Iran made its international debut when they played at the
2009 ACC Women's Twenty20 Championship, losing to
Nepal on debut in July 2009. In 2012, the ''
Wisden Cricketers' Almanack'' reported that women's cricket teams existed in eight of Iran's 31 provinces. followed by the
2014 ACC Women's Premier. In April 2018, the
International Cricket Council (ICC) granted full
Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) status to all its members. Therefore, all
Twenty20 matches played between Iran women and another international side after 1 July 2018 will be a full WT20I. Nine women's teams competed in the 2022 National Women's Championship, with a national women's training camp held in the same year. The following year, it was reported that women's cricket in Iran faced a number of challenges, including a lack of suitable facilities and uncertainty around women's participation in sport following the
Mahsa Amini protests. ==Tournament history==