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.

Women's T20 World Cup dates

This year's Women's T20 World Cup will begin on Thursday 3rd October and in total there will be 18 days of action, with the final scheduled for Sunday 20th October.

Women's T20 World Cup venues

The United Arab Emirates will host this year's tournament after taking over responsibilities from Bangladesh. This is the first time they have staged the event, although they were the joint-hosts of the Men's T20 World Cup, alongside Oman, in 2021.

A total of two stadiums will be used for the tournament, the 25,000 capacity Dubai International Cricket Stadium and the Sharjah Cricket Stadium, which can hold up to 16,000 spectators.

Women's T20 World Cup how to watch

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

Women's T20 World Cup format

There are 10 teams competing at this year's tournament and they have been split into two groups of five. Each nation plays the other teams in their group once and the top two in each pool advance through to the semi-finals.

The two group winners then face the runners up from the opposing group in the semi-finals and the winner of those matches go on to contest the final.

Women's T20 World Cup teams

The 10 teams that have qualified for the 2024 Women's T20 World Cup have been split into the following groups.

Group A

• Australia
• India
• New Zealand
• Pakistan
• Sri Lanka

Group B

• Bangladesh
• England
• Scotland
• South Africa
• West Indies

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 last 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.