2025 SA20
The 2025 SA20 or SA20 Season 3 was the third season of the SA20, a franchise Twenty20 cricket league in South Africa. The competition was organized by Cricket South Africa, featuring six teams. The tournament begun on 9 January, with the final held on 8 February 2025 at Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg.
Sunrisers Eastern Cape were the defending champions with 2 titles to their name. In the final, MI Cape Town defeated Sunrisers Eastern Cape by 76 runs to win their maiden title.
With an average of 25,436, the Joburg Super Kings drew the highest average home attendance in the 2025 SA20. The season was marked by many packed stadiums, with the league seeing a 70% increase in sold-out games and a sold-out final for the third year running, making this the most-attended SA20 season to date.
Background
On June 2024, it was announced that SA20 would return for a third season in 2025. The league is sponsored by Betway.The 2025 season clashed with the Big Bash League, Super Smash, Bangladesh Premier League and ILT20.
Squads
The player auction took place on 1 October 2024.Venues
| Cape Town | Centurion | Durban |
| MI Cape Town | Pretoria Capitals | Durban's Super Giants |
| Newlands Cricket Ground | Centurion Park | Kingsmead Cricket Ground |
| Capacity: 25,000 | Capacity: 22,000 | Capacity: 25,000 |
| Gqeberha | Johannesburg | Paarl |
| Sunrisers Eastern Cape | Joburg Super Kings | Paarl Royals |
| St George's Park Cricket Ground | Wanderers Stadium | Boland Park |
| Capacity: 19,000 | Capacity: 34,000 | Capacity: 10,000 |
Teams and standings
Points table
Win-loss table
Below is a summary of results for each team's ten regular season matches, plus finals where applicable, in chronological order. A team's opponent for any given match is listed above the margin of victory/defeat.Match summary
League stage
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Playoffs
Bracket
Qualifier 1
Eliminator
Qualifier 2
Final
Statistics
Most runs
Source:| Player | Team | Innings | Runs | Highest score |
| Lhuan-dre Pretorius | Paarl Royals | 12 | 397 | 97 |
| Rassie van der Dussen | MI Cape Town | 11 | 393 | 91* |
| Aiden Markram | Sunrisers Eastern Cape | 13 | 340 | 82 |
| Ryan Rickelton | MI Cape Town | 8 | 336 | 89 |
| Rubin Hermann | Paarl Royals | 9 | 333 | 81* |
Most wickets
Source:| Player | Team | Matches | Wickets | Best bowling |
| Marco Jansen | Sunrisers Eastern Cape | 13 | 19 | 4/13 |
| Hardus Viljoen | Joburg Super Kings | 8 | 14 | 4/24 |
| Liam Dawson | Sunrisers Eastern Cape | 12 | 14 | 3/17 |
| Mujeeb Ur Rahman | Paarl Royals | 12 | 14 | 2/17 |
| Richard Gleeson | Sunrisers Eastern Cape | 13 | 14 | 2/12 |
Highest team totals
Source:| Team | Scores | Opponent | Result | Venue |
| MI Cape Town | 222/3 | Pretoria Capitals | Won | Centurion |
| Paarl Royals | 213/2 | Pretoria Capitals | Won | Centurion |
| Pretoria Capitals | 212/5 | Paarl Royals | Lost | Centurion |
| Durban's Super Giants | 209/4 | Pretoria Capitals | Won | Durban |
| Pretoria Capitals | 207/6 | Durban's Super Giants | Lost | Durban |
Awards
On 8 February 2025, the list of end of season awards was announced, to be handed out after the final match.| Team | Award | Prize money |
| MI Cape Town | Champions | |
| Sunrisers Eastern Cape | Runners-up | |
| MI Cape Town | Spirit of the season |
Sources: