Budapest Cup 2025 is a T20 International cricket competition and not the usual football tournament with the same name. It’s a three-day tournament that will commence on 25 July 2025 and conclude on 27 July 2025. There will only be four participating countries, which is why it will be over in just 3 days.
Hungary is hosting this tournament on the GB Oval, Szodliget venue, where all the matches will be conducted. Since there are only four teams, the round-robin format will be used, which will lead to a total of eight games. These eight matches will include six qualifying rounds, a 3rd place game and the final match.
Budapest Cup 2025 Squads – Full Teams & Player List Inside!
After complete research, I can assure that the Budapest Cup 2025 is the debut season of the T20 cricket competition. Due to this being their first season, the information regarding it is very limited. They have kept the formats very simple and the schedule very short. This is the reason why I have also added the schedule.
Budapest Cup 2025 Full Teams
As mentioned in the introduction, there are four teams taking part in the Budapest Cup 2025. These countries are located around Hungary, the host country. The four teams, including the host, are: Austria, Hungary, Luxembourg and Romania.
Budapest Cup 2025 Players List
Each country has selected its final team for the upcoming matches, and there are at least 16-17 players in each squad. Given below is the player list according to their role in their respective teams.
Austria
Batsmen: Baseer Khan, Imran Asif, Janan Ghelzai, Zeshan Arif
All-Rounders: Aqib Iqbal (C), Bilal Zalmai, Hamid Safi, Karanbir Singh
Bowlers: Mohamed Zalmai, Saad Cheema, Umair Tariq, Ziaurahman Shinwari
Wicket-Keepers: Amar Naeem, Mansoor Safi
Hungary
Batsmen: Usman Muhammad, Zahir Safi, Zeeshan Kukikhel
All-Rounders: Abbas Ghani, Abhitesh Prashar, Jeremy Polarouthu, Matthew Ainsworth
Bowlers: Ali Nawaz, Amal Jacob, Ibrar Ahmad, Muhammad Burhan, Muhammad Saqlain, Sadat Said, Sandeep Mohandas
Wicket-Keepers: Robi Ainsworth, Vinoth Ravindran (C)
Luxembourg
Batsmen: Amit Halbhavi, Girish Venkateswaran, Mayank Nagayach, Timothy Barker, Vivek Dixit
All-Rounders: Kamal Soukhiya, Shiv Karan Gill, Vikram Vijh
Bowlers: Kamal Soukhiya, Shiv Karan Gill, Vikram Vijh
Wicket-Keepers: Advyth Manepalli, Anoop Orsu
Romania
Batsmen: Avishka Iroshan, MD Ariyan, Ramesh Satheesan, Sivakumar Periyalwar
All-Rounders: Adrian Lascu, Muhammad Moiz, Shantanu Vashisht, Taranjeet Singh (C), Vasu Saini
Bowlers: Ali Hussain, Luca Petre, Manmeet Koli
Wicket-Keeper: Rajendra Pisal
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Budapest Cup 2025 Schedule
The Budapest Cup 2025 will conduct three matches on the first two days, which will be followed by the third-place and final match on 27 July 2025.
The first match will be between Austria and Romania on 25 July 2025 at 11:30 AM IST / 6:00 AM GMT at the GB Oval, Szodliget. This venue will host all the T20I matches of this competition.
On the first day, Romania and Hungary will play two matches back-to-back, whereas on the second day, Luxembourg and Austria will have to do the same.
Date: 25 July 2025, Friday
Match 1: Austria vs Romania
Time: 11:30 AM IST (06:00 AM GMT / 08:00 AM Local)
Match 2: Hungary vs Romania
Time: 3:00 PM IST (09:30 AM GMT / 11:30 AM Local)
Match 3: Hungary vs Luxembourg
Time: 6:30 PM IST (01:00 PM GMT / 03:00 PM Local)
Date: 26 July 2025, Saturday
Match 4: Luxembourg vs Romania
Time: 11:30 AM (06:00 AM GMT / 08:00 AM Local)
Match 5: Hungary vs Austria
Time: 3:00 PM IST (09:30 AM GMT / 11:30 AM Local)
Match 6: Austria vs Luxembourg
Time: 6:30 PM IST (01:00 PM GMT / 03:00 PM Local)
Date: 27 July 2025, Sunday
Match: TBC vs TBC, 3rd Place Play-off
Time: 11:30 AM IST (06:00 AM GMT / 08:00 AM Local)
Match: TBC vs TBC, Final
Time: 3:00 PM IST (09:30 AM GMT / 03:00 PM Local)