Women's T20 World Cup: Dates, schedule, history & key info

The Women's T20 World Cup is an international competition which sees the world's best teams battle it out in the shortest format of the game.

The 2024 edition will be the ninth time the tournament has been played, with Australia the defending champions following their victory in South Africa in 2023.

The format sees ten teams split into two groups of five, with the top two in both pools moving through to the semi-finals and the winners of those two matches then meeting in the final.

When is the Women's T20 World Cup?

The Women's T20 World Cup will take place from 3-20 October 2024.

Where is the Women's T20 World Cup?

United Arab Emirates will host the Women's T20 World Cup after it was moved from Bangladesh following civil unrest in the original host country.

Can I watch the Women's T20 World Cup?

The Women's T20 World Cup is set to be shown on Sky Sports in the UK, having aired both the 2023 and 2020 tournaments.

In early 2023, the subscription broadcaster renewed their deal with the ICC, which means they are able to show ICC Cricket World Cups and ICC T20 World Cups in the men’s and women’s games through to the end of 2031.

How many times has the Women's T20 World Cup taken place?

The 2024 Women's T20 World Cup will be the ninth time the competition has been staged, with the inaugural event taking place in England in 2009.

The latest edition took place in 2023, when Australia beat hosts South Africa in the final, with the Aussies collecting the $1million winner’s cheque.

Who has won the Women's T20 World Cup on the most occasions?

Australia have dominated the shortest-format of the international game, winning the T20 World Cup on no fewer than six occasions.

The current world champions won the tournament three times in a row - between 2010 and 2014 - before collecting the trophy again in 2018.

Australia retained their title on home soil in 2020, when they beat India in the final, before making it three in a row in South Africa in 2023.

There have only been two other winners of the women’s international T20 tournament in the eight editions to date - England and West Indies.

England hosted and won the first event in 2009, beating New Zealand in the final, and have been runners-up on three occasions.

The Windies won their only title in India in 2016, with Hayley Matthews smashing 66 from 45 balls to help them beat the Aussies by eight wickets in Kolkata.

New Zealand have twice been beaten in the final, while India and South Africa are the only other two teams to make the showpiece finale.