WWE Women's Intercontinental Championship

The American professional wrestling promotion WWE was founded in April 1963, and recognized a women's world champion from its outset, but it never had a secondary women's championship until April 2024 when the NXT Women's North American Championship was introduced for the developmental brand NXT,^[1] followed by the WWE Women's United States Championship for the main roster brand SmackDown in early November.^[2][3][4] Later that same month prior to the November 25 episode of Raw, the brand's general manager Adam Pearce unveiled the WWE Women's Intercontinental Championship for the main roster women's division on the Raw brand, countering the men's WWE Intercontinental Championship.^[5]

The inaugural Women's Intercontinental Champion was determined by a tournament that began on the December 2 episode of Raw. Prior to that episode's broadcast, WWE Chief Content Officer Paul "Triple H" Levesque revealed the tournament bracket, featuring 12 women from the Raw roster in four triple threat matches for the first round, with the winners of each advancing to the semifinals in singles matches, with those winners then facing off in the tournament final on Raw on January 13, 2025. Tournament participants announced were Dakota Kai, Shayna Baszler, Katana Chance, Zoey Stark, Raquel Rodriguez, Kayden Carter, Lyra Valkyria, Zelina Vega, Ivy Nile, Alba Fyre, Kairi Sane, and Natalya.^[6] In the tournament final on January 13, Valkyria defeated Kai to become the inaugural champion.^[7]

The belt design is identical to the men's version, but like all women's championships in WWE, it is smaller and on a white strap. It also replaced the word "Heavyweight" with "Women's". Like all of WWE's other championship belts, the two side plates feature a removable center section which can be customized with the champion's logos; the default side plates feature a WWE logo over a blue globe.^[14]

As of June 1, 2026, there have been seven reigns between five champions. The inaugural champion was Lyra Valkyria. Becky Lynch has the most reigns with three, and she has the records for both the longest and shortest reigns, with her first reign being the longest at 163 days, while her third reign was the shortest at 43 days. Lynch is also the oldest title holder, winning the title for a third time at 39 years old, while Sol Ruca is the youngest at 26.

Sol Ruca is the current champion in her first reign. She won the title by defeating Becky Lynch at Clash in Italy on May 31, 2026, in Turin, Italy.^[15]

As of June 1, 2026.

• Women's championships in WWE