2025 Men's T20 World Cup Asia–East Asia-Pacific Regional Final

2025 ICC Men's T20 World Cup
Asia–EAP Regional Final

Dates	TBD – October 2025
Administrator(s)	Asian Cricket Council ICC East Asia-Pacific
Cricket format	Twenty20 International
Host(s)	Oman
Participants	9

The 2025 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Asia–EAP 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 Oman in October 2025.[1]

The top three sides in the tournament will join Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, India, New Zealand, Pakistan and Sri Lanka in the 2026 T20 World Cup who have already pre-qualified.[2][3]

Teams and qualification

India and Sri Lanka directly qualified for the T20 World Cup as co-hosts,[4] while Afghanistan, Australia and Bangladesh qualified as among top eight teams from the previous edition. New Zealand and Pakistan qualified through ICC Men's T20I Team Rankings.[5]

In this cycle, a total of 14 teams are participating in the Asian sub-regional phase and 8 teams are participating in the EAP sub-regional phase. The Asian sub-regional phase is divided into two events of seven teams[6][7] and the EAP sub-regional phase is divided into to two events of four teams.[8][9]

v t e Asia		East Asia-Pacific
Qualifier A	Qualifier B	Qualifier A	Qualifier B
Hong Kong  Kuwait  Malaysia  Maldives  Mongolia  Myanmar  Singapore	Bahrain  Bhutan  Cambodia  Qatar  Saudi Arabia  Thailand  United Arab Emirates	Cook Islands  Fiji  Samoa  Vanuatu	Indonesia  Japan  Philippines  South Korea

The top two sides of each Asia sub-regional qualifier along with the winners of EAP sub-regional qualifiers will advance to a combined regional final, where they will join Nepal, Oman and Papua New Guinea who received a bye after participating in the 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup.[10][11]

Method of qualification	Date	Venue(s)	No. of teams	Team
2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup	29 June 2024	United States  West Indies	3	Nepal
				Oman
				Papua New Guinea
EAP Qualifier A	17 – 24 August 2024	Samoa	1	Samoa
Asia Qualifier A	30 August – 9 September 2024	Malaysia	2	Kuwait
				Malaysia
EAP Qualifier B	28 September – 5 October 2024	South Korea	1	Japan
Asia Qualifier B	19 – 28 November 2024	Qatar	2	Qatar
				United Arab Emirates
Total			9

Points table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	NR	Pts	NRR	Qualification
1	Japan	0	0	0	0	0	—	Advance to the 2026 T20 World Cup
2	Kuwait	0	0	0	0	0	—
3	Malaysia	0	0	0	0	0	—
4	Nepal	0	0	0	0	0	—
5	Oman (H)	0	0	0	0	0	—
6	Papua New Guinea	0	0	0	0	0	—
7	Qatar	0	0	0	0	0	—
8	Samoa	0	0	0	0	0	—
9	United Arab Emirates	0	0	0	0	0	—

First match(es) will be played: October 2025. Source: ^[citation needed]
(H) Host

References

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3. "Stop clock set to become a permanent fixture in white-ball internationals from T20 World Cup 2024". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 15 March 2024.
4. "Sri Lanka, India to co-host ICC Men's T20 World Cup in 2026". www.adaderana.lk. Retrieved 14 September 2024.
5. "T20 World Cup 2026: Pakistan, New Zealand, Ireland secure automatic qualification despite failing to make it to Super Eight". sportstar.thehindu.com. 2 July 2024. Retrieved 30 August 2024.
6. "Malaysia Cricket to host 2026 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Asia Qualifier A in August/September 2024". Czarsports. 31 May 2024. Retrieved 10 June 2023.
7. "Qatar Cricket to host 2026 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Asia Qualifier B in November 2024". Czarsports. 23 September 2024.
8. "Samoa Cricket to host 2026 ICC Men's T20 World Cup EAP Sub-regional Qualifier A in August 2024". Czarsportz. 2 January 2024. Retrieved 7 January 2024.
9. "A historic first for South Korea as dates and venues for the 2024 Pathway Events are announced". International Cricket Council. 5 March 2024. Retrieved 5 March 2024.
10. "Dramatic final day sees Samoa win East Asia-Pacific Sub Regional Qualifier A". International Cricket Council. 26 August 2024. Retrieved 14 September 2024.
11. "Malaysia and Kuwait advance to ICC Men's T20 WC Asia-East Asia Pacific Regional Final 2025". International Cricket Council. 9 September 2024. Retrieved 14 September 2024.