WPL 2025 Schedule, Team Squads, Tickets & Live Broadcast

The WPL 2025 schedule, team squads, tickets, and live broadcast information will be placed here. The Women’s Premier League is a premier domestic T20 competition held for women in India since 2023. It is played along the lines of the Indian Premier League with private ownership in the form of franchises here. The WPL 2025 will be the third edition of the Women’s Indian Premier League.

The first three editions of the Women’s Premier League will have five teams with a possibility of expansion over the years.

Women’s Premier League 2025 Tickets

We are still awaiting information on purchasing tickets for the 2025 Women’s Premier League edition. Here’s how things went last year.

Last season, it was held entirely at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi and M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore after the 2023 edition was held in Mumbai at the CCI and DY Patil stadiums. Tickets for Women’s Premier League 2025 will be sold on BookMyShow.

BCCI offered free entry for women and girls to the stadium on a first-come-first-serve basis, while men could purchase Women’s IPL 2023 tickets for INR 100 and INR 400.

The first two editions of the tournament featured 22 matches among 5 teams. The top team directly advanced to the final, while the second and third-placed teams played in the Eliminator to decide the second finalist.

This format is expected to continue in 2025 as well but we will update that when we have more official information from the BCCI regarding this. Women’s IPL 2025 schedule, match timings, venue, team squads, players list, live broadcast, streaming & telecast channel details are below.

WPL Schedule 2025

The schedule for the 2025 edition of the Women’s Premier League is placed below. Each of the five teams will play the other twice (a total of 20 matches) in the league stage, followed by an Eliminator between the teams that finish second and third, and then a final between the winner of the Eliminator and the table-topper. Reports suggest that from the 2026 season, the women’s IPL will feature 33 or 34 matches.

The complete Women’s Premier League 2025 schedule fixtures are placed below.

WPL Teams Squads 2025

All five teams will be allowed a squad of 18 players, of which six can be foreign players and the remaining need to be Indian.

The updated squad list following the auction for all five teams in the WPL 2025 will be presented below once they are released. These changes will reflect the team’s decisions to retain and release some players.

Following the Women’s Premier League auction, the squads were updated further. The final squads of all WPL 2025 teams will be placed below.

Delhi Capitals (DC)

Captain: Meg Lanning (Australia)

Batters: Sneha Deepthi (India), Laura Harris (Australia), Aparna Mondal (India), Jemimah Rodrigues (India), Shafali Verma (India)

All-rounders: Alice Capsey (England), Jess Jonassen (Australia), Marizanne Kapp (South Africa), Ashwani Kumari (India), Minnu Mani (India), Annabel Sutherland (Australia)

Wicket-keepers: Taniya Bhatia (India)

Bowlers: Shikha Pandey (India), Arundhati Reddy (India), Titas Sadhu (India), Poonam Yadav (India), Radha Yadav (India)

Gujarat Giants (GG)

Captain / Wicket-keeper: Beth Mooney (Australia)

Batters: Harleen Deol (India), Bharti Fulmali (India), Veda Krishnamurthy (India), Phoebe Litchfield (Australia), Trisha Poojitha (India), Laura Wolvaardt (South Africa)

All-rounders: Kathryn Bryce (Scotland), Ashleigh Gardner (Australia), Dayalan Hemalatha (India), Tarannum Pathan (India), Sneh Rana (India), Sayali Satghare (India)

Bowlers: Kashvee Gautam (India), Tanuja Kanwer (India), Mannat Kashyap (India), Priya Mishra (India), Shabnam Shakil (India), Lea Tahuhu (New Zealand), Meghna Singh (India)

Mumbai Indians (MI)

Captain: Harmanpreet Kaur (India)

All-rounders: Keerthana Balakrishnan (India), Jintimani Kalita (India), Amanjot Kaur (India), Humaira Kazi (India), Amelia Kerr (New Zealand), Hayley Matthews (West Indies), Sajeevan Sajana (India), Nat Sciver-Brunt (England), Chloe Tryon (South Africa), Pooja Vastrakar (India)

