Women T20 World Cup Schedule 2026: Complete Guide to Fixtures, Dates, Venues, Teams, and Free Live Streaming

Actually, there has been no bigger platform for women’s cricket than what is being created currently in England. Until 2026, that is the most expansive tournament to date with new venues and additional competition increases beyond your wildest dreams on offer in the birthplace of the sport at the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup (the tournament’s tenth edition). If fans are looking for the entire Women T20 World Cup Schedule, this guide will take you through all of it: match dates, venues; groups team by team context; broadcast and ticketing information; records and answers to all your questions surrounding the tournament.

A periodical for reference till the women’s T20 World Cup 2026, from the opening at Edgbaston to a Lord’s final The curtain is up on Women’s T20 World Cup 2026.

Women T20 World Cup Schedule 2026

Date	Match	Venue	Stage
12 June 2026	England Women vs Sri Lanka Women	Edgbaston, Birmingham	Group B
13 June 2026	Scotland Women vs Ireland Women	Old Trafford, Manchester	Group B
13 June 2026	Australia Women vs South Africa Women	Old Trafford, Manchester	Group A
14 June 2026	India Women vs Pakistan Women	Edgbaston, Birmingham	Group A
14 June 2026	West Indies Women vs New Zealand Women	Headingley, Leeds	Group B
15 June 2026	Bangladesh Women vs Netherlands Women	Bristol County Ground	Group A
16 June 2026	New Zealand Women vs Sri Lanka Women	Utilita Bowl, Southampton	Group B
16 June 2026	Ireland Women vs England Women	Utilita Bowl, Southampton	Group B
17 June 2026	Bangladesh Women vs Australia Women	Headingley, Leeds	Group A
17 June 2026	India Women vs Netherlands Women	Headingley, Leeds	Group A
17 June 2026	Pakistan Women vs South Africa Women	Edgbaston, Birmingham	Group A
18 June 2026	West Indies Women vs Scotland Women	Headingley, Leeds	Group B
19 June 2026	New Zealand Women vs Ireland Women	Utilita Bowl, Southampton	Group B
20 June 2026	Australia Women vs Netherlands Women	Utilita Bowl, Southampton	Group A
20 June 2026	Bangladesh Women vs Pakistan Women	Utilita Bowl, Southampton	Group A
20 June 2026	England Women vs Scotland Women	Headingley, Leeds	Group B
21 June 2026	Sri Lanka Women vs West Indies Women	Bristol County Ground	Group B
21 June 2026	India Women vs South Africa Women	Old Trafford, Manchester	Group A
23 June 2026	Scotland Women vs New Zealand Women	Bristol County Ground	Group B
23 June 2026	Ireland Women vs Sri Lanka Women	Bristol County Ground	Group B
23 June 2026	Australia Women vs Pakistan Women	Headingley, Leeds	Group A
24 June 2026	England Women vs West Indies Women	Lord’s, London	Group B
25 June 2026	India Women vs Bangladesh Women	Old Trafford, Manchester	Group A
25 June 2026	South Africa Women vs Netherlands Women	Bristol County Ground	Group A
26 June 2026	Sri Lanka Women vs Scotland Women	Old Trafford, Manchester	Group B
27 June 2026	Pakistan Women vs Netherlands Women	Bristol County Ground	Group A
27 June 2026	West Indies Women vs Ireland Women	Bristol County Ground	Group B
27 June 2026	England Women vs New Zealand Women	The Oval, London	Group B
28 June 2026	South Africa Women vs Bangladesh Women	Lord’s, London	Group A
28 June 2026	Australia Women vs India Women	Lord’s, London	Group A
30 June 2026	Semi-final 1	The Oval, London	Knockout
2 July 2026	Semi-final 2	The Oval, London	Knockout
5 July 2026	Final	Lord’s Cricket Ground, London	Final

Overview: Why This Edition of the Women’s T20 World Cup Matters

This is a juncture in the era of women’s game. For the first time, a record field of 12 will compete, reflecting both the rapid global development of cricket in this decade since Associates last featured at an ICC World Cup event. England, which held the inaugural Women’s T20 World Cup in 2009, are at it again bigger and better this time with seven venues of matches over 24 days featuring a whopping 33 games.

The tournament also comes on the heels of a huge upswelling of momentum for women’s cricketers. ICC officials have highlighted the 2025 Women’s Cricket World Cup as a turning point for attracting new fans to the women’s game, before promoting the expanded broadcast coverage, unique production and bigger global footprint of their respective event in 2026 T20 World Cup.

