Dates | 2025 – |
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Administrator(s) | European Cricket Council |
Cricket format | Twenty20 International |
Tournament format(s) | TBA |
Host(s) | TBD |
Participants | 5 |
Part of a series on the |
2026 ICC Men's T20 World Cup |
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Qualification Overview |
Qualified teams |
General Information |
2025 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Europe Regional Final will be a cricket tournament that forms part of the qualification process for the 2026 ICC Men's T20 World Cup. Winners and Runners-up of the tournament will join England and Ireland in the 2026 T20 World Cup who have pre-qualified due to progress in the 2024 T20 World Cup and by world ranking, respectively.
In this cycle, a total of thirty teams are participating in the sub-regional phase, while the two leading associates, Scotland and Netherlands, who took part in the 2024 T20 World Cup, enter the process at the regional final stage. The sub-regional phase is divided into three events with ten teams competing in each event, which are being held between June and August 2024. [1] The hosts and the dates of the sub-regional qualifier tournaments were announced on 14 December 2023. [2]
Qualifier A | Qualifier B | Qualifier C | |||
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Group 1 | Group 2 | Group 1 | Group 2 | Group 1 | Group 2 |
Italy advanced from Qualifier A, [3] [4] Jersey advanced from Qualifier B. [5] [6]
England qualified directly for the T20 World Cup as a top eight team from the previous edition. Ireland qualified directly through ICC Men's T20I Team Rankings. The following teams entered the qualification process for the remaining two quotas for Europe.
Method of qualification | Number of teams | Teams |
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Direct qualifiers | 2 | ![]() |
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Qualifier A | 1 | ![]() |
Qualifier B | 1 | ![]() |
Qualifier C | 1 | ![]() |
Total | 5 |
Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | NR | Pts | NRR | Qualification |
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1 | ![]() | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | Advance to the 2026 ICC Men's T20 World Cup |
2 | ![]() | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | |
3 | ![]() | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | |
4 | ![]() | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | |
5 | Winner of Qualifier C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
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