| Tournament Format: | League system |
| Champions: | Yorkshire |
| Previous Year: | 1967 |
| Previous Tournament: | 1967 County Championship |
| Next Year: | 1969 |
| Next Tournament: | 1969 County Championship |
The 1968 County Championship was the 69th officially organised running of the County Championship.[1] Yorkshire won their third consecutive Championship title.
The method of obtaining points changed again for a third successive year:[2]
| width=175 | Team | width=20 abbr="Played" | Pld | width=20 abbr="Won" | Won | width=20 abbr="Lost" | Lost | width=20 abbr="Drawn" | Drawn | width=20 abbr="No result" | No result | width=20 abbr="Bonus points" | Batting bonus | width=20 abbr="Bonus points" | Bowling bonus | width=20 abbr="Points" | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yorkshire | 28 | 11 | 4 | 13 | 0 | 46 | 114 | 270 | |||||||||
| Kent | 28 | 12 | 5 | 11 | 0 | 41 | 95 | 256 | |||||||||
| Glamorgan | 28 | 11 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 42 | 85 | 237 | |||||||||
| 28 | 7 | 3 | 17 | 1 | 53 | 99 | 222 | ||||||||||
| Hampshire | 28 | 8 | 5 | 15 | 0 | 43 | 92 | 215 | |||||||||
| Lancashire | 28 | 8 | 6 | 14 | 0 | 24 | 105 | 209 | |||||||||
| 28 | 8 | 7 | 13 | 0 | 26 | 97 | 203 | ||||||||||
| Derbyshire | 28 | 6 | 5 | 16 | 1 | 47 | 92 | 199 | |||||||||
| 28 | 6 | 10 | 12 | 0 | 52 | 85 | 197 | ||||||||||
| Middlesex | 28 | 8 | 6 | 14 | 0 | 21 | 91 | 192 | |||||||||
| 28 | 7 | 8 | 12 | 1 | 38 | 82 | 190 | ||||||||||
| Somerset | 28 | 5 | 11 | 11 | 1 | 36 | 86 | 172 | |||||||||
| 28 | 5 | 6 | 17 | 0 | 34 | 86 | 170 | ||||||||||
| Essex | 28 | 5 | 6 | 16 | 1 | 31 | 88 | 169 | |||||||||
| Surrey | 28 | 4 | 7 | 17 | 0 | 25 | 92 | 157 | |||||||||
| 28 | 2 | 8 | 17 | 1 | 40 | 93 | 153 | ||||||||||
| Sussex | 28 | 2 | 12 | 14 | 0 | 43 | 77 | 140 |