England Women T20 World Cup 2026 Fixtures: Full Schedule

The England women T20 World Cup 2026 fixtures ran from a Friday night at Edgbaston to a Sunday afternoon at Lord's: five group matches in Group 2, a semi-final at The Oval, and a final that ended with Australia lifting a seventh title. Every one of England's group games was an 18:30 BST start, every one was played on an English ground, and England won all five before beating South Africa in the last four.

This was the first time England had hosted a standalone women's global T20 event, and the schedule was built around it. The hosts opened the tournament, played across five different grounds in the group stage alone, and were routed towards London for the knockouts. The full fixture list, with venues, times and what happened, is below.

England's group fixtures in full

England were drawn in Group 2 alongside New Zealand, West Indies, Sri Lanka, Ireland and Scotland — a six-team round robin, with the top two going through to the semi-finals.

Date	Day	Opponent	Ground	Start (BST)	Result
12 June	Friday	Sri Lanka	Edgbaston, Birmingham	18:30	England won by 87 runs
16 June	Tuesday	Ireland	The Hampshire Bowl, Southampton	18:30	England won by 4 wickets
20 June	Saturday	Scotland	Headingley, Leeds	18:30	England won by 38 runs
24 June	Wednesday	West Indies	Lord's, London	18:30	England won by 38 runs
27 June	Saturday	New Zealand	The Oval, London	18:30	England won by 9 wickets

Five played, five won. England finished top of Group 2 with a perfect record, and West Indies took the second qualifying place despite losing their final match to Ireland in Bristol. New Zealand, the holders, went out on the night England beat them at The Oval.

How each group match went

The opener at Edgbaston on 12 June set the tone. England posted 219 for 1, with Danni Wyatt-Hodge unbeaten on 105 from 62 balls, and Sri Lanka were held to 132. It remains the standout innings of England's tournament and is covered in detail on our England Women v Sri Lanka match guide.

Ireland at the Hampshire Bowl four days later was the awkward night every host side gets. Ireland made 118 for 9, Sophie Ecclestone took 3 for 22, and England still needed until the 18th over to get home by four wickets, with captain Nat Sciver-Brunt making 48 from 37 balls to steady a wobbling chase.

Headingley on 20 June was the run-fest: England 200 for 5, Scotland 162 for 7, a 38-run margin that flattered the visitors rather less than the scoreline suggests. At Lord's on 24 June, England made 186 for 7 — Wyatt-Hodge 65 from 42, Heather Knight 43 from 26 — and restricted West Indies to 148 for 5 to become the first side into the semi-finals.

The New Zealand match at The Oval on 27 June ended the defending champions' tournament. New Zealand made 163 for 6, Melie Kerr top-scoring with 42 and Sophie Devine adding a brisk 30, and England knocked it off with nine wickets standing thanks to an unbroken partnership of 128 between Wyatt-Hodge, who made 89 from 53, and Sophia Dunkley on 49 from 38.

The venues, and what each one offered

Seven grounds staged the tournament's 33 matches across 24 days. England played at five of them.

Ground	City	Nearest station	England fixture
Edgbaston	Birmingham	Five Ways, or Birmingham New Street	Sri Lanka, 12 June
The Hampshire Bowl	Southampton	Southampton Airport Parkway, then shuttle	Ireland, 16 June
Headingley	Leeds	Burley Park or Headingley	Scotland, 20 June
Lord's	St John's Wood, London	St John's Wood (Jubilee line)	West Indies, 24 June
The Oval	Kennington, London	Oval (Northern line) or Vauxhall	New Zealand, 27 June; semi-final, 2 July

Old Trafford in Manchester and the Bristol County Ground made up the seven, hosting group matches from the other pool and Group 2 fixtures England were not involved in. It is a well-judged spread: two London grounds for the closing week, a Midlands opener, and a northern and a southern venue in between, with none of the awkward Sunday-evening cross-country journeys that have blighted some previous home schedules. Our English cricket grounds guide covers each of these venues in more depth, from the Hollies Stand at Edgbaston to the slope at Lord's.

Southampton is the outlier for travel. The Hampshire Bowl sits at West End, several miles from the city centre, and the practical routes are the shuttle bus from Southampton Airport Parkway or a car park booking made well in advance. The rest are urban grounds within a short walk of a station, which for an 18:30 start finishing around ten at night is exactly what you want.

The knockout stage and the Lord's final

Both semi-finals were played at The Oval. On Tuesday 30 June, Australia beat West Indies, restricting them to 125 for 7 and chasing it down for the loss of two wickets. On Thursday 2 July, England beat South Africa by 40 runs: 169 for 5 from England, built on 75 from Nat Sciver-Brunt and 58 from Heather Knight, and South Africa held to 129 for 8.

The final was at Lord's on Sunday 5 July, with a 14:30 BST start rather than the evening slot the group had used — a deliberate choice for a full house and a terrestrial audience. Australia won the toss and bowled. England made 150 for 4, Australia replied with 153 for 3 in 17.1 overs, and a seventh Women's T20 World Cup went to Australia by seven wickets. A closing ceremony before the match featured Rita Ora and Clean Bandit.

Danni Wyatt-Hodge finished the tournament as its leading run-scorer with 302, a total built substantially in that opening week. The leading wicket-taker was India's Shree Charani with 14.

