The qualification pathway for the eight (8) team 2025 ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup has been confirmed by International Cricket Council (ICC) during the Board meeting that took place this week in Dubai. The host nation (yet to be decided) will automatically qualify along with the next five highest placed teams at the end of the ten (10)-nation 2022-2025 ICC Women’s Championship (IWC).
The remaining two teams will be identified through a global qualifying event between the four bottom-placed teams in the IWC plus an additional two teams from the WODI rankings. ICC Board has approved a recommendation that WODI status will be extended to a number of Associate Member women’s teams to enable them to progress to global qualifying events based on ODI rankings.
The qualification pathway moves away from the regional qualification pathway events, which used to be the criteria to identify the teams from the five (5) ICC regions into the Global qualifier. The ICC have awarded ODI status to teams representing Netherlands, Scotland, Papua New Guinea, Thailand and USA, this enabling them to play WODI matches and have a team ranking to compete for the two (2) spots into the next global qualifier.
