
| Hampshire | 28 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 11 | 2 | 91 | 21.66 | |||||||||
| Worcestershire | 30 | 2 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 91 | 20.22 | |||||||||
| 24 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 69 | 19.16 | ||||||||||
| Leicestershire | 26 | 3 | 15 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 71 | 18.20 |