2027 FIBA Basketball World Cup qualification (Europe) explained

The 2027 FIBA Basketball World Cup qualification for the FIBA Europe region, will begin in February 2024 and will conclude in March 2027. The process will determine the twelve teams that will qualify for the 2027 FIBA World Cup.^[1]

Format

FIBA Europe will be allocated 12 berths at the World Cup. In total, 42 FIBA Europe teams will take part in the qualification process. The qualification will consist of the following stages:

• Pre-qualifiers
  • First round: Eight teams (plus entrants Armenia and Azerbaijan) that were eliminated from the EuroBasket 2025 pre-qualifiers will take part. Four teams advance to the second round.
  • Second round: The four teams that advanced from the previous round will be joined by the eight teams that were eliminated from the EuroBasket 2025 qualifiers. Eight teams will advance to the qualifiers.
• Qualifiers
  • First round: 24 teams that qualified for EuroBasket 2025 and eight teams that advanced from the pre-qualifiers will be organized into eight groups of four. The top three teams of each group will qualify for the second round.
  • Second round: The top 24 teams from the first round will be organised into four groups of six, with results carried over from the first round. The top three teams of each group will qualify for the World Cup.

Pre-qualifiers

First round

First round will be contested between teams that will not participate in EuroBasket 2025 qualifiers. Armenia will be making their second appearance in World Cup qualification, while Azerbaijan will make their debut.^[2]

The ten participating nations will be sorted into three groups. Group A will contain four teams, while Groups B and C will include three teams each.^[3] Each team will play the other teams in its group in home and away games in a round robin system across three windows on February 19-27, 2024, November 18-26, 2024 and February 17-25, 2025.Four teams in total - the three group winners plus the best ranked second placed team across all groups - will advance to the Second round. The other six teams will be eliminated.

Draw

Draw took place on 8 August 2023 in Munich.^[4]

Seeding

The seeding will be based on the FIBA World Ranking of 27 February 2023.^[5]

+ Seed 1 width=190 Team ! 57 58 63

+ Seed 2 width=190 Team ! 77 80 87

+ Seed 3 width=190 Team ! 93 96 100

+ Seed 4 width=190 Team ! 113

Groups

Group A

Group B

Group C

Ranking of second-placed teams

Matches against the fourth-placed team in Group A are not included in this ranking.

Second round

The four teams that advanced from the previous round will be joined by the eight teams that were eliminated from the EuroBasket 2025 qualifiers. Those twelve teams will be placed into four groups with three teams each. Each group will be formed by one team that advanced from the first round, and two last placed finishers from EuroBasket 2025 qualifiers. Each team will play the other teams in its group in home and away games in a round robin system. The two top-ranked teams from each group (eight teams in total) will advance to the Qualifiers. This round will be played in the Summer of 2025.

Groups

Group G

Qualifiers

Entrants

The 32 teams including 24 teams that qualified for EuroBasket 2025 and the 8 teams from the pre-qualifiers will participate in the first round of the FIBA Basketball World Cup European qualifiers.

Entrance/qualification method	Team(s)
Advanced from Second round (8)
EuroBasket 2025 organisers (4)
EuroBasket 2025 Qualifers (20)

External links

• Pre-qualifiers website
  • Pre-qualifiers summary

Notes and References

1. Web site: Qualifiers. FIBA. 7 July 2023.
2. Web site: The Armenian national team will participate in the pre-qualifiers of the Basketball World Cup (in Armenian). Basketball Federation of Armenia (BFA) . 7 August 2023.
3. Web site: HOW TO QUALIFY. FIBA. 6 August 2023.
4. Web site: Groups set for FIBA Basketball World Cup 2027 European Pre-Qualifiers First Round. FIBA. 8 August 2023.
5. Web site: FIBA Basketball World Cup 2027 European Pre-Qualifiers First Round seedings set. fiba.basketball. 7 August 2023.