Cricket Denmark (Dansk Cricket Forbund) will be hosting the 2026 ICC U19 Men’s Cricket World Cup Europe Division 2 Qualifier from July 24th – 30th, 2024. Men’s U19 team from host’s Denmark will be joined by teams from Netherlands, Norway, Italy, Isle of Man, Sweden, France and Belgium, and will be competing for three (3) qualification spots into the ICC U19 Men’s Cricket World Cup Europe Qualifier taking place in the summer of 2025. Four (4) venues across Copenhagen (Svanholm, Glostrup, Albertslund and Cooking) will be hosting the games during the qualifier. Cricket Denmark will also be hosting warm-up matches, a week before the beginning of the Division 2 qualifier, where the U19 team will compete with teams from Norway and Switzerland at Solvangsparken, with Italy U19 also playing a warm-up game against Switzerland team.
Teams in the Qualifier have been divided into two groups, with one group comprising of teams from Netherlands, Isle of Man, Sweden and France, while the other group comprises of teams from host’s Denmark, Italy, Belgium and Norway. Top two (2) teams in both the groups at the end of the single round-robin group stage will advance to the semifinals, while the remaining teams from both the groups will also play play-off matches against each other for the finishing positions at the end of the competition.
2026 U19 Men’s Cricket World Cup Europe Division 2 Qualifier Schedule
24th July 2024: Isle of Man U19 vs Netherlands U19 (Scorecard) ; France U19 vs Sweden U19 (Scorecard) ; Italy U19 vs Norway U19 (Scorecard) ; Belgium U19 vs Denmark U19 (Scorecard)
25th July 2024: Norway U19 vs Denmark U19 (Scorecard) ; Belgium U19 vs Italy U19 (Scorecard) ; France U19 vs Isle of Man U19 (Scorecard) ; Sweden U19 vs Netherlands U19 (Scorecard)
27th July 2024: Isle of Man U19 vs Sweden U19 (Scorecard) ; Denmark U19 vs Italy U19 (Scorecard) ; Norway U19 vs Belgium U19 (Scorecard) ; Netherlands U19 vs France U19 (Scorecard)
28th July 2024: Semifinal#1 (Scorecard) ; Semifinal#2 (Scorecard) ; A3 vs B4 (Scorecard) ; B3 vs A4 (Scorecard)
30th July 2024: FINAL (Scorecard) ; 3rd/4th Play-off (Scorecard) ; 5th/6th Play-off (Scorecard) ; 7th/8th Play-off (Scorecard)
Warm-up Fixtures Schedule
14th – 16th July 2024: Denmark U19 vs Norway U19 (Scorecard) ; Norway U19 vs Switzerland U19 (Scorecard) ; Switzerland U19 vs Denmark U19 (Scorecard)
17th – 21st July 2024: Norway U19 vs Switzerland U19 (Scorecard) ; Switzerland U19 vs Denmark U19 (Scorecard) ; Denmark U19 vs Switzerland U19 (Scorecard) ; Switzerland U19 vs Italy U19 (Scorecard)
2026 U19 Men’s Cricket World Cup Europe Division 2 Qualifier Squads
Denmark U19: Mustakin Aslam, Avneet Singh, Muhammad Zayan Shams, Yousuf Ahmed, Saif Ali Alam, Nicholas Sonne-Rudd, Jabran Khan, Muhammad Iyas Zawar, Isa Ali Malik, Isaac Jacob Javaid, Faaiz Imtiaz, Ammaar Anwar, Faiz Raza Butt and Abdul Rafeh
Netherlands U19: Aaditt Jain, Aarav Swaroop, Alejo Note, Azzam Khan, Cedric de Lange, Elmar Boendermaker, Joris van Oosterom, Mark Wolfe, Milan Moolman, Roman Harhangi, Sam van Giezen, Shirsak Banerjee, Teun Kloppenburg and Tom de Leede
Isle of Man U19: Aaron Chadwick, Kyle Gunnion, Kai Kiernan, George McAleer, Oli Nandha, James Plumbley, Cameron Roome, Jared Shepherd, Ryder Spencer, Hugh Tummon, Jake Turner, Tom Ward, Joel Williams and will Wiseman
Belgium U19: Dominic Weinel, Jay Raval, Qaim Shah, Qasim Sabir, Shrey Van, Zakir Zadran, Muzamil Shinwari, Sani Arain, Nasrat Malikzai, Abubakar Ayubi, Zubair Shafaq, Benjamin Ruperto, Atharva Sahasrabudhe and Aryaan Nawaz
Sweden U19: Yatharth Singh Chauhan, Karthik Tummalapalli, Kavin Meenakshisundaram, Sanuk Senmith Keppetiyawa, Ashutosh Samal, Advait Dhabe, Essa Farooq, Bilal Khattak, Pranav Yadav, Zaid Ahmad, Kamran Tarakhel, Saif Ul Hassan, Hasim Nijamudeen and Ali Haider
Norway U19: Jabber Ali, Surkha Bahadar, Afzal Ahmed Ellahi, Fasihullah Malik, Noor Muhammad, Hammad Mustafa, Abdul Shafeh Nasir, Bilal Popalzai, Sahir Omar Saeed, Bilal Atif Salim, Krishna Shukla, Mohammad Nauman Tahir, Subhan Waseem and Rayyan Balal Zia
France U19: Hussnain Afzal, Toheed Afzal, Tanbir Aziz, Faizan Dar, Tanguy Durant, Mashdid Jubayer, Thimeshe Perera, Suhail M Nazir, Usman Nazir, Sajad Stanikzay, Navine Sureshan, Manish Tambidoure, Safkat Zaman and Mahine Tambidoure
Italy U19: Sandes Jayasekera, Sahas Arachchige, Hashim Saeed Khan, Karthik Raghavan, Gianluca Longo, Luca Michael Di Venuto, Abdul Rehman, Shehan Witharanage, Minon Alagiyawadu, Kanahala Perera, Crishan Fernando, Shayan Fernando, Muhammad Asim Munir and Thom Liyannage
