2027 FIBA Basketball World Cup

The 2027 FIBA Basketball World Cup will be the 20th tournament of the FIBA Basketball World Cup for men's national basketball teams. The tournament will be hosted in Qatar and will be the third to feature 32 teams.

2027 FIBA Basketball World Cup
كأس العالم لكرة السلة 2027
Kaʾs al-ʿālam li-kurat al-salat 2027
Tournament details
Host countryQatar
Teams32 (from 4 confederations)
Venue(s)4 (in 2 host cities)

It will be the first FIBA Basketball World Cup to be held in the Arab world, and the third straight to be held in Asia after the 2019 tournament in China and the 2023 edition co-hosted by the Philippines, Japan, and Indonesia.[1]

Host selection

During its Central Board meeting in Manila, Philippines, on 28 April 2023, FIBA announced that Qatar will host the upcoming World Cup in 2027.[1][2]

Venues

In their official bid video, Qatar proposed four venues for the World Cup.[3]

Lusail Doha
Lusail Sports Arena Ali Bin Hamad Al Attiya Arena Aspire Dome Duhail Handball Sports Hall
Capacity: 16,300 Capacity: 8,600 Capacity: 8,000 Capacity: 8,000
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Qualification

As hosts, Qatar earned an automatic qualification for the tournament when they were awarded the hosting rights.

80 teams from four FIBA zones will qualify for the World Cup qualifiers through qualification for the FIBA Continental Cups (AfroBasket 2025, 2025 FIBA AmeriCup, 2025 FIBA Asia Cup, and EuroBasket 2025). For Europe and the Americas, additional teams will qualify through the pre-qualifiers of the said regions. The participants of both the AfroBasket and the Asia Cup comprise the teams that will also take part in the qualifiers for their respective regions.

The first round of the Americas, Asia/Oceania, and Africa qualifiers will feature 16 teams each, whereas Europe will have 32 teams. Division A teams will be split into groups of four, to be held in a home-and-away round-robin. The top three teams in each group will advance to the second round. In round two of the World Cup qualifiers, teams will be split into six groups, totaling four groups in Europe and two in the other qualifiers. Teams carried over the points from round one, and faced the other three teams again in a home-and-away round-robin. The best teams in each group will qualify for the World Cup. No wild card selection will be held, and the Olympic champions will not be guaranteed a spot in the tournament.

Qualified teams
Team Qualification Appearance Best performance FIBA World Ranking
As Date Last Total Streak
 QatarHost28 April 202320062121st place (2006)TBD


See also

References
  1. "Qatar announced as host of the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2027". FIBA. 28 April 2023. Retrieved 28 April 2023.
  2. "Qatar to host men's basketball World Cup in 2027". Reuters. 29 April 2023. Retrieved 29 April 2023.
  3. Team Qatar (Qatar Olympic Committee) [@qatar_olympic] (28 April 2023). "رسمياً قطر تفوز بحق استضافة بطولة كأس العالم لكرة السلة 2027, مبروك لكل العرب Qatar awarded the right to host the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2027 #Basketball #Qatar #FIBA #QOC" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
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