The 2025 ICC Champions Trophy will be the ninth edition of the ICC Champions Trophy, a cricket tournament for the eight top-ranked One Day International (ODI) men's national teams organised by the International Cricket Council (ICC). It will be hosted by Pakistan in February 2025.
Background
In 2016, the ICC had announced that the Champions Trophy would be canceled after the 2017 tournament. The ICC aimed to have one tournament for each of the three formats of international cricket. However, in November 2021, the ICC announced that the tournament would return in 2025. This will be first global tournament that Pakistan will host since the 2009 attack on the Sri Lanka national cricket team. The last major tournament to take place in Pakistan was in 1996 when they co-hosted the World Cup along with India and Sri Lanka.
In December 2022, Ramiz Raja, the former chairman of Pakistan Cricket Board, was given approval by the government for the construction of a new “high-tech” cricket stadium in Islamabad by 2025.
Host selection
Pakistan was announced as the host of the ICC Champions Trophy on 16 November 2021, during the 2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup. This is Pakistan's first ICC major tournament they are hosting since the 1996 ICC Cricket World Cup.
Qualification
As hosts, Pakistan qualified for the competition automatically, and they will be joined by the seven other highest-ranked teams in the 2023 Cricket World Cup, which precedes the tournament.
2023 Cricket World Cup League Stage (Qualification Pathway)
Group stage
The 2025 ICC Champions Trophy will follow previous editions with two groups of four, semi-finals and final.