2025 Women's One-Day Cup

2025 Women's One-Day Cup

Dates	19 April – 21 September 2025
Administrator(s)	England and Wales Cricket Board
Cricket format	List A
Host(s)	England  Wales
Participants	18
Official website	ecb.co.uk

The 2025 Women's One-Day Cup (also known as 2025 Metro Bank Women's One-Day Cup for sponsorship reasons) will be the inaugural season of the Women's One-Day Cup, a professional List A cricket tournament that will be played in England.^[1] The tournament will begin from 19 April to 21 September 2025 with local teams taking part.^[2]

The tournament will be split into two categories: one contested by the eight counties in League One and the second featuring the 10 remaining teams split into two groups in League Two.

Eight teams from League One will compete in the inaugural season: the Durham, Essex, Hampshire, Lancashire, Somerset, Surrey, The Blaze and Warwickshire.^[1][3] Yorkshire and Glamorgan will be awarded tier-one status and will join the league in 2026 and 2027 seasons respectively, while a further two clubs will be awarded tier-one status in 2029.^[4]

The remaining ten teams will compete in League Two in which each county plays eight group-stage matches (home-and-away) against the other four counties in their group. The top two teams from each group will progress to Finals Day. The teams are divided into the following groups:

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