2029 ICC Women’s World Cup set to have 10 teams and that the LA28 Olympics will also have 28 games in total.
Women’s World Cup 2029 to have ten teams; talks on for cricket in 2032 Olympics.
“Keen to build on the success” of the most recent Women’s World Cup, the ICC has decided to increase the number of teams competing in 2029 to ten. In 2021, the ICC announced the expansion of the women’s game on International Women’s Day. Following the success of the 2025 edition, the board reiterated its “commitment to the growth of women’s cricket” in a recent announcement.
Only eight teams have participated in the Women’s ODI World Cup main event since 2000. Ten teams will play 48 games in the 2029 edition, compared to the 31 games in the most previous World Cup.
The Women’s T20 World Cup next year will also be expanded to 12 teams, up from the 10 that featured last year in the UAE.
“Nearly 300,000 fans watched the event in stadia breaking the record for tournament attendance for any women’s Cricket event,” the ICC release said. “The tournament also witnessed viewership growth and new records being set for on-screen audiences across the world with nearly 500 million viewers in India.”
The Board also disclosed that there will be a total of 28 games in the men’s and women’s divisions at the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. The top teams from each of the five regions—Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Oceania—as well as the hosts, the United States, will make up the six teams in each competition. Details of the qualifying, which will determine the sixth team, are presently unknown.
Prior to that, cricket will participate in multisport events in the PanAm Games in Lima, Peru, in 2027, the Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, in 2026, and the African Games in Cairo, Egypt, in 2027.
The addition of cricket in the 2032 Olympic Games in Brisbane, Australia, has also been discussed. It is thought that ICC CEO Sanjog Gupta informed attendees that he had “meaningful discussions with Brisbane 2032 for cricket’s inclusion in their program.”