Women's Cricket Super League
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 England and Wales
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| Administrator | ECB |
| Format | Twenty20 |
| First tournament | 2016 |
| Tournament format | Round-robin and knockout stage |
| Number of teams | 6 |
| Current trophy holder | Southern Vipers |
| Most successful | Southern Vipers (1 title) |
 2016 Women's Cricket Super League
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The Women's Cricket Super League (WCSL), known as the Kia Super League for sponsorship reasons, is a semi-professional women's cricket competition in England and Wales that began with its inaugural season in 2016. It launched with six teams playing in a Twenty20 format only, with the intention of adding a fifty over competition from 2017 onwards. In July 2017, the ECB announced that plans for the 50-over women's league would be scrapped. Instead, the KSL is to be expanded starting from 2018 with each of the six teams to play ten group-stage games as opposes to five. The Southern Vipers were the first champions of the WCSL.
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) announced their plans for the Women's Cricket Super League in June 2015, stating they would invest £3 million over four years. The competition would launch with six teams playing in a Twenty20 format, with the intention being to add a fifty over competition in 2017. The ECB received 28 applications to host teams in the first stage of bidding, with the process subsequently moving to an interview stage. The six successful bids were announced in January 2016. The ECB hope that the WCSL will develop as a semi-professional competition, with the intention of bridging the gap between the amateur Women's County Championship and international cricket, for which England players are centrally contracted as professionals.
The ECB announced the six hosts for the WCSL in January 2016, with hosting rights awarded for the first four years of the competition, 2016 to 2019 inclusive. The hosts and partners include seven First-class counties, five minor counties and three universities. Team names, along with the fixtures and venues for the 2016 season, were announced in February 2016. The allocation of England players to the teams was announced in April 2016, with overseas player allocations being announced later that month.
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