A Cup designation adds another table
The official 2026 guide identifies a 49-game Cup schedule from 1–17 June and a championship game on 30 June. The designated intraconference games also count toward the regular-season win-loss record. A club can therefore have a Cup record narrower than its overall league record.
Keep the Cup label with the original fixture. A repeated club pairing elsewhere in the season is not automatically another Cup game. The designated schedule, rather than the opponents alone, determines which results contribute to that competition.
The conferences have different game totals
With the 2026 expansion, the detailed guide gives each Eastern Conference team six Cup games and each Western Conference team seven, covering one meeting with every other club in the relevant conference. An unequal total between conferences is therefore part of the published structure, not necessarily an incomplete standings feed.
The best Cup record within each conference determines its championship representative under the stated tie-break procedure. Read the conference and competition label before comparing a Cup graphic with the main WNBA table. A team’s position in one does not simply substitute for its position in the other.
Check the actual final listing
The clubs selected from each conference and the venue hosting the decider are separate facts. For a completed final, retain the official championship fixture and recorded venue rather than deriving the host from a Cup-standings screenshot. The qualifying record identifies a participant; it should not replace the actual dated location information.
For an archive, save the year, Cup-designated phase or championship label, clubs and original date. The in-season Cup is distinct from the WNBA postseason championship. These sporting facts do not establish current broadcaster rights, a complete replay or access through IPTV Australia; those questions belong to the actual publisher and account terms.