2026 ICC Men's T20 World Cup qualification | |
Administrator: | International Cricket Council |
Cricket Format: | Twenty20 International |
Fromdate: | June 2024 |
Todate: | 2025 |
Participants: | TBD |
Matches: | TBD |
Previous Year: | 2024 |
Next Year: | 2028 |
The 2026 ICC Men's T20 World Cup qualification is the process by which teams will qualify for the 2026 ICC Men's T20 World Cup.[1] A series of regional qualification tournaments will determine the teams which will take part in the tournament.[2]
Hosts India and Sri Lanka will qualify directly as hosts. They will be joined by the top eight teams from the previous edition who get qualified automatically, and depending on the finishing positions of the hosts in the previous edition, the best two to four teams (other than the ones already qualified) from the ICC Men's T20I Team Rankings will also qualify for the tournament. The remaining eight teams will be decided by regional qualifiers. Each regional qualifier will be held in two stages:
Date of qualification | Venues | Number of teams | Teams | Total times qualified | Last time qualified | Previous best performance | ||
Hosts | 16 November 2021 | rowspan=2 | 10 | Winners (2007, 2024) | ||||
10 | Winners (2014) | |||||||
2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup (Top 8 teams from previous tournament) | 17 June 2024 | 8 | Semi-finals (2024) | |||||
10 | Winners (2021) | |||||||
10 | Super 8 (2007, 2024) | |||||||
10 | Winners (2010, 2022) | |||||||
10 | Runners-up (2024) | |||||||
2 | Super 8 (2024) | |||||||
10 | Winners (2012, 2016) | |||||||
ICC Men's T20I Team Rankings (Top teams, not qualified yet) | 29 June 2024 | rowspan=3 | 9 | Super 8 (2009) | ||||
10 | Runners-up (2021) | |||||||
10 | Winners (2009) | |||||||
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2025 | TBD | |||||||
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See main article: 2024–25 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Africa Qualifier.
In the sub-regional phase, Qualifier A will be held in Tanzania in September 2024,[3] Qualifier B will be held in Kenya in October 2024[4] and Qualifier C will be held in Nigeria in November 2024.[5]
The winners of the sub-regional qualifiers advance into the regional final, where they will join Namibia and Uganda who received a bye after participating in the 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup. The qualification stages are as follows:
See main article: 2024–25 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Asia Qualifier.
In the sub-regional phase, Qualifier A is scheduled to be held in Malaysia in August and September 2024.[6] Nepal and Oman get a bye directly into the regional final after participating in 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup.
The qualification stages are as follows:
See main article: 2024–25 ICC Men's T20 World Cup East Asia-Pacific Qualifier.
In the sub-regional phase, Qualifier A is scheduled to be held in Apia, Samoa in August 2024,[7] while the Qualifier B will be held in South Korea in September and October 2024.[8]
The winners of the sub-regional qualifiers advance into the regional final, where they will join Papua New Guinea who received a bye after participating in the 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup. The qualification stages are as follows:
The qualification stages are as follows:
In the sub-regional phase, Qualifier A was held in Italy from 9 to 16 June 2024,[9] the Qualifier B was held in Germany from 7 to 14 July 2024,[10] while the Qualifier C will be held in Guernsey in from 21 to 28 August 2024.[11] [12]
The winners of the sub-regional qualifiers will advance to the regional final, where they will be joined by Scotland and Netherlands who received a bye after participating in the 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup.
See main article: 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Europe Sub-regional Qualifier A.
244/4 (20 overs) | Italy won by 160 runs scorecard | 84 (17.4 overs) |
See main article: 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Europe Sub-regional Qualifier B.
71/4 (7.1 overs) | Jersey won by 6 wickets scorecard | 69 (15.4 overs) |
See main article: 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Europe Sub-regional Qualifier C.
TBD | scorecard | TBD |
See main article: 2025 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Europe Regional Final.