The 2026 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup will be the 20th tournament of the FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup for women's national basketball teams. The tournament will be hosted in Berlin, Germany, from 4 to 13 September 2026. [1]
The follow countries expressed interest in hosting: [2] [3] [4]
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 World Cup to be held in the Germany after the 1998 tournament.
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. [6] 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. [7]
Team | Qualification | Appearance | Best performance | FIBA World Ranking [8] | ||||
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As | Date | First | Last | Total | Streak | |||
![]() | Host | 28 April 2023 | 1998 | 1998 | 2 | 1 | 11th place (1998) | TBD |
Winner of EuroBasket Women 2025 | 29 June 2025 | |||||||
Winner of 2025 FIBA Women's AmeriCup | 6 July 2025 | |||||||
Winner of 2025 FIBA Women's Asia Cup | 20 July 2025 | |||||||
Winner of 2025 Women's Afrobasket | 3 August 2025 | |||||||
Qualified thorugh Qualifying Tournaments | ||||||||
According to the plans, the tournament will be played in Berlin across two venues.
Berlin | ||
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Arena Berlin | Max-Schmeling-Halle | |
Capacity: 14,500 | Capacity: 8,500 | |
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The senate (city-state government) in Berlin decided to allocate €6 million to the event. [9]
The logo was unveiled on 12 August 2024. [10] According to FIBA, the logo is supposed to depict "Berlin's status as a united metropolis that loves to party and celebrate". [11]