The 2026 season of the Girls’s Premier League (WPL) is prone to start in early January, with a closing choice on venues set to return quickly, sources near the event stated to IANS on Monday. Lucknow, Bengaluru, Vadodara, and Mumbai hosted WPL 2025, which was gained by Harmanpreet Kaur-led Mumbai Indians (MI) for the second time on the Brabourne Stadium earlier this 12 months.
For WPL 2026, IANS understands that the beginning date of the competitors might be January 7, with January 6 and eight additionally in dialogue. The ultimate might be held within the February 1-3 window, and will probably be firmed up as soon as the dates of the 2026 Males’s T20 World Cup are out.
It’s understood that the WPL 2026 closing date will probably be mounted 5 days earlier than the boys’s world occasion within the shortest format begins in India and Sri Lanka. This would be the first time WPL will probably be held within the January window, as per the ICC Future Excursions Program (FTP), after being beforehand held in February and March.
By way of the venues, IANS understands that two choices had been in dialogue when the BCCI officers had an off-the-cuff assembly earlier than the 2025 Girls’s ODI World Cup closing, which India gained by 52 runs on the DY Patil Stadium to win their first-ever title in senior ladies’s cricket.
“One choice is to host the event on the DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai, which is now a venue eternally etched within the ladies’s Indian crew’s reminiscence, and the Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai. An alternative choice is to host the primary half of the competitors in Navi Mumbai and take the second leg to the Kotambi Stadium in Vadodara,” stated a WPL insider to IANS.
The rationale behind preserving the second half of WPL 2026 in Vadodara can be because of the stadium set to host the boys’s ODI collection opener between India and New Zealand on January 11. It’s also understood that an official phrase on dates and venues might come throughout the WPL 2026 mega public sale, to be held in New Delhi on November 27.
“Likelihood is superb for Vadodara to be the extra venue for WPL 2026. Everyone seems to be simply ready for the affirmation and the schedule. So we’re simply preserving our fingers crossed and ready for the official affirmation. Many individuals are calling, together with the WPL crew house owners,” stated a senior Baroda Cricket Affiliation (BCA) official to IANS.