diff --git a/src/arena/MatchHost.java b/src/arena/MatchHost.java
index 3c02928..5ad446d 100644
--- a/src/arena/MatchHost.java
+++ b/src/arena/MatchHost.java
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ import megamek.client.bot.princess.Princess;
 import megamek.common.Player;
 import megamek.common.compute.Compute;
 import megamek.common.enums.GamePhase;
+import megamek.common.game.Game;
 import megamek.common.game.IGame;
 import megamek.common.icons.FileCamouflage;
 import megamek.common.loaders.MekSummaryCache;
@@ -531,6 +532,27 @@ public final class MatchHost {
         System.out.println("\n=================================================");
         System.out.println(" GAME OVER (round " + live.getCurrentRound() + ")");
 
+        // Who won, as MegaMek recorded it rather than as the numbers below
+        // imply. A forced victory - one side declaring it and the rest using
+        // /defeat - leaves the loser's units standing, so "the side with
+        // something left" is not the winner, and a match report inferring it
+        // that way would tell a player they won a fight they conceded.
+        //
+        // Two fields because MegaMek keeps two: a team win sets victoryTeam
+        // and leaves victoryPlayerId at PLAYER_NONE, a single-player win does
+        // the opposite, and a draw leaves both at none. The accessors are on
+        // Game rather than IGame, which is what the cast is for; anything else
+        // records no winner rather than failing the result, since the counts
+        // are still worth having.
+        int victoryTeam = Player.TEAM_NONE;
+        int victoryPlayerId = Player.PLAYER_NONE;
+        if (live instanceof Game g) {
+            victoryTeam = g.getVictoryTeam();
+            victoryPlayerId = g.getVictoryPlayerId();
+        } else {
+            System.out.println("[host] game is not a Game; the result carries no winner");
+        }
+
         // `name` is what the seat was called on screen, which the renames
         // made a display name. `slot` is the join key identity.json and the
         // manifest speak, which is what attribution needs - a player not in
@@ -539,7 +561,10 @@ public final class MatchHost {
         names.forEach((slot, display) -> slotsByName.put(display, slot));
 
         StringBuilder json = new StringBuilder();
-        json.append("{\n  \"round\": ").append(live.getCurrentRound()).append(",\n  \"players\": [\n");
+        json.append("{\n  \"round\": ").append(live.getCurrentRound())
+              .append(",\n  \"victoryTeam\": ").append(victoryTeam)
+              .append(",\n  \"victoryPlayerId\": ").append(victoryPlayerId)
+              .append(",\n  \"players\": [\n");
         List<Player> players = live.getPlayersList();
         for (int i = 0; i < players.size(); i++) {
             Player p = players.get(i);
@@ -553,7 +578,12 @@ public final class MatchHost {
             int bvLeft = p.getBV();
             System.out.printf("   %-16s units remaining: %d/%d  BV: %d/%d%n",
                   p.getName(), remaining, p.getInitialEntityCount(), bvLeft, bvStart);
-            json.append("    {\"name\": ").append(quote(p.getName()))
+            // The id is here for victoryPlayerId to point at. Nothing else
+            // in this document uses it, and nothing outside the match may:
+            // MegaMek assigns it per connection, so it means nothing once the
+            // container is gone.
+            json.append("    {\"id\": ").append(p.getId())
+                  .append(", \"name\": ").append(quote(p.getName()))
                   .append(", \"slot\": ").append(quote(slotsByName.getOrDefault(p.getName(), p.getName())))
                   .append(", \"observer\": ").append(p.isObserver())
                   .append(", \"team\": ").append(p.getTeam())
@@ -564,6 +594,14 @@ public final class MatchHost {
             json.append(i + 1 < players.size() ? ",\n" : "\n");
         }
         json.append("  ]\n}\n");
+        if (victoryTeam != Player.TEAM_NONE) {
+            System.out.println(" winner: team " + victoryTeam);
+        } else if (victoryPlayerId != Player.PLAYER_NONE) {
+            Player victor = live.getPlayer(victoryPlayerId);
+            System.out.println(" winner: " + (victor == null ? victoryPlayerId : victor.getName()));
+        } else {
+            System.out.println(" no winner recorded: a draw, or a game that ended without one");
+        }
         System.out.println("=================================================");
 
         writeState(a.stateDir, "result.json", json.toString());