2025 Men's T20 World Cup Africa Regional Final

2025 ICC Men's T20 World Cup
Africa Regional Final

Dates	TBD – September 2025
Administrator(s)	Africa Cricket Association
Cricket format	Twenty20 International
Tournament format(s)	TBA
Host(s)	Zimbabwe
Participants	8

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 in September 2025.^[1][2]

The top two sides in the tournament will join South Africa in the 2026 T20 World Cup who have already pre-qualified.^[3][4]

Teams and qualification

South Africa directly qualified for the T20 World Cup as a top eight team from the previous edition.^[5]

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. ^[6][7][8]

v t e Africa Sub-regional Qualifiers
Qualifier A	Qualifier B	Qualifier C
Cameroon  Ghana  Lesotho  Malawi  Mali  Tanzania	Gambia  Kenya  Mozambique  Rwanda  Seychelles  Zimbabwe	Botswana  Eswatini  Ivory Coast  Nigeria  Saint Helena  Sierra Leone

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	Date	Venue(s)	No. of teams	Team
2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup	29 June 2024	United States  West Indies	2	Namibia
				Uganda
Africa Qualifier A	21–26 September 2024	Tanzania	2	Malawi
				Tanzania
Africa Qualifier B	19–24 October 2024	Kenya	2	Kenya
				Zimbabwe
Africa Qualifier C	23–28 November 2024	Nigeria	2	Botswana
				Nigeria
Total			8

Points table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	NR	Pts	NRR	Qualification
1	Botswana	0	0	0	0	0	—	Advance to the 2026 T20 World Cup
2	Kenya	0	0	0	0	0	—
3	Malawi	0	0	0	0	0	—
4	Namibia	0	0	0	0	0	—
5	Nigeria	0	0	0	0	0	—
6	Tanzania	0	0	0	0	0	—
7	Uganda	0	0	0	0	0	—
8	Zimbabwe	0	0	0	0	0	—

First match(es) will be played: unknown. Source: ^{[citation needed]}

References

1. Musali, Denis (30 December 2024). "2024 was a good year for Uganda Cricket, 2025 could be greater". Kawowo Sports. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
2. "Zimbabwe Cricket to host 2026 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Africa Qualifier in September 2025". czarsportz. Retrieved 4 January 2025.
3. "How does qualification for the 2026 T20 World Cup work?". Wisden. Retrieved 10 June 2024.
4. "Stop clock set to become a permanent fixture in white-ball internationals from T20 World Cup 2024". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 15 March 2024.
5. "All you need to know about 2026 T20 World Cup qualification". Cricbuzz. Retrieved 18 May 2024.
6. "Tanzania Cricket to host 2026 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Sub-Regional Africa Qualifier A in September 2024". Czarsports. Retrieved 13 July 2023.
7. "Kenya Cricket to host 2026 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Sub-Regional Africa Qualifier B in October 2024". Czarsports. Retrieved 13 July 2023.
8. "Nigeria Cricket to host 2026 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Sub-Regional Africa Qualifier C in November 2024". Czarsports. Retrieved 13 July 2023.