Women’s T20 World Cup 2026: Key Dates at a Glance

The tournament runs from 12 June to 5 July 2026, giving fans nearly a month of continuous women’s cricket. Here is the broad structure of the Women’s T20 World Cup timetable:

• Warm-up matches: 6 June – 10 June 2026 (12 fixtures across three venues)
• Group stage: 12 June – 28 June 2026 (30 matches)
• Semi-final 1: 30 June 2026, The Oval
• Semi-final 2: 2 July 2026, The Oval
• Final: 5 July 2026, Lord’s Cricket Ground, London

In total, 33 official matches are being played across the tournament, making this the most expansive Women’s T20 World Cup schedule in the event’s history. Including warm-up fixtures, fans have had over a month of women’s cricket to follow from start to finish.

Women T20 World Cup Warm-Up Schedule

Prior to the actual tournament began, all twelve teams played warm-up matches in order to get their combinations finalised and to adapt themselves with English conditions. It was twelve warm-up matches between three venues vi.

With the group stage including reigning champions New Zealand, defeated finalists South Africa and current ODI World Cup winners India, these warm-up games had added relevance in 2023 with fans getting to see early signs of form. From 10:00 a.m. (2:30 p.m. IST) each double-header day was built around the first match starting and at 3:00 p.m., now local time BST, following on with the second — enabling fans across time zones to share the anticipation through build-up materials including team announcements by way of social media posts and news stories followed up by comprehensive livestream coverage situations.

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Women T20 World Cup Host Country and Venues

England and Wales are cohosts for the 2026 edition and the England and Wales Cricket Board has announced that seven venues will host matches in the event:

Edgbaston Cricket Ground, Birmingham – host of the tournament opener

1. Edgbaston Cricket Ground, Birmingham — host of the tournament opener
2. County Ground, Bristol
3. Headingley Cricket Ground, Leeds
4. Lord’s Cricket Ground, London — host of the final
5. The Oval, London — host of both semi-finals
6. Old Trafford Cricket Ground, Manchester
7. Rose Bowl (Utilita Bowl), Southampton

Every one of these venues has their own unique story and character. England, playing under the watchful gaze of Edgbaston’s raucous atmosphere chose it to host the opening match and in doing so set the tone for the tournament. Recent years have seen Old Trafford and the Rose Bowl placed on England’s international schedule while Headingley in Leeds presents a different challenge altogether with invariable conditions with seam along with challenging ball swing. 

The 50-over, winner-take-all semi-finals will take place on the vast outfield of the centrally-situated Oval; while Lord’s cricket’s cathedral again hosts one of the most coveted dates in sport like many other high-profile men’s and women’s finals before them.

Women T20 World Cup Format Explained

The 2026 tournament consists of 12 teams split into two six-team groups, in contrast to the smaller ten-team fields from past editions. The malaise was a structural one in that it mirrored the rapid global expansion of women’s cricket and allowed more nations a genuine chance to play World Cup cricket at international level.

Group 1: Australia, South Africa, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh,Netherlands Group 2: West Indies, England, New Zealand,sri lanka,Scotland,Ireland

During the group stage, each side plays every other in its group once — a simple round-robin system — meaning that there will be 30 group matches. Two best teams from each group go through to the knock out stage. The fourth format in which it works is as follows:

• A Group 1 winner meets a Group 2 runner-up in the first semi-final
• The Group 1 second-placer goes against the Group 2 winner in semi-final two
• Final at Lord’s featuring the winners of its two semi-finals

The group stage classification works via a tier of tiebreakers, with points first, then total wins, followed by net run rate next and head-to-head results between tied clubs added-up to tip the scales next—if necessary, you turn to pre-tournament ICC Women’s T20 rankings. It rewards consistency throughout the group stage while still providing that single-elimination drama that fans expect from a knockout round.

Women T20 World Cup Teams and Qualification Pathway

A mix of automatic qualification and a global qualifying tournament held earlier in 2026 saw twelve teams secure their places at this edition.

• Direct qualifiers (top six from the 2024 edition, including hosts): England (hosts), Australia, India, New Zealand, South Africa, and West Indies.
• Ranking-based qualifiers: Pakistan and Sri Lanka qualified directly based on the ICC Women’s T20I Team Rankings as of October 2024, having been the next-best ranked sides outside the automatic top six.
• Qualifier tournament winners: Bangladesh, Ireland, Netherlands, and Scotland came through the global qualifying event in February 2026, fighting through a competitive field to claim the four remaining spots.

