Senior Women's T20 Trophy 2026 Schedule, Squads and Venues

The Senior Women's T20 Trophy 2026 is set to be one of the biggest tournaments on the women's domestic calendar of the richest cricket board in the world, BCCI, with the competition scheduled to begin on October 26, 2026. The tournament will run until November 20 and will feature 134 T20 matches involving 37 teams from across India.

The tournament has been divided into 31 Elite teams and six Plate teams. The Elite teams are split into three groups of eight teams and one group of seven teams, while the Plate division consists of six teams.

Teams in the eight-team groups will play seven league matches each, while the seven-team group will have six matches per side. The top two teams from each Elite group will then advance to the Super League, where each team will play three matches. The group toppers from Super League Groups A and B will meet in the final.

Senior Women's T20 Trophy 2026 Schedule

The league stage of the Senior Women's T20 Trophy will begin on October 26 and conclude on November 6, with 120 matches scheduled during this phase. The Plate Final will be played on November 4, while the 12-match Super League stage will take place between November 14 and 18 before the tournament final on November 20.

Senior Women's T20 Trophy Teams

The Senior Women's T20 Trophy 2026 will feature 37 teams. The Elite division consists of 31 teams, while six teams will compete in the Plate division. Let's have a look at the group composition.

Elite Group A: Maharashtra, Assam, Karnataka, Chandigarh, Chhattisgarh, Bengal, Goa and Jammu & Kashmir.

Elite Group B: Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Baroda, Saurashtra, Rajasthan, Haryana, Andhra and Odisha.

Elite Group C: Railways, Tripura, Vidarbha, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Punjab, Sikkim and Kerala.

Elite Group D: Delhi, Uttarakhand, Jharkhand, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Uttar Pradesh and Puducherry.

Plate Group: Mizoram, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur and Bihar.

Senior Women's T20 Trophy Venues

The Elite league matches are being staged across four main regions, with the current BCCI fixture listings showing Surat, Mohali/New Chandigarh, Lucknow and Pune.

The venues include the C K Pithawala Ground and Lalbhai Contractor Stadium in Surat, the Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow, Deccan Gymkhana and MCA Ground 2 in Pune, and PCA venues around Mohali/New Chandigarh. The Plate division is scheduled in Sovima, Nagaland, while the Elite tournament knockout phase will move to Ahmedabad.