2025 Men's T20 World Cup Africa Regional Final

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2025 ICC Men's T20 World Cup
Africa Regional Final
Dates19 Spetember – 4 October 2025
Administrator(s) Africa Cricket Association
Cricket format Twenty20 International
Tournament format(s)TBA
Host(s)Flag of Zimbabwe.svg  Zimbabwe
Participants8
2023

The 2025 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Africa Regional Final will be a cricket tournament that forms part of the qualification process for the 2026 Men's T20 World Cup. It will be held in Zimbabwe from 19 September to 4 October 2025. [1] [2] [3]

Contents

The top two sides in the tournament will join South Africa in the 2026 T20 World Cup who have already pre-qualified. [4] [5]

Teams and qualification

South Africa directly qualified for the T20 World Cup as a top eight team from the previous edition. [6]

In this cycle, a total of 18 teams are participating in the African sub-regional phase, which is divided into three events with six teams competing in each event. [7] [8] [9]

Africa Sub-regional Qualifiers
Qualifier A Qualifier B Qualifier C

The top two sides of each sub-regional qualifier advanced to the regional final, where they joined Namibia and Uganda who received a bye after participating in the 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup.

Method of
qualification
DateVenue(s)No. of teamsTeam
2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup 29 June 2024Flag of the United States.svg  United States
WestIndiesCricketFlagPre1999.svg  West Indies
2
Flag of Namibia.svg  Namibia
Flag of Uganda.svg  Uganda
Africa Qualifier A 21–26 September 2024Flag of Tanzania.svg  Tanzania
2
Flag of Malawi.svg  Malawi
Flag of Tanzania.svg  Tanzania
Africa Qualifier B 19–24 October 2024Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya
2
Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya
Flag of Zimbabwe.svg  Zimbabwe
Africa Qualifier C 23–28 November 2024Flag of Nigeria.svg  Nigeria
2
Flag of Botswana.svg  Botswana
Flag of Nigeria.svg  Nigeria
Total8

Points table

PosTeamPldWLNRPts NRR Qualification
1Flag of Botswana.svg  Botswana 00000Advance to the 2026 T20 World Cup
2Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya 00000
3Flag of Malawi.svg  Malawi 00000
4Flag of Namibia.svg  Namibia 00000
5Flag of Nigeria.svg  Nigeria 00000
6Flag of Tanzania.svg  Tanzania 00000
7Flag of Uganda.svg  Uganda 00000
8Flag of Zimbabwe.svg  Zimbabwe 00000
First match(es) will be played: unknown. Source: [ citation needed ]

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