FIDE WOMEN'S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
Cycle 2025-2026
FIDE WOMEN’S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH
DATES AND HOST CITY TO BE ANNOUNCED
The Women’s World Championship Match consists of 12 games. The player who scores 6.5 points or more wins the Match, and no further games are played. If the score after 12 games is equal, the winner is decided on a tiebreak.
Reigning World Champion
Winner of the Candidates Tournament 2024
FIDE WOMEN’S CANDIDATES TOURNAMENT
April 2026. Date and time TBD.
The winner of this 8-player double round-robin (all-play-all twice) becomes the Challenger for the chess crown. In case of a tie for first place after 14 rounds, the playoff determines the winner.
Qualification Paths
2024-25 WGP 1st
2024-25 WGP 2nd
2025 Women's World Cup 1st
2025 Women's World Cup 2nd
2025 Women's World Cup 3rd
2025 Grand Swiss 1st
2025 Grand Swiss 2nd
FIDE Women’s Events 2024-25 series 1st
Qualifiers
2024-25 FIDE WOMEN’S GRAND PRIX SERIES
Tbilisi, Georgia
14-25 August 2025
Shymkent, Kazakhstan
29 October – 09 November 2025
Monaco
17-28 February 2025
Cyprus
14-25 March 2025
Pune, India
13-24 April 2025
Austria
06-17 May 2025
The Women’s Grand Prix Series 2024-25 features a total of 20 players, and each one of them will participate in three out of six WGP tournaments.
Each WGP tournament is played with ten (10) players round robin. In each WGP tournament, every player scores WGP points according to her position in the final standings; the winner of the WGP Series is a player who scores the most cumulative points earned in all three WGP tournaments she played.
Winner
Runner-up
2025 FIDE WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
Batumi, Georgia
05-29 July, 2025
103 players. Knock-out tournament, 7 rounds. All rounds shall be played with 2-game matches.
TBD
Winner
Runner-up
Third place
FIDE WOMEN’S GRAND SWISS
Samarkand, Uzbekistan
3-15 September, 2025
Winner