WPL 2026 Champion RCB: Royal Challengers Bangalore has won the Women’s Premier League title for the second time. In the final match of WPL 2026, RCB defeated Delhi Capitals by 6 wickets. This is the second time after 2024 that the Bengaluru team has lifted the WPL trophy. At the same time, Delhi Capitals has also created the history of losing, because it has lost in the final for the fourth consecutive time.

In the final match, Delhi Capitals team batted first and scored 203 runs. This was the lowest score made by any team in the Women’s Premier League final history. But RCB team has made a record of making the biggest run chase in the history of the final.

RCB became champion for the second time

Royal Challengers Bangalore won the WPL trophy for the first time in 2024. At that time, Bengaluru had defeated Delhi Capitals by 8 wickets in the final. Two years later, Royal Challengers Bangalore have created history by chasing the record target of 204 runs.

Captain Smriti Mandhana played an inning of 81 runs in 47 balls, while Georgia Wall contributed 79 runs. The historic partnership of 165 runs between Mandhana and Wall made a valuable contribution in making RCB the champion for the second time.

Delhi lost its fourth consecutive final

Delhi Capitals have been disappointed for the fourth time in a row. A shameful record has been added to the name of Delhi, because till now they are the first team in WPL history, which has lost the final match in all the seasons. Delhi team has so far lost the finals twice each to Mumbai Indians and Royal Challengers Bangalore.

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RCB vs DC Final WPL 2026: The final of the Women’s Premier League 2026 will be played today between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Delhi Capitals. This match will be played at BCA Stadium in Vadodara, which will start at 7:30 pm Indian time. RCB team is coming on top in the points table, on the other hand, Delhi had entered the title clash by defeating Gujarat Giants by 7 wickets in the eliminator.

This figure may surprise you that Delhi Capitals team has played the WPL finals every time till now, but has never won the trophy. Whereas RCB has reached the final for the second time in history.

Who won the WPL title how many times?

The team that has won the Women’s Premier League title the most number of times is Mumbai Indians. MI won the trophy in the 2023 and 2025 seasons. Whereas Royal Challengers Bangalore won the title of 2024 season. Delhi Capitals has lost in the finals every time from 2023-2025. Now Delhi has come to the final for the fourth time, which will have to defeat RCB to win its first title.

• WPL 2023 – Mumbai Indians
• WPL 2024 – Royal Challengers
• WPL 2026 – Mumbai Indians

Delhi is the most unlucky team

Delhi Capitals has so far proved to be the most unlucky team in the history of the Women’s Premier League. In 2023, it had to face defeat in the finals at the hands of Mumbai Indians, in 2024 at the hands of Royal Challengers Bangalore and in 2025 once again at the hands of MI. Under the captaincy of Jemimah Rodrigues, Delhi has reached the finals in WPL 2026.

If Delhi wants to change its fortunes then Nandini Sharma, Shri Charani will have to step forward. Both of them have taken 16 and 14 wickets respectively so far. There will be expectations from Lizelle Lee and Laura Woolworth in batting. Both of them have remained DC’s most reliable batsmen throughout the season.

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