ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 Groups, Teams, Format

ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 Groups: As the participants of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 surged to 20 teams, ICC categorised the participants into 4 groups of 5 teams each.

As per ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024, the first match of the tournament will be played between the USA and Canada on June 1 at Grand Prairie Stadium, Dallas, Texas.

ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 Groups

ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 Groups: A total of 55 matches will be played between 20 teams during the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024. Notably, only 16 teams were featured in the last edition of the tournament.

In addition to the two hosts, the top 8 teams from the previous tournament automatically qualified, as did the next 2 teams in the ICC Men’s T20I Team Rankings.

The remaining 8 teams were decided via a regional qualification process. This is the first time that Canada, Uganda, and the United States have qualified for the T20 World Cup. Following are the details of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 Groups.

ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 Format

ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 Format: The ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 will follow the group stage, Super 8s and knockout stage format.

• The qualified 20 teams will divided into 4 groups of five teams.
• The top 2 teams in each group will advance to the Super8 round.
• The qualified teams will be categorised into 2 groups of four teams where the top 2 teams from each group will qualify for the knockout stage.
• In the knockout stage, a total of 2 semifinals and a final game will be played to decide the winner of the tournament.

ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 Teams

The two hosting nations along with the top 8 teams from the previous edition of the tournament have qualified automatically for the tournament.

The remaining 2 automatic qualification spots were taken by the top-ranked teams in the ICC Men’s T20I Team Rankings which had not already secured a place in the finals(as of 14 November 2022).

The remaining 8 spots were filled via the ICC’s regional qualifiers. Two teams from Africa, Asia, and Europe, along with one team each from the Americas and the East Asia-Pacific groups have qualified for the tournament.