The World Tag League is a professional wrestling round-robin tag team tournament held by New Japan Pro Wrestling as a spin-off of the popular singles tournament, the G1 Climax. It was created in 1991 as the Super Grade Tag League, as a continuation of a regular tag team tournament held since 1980, gaining the name G1 Tag League in 1999. In 2012, New Japan's new owners, the Bushiroad company, renamed the tournament to its current form. The winners of the tournament, assuming they do not already hold the belts, obtain #1 contendership to the IWGP Tag Team Championship. The World Tag League is held under a points system, with 2 points for a win, 1 for a draw and 0 for a loss. The current format, introduced in 2006, is essentially identical to that of the G1 Climax, with the top two scoring teams from two blocks of five or six advancing to the semifinals, and the winners of those matches battling in the final.
Togi Makabe
Tomoaki Honma
Tetsuya Naito
Takaaki Watanabe
Hiroshi Tanahashi
Aaron Frobel
Katsuyori Shibata
Daniel Covell
Frank Gerdelman
Drew Hankinson
Chad Allegra
Kazuchika Okada
Shinsuke Nakamura
Tomohiro Ishii
Kazushi Sakuraba
Toru Yano
Matthew Marinelli
Michael Bennett
Fale Simitaitoko
Alipate Aloisio Leone
Hiroyoshi Yamamoto
Satoshi Kojima
Manabu Nakanishi
Yuji Nagata
Allen Jones
Yujiro Takahashi
Nobuo Yoshihashi
Hirooki Goto