With the tournament scheduled to take place in October and November, 86 teams are set to compete for 15 spots.

A total of 225 internationals will be played in qualifying across 13 months, while Hungary, Romania and Serbia will enter the process for the first time.

The qualifying process is set to start in April 2021 with 11 tournaments across five regions planned to take place next year.

Finland and Japan are set to host an ICC event for the first time as part of the qualification system, with 67 associate members of the ICC due to take part at regional level.

Due to the strength in depth across Africa and Europe, both regions have sub regional qualifiers feeding into a final qualifier for the region.

Africa, Americas, East-Asia Pacific and Europe will have one top tier regional qualifier and Asia will have A and B qualifiers to determine which teams will progress into the two eight-team global qualifiers.

The 16 available spots in the global qualifiers will be filled by one team each from the Africa and East-Asia Pacific qualifier respectively.

Two teams each from the Americas and Europe qualifiers will join them, as will as two qualifiers from Asia in the A and B qualifying groups.

Already qualified for the 2022 Men's T20 World Cup are hosts Australia as well as top nations Afghanistan, England, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa and West Indies.

A further four teams from the 2021 edition of the tournament will also qualify for the 2022 tournament.

Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, The Netherlands, Papua New Guinea, Ireland, Namibia, Scotland and Oman will all contest for those other automatic spots.

Unsuccessful teams will go into the global qualifier with Nepal, the United Arab Emirates, Singapore and Zimbabwe and will be joined by the eight regional qualifiers.

The Asia A qualifier is scheduled from April 3 to 9 in Kuwait with Bahrain, Maldives, Qatar and Saudi Arabia joining the hosts.

A total of 13 African countries and territories are set to compete in the A and B qualifiers in South Africa in the same month, while 16 sides will do the same in Finland in June and July for the European qualifiers.

A third regional European qualifier is set for Belgium from July 5 to 10, around the same time as the Asia B qualifier in Malaysia.

The Americas qualifier is set for Canada in July while the East Asia-Pacific qualifier is scheduled to take place in October in Japan.

The Europe and Africa qualifiers, which will determine which nations make the global qualifier, are scheduled for October and November 2021 in Spain and Nigeria respectively.

The global qualifiers are set to take place in February and May 2022, before the World Cup starts in October.