Wicket-keepers: Priyanka Bala (India), Yastika Bhatia (India)

Bowlers: Saika Ishaque (India), Shabnim Ismail (South Africa), Fatima Jaffer (India), Amandeep Kaur (India), Issy Wong (England)

Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB)

Captain: Smriti Mandhana (India)

Batters: Disha Kasat (India), Sabbhineni Meghana (India)

All-rounders: Kanika Ahuja (India), Asha Sobhana (India), Sophie Devine (New Zealand), Heather Knight (England), Ellyse Perry (Australia), Shubha Satheesh (India)

Wicket-keepers: Richa Ghosh (India), Indrani Roy (India)

Bowlers: Simran Bahadur (India), Ekta Bisht (India), Kate Cross (England), Sophie Molineux (Australia), Shreyanka Patil (India), Renuka Singh (India), Georgia Wareham (Australia)

UP Warriorz (UPW)

Alyssa Healy, Deepti Sharma, Shweta Sehrawat, Kiran Navgire, Grace Harris, Chamari Athapaththu, Tahlia McGrath, Sophie Ecclestone, Saima Thakor, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Gouher Sultana, Anjali Sarvani, Uma Chetry, Poonam Khemnar, Vrinda Dinesh

Players bought in the auction: Alana King, Arushi Goel, Kranti Goud

WPL 2025 Player Auction – Key Highlights

The WPL 2025 mini-auction took place on December 15, starting at 3 p.m. (IST). Indian fans could watch the event live on TV through the Sports 18 Network and Star Sports Network, while online live streaming was available on the JioCinema app and its official website.

Below is the latest update with all the news from the WPL 2025 player auction during and after. Here’s an FAQ about what’s known about the WPL 2025 auction so far.

How many players were bought at the WPL 2025 auction?

A total of 19 players were picked up by the five WPL teams for the 2025 edition of the competition. Delhi Capitals, Gujarat Giants, Mumbai Indians and Royal Challengers Bengaluru all got in four players apiece while three were picked up by UP Warriorz.

Which cricketers were picked during the WPL 2025 auction?

The following players made it to the team squads for the WPL 2025:

Nandini Kashyap, N Charani, Niki Prasad and Sarah Bryce (Scotland) who went to Delhi Capitals, Simran Shaikh, Prakashika Naik,, Deandra Dottin (WI) and Danielle Gibson (Eng) were picked up by Gujarat Giants, Mumbai Indians got in G Kamalini, Akshita Maheshwari, Sanskriti Gupta and Nadine de Klerk (SA), Royal Challengers Bengaluru selected Prema Rawat, Joshitha JV, Raghvi Bist and Jagravi Pawar while UP Warriorz picked up Arushi Goel, Kranti Goud and Alana King (Aus).

What were the salaries on offer during the WPL 2025 auction?

Simran Shaikh, G Kamalini, Deandra Dottin and Prema Rawat were four players who were offered more than 1 crore INR during the WPL auction. Here’s a look at what the players were paid during the WPL auction for the 2025 edition. Sums of money mentioned in INR.

What was the purse allocated to each team for the upcoming WPL 2025 auction?

Each team was allocated INR 15 crore to build their teams, which was a rise of INR 1.5 crore from the previous season.

How much purse do the five teams have remaining at the start of the auction?

Here’s what the teams had left going into the next WPL auction:

• Royal Challengers Bangalore: INR 3.25 crore
• Mumbai Indians: INR 2.65 crore
• Delhi Capitals: INR 2.5 crore
• UP Warriorz: INR 3.9 crore
• Gujarat Giants: INR 4.4 crore

How many slots were left to fill up for each WPL 2025 squad?

• Royal Challengers Bangalore: 4
• Mumbai Indians: 4
• Delhi Capitals: 4
• UP Warriorz: 3
• Gujarat Giants: 4

How many players were signed up for the WPL 2025 auction?

A total of 120 players were listed for the WPL 2025 auction. 91 of these players are from India while 29 foreigners have also signed up.

