The 2025 Women’s World Match Racing Tour will have six events in four countries – USA, France, Sweden, and Bermuda. Now in its fourth consecutive season, the tour remains the only all-female global series in sailing, designed to promote and grow participation of women in sailing and match racing. The women’s tour is run by the World Match Racing Tour organization, a long-term Special Event of World Sailing since 2006.

“Providing opportunity and events for women to get involved in sailing is key to growing participation,” reports Tour Executive Director James Pleasance. “As well as the women’s tour, the introduction of the Women’s America’s Cup in Barcelona last summer was a hugely positive move towards driving equality in the sport, and we now have new sailors and teams keen to get involved in the sport. The Women’s WMRT offers a very accessible and affordable way to do that with club supplied boats and accommodations provided by most events.”

The 2025 season begins in the USA with the back-to-back stages in club-supplied J/22 yachts. The 2nd edition of the Casa Vela Cup (May 28-31) will be hosted by the St. Francis Yacht Club with racing directly in front of the clubhouse, with the backdrop of the iconic Golden Gate Bridge in in San Francisco, CA. The tour then moves east for the Santa Maria Cup (June 4-7) hosted by the Eastport Yacht Club on the Chesapeake Bay, at the mouth of the Severn River in Annapolis, MD.

The Tour then heads to Europe to race J/80s at the Normandy Match Cup (June 6-9) in Le Havre on the North-West coast of France. Due to the scheduling of club events and public holidays, the Santa Maria Cup and Normandy Match Cup overlap dates this year, but with the top three results to count six events, it is hoped the events will provide opportunity for more teams to compete on the Tour.

It’s a return to Marstrand on the West coast of Sweden for Stage 4 at the Nordea Women’s Trophy (June 30- July 5). Held alongside the popular Match Cup Sweden on the Open World Match Racing Tour, the combined events will be held over six days, hosted by GKSS (Royal Gothenburg Yacht Club) and sailed in Far East 28s boats. Sweden’s popular WINGS Team skippered by Anna Östling will be in Marstrand to defend their 2024 title.

Stage 5 sees the Tour head back to the USA for the 2025 Women’s Match Racing World Championship (September 17-20) in Chicago, IL. Hosted by Chicago Yacht Club, the event will use the club-owned fleet of Tom 28s on Lake Michigan.

The final event of the 2025 season is the Bermuda Women’s Match Race (October 21-26), hosted by the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club alongside the 73rd edition of the Bermuda Gold Cup on the Open World Match Racing Tour. Eight Open teams and eight Women’s teams will be invited to race in IODs. The 2024 event was won by France’s Match in Pink team skippered by Pauline Courtois, whose team also clinched the overall 2024 Women’s World Match Racing Tour title.

Women’s World Match Racing Tour 2025 Schedule
Stage 1. Casa Vela Cup – San Francisco, CA: May 28-31
Stage 2. Santa Maria Cup – Annapolis, MD: June 4-7
Stage 3. Normandy Match Cup – Le Havre, France: June 6-9
Stage 4. Nordea Women’s Trophy – Marstrand, Sweden: June 30-July 5
Stage 5. Women’s Match Racing World Championship – Chicago, IL: September 17-20
Stage 6. Bermuda Women’s Match Race – Hamilton, Bermuda: October 21-26

The Women’s World Match Racing Tour was launched in 2022 to continue the hugely successful legacy of the WIM Series (Women’s International Match Racing Series) providing a global match racing series for female sailors. The name of the series was re-launched as the Women’s World Match Racing Tour with its continued mission to expand and strengthen global match racing and promote opportunities for competitive women’s sailing at every level. The Women’s World Match Racing Tour is the world’s first and only professional sailing series for women providing a valuable pathway for aspiring female world champions in the sport of sailing. https://womenswmrt.com/