The 2025 ICC Women's Cricket World Cup final was a Women's One Day International (WODI) cricket match played at the DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai on 2 November 2025 to decide the winner of the 2025 Women's Cricket World Cup. It was played between host nation India and South Africa. This was the second time that Women's Cricket World Cup final was held in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region after 2013, and the first in Navi Mumbai.
India defeated South Africa by 52 runs to win their maiden World Cup.
Background The 2025 Women's Cricket World Cup was the thirteenth edition of the Women's Cricket World Cup, a quadrennial World Cup for Women's cricket in One Day International (ODI) format organised by the International Cricket Council (ICC). In July 2022, the ICC announced India as the host nation for the tournament, as part of the 2024–2027 ICC Women's Hosts Cycle. However, following an agreement between the BCCI and PCB, the ICC confirmed that matches between India or Pakistan at ICC events in 2024–2027 will be played at neutral venues when either of them are the hosts.
On 2 June, the ICC announced the venues for the tournament, with the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru named as the venue for the final. However, on 22 August, a revised list of venues was released, in which the DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai replaced Bengaluru as the final venue.
This was South Africa's maiden final of the Women's World Cup, while India reached their third final, having been runners-up on both the occasions (2005 against Australia and 2017 against England). It was also the first Women's World Cup final that featured neither Australia nor England.
Route to the final
Each team played the other seven teams in the league stage; the top four teams advanced to the semi-finals.
vs Opponent Date Result Points League stage Opponent Date Result Points 30 September 2025 Won by 59 runs (DLS) 2 Match 1 3 October 2025 Lost by 10 wickets 0 5 October 2025 Won by 88 runs 4 Match 2 6 October 2025 Won by 6 wickets 2 9 October 2025 Lost by 3 wickets 4 Match 3 9 October 2025 Won by 3 wickets 4 12 October 2025 Lost by 3 wickets 4 Match 4 13 October 2025 Won by 3 wickets 6 19 October 2025 Lost by 4 runs 4 Match 5 17 October 2025 Won by 10 wickets (DLS) 8 23 October 2025 Won by 53 runs (DLS) 6 Match 6 21 October 2025 Won by 150 runs (DLS) 10 26 October 2025 No result 7 Match 7 25 October 2025 Lost by 7 wickets 10 Semi-final 2 Semi-final 1 30 October 2025 Won by 5 wickets 29 October 2025 Won by 125 runsSource: ICC
Match Match officials
On 31 October 2025, the ICC announced the match officials for the final.
On-field umpires: Eloise Sheridan (Aus) and Jacqueline Williams (WI) TV umpire: Sue Redfern (Eng) Reserve umpire: Nimali Perera (SL) Match referee: Michell Pereira (SL)
Team and toss South African captain Laura Wolvaardt won the toss and elected to field first. Both teams were unchanged from their respective semi-final matches.
Match details
1st innings
|- align=left | Extras || (lb 2, nb 1, w 12) || || || || || |- align=right | || || 298 || || 25 || 5 || RR: 5.96
Fall of wickets: 1/104 (Mandhana, 17.4 ov), 2/166 (Shafali, 27.5 ov), 3/171 (Rodrigues, 29.4 ov), 4/223 (Harmanpreet, 38.6 ov), 5/245 (Amanjot, 43.1 ov), 6/292 (Ghosh, 48.6 ov), 7/298 (Deepti, 49.6 ov)
2nd innings
|- align=left | Extras || (nb 2, w 12) || || || || || |- align=right | || || 246 || || 23 || 4 || RR: 5.40
Fall of wickets: 1/51 (Brits, 9.3 ov), 2/62 (Bosch, 11.5 ov), 3/114 (Luus, 20.2 ov), 4/123 (Kapp, 22.1 ov), 5/148 (Jafta, 29.3 ov), 6/209 (Dercksen, 39.3 ov), 7/220 (Wolvaardt, 41.1 ov), 8/221 (Tryon, 41.4 ov), 9/246 (Khaka, 44.6 ov), 10/246 (de Klerk, 45.3 ov)
Aftermath Post-match This was India's maiden Women's World Cup title victory. Shafali Verma was awarded with the Player of the Match award while Deepti Sharma was awarded with the Player of the Tournament for her all-round performance throughout the tournament.
India further received a record $6.58 million and South Africa received $3.24 million as prize money from the ICC.
Celebrations After India's historic victory the BCCI announced a cash reward of ₹51 crore for the players, coaching staff and support staff. Later, team India was felicitated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 5 November 2025 at his residence in New Delhi. On 6 November 2025, the team was felicitated by Indian President Droupadi Murmu at the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
References
External links Series home at ESPN Cricinfo