Who were some of the big-ticket players who will be seen in the WPL 2025 auction?

England’s Heather Knight, Lauren Bell and Sarah Glenn, South Africa’s Nadine de Klerk and Lizelle Lee, Deandra Dottin of West Indies, and Alana King of Australia are among the top overseas players who will be in action during the auction.

Among Indians, Punam Yadav, Sushma Verma, Sneh Rana, Sonal Thakur, Mansi Joshi, Tejal Hasabnis and Madhuri Mehta could get some bids.

Click here to view the full list of players for the TATA WPL 2025 Player Auction.

WPL 2025 Format

The format for the WPL 2025 will be the same as the previous two editions.

Each of the five teams in the competition will face off against the other four on two occasions. While the tournament won’t be technically played on a home and away basis, each game will be designated a home game and an away game for the two teams featuring in it.

At the end of the 20 league stage matches, the WPL 2025 will see three playoff games. The team finishing at the top of the points table will enter the final and will face the winner of the Eliminator game between the teams ranked second and third.

The Eliminator and the Final are expected to be played at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi.

Women’s Premier League 2025 Venues

More information on this is still awaited.

As mentioned earlier, the 2024 edition of the WPL was held at two different venues – the Arun Jaitley Stadium (also called the Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium) in Delhi and the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore.

More information on getting to these two stadiums for tickets or on the day of the game can be found below:

• M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore
• Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi

This was after all its games were held in Mumbai in the 2023 season, at the Brabourne Stadium and the DY Patil Stadium.

WPL 2025 Live Streaming Online

JioCinema is the official live-streaming partner in India. Fans can watch all matches for free on the Jio Cinema app, website, or via Android TV or Smart TV. JioCinema app can be downloaded on Android TV or smart TV with Tizen OS 2.4 or above, Fire TV with OS 6 or above, and webOS.

WPL 2025 Live Broadcast on TV

Viacom 18 has acquired the global media rights for the Women’s IPL under a five-year contract beginning in 2023 for an amount of ₹951 crore. For the 2025 edition of the tournament, more information is expected but for now, the WPL 2025 broadcasting options are mentioned below.

WPL Team Owners

The Adani Group, Indiawin Sports Private Limited (the Reliance group subsidiary), Royal Challengers Sports Pvt. Ltd., JSW GMR Cricket Pvt. Ltd. and Capri Global are the five owners of the respective teams participating in this competition.

• Gujarat Giants Women: Adani Group
• Mumbai Indians Women: Indiawin Sports Private Limited (Reliance Group)
• Delhi Capitals Women: JSW GMR Cricket Pvt. Ltd.
• Royal Challengers Bangalore Women: Royal Challengers Sports Pvt. Ltd.
• UP Warriorz Women: Capri Global Holdings Pvt. Ltd.

Royal Challengers Bangalore won the 2024 edition after Mumbai Indians Women had clinched the Women’s Premier League 2023.

What Happened in the 2024 WPL?

It was Royal Challengers Bangalore who ended their fans’ wait by clinching their maiden title in the WPL, defeating Delhi Capitals in the final.

Having struggled in the league stage of the competition, Royal Challengers Bangalore needed to win their final league stage game to qualify for the playoffs.

They did that in fine style on the back of an all-round showing by Ellyse Perry, overcoming the defending champion Mumbai Indians there.

And in the Eliminator, Bangalore trumped Mumbai Indians yet again, triggering a late collapse after Harmanpreet Kaur was dismissed.

Royal Challengers Bangalore set up a final meeting against Delhi Capitals, in which they would show their ability to come back from any scenario yet again.

Delhi piled up 64/0 in the eighth over but a Shefali Varma wicket changed all that. Sophie Molineux and Shreyanka Patil combined to grab seven wickets as Delhi fell away to 113 all out.

In response, Bangalore took their time but lost only two wickets in their victory with three balls remaining.

Molineux won the player-of-the-match award while UP Warriorz’s Deepti Sharma was declared the player-of-the-tournament for her fine all-round showing.

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