| Tournament Name: | Pakistan Cup |
| Country: | Pakistan |
| Administrator: | Pakistan Cricket Board |
| Cricket Format: | Limited overs (ListA) |
| First: | 2008–09 |
| Last: | 2023–24 |
| Next: | 2024–25 |
| Participants: | 8 |
| Champions: | Peshawar (1title) |
| Tv: | PTV Sports |
The Pakistan Cup is the national domestic List A cricket competition in Pakistan. Played originally as the Pentangular One Day Cup in 2008–09, 2009–10 and 2014–15, the competition was renamed as the Pakistan Cup in 2016 when it also adopted a draft to select squads for the five provincial teams.[1] [2] Following a national restructuring of domestic cricket by the Pakistan Cricket Board in 2019, the tournament has been contested by the six regional teams,[3] although the first edition under the new structure, in 2019–20, was not held due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[4] [5]
Prior to 2019–20, the premier List A domestic competition in Pakistan was the National One-Day Cup which was contested by associations or departments, or a combination of the two.
Each team plays one another (twice since 2019–20) in a round-robin group stage. Historically, the top two teams in the league play a final. Since 2019–20, the top four teams contest in a semi-final followed by a final.
Details of each team are set out below.
| Team name | Home ground/s | First season | Last title | Titles | Team captain/s | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balochistan | Bugti Stadium Gwadar Cricket Stadium | align=center | align=center | 1 | Yasir Shah | ||||
| Central Punjab | Gaddafi Stadium Iqbal Stadium | align=center | align=center | 1 | Raza Ali Dar | ||||
| Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | Arbab Niaz Stadium Abbottabad Cricket Stadium | align=center | align=center | align=center | 1 | Iftikhar Ahmed | |||
| Northern | Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium Islamabad Cricket Stadium | align=center | align=center | align=center | 0 | Shadab Khan | |||
| Sindh | National Stadium Niaz Stadium | 2016 | align=center | align=center | 0 | Mir Hamza | |||
| Southern Punjab | Multan Cricket Stadium Bahawal Stadium | align=center | align=center | 0 | Salman Ali Agha |
| Team name | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balochistan | align=center | (4) | align=center | R (1) | align=center | (5) | align=center | R (1) | align=center | (6) | align=center | W (2) | align=center | R (2) | ||
| Central Punjab | align=center | n/a | align=center | n/a | align=center | n/a | align=center | n/a | align=center | R (4) | align=center | (4) | align=center | W (1) | ||
| Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | align=center | W (1) | align=center | (5) | align=center | R (2) | align=center | W (2) | align=center | W (2) | align=center | R (1) | align=center | (3) | ||
| Northern | align=center | n/a | align=center | n/a | align=center | n/a | align=center | n/a | align=center | (3) | align=center | (6) | align=center | (6) | ||
| Sindh | align=center | (3) | align=center | (3) | align=center | (4) | align=center | (4) | align=center | (1) | align=center | (3) | align=center | (5) | ||
| Southern Punjab | align=center | n/a | align=center | n/a | align=center | n/a | align=center | n/a | align=center | (5) | align=center | (5) | align=center | (4) |
| Year | Final | Format | Teams | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venue | width=120 | Winners | width=110 | Result | width=120 | Runners-up | |
| Pentangular Cup | |||||||
| 2008–09 Details | National Stadium, Karachi | Punjab Stallions | Won by 8 wickets | Federal Leopards | round-robin, final | 5 | |
| 2009–10 Details | National Stadium, Karachi | Sindh Dolphins | Won by 78 runs | Baluchistan Bears | round-robin, final | 5 | |
| 2010–11 | Not held | ||||||
| 2011–12 | Not held | ||||||
| 2012–13 | Not held | ||||||
| 2013–14 | Not held | ||||||
| 2014–15 Details | National Stadium, Karachi | KPK Fighters | Won by 6 wickets | Baluchistan Warriors | round-robin, final | 5 | |
| Pakistan Cup | |||||||
| 2015-16 Details | Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad | KPK Fighters | Won by 151 runs | Punjab Badshahs | round-robin, final | 5 | |
| 2016-17 Details | Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, Rawalpindi | KPK Fighters | Won by 1 wicket | Baluchistan Warriors | round-robin, final | 5 | |
| 2017-18 Details | Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad | Federal United | Won by 5 wickets | KPK Fighters | round-robin, final | 5 | |
| 2018-19 Details | Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, Rawalpindi | KPK Fighters | Won by 9 runs | Baluchistan Warriors | round-robin, final | 5 | |
| 2019–20 | Not held due to the COVID-19 pandemic. | ||||||
| 2020–21 Details | State Bank of Pakistan Sports Complex, Karachi | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | Won by 7 wickets | Central Punjab | double round-robin, final | 6 | |
| 2021–22 Details | Multan Cricket Stadium, Multan | Balochistan | Won by 8 wickets | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | double round-robin, final | 6 | |
| 2022–23 Details | State Bank of Pakistan Sports Complex, Karachi | Central Punjab | won by 50 runs | Balochistan | double round-robin, final | 6 | |
| 2023–24 Details | Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, Rawalpindi | Peshawar | Peshawar won by 5 wickets | Karachi Whites | double round-robin, final | 8 | |