EAP Under-19 Cricket Trophy
| Administrator | ICC East Asia-Pacific |
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| Format | 50-over |
| First tournament | 2001 |
| Current champion |
 Fiji
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| Most successful |
 Papua New Guinea (5 titles) |
 2015 EAP Under-19 Cricket Trophy
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The EAP Under-19 Cricket Trophy is a regular cricket competition organised by ICC East Asia-Pacific (EAP) for the under-19 teams of its representative nations. The tournament acts as a qualifier for the Under-19 World Cup.
The tournament was first held in 2001, and has been held regularly since 2007. Prior to 2001, EAP teams could attempt to qualify for the World Cup via the Youth Asia Cup, an Asian Cricket Council (ACC) event. In 2003 and 2005, a joint event was organised with the African Cricket Association.
Papua New Guinea have won the most editions of the tournament, with five out of the six played, and also won the 2003 joint Africa/EAP tournament. Fiji are the only other team to win the tournament, having won the most recent tournament in 2015, while Vanuatu finished runner-up in four consecutive editions of the tournament, from 2007 to 2013. Two other EAP teams, Australia and New Zealand, are ICC full members, and hence qualify automatically for the World Cup.
Since its inception, the EAP U-19 Cricket Trophy has provided a chance for EAP teams to qualify for the U-19 World Cup. Prior to the initial 2001 competition, however, EAP teams qualified via the Youth Asia Cup. In the 1997 event, Papua New Guinea qualified alongside then associate side Bangladesh to qualify for the 1998 U-19 World Cup. No EAP sides qualified from the 1999 competition.
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