SA20 Season 4 (2026)
2025 · 6 teams · T20 cricket
Tournament Overview
Series Overview
SA20 Season 4 in 2026 delivered one of the most compelling finals in the tournament's short history. Sunrisers Eastern Cape, chasing 159 at Newlands in Cape Town, lost four wickets in the chase before captain Tristan Stubbs and Matthew Breetzke constructed a match-winning 108-run partnership for the fifth wicket — the highest such stand in SEC's T20 history. Despite a brilliant century from Pretoria Capitals batter Dewald Brevis — the first hundred scored in an SA20 final — Pretoria's total of 158 proved insufficient as SEC eased home with 6 wickets to spare. The victory handed Sunrisers Eastern Cape their third SA20 title (2023, 2024 and now 2026), making them the first franchise to win three editions of the tournament. Season 4 started on Boxing Day — December 26, 2025 — for the first time in the league's history, and ran through to the final on January 25, 2026. MI Cape Town, the 2025 champions who had beaten Eastern Cape by 76 runs in the previous year's final, were eliminated in the semi-final stage. Season 4 confirmed the SA20 as South Africa's most successful sports export in years, drawing sell-out crowds and major global broadcast audiences.
Key Highlights
- 1Sunrisers Eastern Cape won their third SA20 title, cementing their status as the league's most decorated franchise (2023, 2024, 2026)
- 2SEC chased down 159 with 6 wickets to spare — captain Tristan Stubbs and Matthew Breetzke forged a match-winning 108-run 5th-wicket partnership
- 3Pretoria Capitals' Dewald Brevis scored a brilliant century in the final — the first SA20 final century in history
- 4Season 4 ran Boxing Day to January 25, 2026 — becoming the first SA20 edition to open on 26 December
- 5South Africa's T20 league confirmed its status as one of the world's premier franchise competitions in just its fourth edition