WPL Winners, History and Records Guide

The Women's Premier League was launched in 2023 by the BCCI, giving the women's game in India a franchise T20 league of its own. Five teams compete: Delhi Capitals, Gujarat Giants, Mumbai Indians, Royal Challengers Bengaluru and UP Warriorz.

The format is simple and demanding. The teams play a double round robin, so every team plays every other team twice. That means 20 league matches in total and eight league matches per team, with little room to recover from a slow start.

The team that finishes top of the league goes straight to the final. The teams in second and third meet in the Eliminator, and the winner takes the second place in the final. The format rewards consistency, but it also leaves the door open for a late run of form, and it has produced a clear early pattern. Delhi reach finals. Mumbai and Bengaluru win them. Gujarat Giants and UP Warriorz are still waiting for a first title.

2023: Mumbai Indians beat Delhi Capitals by 7 wickets

Delhi Capitals batted first at the Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai and made 131 for 9. Mumbai Indians reached 134 for 3 to win by 7 wickets. Nat Sciver-Brunt guided the chase with an unbeaten 60 and was named Player of the Match. Mumbai took the title in the first season. For Delhi, it was the first of four final defeats.

2024: Royal Challengers Bengaluru beat Delhi Capitals by 8 wickets

At the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi, Delhi were bowled out for 113. RCB finished on 115 for 2 to win by 8 wickets. Sophie Molineux took 3 for 20 and was named Player of the Match, while Shreyanka Patil took 4 for 12. Patil also finished the season as Purple Cap winner. RCB had their first title, and Delhi had a second final loss, this time at home.

2025: Mumbai Indians beat Delhi Capitals by 8 runs

The 2025 final at the Brabourne Stadium was the tightest of the first three. Mumbai Indians beat Delhi Capitals by 8 runs to claim their second title, with Harmanpreet Kaur named Player of the Match. By now the pattern was the story of the league: Mumbai and RCB winning titles, Delhi reaching finals without winning one.

2026: Royal Challengers Bengaluru beat Delhi Capitals by 6 wickets

The 2026 final at the BCA Stadium, Kotambi, Vadodara on 5 February 2026 rewrote what a WPL final could look like. Delhi posted 203 for 4, a total that would win most T20 finals. RCB reached 204 for 4 in 19.4 overs to win by 6 wickets.

Smriti Mandhana made 87 off 41 balls and was named Player of the Match. The decisive partnership was the 165-run stand between Mandhana and Georgia Voll. It was the first chase of more than 200 runs in a WPL or IPL final, and it gave RCB their second title, level with Mumbai.

Four seasons, four finals, four defeats. No other storyline defines the early WPL like Delhi Capitals.

The defeats have all looked different. In the first two finals, Delhi's modest first-innings totals were chased down: 131 for 9 in 2023, losing by 7 wickets, and 113 all out in 2024, losing by 8 wickets. In 2025 they lost by just 8 runs. In 2026 they scored 203 for 4 and still lost.

That record points to a final-day problem rather than a league-stage problem. Delhi repeatedly build seasons strong enough to reach the last match. The question for 2027 is whether they can reach a fifth final and finally finish the job. Our WPL 2027 season guide covers that storyline in full.

The Orange Cap goes to the highest run scorer in a season.

Lanning set the first standard with 345 runs in 2023. Perry edged past it with 347 in 2024. Sciver-Brunt then raised the bar sharply with 523 runs in 2025, the highest total on this list by a clear margin. Mandhana won the cap in 2026 with 377 runs, including 87 in the final. She also crossed 1,000 career WPL runs during that season.

The Purple Cap goes to the highest wicket taker in a season.

Matthews took 16 wickets in 2023. Patil followed with 13 in 2024, including 4 for 12 in the final. Kerr set the highest total here with 18 wickets in 2025. Devine won the cap in 2026 with 17 wickets and was also the 2026 Most Valuable Player. Nandni Sharma also took 17 wickets in 2026, a season covered below.

