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Historic 2025 Vitality Blast schedule confirmed
Somerset will begin the 2025 Vitality Blast with a bang!
Both the men’s and women’s teams will take on Surrey as part of an explosive double header at the Cooper Associates County Ground on Friday May 30th.
A replay of last year’s final will see the men’s team welcome Gloucestershire to Taunton on Friday July 18th with the Bristol-based clash between the two sides taking place on Friday June 13th.
Somerset Women will be looking to reach Vitality Blast Finals Day at the Kia Oval on Sunday July 27th in their inaugural season as a professional team, whilst the men will be seeking to reach a fifth successive Finals Day at Edgbaston on Saturday September 13th.
Please note that start times are to be announced in 2025.
Make sure that you witness all the Vitality Blast action live tat the Cooper Associates County Ground his summer with 2025 Membership!
We have launched a brand-new Women’s Membership ahead of the 2025 season.
Somerset Women Membership costs just £45 for adults, £25 for students and £15 for juniors.
Alternatively, if you had full Membership in 2024 or purchase a full 2025 Membership, you can add Somerset Women Membership for just £25!
Somerset Women Membership will allow you to attend all home stand-alone matches in the Women’s Vitality Blast and all home group stage matches in the Women’s Metro Bank One Day Cup.
You will also get access to the England v West Indies WODI at the Cooper Associates County Ground in June!
NEW FOR 2025 – WOMEN’S VITALITY BLAST HOSPITALITY
Ensure that you make the most of your Vitality Blast matchday experience by taking advantage of one of our superb hospitality offerings.
We have several bespoke packages designed to suit all requirements and budgets.
Men’s Vitality Blast hospitality packages go on sale on Monday (November 25th) but hospitality for women’s Vitality Blast standalone matches is on sale now!
To coincide with the launch of the Women’s Vitality Blast, a brand new hospitality offering is now available. If you’ve never tried hospitality before, this package gives you a meal plus exclusive use of a suite for just £35 per person!
More about this year’s Vitality Blast
As part of a historic domestic T20 summer, all 18 First Class counties will host at least one women’s and men’s Vitality Blast double header next season.
The 2025 season will be the first time all women’s and men’s county teams will play side by side in the Vitality Blast.
The Vitality Blast men’s competition enters its 22nd year, whilst 2025 will be bigger and better than ever before with the women’s teams playing in two Vitality Blast competitions – one contested by the eight counties from Tier One (playing alongside the men in the Vitality Blast) and the second featuring the 10 remaining counties (Vitality Blast Women’s League 2).
A total of 52 women’s and men’s double headers will be staged across 20 venues next season.
The Blast-Off weekend (29 May – 1 June) will kick-start the new-look competition with 10 double headers and all eight of the Vitality Blast women’s competition counties involved. Rivals Week will also continue in the men’s competition with the oldest county rivalries taking centre stage.
The group stage will then come to a high-stakes conclusion with ‘Friday Finale’ on 18 July. ‘Friday Finale’ will see the women race for the three Finals Day spots while the men have a last chance to book their place in the quarter-finals with eight men’s matches scheduled and all eight women’s counties in action on what promises to be a thrilling night.
Today’s fixture announcement follows confirmation in September that the men’s and women’s domestic T20 competitions would be aligned in collaboration with health and life insurer Vitality, as they continue to work with the ECB to invest in, grow and support the women’s game, seeking to inspire many more women and girls to play and watch the game.
The new professional structure will see £8m new funding per year being invested into women’s domestic cricket by 2027 – taking annual investment in this area to c.£19m – and could produce an 80% increase in the number of professional female players in England and Wales by 2029.
Vitality Blast men’s competition
North Group: Bears, Derbyshire Falcons, Durham, Lancashire Lightning, Leicestershire Foxes, Northamptonshire Steelbacks, Worcestershire Rapids, Yorkshire Vikings.
South Group: Somerset, Essex, Glamorgan, Gloucestershire, Hampshire Hawks, Kent Spitfires, Middlesex, Sussex Sharks, Surrey.
Format: Each county plays 14 group-stage matches against the counties in their respective groups. The top four teams in each group progress to the quarter-finals. The quarter-final winners progress to Finals Day.
Vitality Blast women’s competition
Group: Somerset, Bears, Durham, Essex, Hampshire Hawks, Lancashire Thunder, Surrey, The Blaze.
Format: Each county plays 14 group-stage matches (home-and-away against the other seven counties). The top three progress to Finals Day.
