After 5 years of gathering caller franchises, Northern Superchargers became Sunrisers Leeds, the astir ascendant men's broadside switched from Oval Invincibles to MI London and Manchester Originals became the Super Giants.
Welsh Fire, Birmingham Phoenix, London Spirit and Trent Rockets kept their names and their kits beauteous similar, portion Southern Brave traded their greenish and achromatic for navy and red.
Overall successful presumption of attendances this year, it was a dilatory commencement earlier a gradual recovery.
And the varying level of alteration astatine each squad was reflected successful the numbers astatine the 8 antithetic venues.
Numbers astatine Headingley and Old Trafford - wherever their teams person been wholly rebranded - person dropped, portion Southampton's Utilita Bowl - location of Southern Brave - bounced backmost from a dilatory start.
Their archetypal men's crippled drew a assemblage of 8,452 compared to 12,549 for the equivalent fixture successful 2025, though the caveat for this year's lucifer could beryllium that it was connected the past time of the schoolhouse term.
Cardiff's Sophia Gardens, the smallest of the big grounds, enjoyed grounds crowds for some its men's and women's Fire teams, drafting 11,796 fans for their fixture against MI London.
Timings play their portion erstwhile looking astatine idiosyncratic games, excessively - for example, Cardiff had 2 midweek 11:30 BST starts for their women's team, portion their grounds assemblage came connected a Saturday night.
The 2 London teams were predictably astatine the apical of the table, including the derby fixture betwixt Spirit and MI London drafting a assemblage of 27,721 - a grounds for immoderate radical signifier lucifer successful the tournament's history.
But without a London squad successful either the men's oregon women's Eliminator, The Oval was not adjacent to sellout connected Friday, with 10,271 successful for the women's and 20,124 for the men's.
Tournament manager Vikram Banerjee told BBC Sport helium thinks 2026 has been a "better edition" than past twelvemonth and "one of the best" successful The Hundred's history.
"The prime present is 2nd lone to the IPL, by a wide region successful some the men's and women's games," said Banerjee.
"Our broadcast numbers are looking good, our online audiences are generating large numbers, and we're growing. We're doing large stuff, truthful I deliberation it has been our champion year."
Banerjee added the assemblage figures are conscionable "one measure" and alternatively pointed to gathering "fandom" and "engagement" numbers, wherever the tourney was the astir viewed play crossed The Hundred's ain societal media channels.
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