| Defending champion | Challenger |
 Ju Wenjun (CHN) | |
| Winner of the 2020 World Championship | Winner of the 2022 Candidates tournament |
| ← 2020 |
The 2022 Women's World Chess Championship is an upcoming chess match for the Women's World Chess Championship title. It is contested by the defending champion Ju Wenjun (winning the 2020 match) and her challenger, the winner of the 2022 Candidates tournament.
The second edition of the women's Candidates will be played in the last quarter of 2022. [1] The eight players who qualified are: [2] [3]
| Qualification method | Player | Women's world no. (Jan 2022) | Rating on Jan 2022 | Women's World champion |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 World Championship runner-up |  Aleksandra Goryachkina [lower-alpha 1] | 2 | 2610 | |
| The top two finishers in the FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2019–2021 |  Koneru Humpy | 3 | 2586 | |
| Kateryna Lagno [lower-alpha 1] | 5 | 2550 | ||
| The top three finishers in the Women's Chess World Cup 2021 [5] | Alexandra Kosteniuk [lower-alpha 1] | 12 | 2516 | 2008 |
| Tan Zhongyi | 10 | 2525 | 2017 | |
 Anna Muzychuk | 9 | 2531 | ||
| The top finisher in the FIDE Women's Grand Swiss Tournament 2021 [6] | Lei Tingjie | 7 | 2535 | |
| The highest-rated player on the January 2022 standard rating list | Mariya Muzychuk | 6 | 2539 | 2015 |
In each case, if any of the top finishers have already qualified previously or are the incumbent champion, the next-highest finisher qualifies instead. In the case of the World Cup, this rule only applied up to the fourth place. As Aleksandra Goryachkina was already qualified as the 2020 runner-up and finished first in the Grand Prix and second in the World Cup, qualification extended up to third place in the Grand Prix and up to fourth place in the World Cup.
The details regarding the match have not been announced yet.
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