The 2023 ICC Women’s T20 World Cup is the ongoing eighth edition of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup tournament. It is currently being held in South Africa, from 10 to 26 February 2023. Australia is the defending champions. In November 2020, the International Cricket Council (ICC) announced that the tournament had been moved from its original slot at the end of 2022 to February 2023 due to the 2022 FIFA World Cup. On 3 October 2022, the ICC confirmed the fixtures for the tournament.

In December 2020 the ICC confirmed the qualification process for the tournament.[10] South Africa automatically qualified for the tournament as the hosts. They were joined by the seven highest-ranked teams in the ICC Women’s T20I Rankings, as of 30 November 2021, who competed at the 2020 ICC Women’s T20 World Cup in Australia. The remaining two teams were Ireland and Bangladesh, the finalists of the qualifying tournament.