2025 WPL Team Captains, Head Coach: As per WPL 2025 schedule, the first match will be played between Gujarat Giants and Royal Challengers Bengaluru on February 14 at Vadodara International Cricket Stadium.
Royal Challengers Bangalore are the defending champions, winning their first title last season by beating Delhi Capitals by eight wickets in the last edition’s final game.
Apart from listing the 2025 WPL Team Captains and Head coach details below, we have also listed the WPL 2025 Squad, WPL 2025 tickets booking link, WPL 2025 live streaming details and WPL 2025 points table in separate articles.
2025 WPL Team Captains and Head coach
The WPL 2025 will follow a Double round robin and playoff format. Following are the complete details of the 2025 WPL Team Captains and Head Coach.
| Team | Captain | Head coach |
| Delhi Capitals | Meg Lanning | Jonathan Batty |
| Gujarat Giants | Ashleigh Gardner | Michael Klinger |
| Mumbai Indians | Harmanpreet Kaur | Charlotte Edwards |
| Royal Challengers Bangalore | Smriti Mandhana | Luke Williams |
| UP Warriorz | Deepti Sharma | Jon Lewis |
WPL 2025 Squad
Ahead of the WPL 2025 auction, as of last season, all teams announced their retained and released players list as per the WPL rules. Following are the complete WPL 2025 Squad details:
Royal Challengers Bangalore
Danni Wyatt, Sabbineni Meghana, Smriti Mandhana, Asha Sobhana Joy, Charlie Dean, Ellyse Perry, Georgia Wareham, Joshitha V J, Kanika Ahuja, Prema Rawat, Raghvi Bist, Shreyanka Patil, Sophie Devine, Richa Ghosh, Ekta Bisht, Jagravi Pawar, Kate Cross, Renuka Singh
Delhi Capitals
Jemimah Rodrigues, Meg Lanning, Shafali Verma, Sneha Deepthi, Alice Capsey, Annabel Sutherland, Arundhati Reddy, Jess Jonassen, Marizanne Kapp, Minnu Mani, N. Charani, Niki Prasad, Radha Yadav, Shikha Pandey, Nandini Kashyap, Sarah Bryce, Taniyaa Bhatia, Titas Sadhu
Gujarat Giants
Bharti Fulmali, Laura Wolvaardt, Phoebe Litchfield, Simran Shaikh, Ashleigh Gardner, Danielle Gibson, Dayalan Hemalatha, Deandra Dottin, Harleen Deol, Sayali Satghare, Tanuja Kanwer, Beth Mooney, Kashvee Gautam, Mannat Kashyap, Meghna Singh, Prakashika Naik, Priya Mishra, Shabnam Shakil
UP Warriorz
Arushi Goel, Kiran Navgire, Shweta Sehrawat, Vrinda Dinesh, Chamari Athapaththu, Deepti Sharma, Grace Harris, Kranti Goud, Poonam Khemnar, Sophie Ecclestone, Tahlia Mcgrath, Uma Chetry, Alana King, Anjali Sarvani, Gouher Sultana, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Saima Thakor
Mumbai Indians
Harmanpreet Kaur, Akshita Maheshwari, Amandeep Kaur, Amanjot Kaur, Amelia Kerr, Chloe Tryon, Hayley Matthews, Jintimani Kalita, Keerthana Balakrishnan, Nadine de Klerk, Natalie Sciver, Pooja Vastrakar, Sajeevan Sajana, Sanskriti Gupta, G. Kamalini, Yastika Bhatia, Saika Ishaque, Shabnim Ismail
WPL 2025 Format
WPL 2025 will follow the Round Robin format with a Double Round- robin and playoffs (knock-out stage). Following are the details of the WPL 2025 Format:
- All participating(5) teams will play against each other twice which will mark a total of 20 league matches.
- The topper of the WPL 2024 Points Table will directly qualify for the final.
- The eliminator match will be played between the 2nd and 3rd placed teams.
- The winner of the eliminator will qualify as the second finalist for the WPL 2024 final match.
