Women's World Chess Championship 2025

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Women's World Chess Championship 2025

Shanghai & Chongqing, China
1–23 April 2025
	Defending champion	Challenger
	Ju Wenjun	Tan Zhongyi
	Born 31 January 1991 33 years old	Born 29 May 1991 33 years old
	Winner of the Women's World Chess Championship 2023	Winner of the Women's Candidates Tournament 2024
← 2023

The Women's World Chess Championship 2025 will take place in 2025 as a match between Ju Wenjun, the current champion, and Tan Zhongyi, the winner of the Women's Candidates Tournament 2024.^[1] Both players previously challenged for the world championship in May 2018, with Ju defeating then-world champion Tan 5½–4½ to win the title.

The match will take place between 1 and 23 April 2023. It will be played to a best of 12 games, with the first six games in Shanghai from 1 to 10 April, and the next six games, plus tiebreaks if required, in Chongqing from 11 to 23 April.^[2] It is split across the hometowns of the two players, following the tradition from the previous three matches.