A note on other records: this guide lists only the records fully covered by the checked cap tables and final reports. Categories such as complete most-sixes and best strike rate rankings for every season are not presented here as complete lists, because the checked records do not support a full ranking for them. Rather than publish a partial list as if it were complete, we have left those categories out and focused on the verified tables above.

Smriti Mandhana holds the auction record, and the top of the list is dominated by captains and proven internationals.

Mandhana's position has two parts. Her ₹3.40 crore fee in 2023 is the auction record. She was retained ahead of the 2026 season at ₹3.50 crore, the highest current retention fee in our checked records. Gardner and Sciver-Brunt reached ₹3.20 crore in the first auction, and Deepti Sharma matched that figure at the 2026 mega auction (Sharma was previously signed for ₹2.60 crore by UP Warriorz in 2023, making her the second-highest Indian buy of that inaugural auction). Kerr's ₹3.00 crore move also stands out for the bidding itself, with 26 bids before Mumbai secured her.

For how values have changed since 2023, see our WPL 2027 auction guide.

RCB topped the points table and won the final. Behind them, the table was tight until the last places.

RCB finished on 12 points from six wins. Gujarat Giants were second on 10 points, Delhi third on 8, Mumbai fourth on 6, and UP Warriorz bottom on 4.

Three individual stories defined the season. Nat Sciver-Brunt scored the only century of 2026, an unbeaten 100 off 57 balls for Mumbai Indians. Nandni Sharma took 17 wickets, level with Purple Cap winner Sophie Devine, including the first hat-trick by an uncapped player in WPL history. And Smriti Mandhana won the Orange Cap, captained RCB to the title, made 87 off 41 in the final, and crossed 1,000 career WPL runs. It was a complete season from the RCB captain.

The fifth season runs from 14 January to 7 February 2027, and several marks are in play.

The title count comes first. Mumbai and RCB start level on two titles each. A third title for either side would make them the clear leader in the early history of the league. A first title for Gujarat Giants or UP Warriorz would break the pattern.

Delhi carry the other major question. A fifth final would extend a remarkable run. A first title would end the most talked-about losing run in the league.

The season batting record is also in sight, even if it will be hard to reach. Sciver-Brunt's 523 runs in 2025 is the highest Orange Cap total so far. Challenging it will take consistency across eight league matches and a deep run into the knockouts. On the bowling side, Kerr's 18 wickets in 2025 is the highest Purple Cap total so far, and Devine and Sharma both reached 17 in 2026, so that mark is within range.

The 2026 final will be the hardest standard to match: a chase of 204 for 4, a 165-run partnership, and 87 off 41 balls from the Player of the Match in the same game. Every final from now on will be compared with Vadodara 2026.

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• This article covers the first four WPL seasons, 2023 to 2026, using records checked at the time of writing on 26 October 2026.
• Categories not fully covered by the checked records, such as complete most-sixes and best strike rate rankings for every season, are not presented as complete lists here.
• Player fees are auction or retention fees as recorded for those events. Fees from different cycles are not directly comparable without allowing for purse size and squad rules in each year.
• Records for the 2027 season will be added once that season is played. The 2027 section covers records in play, not results.

• BCCI and Women's Premier League official records for the 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026 finals, including scores, venues and Player of the Match awards
• Women's Premier League season records for Orange Cap and Purple Cap winners, 2023 to 2026
• Women's Premier League points table and season records for 2026, including the final at the BCA Stadium, Kotambi, Vadodara
• Women's Premier League auction and retention records, including the 2023 auction and the 2026 mega auction

• WPL 2027 Season Guide: Dates, Format, Teams and What to Watch: Season dates, the format, the five teams and captains, and the storylines for the fifth Women's Premier League.
• WPL 2027 Auction: Date, Players, Purse and Rules: Date, player pool, purses, slots and rules for the WPL 2027 mini auction in Kochi: 146 players chasing 27 places.
• WPL 2027 Auction: Team by Team: Each franchise's purse, open slots, retained core and biggest need going into the WPL 2027 auction.
• WPL 2027 Auction: The Players Who Will Start Bidding Wars: The overseas names and the 10 lakh bargains most likely to send paddles up in Kochi.
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