One of the real storylines this year is the qualification from the Netherlands — it will be the first time since the inception of a Women’s T20 World Cup that a Dutch women’s team, as part of its growth in continental Europe, has played on such a stage. In acknowledgement of the triumph, Dutch state broadcaster NOS Player is delivering a tailored Dutch-language stream for each Netherlands game on its free To-Air streaming service.

Women’s T20 World Cup Opening Match and Key Early Fixtures

Hosts England set the ball rolling in a match against Sri Lanka on 12 June 2026 at Edgbaston in Birmingham, a fitting curtain-raiser considering that Great Britain had been the first host nation of this tournament when they all started back in 2009. In a message to their home supporters, England recovered from off-field confusion to thrash Sri Lanka in the opener by 87 runs on Tuesday.

One of the biggest matches on any Women T20 World Cup schedule is almost always just that an India v Pakistan clash and in this tournament one of the group stage fixtures most looked forward to came about 14 June at Edgbaston, a fixture that pulls huge audiences across South Asia regardless of format or size of tournament.

The West Indies met the defending champions New Zealand on day two of the tournament, while Australia opened their account against runners-up from 2024 South Africa — a repeat of that earlier final. There are always some strong underdog storylines in the group stage, with Ireland and Scotland battling other established sides like India and Australia for a breakthrough performance here on the world stage.

India Women’s T20 World Cup Schedule and Campaign

Fresh from their first ever Women’s ODI World Cup victory in India, which came on home soil in 2025, expectations were high as the team entered this tournament. India, captained by Harmanpreet Kaur and with Smriti Mandhana serving as deputy, were in the tougher half on paper in Group 1 alongside Pakistan, Australia, South Africa, Bangladesh and the Netherlands.

Considering India’s TG record five semi-final places and a runner-up finish at this event in 2020 his was an added incentive after the team’s failure to win more than an ODI World Cup pennant in T20 formats. Head coach Amol Muzumdar’s side had a high target to navigate as they were placed in a group that contained three other previous champions or finalists and fans across the cricketing world eagerly observed how India’s results panned out through the tournament.

Australia, England, and the Other Contenders

Australia are the most successful team in Women’s T20 World Cup history, with six titles from the first nine tournaments – such has been their domination of the format. A crushing win over South Africa in their first fixture and their overall form ensured they remained one of the leading contenders heading into the knockout stage.

Hosts England, on the other hand, had these expectations on them at every stage of the group stage and then into the knockouts. Their Premier Series victory rates are higher in their home grounds, but they will want to add another T20 World Cup laid up in front of the very strong British public (The Lee). In addition to this you need only to look at Coy as our highest average scoring team with 9 lower teams below them only one ahead from the high price unit.

South Africa, at the time runners-up in 2024, arrived here with final experience but keen to go one better. The defending champions from 2024, New Zealand, were seeking to become only the second team ever — after the United States in 1991-95 — to win consecutive titles in women’s soccer.

Women’s T20 World Cup Points Table and Knockout Stage

The group stage ran through the second half of June and was run on a points basis with teams classified according to points, wins total, net run rate (NRR), head-to-head results (if applicable) and pre-tournament rankings. The top two sides in each group at the end of the group stage on 28 June progressed to the semi-finals, held at The Oval.

Australia played West Indies in one of the semi-final pairings on 30 June, while England took on South Africa in the other two days later to earn a lucrative final at Lord’s on 5 July between the winners of both semis. India’s exit from the T20 World Cup in the group stage for the second consecutive time has also led to much debate in Indian cricket circles about how India approach this format and those World Cups going ahead.

Women T20 World Cup Live Streaming and TV Channel Details

Women’s T20 World Cup broadcast coverage details For fans wanting to know how to watch the Women’s T20 World Cup, broadcast coverage has been greatly expanded for this edition, across 14 languages globally the widest reach that this tournament has ever had.

India: Star Sports network and JioHotstar is bringing the tournament to the fans, all India matches with Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada commentary along with the opening match, semi finals & final being live streamed on Hotstar The mobile-first vertical live feed on JioHotstar is also geographically catered with multi-camera views available, including Hero, Stump, Battery, Field View and Multi-View angles. 

