2025 Women's Cricket World Cup

2025 ICC Women's Cricket World Cup

Dates	29 September – 26 October 2025
Administrator(s)	International Cricket Council
Cricket format	Women's One Day International
Tournament format(s)	Round-robin and Knockout Stage
Host(s)	India
Participants	8
Matches	31

The 2025 ICC Women's Cricket World Cup will be the 13th edition of Women's Cricket World Cup. It is scheduled to be hosted in India, their fourth tournament after the 1978, 1997, and 2013 editions. This will be the last time that the tournament will have eight teams. Australia are the defending champions, having won their seventh title in 2022.

Background

Neutral venue arrangements

On 19 December 2024, following an agreement between BCCI and PCB, the ICC in an update issued on India and Pakistan hosted matches at ICC events, established that the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2025 (hosted by India) will be played across India and a neutral venue. The ICC board confirmed that India and Pakistan matches hosted by either country at ICC Events during the 2024–2027 rights cycle will be played at a neutral venue.

Qualification

List of teams qualified for the 2025 Women's Cricket World Cup

Means of qualification	Date	Venue	Berths	Qualified
Host nation	26 July 2022	—	1	India
2022–2025 ICC Women's Championship (Top 5 teams, excluding the host)	1 June 2022 – 24 January 2025	Various	5	Australia
				England
				New Zealand
				South Africa
				Sri Lanka
2025 Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier	9 – 19 April 2025	Pakistan	2	Bangladesh
				Pakistan
		Total	8

Venues

Indore

New Chandigarh

Raipur

Thiruvananthapuram

Visakhapatnam

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2025 Women's Cricket World Cup venues

The tournament will take place in five different venues across India. The final is scheduled to be held at Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium in New Chandigarh. Four other cities that will host the matches are Vishakhapatnam, Thiruvananthapuram, Raipur and Indore.

With the Women's World Cup coinciding with the men's domestic fixtures, The BCCI selected five venues for the tournament, prioritizing favorable weather conditions and efficient logistical arrangements. Moreover, after Pakistan's qualification for the World Cup, their matches will be played outside India on a neutral venue.

Location	Stadium	Capacity	No. of matches
Indore	Holkar Stadium	30,000	TBD
New Chandigarh	Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium	38,000	TBD
Raipur	Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh International Cricket Stadium	65,000	TBD
Thiruvananthapuram	Greenfield International Stadium	50,000	TBD
Visakhapatnam	ACA–VDCA Cricket Stadium	27,500	TBD

Group stage

Points table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	NR	Pts	NRR	Qualification
1	Australia	0	0	0	0	0	—	Advance to the knockout stage
2	Bangladesh	0	0	0	0	0	—
3	England	0	0	0	0	0	—
4	India (H)	0	0	0	0	0	—
5	New Zealand	0	0	0	0	0	—
6	Pakistan	0	0	0	0	0	—
7	South Africa	0	0	0	0	0	—
8	Sri Lanka	0	0	0	0	0	—

First match(es) will be played: 29 September 2025. Source:
(H) Host

Knockout stage

	Semi-finals					Final
	1
	4
						SFW1
						SFW2
	2
	3

Semi-finals

Semi-final 1 TBD

TBD	v	TBD

TBD

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Semi-final 2 TBD

TBD	v	TBD

TBD

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Final

Final 26 October 2025

TBD	v	TBD

Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium, Mullanpur