2020–21 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Europe Qualifier


The 2020–21 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Europe Qualifier is scheduled to be a tournament played as part of qualification process for the 2022 ICC Men's T20 World Cup, between May and November 2020. In April 2018, the International Cricket Council granted full international status to Twenty20 men's matches played between member sides from 1 January 2019 onwards. Therefore, all the matches in the Regional Qualifiers will be played as Twenty20 Internationals.
The Europe Qualifier will have three sub-regional groups, originally scheduled to take place in Belgium, Finland and Spain. The top team in each group will progress to the Regional Final, with the top two teams from the final progressing to one of the two Global Qualifiers. Jersey, the highest ranked team as of 1 January 2020, progressed directly to the Regional Final. On 28 January 2020, the ICC confirmed the teams and locations of the participants in the Europe Qualifier, with Finland hosting its first ever ICC event.
However, on 24 March 2020, the International Cricket Council confirmed that all ICC qualifying events scheduled to take place before 30 June 2020 had been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The European groups are now scheduled to take place at the La Manga Club in Spain in late August 2020, with the Regional Final also taking place at La Manga, possibly as late as November 2020.

Teams

The teams were placed into the following groups:
Group AGroup BGroup C

  • Group A

    Group A was originally scheduled to take place from 16 to 22 May 2020 at the La Manga Club in Spain. Matches of this group were rescheduled to take place at the end of August 2020.

    Group B

    Group B was originally scheduled to take place from 24 to 30 June 2020 at the Kerava National Cricket Ground in Kerava and Tikkurila Cricket Ground and in Vantaa in Finland. It was rescheduled to take place at the end of August 2020.

    Group C

    Group C was originally scheduled to take place from 10 to 16 June 2020 in Belgium at the Royal Brussels Cricket Club in Waterloo and the Belgian Oval in Ghent. It was rescheduled to take place at the end of August 2020.

    Regional Final

    Four teams will contest the Europe Regional Final: