Men's T20 World Cup regional qualification

The ICC Men's T20 World Cup, formerly the ICC World Twenty20, is a biennial world cup for cricket in the Twenty20 International (T20I) format, organised by the International Cricket Council (ICC). It was held in every odd year from 2007 to 2009, and since 2010 has been held in every even year with the exception of 2018 and 2020. In 2018, the tournament was rebranded from the World Twenty20 to the Men's T20 World Cup.

The regional qualification phase of the Men's T20 World Cup qualification was introduced for the 2012 edition, with the top teams advancing to the global qualifier from which teams would advance to the T20 World Cup. From January 2019, the ICC granted T20I status to all associate nations; until then regional qualifiers were played as Twenty20 tournaments; and announced that the regional qualifiers would expand to be held in two stages: sub-regional qualifiers and regional finals from the 2020 edition's (later postponed to 2021) qualification cycle. As the T20 World Cup expanded to 20 teams from 2024 edition onwards, the global qualifiers were discontinued with the top teams from regional qualifiers directly qualifying for the T20 World Cup.

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