Get ready for the inaugural Vitality T20 Women’s County Cup ! 2025 sees Yorkshire Women looking to secure victory in the knock-out competition.
Thirty-seven teams from across the three tiers of the women’s domestic structure will enter the knock-out competition, with the Tier 1 teams entering at Round Three.
Yorkshire will begin next year’s pursuit of silverware at home to Derbyshire.
The knock-out nature of the Vitality T20 Women’s County Cup will give Counties in Tier 2 and Tier 3 the chance to pull off a giant-killing against fully professional Tier 1 sides, and today’s draw offers potentially intriguing routes to Finals Day for a number of teams.
Two all Tier 1 ties in Round Three means the competition will be guaranteed at least two teams from Tiers 2 or 3 in the quarter-finals.
It’s the first time the Vitality T20 Women’s County Cup will be competed for, in what is the first year of a revamped women’s domestic game structure.
The competition will take place across May, utilising Bank Holidays at the beginning and end of the month, and will signal the first domestic silverware of 2025.
ROUND ONE (Ties to be played Monday 5 May)
*Match 1*: Lincolnshire v Cheshire
*Match 2*: Staffordshire v Cumbria
*Match 3*: Northumberland – BYE
*Match 4*: Yorkshire v Derbyshire Falcons
*Match 5*: Leicestershire Foxes – BYE
*Match 6*: Shropshire v Norfolk
*Match 7*: Cambridgeshire v Herefordshire
*Match 8*: Northamptonshire Steelbacks v Worcestershire Rapids
*Match 9*: Sussex Sharks v Buckinghamshire
*Match 10*: Suffolk – BYE
*Match 11*: Hertfordshire v Bedfordshire & Huntingdonshire
*Match 12*: Middlesex v Kent
*Match 13*: Cornwall v Berkshire
*Match 14*: Wiltshire v Oxfordshire
*Match 15*: Dorset v Devon
*Match 16*: Glamorgan v Gloucestershire
ROUND TWO (Ties to play Saturday 10 May)
*Match 17*: Yorkshire or Derbyshire Falcons v Staffordshire or Cumbria
*Match 18*: Leicestershire Foxes v Lincolnshire or Cheshire
*Match 19*: Shropshire or Norfolk v Northamptonshire Steelbacks or Worcestershire Rapids
*Match 20*: Northumberland v Cambridgeshire or Herefordshire
*Match 21*: Glamorgan or Gloucestershire v Sussex Sharks or Buckinghamshire
*Match 22*: Cornwall or Berkshire v Middlesex or Kent
*Match 23*: Wiltshire or Oxfordshire v Hertfordshire or Bedfordshire & Huntingdonshire
*Match 24*: Devon or Dorset v Suffolk
ROUND THREE (Ties to be played Saturday 17 May)
*Match 25*: Surrey v Hampshire Hawks
*Match 26*: Winner of Match 24 v Bears
*Match 27*: Winner of Match 19 v Winner of Match 18
*Match 28*: Winner of Match 21 v Lancashire Thunder
*Match 29*: Winner of Match 17 v Essex
*Match 30*: Winner of Match 23 v The Blaze
*Match 31*: Winner of Match 20 v Winner of Match 22
*Match 32*: Somerset v Durham
QUARTER-FINALS (Ties to be played Saturday 24 May)
*Match 33*: Winner of Match 25 v Winner of Match 32
*Match 34*: Winner of Match 31 v Winner of Match 30
*Match 35*: Winner of Match 27 v Winner of Match 28
*Match 36*: Winner of Match 29 v Winner of Match 26
*FINALS DAY (Monday 26 May, The Cooper Associates County Ground, Taunton)*
*Match 37*: Semi-Final 1: Winner of Match 35 v Winner of Match 34
*Match 38*: Semi-Final 2: Winner of Match 36 v Winner of Match 33
*Match 39*: Vitality T20 Women’s County Cup Final
The semi-finals and final will be played as a three-match Finals Day, with the two semi-finals preceding the final, at The Cooper Associate County Ground, Taunton, on Monday 26 May.
The fixtures for the Vitality Blast men’s competition, Vitality Blast women’s competition and Vitality Blast Women’s League 2 will be unveiled tomorrow.
