Caribbean Premier League (CPL) 2025

The Caribbean Premier League (CPL) is the main T20 competition of the Caribbean. The tournament was founded by Cricket West Indies (CWI) in 2013 as the Caribbean board joined a host of cricket boards and launched the T20 tournament following the success of other T20 leagues such as IPL and BBL. The tournament replaced the Caribbean Twenty20 as the main T20 tournament of the Caribbean.

CPL Format:

A total of six teams participate in the CPL. The format of the tournament is a league stage followed by the playoffs and final. In the league stage, each team plays a total of ten matches. The teams get 2 points for a win and no point for a loss. If the match ends in no result, the two competing teams get a point each.

After the league stage, the top four teams qualify for the playoffs. Just like the IPL, the CPL has also Qualifiers and Eliminator in the playoffs. The top two teams fight it out in the first Qualifier while the third and fourth placed teams play the Eliminator.

The winner of the First Qualifier qualify for the final while the losing team play against the winner of the Eliminator for a place in the final. On the other hand, the loser of the Eliminator is ruled out of the tournament.

CPL Teams:

A total of six teams participate in the CPL in a season. Since the inception of CPL in 2013, a total of eight teams have played in the competition and two of those teams are now defunct. The first team to be removed from the CPL was Antigua Hawksbills.

The Hawksbills were one of the six teams that were established for the inaugural edition of the Caribbean Premier League. However, the Hawkbills could play only two seasons before being replaced by St Kitts & Nevis Patriots from 2015.

The second team that suffered the same fate was Jamaica Tallawahs. The Tallawahs played in the CPL from 2013 to 2023 and won the competition three times. In December 2023, it was announced that the team would not participate in CPL 2024 due to a lack of support from the Jamaican government. They were replaced in the CPL by Antigua & Barbuda Falcons.

Here is a list of the present CPL teams:

The Defunct Teams of the CPL:

Two teams have also been disbanded from the CPL so far. Antigua Hawkbills played in the 2013 and 2014 seasons while Jamaica Tallawahs played from 2013 to 2023. The Hawkbills did not win any title while the Tallawahs won the CPL thrice.

CPL Seasons and CPL Winners List:

Jamaica Tallawahs won the inaugural edition of the CPL in 2013 by beating Guyana Amazon Warriors by 7 wickets. In 2014, Guyana Amazon Warriors ended up on the losing side once again as Barbados Tridents won the tournament.

Trinbago Knight Riders (formerly Trinidad and Tobago Red Steel) won the third edition of the competition before Jamaica Tallawahs won the tournament in 2016 to become the first team to win CPL twice. In 2017 and 2018, Trinbago Knight Riders became the first CPL team to win the competition in successive years.

In 2019, Barbados Tridents won the competition for the first time since 2014 before the Knight Riders won the tournament again. In 2021, St Kitts and Nevis Patriots won their maiden title. In 2022, the Tallawahs won the tournament for the third team before Guyana Amazon Warriors won their maiden title in 2023.

Trinbago Knight Riders are the most successful team in the history of the CPL. They have won the competition four teams. They are followed by Jamaica Tallawahs and Barbados Tridents who have won the tournament thrice and twice respectively

Here is the CPL winners list:

Teams and the titles won by them: