2026 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup

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Tournament details
Host country	Germany
City	Berlin
Dates	4–13 September
Teams	16 (from 4 confederations)
Venues	2 (in 1 host city)
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The 2026 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup will be the 20th edition of the FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup, the quadrennial world championship for women's national basketball teams, sanctioned by FIBA. The tournament will be hosted in Berlin, Germany, from 4 to 13 September 2026.^[1] This is Germany's second time hosting after previously organising the event in 1998, after being awarded the hosting rights in spring 2023.

Sixteen teams will take part in the tournament, four more than the previous edition but returning to the same number as was between 1990 and 2018. The Germans automatically qualify as hosts. Qualifiers will be decided via a mixture continental champions and teams progressing from the qualifying tournaments.

United States are the four-time defending champions.

The following countries expressed interest in hosting:^[2][3][4]

•  Argentina (San Luis)
•  Brazil (Rio de Janeiro)
•  Germany (Berlin)

During its Central Board meeting in Manila, Philippines, on 28 April 2023, FIBA announced that Germany will host the upcoming World Cup in 2026.^[5] It will be second Women's World Cup to be held in the Germany after the 1998 tournament.

The senate (city-state government) in Berlin decided to allocate €6 million to the event.^[6]

On 25 March 2022, following a review of the current FIBA women's basketball system, FIBA expanded the World Cup back to 16 teams after reducing the teams to 12 teams in 2022.^[7] The expansion brings the numbers of teams that qualified back to the same count as the World Cups between 1990 and 2018.

Germany as the hosts automatically qualified for the tournament in April 2023. Each winner of the continental championship will qualify. All other teams play in a qualifying tournament after finishing as the top teams during their regional tournament. A total of 24 teams will be playing in those qualifying tournaments for the remaining eleven spots.^[8]

Qualification	Host	Dates	Vacancies	Qualified
Host nation	N/A	28 April 2023	1	Germany
Winner of EuroBasket Women 2025	Brno / Hamburg Piraeus / Bologna	18–29 June 2025	1	Belgium
Winner of 2025 Women's AmeriCup	Santiago	28 June – 6 July 2025	1	United States
Winner of 2025 Women's Asia Cup	Shenzhen	13–20 July 2025	1	Australia
Winner of 2025 Women's Afrobasket	Abidjan	26 July – 3 August 2025	1	Nigeria
Qualifying Tournaments	Wuhan	11–17 March 2026	3
	San Juan		3
	Istanbul		3
	Lyon		2

Team	Qualification method	Date of qualification	Appearance(s)				Previous best performance[A]	WR[B]
			Total	First	Last	Streak
Germany	Host nation	28 April 2023	2nd	1998		1	Eleventh place (1998)	TBD
Belgium	Winner of EuroBasket Women 2025	29 June 2025	3rd	2018	2022	3	Fourth place (2018)	TBD
United States	Winner of 2025 Women's AmeriCup	6 July 2025	19th	1953		17	Champions (Eleven times)[a]	TBD
Australia	Winner of 2025 Women's Asia Cup	20 July 2025	17th	1957		16	Champions (2006)	TBD
Nigeria	Winner of 2025 Women's Afrobasket	3 August 2025	3rd	2006	2018	1	Eighth place (2018)	TBD
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The tournament will be played in Berlin across two venues.

• The main venue is the Berlin Arena.^[9] This arena will host two groups and the entire knockout stage. The venue previously hosted the 2024 European Men's Handball Championship and the latter stages of EuroBasket 2022. It was the first venue to host three EuroLeague Final Fours. The venue has also held many high-profile non-sporting events.
• The secondary arena in the Max-Schmeling-Halle. It will host two groups in the first round. The venue previously hosted the 2007 World Men's Handball Championship, plus the finals of the 2013 Women's European Volleyball Championship, 2023 IHF Men's U21 Handball World Championship, plus two CEV Champions League finals in 2015 and 2019.

Berlin	Berlin	Berlin
Berlin Arena		Max-Schmeling-Halle
Capacity: 14,500		Capacity: 8,500

• On 13 March 2026, for the second edition in a row, Spanish basketball legend, Pau Gasol, will be the global ambassador for the tournament.^[10]

The logo was unveiled on 12 August 2024.^[11] According to FIBA, the logo is supposed to depict "Berlin's status as a united metropolis that loves to party and celebrate".^[12]

The mascot, "Bearlina", was revealed during the HipHop Ball at Red Town Hall on 15 November 2025. Bearlina is a bear (which is featured on the coat of arms of Berlin), whose design represents the lifestyle of the host city, including elements of punk, hip hop, graffiti art, and the design of the basketball used for FIBA competitions.^[13]

The draw will take place on 21 April 2026.^[14]

All times are local:^[15]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Germany (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Quarterfinals
2	A2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Qualification to quarterfinals
3	A3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	A4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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