2025 Under-19 Women's T20 World Cup Explained

2025 ICC Under-19 Women's T20 World Cup
Administrator:International Cricket Council (ICC)
Cricket Format:Limited-overs (20 overs)
Host: Malaysia
Fromdate:18 January
Todate:2 February 2025
Participants:16
Matches:41
Previous Year:2023
Previous Tournament:2023 ICC Under-19 Women's T20 World Cup
Next Year:2027
Next Tournament:2027 ICC Under-19 Women's T20 World Cup

The 2025 ICC Under-19 Women's T20 World Cup will be the second edition of the Under-19 Women's T20 World Cup, and is scheduled to be hosted by Malaysia in 2025.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] The schedule of the tournament announced by International Cricket Council on 18 August 2024.[6] India are the defending champions.[7]

Qualification

See main article: 2025 ICC Under-19 Women's T20 World Cup qualification. The top 10 full member teams of 2023 Under-19 World Cup secure direct qualification.

In May 2024, Samoa became the first team to qualify from regional pathway, after winning the East Asia-Pacific Qualifier. For the second time in a row, United States of America received automatic qualification for the World Cup as they were still the only team in the region to fulfill the criteria required to enter the qualification pathway.[8]

Team Qualification
Host nation
Previous tournament
Automatic qualification
Via regional qualification
TBD
TBD

Competition format

The 16 teams will divided into four groups of four, and will play once against each other side in their group. The top three teams in each group will progress to the Super Six League stage, where qualifying teams from Group A will play against two of the qualifying teams from Group D, and qualifying teams from Group B will play against two of the qualifying teams from Group C. Points from matches against teams that also qualified from the first group stage will carried forward into the Super Six League stage. The top two sides from each of the Super Six Leagues will progress to the semi-finals, with the final taking place on 2 February 2025.[9]

Group stage

Group A

(H) Host

Fixtures

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Group B

Fixtures

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Group C

Fixtures

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Group D

Fixtures

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Super 6

Teams will face each other in diagonally form in Super 6, means A1 will face D2 and D3,A2 will face D1 and D3,A3 will face D1 and D2.

Group 1

Fixtures

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Group 2

Fixtures

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13th to 16th Place play-offs

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Knockout stage

Semi-final

2nd Semi-final

Final

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Who will host U19 Women's T20 World Cup in 2025 and 2027? . 13 November 2022 . Female Cricket . 1 December 2022.
  2. Web site: Sri Lanka to host U19 Men's World Cup 2024, Malaysia and Thailand to stage U19 Women's T20 World Cup 2025 . 14 November 2022 . India Today . 1 December 2022.
  3. News: ICC Announces Hosts Of Under-19 Global Events Until 2027 . 13 November 2022 . cricketnmore . 1 December 2022.
  4. News: Hosts of U19 ICC Global Events Until 2027 Announced . 13 November 2022 . International Cricket Council . 1 December 2022.
  5. Web site: ICC announces hosts of Under-19 global events until 2027 . 13 November 2022 . Times Now . 1 December 2022.
  6. Web site: U19 Women's T20 World Cup 2025: India grouped with WI, Sri Lanka and Malaysia . 18 August 2024 . ESPNcricinfo . en.
  7. Web site: Dominant India win inaugural U-19 Women's T20 World Cup . ESPNcricinfo . 29 January 2023 . 31 January 2023.
  8. Web site: USA U19 Women To Play 5-Match T20I Series Against West Indies U19 Women . USA Cricket. 12 July 2024.
  9. Web site: Groups, fixtures revealed for U19 Women’s T20 World Cup 2025 . International Cricket Council . 18 August 2024.