The International Cricket Council (ICC) have announced the Europe qualification pathway for the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2028, featuring three (3) sub-regional qualification events (Sub-regional Qualifier A, Sub-regional Qualifier B and Sub-regional Qualifier C) to be staged across Cyprus, Denmark and Finland in 2026. Cyprus Cricket is set to host its first ICC T20 World Cup pathway event, and first ICC event since 2009, when they hosted the ICC European Division Four Championships, which was a regional qualifying event for the World Cricket League (WCL) cycle that fed into the 2011 ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup qualification process.
Cyprus Cricket will be hosting the Men’s National teams of Austria, Croatia, France, Guernsey, Jersey, Malta, Slovenia, Sweden and Switzerland in Qualifier A from May 16th – 23rd, 2026. The teams have been divided into two (2) groups, and will follow a single round-robin group stage format, followed by FINAL between the top two (2) teams from each group and position Play-off matches from third (3rd) to eighth (8th) place. The winner 🏆 of the tournament will advance to the Europe Qualifier in 2027.
Whilst France Cricket continues the process of independent recognition as a National Governing Body under the French Ministry of Sport, all national representative teams are required to compete as France Cricket in accordance with local regulations as stipulated by the French Government.
Group A: Jersey, France, Switzerland, Cyprus and Croatia
Group B: Austria, Guernsey, Malta, Sweden and Slovenia
2028 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Europe Sub-regional Qualifier A Schedule
16th May 2026: France vs Cyprus (Scorecard) ; Jersey vs Switzerland (Scorecard) ; Guernsey vs Sweden (Scorecard) ; Austria vs Malta (Scorecard)
17th May 2026: Malta vs Guernsey (Scorecard) ; Slovenia vs Austria (Scorecard) ; Croatia vs France (Scorecard) ; Cyprus vs Jersey (Scorecard)
19th May 2026: Jersey vs France (Scorecard) ; Switzerland vs Croatia (Scorecard) ; Sweden vs Slovenia (Scorecard) ; Guernsey vs Austria (Scorecard)
20th May 2026: Slovenia vs Guernsey (Scorecard) ; Sweden vs Malta (Scorecard) ; Switzerland vs Cyprus (Scorecard) ; Croatia vs Jersey (Scorecard)
22nd May 2026: France vs Switzerland (Scorecard) ; Cyprus vs Croatia (Scorecard) ; Austria vs Sweden (Scorecard) ; Malta vs Slovenia (Scorecard)
23rd May 2026: 3rd/4th Play-Off (Scorecard) ; FINAL (Scorecard) ; 7th/8th Play-Off (Scorecard) ; 5th/6th Play-Off (Scorecard)
Slovenia: Izaz Ali, Shivakumar Mani, Owen Groves, Jack Kovačič, Arul Kumaran, Dinesh Matla, Dileep Kumar Pallekonda, Muhammad Shahid Arshad, Saeed Waqar Ali, Taher Mohammad, Tarun Sharma, Waqar Khan, Rizwan Zahoor and Tomaž Pazlar
France: Abdurrahman Ahmadzai, Ahmad Zai Kamran, Ahmed Zaheer Zahiri, Christian John Roberts, Gustav Mckeon, Hevit Alodin Jackson, Mohammad Rafah Khan, Dawood Ahmadzai, Nasibullah Arab, Noman Amjad, Rahimgul Naseri, Usman Khan, Virk Mohammad Ali and Zada Sher
Jersey: Scott Van Breda, Charlie Brennan, Charles Perchard, George Richardson, Julius Sumerauer, Daniel Birrell, Nick Greenwood, Jonty Jenner, Dominic Blampied, Benjamin Ward, Patrick Gouge, Zak Tribe, Harrison Carlyon and Theo Pullman
Guernsey: Lucas Barker, Luke Bichard, Martin-Dale Bradley, Alex Bushell, Josh Butler, Oliver Clapham, Zak Damarell, Ben Ferbrache, Charlie Forshaw, Adam Martel, Ollie Nightingale, Tom Nightingale, Ed Robinson and Matt Stokes
Croatia: Anthony Razmilic, Petar Bosnjak, Connor Carroll, Andrija Curavic, Nikola Davidovic, Damien Hall, Rashid Hashmi, Sam Houghton, Sajid Khan, Saghar Manzoor, Jared Newton, Borna Pejic, Matija Separovic and Oliver Tilley
Austria: Aqib Javed Iqbal, Umair Tariq, Zeshan Arif, Kumud Ranjan Jha, Mehar Partap Singh Cheema, Baseer Khan, Karanbir Singh, Mohammed Zalmai, Imran Asif, Irfan Safi, Armaan Randhawa, Nageebullah Sultanzai, Amar Naeem and Mohammad Bilal Zalmai
Sweden: Ajay Mundra, Awais Ahmad, Abdul Baluch, Shreyas Swamy, Zaid Ahmad, Advait Dhabe, Darshan Lakhani, Imal Zuwak, Saeed Ahmed, Sami Rahmani, Wynand Boshoff, Yatharth Chauhan, Zabiullah Zahid and Zain Muzaffar