The 2026 T20 World Cup tournament consists of three phases: two round-robin stages (group and Super Eight) and a knockout phase (semifinals and final). The 20 participating teams are divided into four groups of five for the first stage, and each team plays the other four teams in its group once in a single round-robin format. The top two teams in each group advance to the Super Eight (second group stage), in which each of the eight qualifiers are placed into two groups of four under a preset seeding system and play against the other three members of the group once. The top two teams from each Super Eight group progress to the knockout stage; the winners of each group face the runners-up from the opposite group in the semifinals, and the semifinal winners meet in the final.
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