How the group table and the knockout path worked

The format was a straight round robin within each group of six, two points for a win, one for a no result, and net run rate as the first tiebreak. Each side played five matches, the top two advanced, and there was no Super Eight or intermediate stage — a cleaner structure than the men's tournament used in February, and one that made every group night matter.

That mattered to England twice. Beating West Indies at Lord's on 24 June mathematically secured a semi-final place with a game in hand, which is why the New Zealand fixture three days later was, in theory, a dead rubber for the hosts and an elimination match for the champions. In practice England played it as neither, winning by nine wickets to finish with a maximum ten points and top seeding — which routed them into the second semi-final against the runners-up from Group 1 rather than the winners.

The knockout path itself was fixed in advance: Group 1 winners against Group 2 runners-up on 30 June, Group 2 winners against Group 1 runners-up on 2 July, both at The Oval, with the final at Lord's on 5 July. Semi-finals and finals at ICC events carry reserve days; neither was needed.

Tickets, and how a home World Cup usually sells

Tickets for the tournament were sold by the ICC and the ECB rather than by the individual counties, which is the standard arrangement for a global event on English grounds and catches out supporters used to buying direct from Edgbaston or Headingley. The pattern for a home ICC tournament is consistent enough to plan around even if the specifics change: a public ballot opens the best part of a year out, general sale follows once the ballot allocation clears, and family and junior pricing is set deliberately low to fill grounds for the earlier fixtures.

The London knockouts and the Lord's final are always the constraint. Group matches at the larger northern and Midlands grounds tend to have availability late; a final at Lord's does not. If you are planning for a future edition, the two things worth doing early are registering for the ballot the moment it is announced and deciding whether an evening start suits your journey home — an 18:30 fixture at Headingley or the Hampshire Bowl finishes near enough to ten o'clock that the last train matters more than the ticket price.

Prices, ballot dates and hospitality arrangements change from tournament to tournament and are not worth quoting from an archive. Check the ICC's tournament site and the ECB directly when the next schedule is published.

Following the tournament in the UK

Sky Sports held the UK rights but opened the tournament up in a way that the men's event three months earlier had not. All twelve group matches involving England, Scotland and Ireland were free on the Sky Sports app without a subscription, as were both semi-finals and the final. Three matches went further and appeared free-to-air: England against Sri Lanka on 12 June, Scotland against Ireland the following day, and West Indies against Scotland on 18 June, shown on Sky Mix, with the England opener also carried on Sky One and the Sky Sports YouTube channel. Nasser Hussain, Natasha Farrant and Hannah Wilkes fronted much of the analysis.

The contrast with the men's tournament in India and Sri Lanka is instructive, and our guide to watching England at the men's T20 World Cup in the UK sets that out. A home event with an audience-growth remit gets given away; an away event gets sold. Anyone planning around a future women's tournament should assume the free element is a decision made per event rather than a permanent right, and check with the broadcaster.

Where this sits in England's women's cricket story

A home World Cup arriving in 2026 was not an accident of the calendar. English women's cricket has been rebuilt over the past decade around professional domestic contracts, a restructured county tier and the visibility of The Hundred, which put women's matches on the same grounds and the same broadcast slots as the men's from its first season. The longer arc — from the first women's Test matches through the amateur era to the professional game — is traced in our history of England women's cricket.

The domestic pathway that fed this squad is a recent invention, and it is worth understanding if you want to know where the next Wyatt-Hodge comes from. Our guide to women's domestic cricket in England explains the tiered structure, and the Women's Ashes in England covers the rivalry with Australia that framed the final at Lord's.

Frequently asked questions

Where can I find the full England women T20 World Cup 2026 fixtures?

All five group matches are listed in the table above with dates, grounds and BST start times, followed by the semi-final on 2 July and the final on 5 July. England played Sri Lanka, Ireland, Scotland, West Indies and New Zealand in Group 2.

What time did England's Women's T20 World Cup matches start?

Every England group match began at 18:30 BST. The semi-final at The Oval on 2 July used the same slot; the final at Lord's on 5 July started earlier, at 14:30 BST.

Which grounds hosted England's matches?

Edgbaston in Birmingham, the Hampshire Bowl in Southampton, Headingley in Leeds, and both Lord's and The Oval in London. Old Trafford and the Bristol County Ground staged other fixtures in the tournament.

Did England win the Women's T20 World Cup 2026?

No. England won all five group matches and beat South Africa in the semi-final, but lost the final to Australia by seven wickets at Lord's on 5 July 2026.

Who was England's leading run-scorer at the tournament?

Danni Wyatt-Hodge, with 302 runs across the competition, the most by any player at the 2026 Women's T20 World Cup. Her unbeaten 105 in the opening match at Edgbaston was the highest individual score of England's campaign.

How many teams played in the Women's T20 World Cup 2026?

Twelve, the largest field in the tournament's history, split into two groups of six. The top two from each group reached the semi-finals, with 33 matches played across seven English venues between 12 June and 5 July.

More on the men's event of the same year is on the T20 World Cup 2026 page, the domestic short-format competition is explained in our Hundred explained guide, and the wider game in this country is covered under cricket in England. Lord's, which staged both a group match and the final, has its own history of Lord's Cricket Ground, and the longer national story is in the history of England cricket. Everything else in this section is collected on the England cricket hub. For fixtures at future tournaments, the ICC and the ECB publish the schedule first and the ticket ballot second, so check both rather than a secondary listing.