The ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup qualification pathway program events, CWC League 2 Championship and CWC Challenge League groups (A & B), will continue for the next cycle towards qualification towards the 2027 event being hosted by South Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia. With the scrapping of the ODI Super League for the next cycle, Netherlands will be joining the CWC League 2 competition structure. The Men’s national squads of Netherlands, Scotland, Oman, Nepal, Namibia, United States of America, United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Canada will be the eight (8) countries will be part of the 2024-2027 cycle of CWC League 2 Championship, with UAE and Canada having secured their spots in the Championship by finishing above Jersey and Papua New Guinea (PNG) in the 2023 CWC Qualifier play-off tournament in Namibia in March/April 2023. Jersey and PNG will be getting into the Challenge League cycle in the next cycle.
The Challenge League Play-off qualifier, which was hosted by Malaysia Cricket in February 2024, featured teams from Italy, Bermuda, Malaysia, Vanuatu, Kuwait, Bahrain, Tanzania and Saudi Arabia, from which the top four (4) teams have joined the Challenge League groups A and B for the 2027 qualification cycle. Both Challenge League groups will have three (3) rounds each, with all teams in each group getting to play fifteen (15) List-A games and at the end of which, the top two (2) teams from both the groups will advance to the CWC Qualifier Play-off tournament (which will be played with ODI status).
The top four (4) teams in the points table, at the end of 21 rounds of ODI Tri-series (a total of 126 ODIs), will qualify directly into the CWC Qualifier, while the bottom four (4) teams in CWC League 2 will join with the four (4) teams from CWC Challenge League to constitute the CWC Qualifier Play-off tournament, from which the top four (4) teams will advance to the CWC Qualifier.
2024-2027 CWC League 2 Series Schedule
- Oman Schedule
- Nepal Schedule
- Namibia Schedule
- Netherlands Schedule
- United Arab Emirates Schedule
- Canada Schedule
- Scotland Schedule
- United States of America Schedule
