# Women's World Chess Championship 2025

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. 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 2025. 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. It is split across the hometowns of the two players, following the tradition from the previous three matches.

## Candidates Tournament

The challenger, Tan Zhongyi, qualified by winning the Women's Candidates Tournament 2024, which was an eight-player double round-robin tournament. It took place from 3 April to 22 April 2024 in Toronto, Canada.
The eight players who competed were:
| Qualification method | Player | Age | Rating | Rank |
| (April 2024) |||
| 2023 Women's World Championship runner-up | Lei Tingjie | 27 | 2550 | 4 |
| The top two finishers in the Women's Grand Prix 2022–23 | Kateryna Lagno (winner) | 34 | 2542 | 6 |
| The top two finishers in the Women's Grand Prix 2022–23 | Aleksandra Goryachkina (runner-up) | 25 | 2553 | 3 |
| The top three finishers in the Women's Chess World Cup 2023 | Nurgyul Salimova (runner-up) | 20 | 2432 | 36 |
| The top three finishers in the Women's Chess World Cup 2023 | Anna Muzychuk (third place) | 34 | 2520 | 8 |
| The top two finishers in the Women's Grand Swiss 2023 | R Vaishali (winner) | 22 | 2475 | 15 |
| The top two finishers in the Women's Grand Swiss 2023 | Tan Zhongyi (third place) | 32 | 2521 | 7 |
| Highest-rated active player for January 2024 | Koneru Humpy | 37 | 2546 | 5 |

### Results

Standings of the 2024 Candidates Tournament :
| Rank | Playervte | Score | SB | Wins | Qualification | TZ | TZ | KH | KH | LT | LT | VR | VR | AG | AG | KL | KL | NS | NS | AM | AM |
| 1 | Tan Zhongyi (CHN) | 9 / 14 | 60.5 | 5 | Advance to title match | | | ½ | ½ | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ½ | ½ | 1 | ½ | ½ | ½ | 1 | ½ |
| 2 | Koneru Humpy (IND) | 7.5 / 14 | 52.25 | 3 | | ½ | ½ | | | 0 | 1 | 1 | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | 1 | 0 | ½ | ½ |
| 3 | Lei Tingjie (CHN) | 7.5 / 14 | 52 | 4 | | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | | 1 | 0 | ½ | 1 | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ |
| 4 | Vaishali Rameshbabu (IND) | 7.5 / 14 | 47.5 | 6 | | 0 | 0 | ½ | 0 | 1 | 0 | | | 1 | ½ | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ½ | 1 |
| 5 | Aleksandra Goryachkina (FIDE) | 7 / 14 | 47 | 2 | | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | 0 | ½ | ½ | 0 | | | ½ | ½ | ½ | 1 | 1 | ½ |
| 6 | Kateryna Lagno (FIDE) | 6.5 / 14 | 45 | 1 | | ½ | 0 | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | 0 | 1 | ½ | ½ | | | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ |
| 7 | Nurgyul Salimova (BUL) | 5.5 / 14 | 39.5 | 1 | | ½ | ½ | 1 | 0 | ½ | ½ | 0 | 0 | 0 | ½ | ½ | ½ | | | ½ | ½ |
| 8 | Anna Muzychuk (UKR) | 5.5 / 14 | 38.75 | 0 | | ½ | 0 | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | 0 | ½ | ½ | 0 | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | | |
Tie-breakers for first place: (1) results in tie-break games for first place;
Tie breakers for non-first place: (1) results in tie-break games for first place, if any; (2) Sonneborn–Berger score (SB); (3) total number of wins; (4) head-to-head score among tied players; (5) drawing of lots.
Note: Numbers in the crosstable in a white background indicate the result playing the respective opponent with the white pieces (black pieces if on a black background). This does not give information which of the two games was played in the first half of the tournament, and which in the second.