Qualifiers from the Regional events go through to Local Final Qualifying at four venues in Scotland on 2 July.
In T20 cricket, the ICC hopes to introduce a system of regional qualifiers, from which all 105 members would have the opportunity to qualify for the World T20.
Great Britain automatically qualified as hosts, with the 2011 European Under-21 Championship deciding the three qualifiers from Europe Spain, Switzerlandd and Belarus).
The four certain qualifiers from Asia are Australia, Japan, North Korea and South Korea.
Each weight class has a quota of qualifiers from various geographic regions.
Of those, they cannot face Arsenal or their fellow qualifiers from Group G, Dynamo Kiev.
The match against Tonga will be a physical one, but there will be easier games against the top qualifiers from Europe — typically Georgia or Romania — and the qualifiers from Africa, which could be Namibia.
The league's playoff format, currently eight qualifiers from each conference seeded according to their conference records, will not change.
(The United States, for instance, will play Finland, Russia and one of the qualifiers from the preliminary round).
Mexico and Colombia were the only two qualifiers from Latin America Brazill does not count) for the Women's World Cup.
POZNAN, POLAND — Amid high temperatures and even higher drama, Spain and Italy confirmed themselves as the two qualifiers from Group C at the European Championship.