Women T20 World Cup Live Streaming and TV Channel Details

Region/Country	TV Broadcaster(s)	Live Streaming Platform
India	Star Sports Network	JioHotstar
United Kingdom & Ireland	Sky Sports Cricket, Sky Sports Main Event, Sky Sports Mix, Sky Sports+	Sky Sports App
Australia	Prime Video (Digital Exclusive)	Prime Video (Free)
New Zealand	Sky Sport NZ	Sky Sport Now
South Africa & Sub-Saharan Africa	SuperSport	SuperSport App
Pakistan	PTV Sports, Geo Super	Myco, Tamasha, Tapmad
Bangladesh	—	Rabbithole, ICC.tv
Sri Lanka	Dialog TV, TV Supreme, PEO TV	Dialog Play, ThePapare.com
USA & Canada	Willow TV	Willow by Cricbuzz, Sling Freestream (USA)
Caribbean	ESPN Caribbean	ESPN App
Latin America	—	Disney+
Middle East & North Africa (MENA)	—	StarzPlay Cricket
Other Selected Territories	Local ICC Broadcast Partners	ICC.tv (where available)

In addition to that, sign language coverage also supports these India matches and so will make the entire broadcast more inclusive. TV channels: Star Sports 1, Star Sports 1 HD, Star Sports 2, Star Sports 2 HD,Star Sports 3 and Star Sports 3HD with regional-language feeds

UK and Ireland: In the UK and Ireland, fans can catch the action on Sky Sports Cricket, Sky Sports Main Event, Sky Sports Mix and Sky Sports+.

Australia: Prime Video is offering the tournament for free and without a subscription over here an unprecedented access move for Aussie fans.

New Zealand: Coverage is provided on Sky Sport’s linear and digital platforms, including Sky Sport 1 through 7 as well as Sky Sport Select.

In Pakistan: Linear broadcast coverage on PTV and Geo Super, with streaming through Myco, Tamasha and Tapmad as well as a dedicated near-edge newly-produced Urdu commentary feed for Pakistan matches from ICC

South Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa: SuperSport is the host broadcaster in South Africa, also providing Afrikaans and Xhosa commentary on South African matches.

In the Caribbean: All matches live on ESPN; Disney+ is streaming it throughout Latin America.

United States and Canada: North American audiences will watch live on Willow TV.

Worldwide: Coverage at no cost is accessible in all remaining territories, direct through ICC. While commentary in Hindi, Urdu and Dutch is also available on tv for specific matches, the highlights and select live matches can be watched on ICC’s official YouTube channel in Japanese, Thai, and Bahasa Indonesia.

Women’s T20 World Cup Match Timings (IST)

For Indian fans tracking match timings, the general scheduling pattern through the tournament has followed three broad slots converted to IST:

• Day matches starting at 10:30 BST begin at 3:00 PM IST
• Afternoon matches starting at 14:30 BST begin at 7:00 PM IST
• Evening (day/night) matches starting at 18:00 BST begin at 10:30 PM IST

These timings have made it convenient for fans across India and South Asia to catch live action regardless of work schedules, with evening fixtures typically drawing the largest viewership given the more accessible late-night IST slot for working professionals and students alike.

Women’s T20 World Cup Tickets

Tickets for the remaining knockout fixtures, including the final at Lord’s, have been available through the official ICC box office, with final tickets starting from around £15 though high demand means availability for marquee fixtures like the final has been extremely limited, with several ticket categories selling out and moving to waiting lists well before the final itself. Semi-final tickets at The Oval for both the Australia-West Indies and England-South Africa fixtures also saw strong demand, reflecting the growing commercial pull of the women’s game.

Women’s T20 World Cup: A Look at Tournament History

This tenth edition arrives sixteen years after the inaugural 2009 tournament, also hosted in England. Since then, the event has grown from a modest standalone competition into one of the most closely followed tournaments in global cricket.

Australia’s six titles place them well clear of the chasing pack as the most decorated side in the competition’s history, while the format itself has evolved significantly — from venue selection to broadcast reach to overall tournament structure, with this year’s expansion to twelve teams representing the biggest structural shift since the event’s inception.

The growth in broadcast reach alone tells its own story: from a handful of broadcast partners in the tournament’s early years to fourteen languages and free global streaming via ICC.tv in 2026, the Women’s T20 World Cup has firmly established itself as a marquee event on the global cricket calendar.

Final Word

With its expanded 12-team format, packed 33-match schedule, and a path that runs from Edgbaston’s opening fixture all the way to a Lord’s final, the Women’s T20 World Cup 2026 schedule represents a landmark moment for women’s cricket. Whether you’re tracking India’s campaign, following defending champions New Zealand, six-time champions Australia, or simply want to know when and where to catch the final, this schedule breakdown should serve as your one-stop reference for the tournament from start to finish.

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