Women's Candidates Tournament 2022–23

The FIDE Women's Candidates Tournament 2022–23 was an eight-player chess tournament held to determine the challenger for the Women's World Chess Championship 2023. The first stage of the tournament, consisting of the quarterfinals and semifinals, was held from 24 October to 6 November 2022 in Monaco, and from 29 November to 11 December in Khiva.

The second stage, i.e. the Candidates final, took place in Chongqing, China from 27 March to 6 April 2023. Lei Tingjie won the match with a round to spare.

Lei moved on to challenge the defending Women's World Chess Champion Ju Wenjun, but lost the match in game 12.

Participants
The eight players who qualified for the Women's Candidates Tournament were:

Results
In June 2022, FIDE announced the pairings for the quarterfinals. It has been speculated that these pairings were made to prevent a Russia vs Ukraine matchup before the final.