Basketball at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's qualification

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The women's qualification for the Olympic basketball tournament occurred between 2022 and 2024; all five FIBA (International Basketball Federation) zones were expected to have a representation in the Olympic basketball event. [2]

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As the host nation, France reserved a quota place in the women's 5×5 basketball; this was confirmed by a FIBA Central Board decision on 30 April 2023. [2] [3] The first spot will be directly awarded to the winner of 2022 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup, held in Sydney, Australia from 22 September to 1 October 2022.

These two directly qualified teams, however, were eligible to compete in two successive stages, namely the FIBA Olympic Pre-qualifying tournaments (for Africa, Americas, and Asia and Oceania) or FIBA Women's EuroBasket (for Europe) and the four-way global FIBA Olympic qualifying tournaments (FOQTs). While two FOQTs attributed the Paris 2024 spots to their top three teams, the other half of the four FOQT pathways, featuring the host nation France and the World Cup winner, provided quota places to the two highest-ranked teams. [4]

Method

Twelve teams will participate in the women's basketball tournament, with each NOC sending a roster of 12 players.

Host nation

As the host nation, France reserved a direct quota place in the women's basketball subject to the FIBA Central Board decision originally to be made on 30 June 2023. [2] Their automatic qualification was confirmed by the FIBA Central Board decision on 30 April 2023. [3]

Qualification process

The first spot was directly awarded to the winner of 2022 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup, held in Sydney, Australia from 22 September to 1 October 2022. Similar to the pre-Olympic format in Tokyo 2020, two directly qualified teams, the host nation France and the World Cup winner, were eligible to compete at the FIBA Women's Olympic pre-qualifying tournaments (for Africa, Americas, and Asia and Oceania) or FIBA Women's EuroBasket (for Europe) and the four-way global FIBA Women's Olympic qualifying tournaments (FWOQTs).

National teams from Africa, the Americas, and Asia (including Oceania) played in the FIBA Women's Olympic pre-qualifying tournaments (FWOPQTs). In Africa, Asia/Oceania and Europe, teams qualitied directly through each FIBA women's Continental Cup. In Americas, four national teams played in order to qualify for one of four global FIBA Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournaments. Accordingly, the two first placed teams in the FIBA Women's Olympic Pre-Qualifying Tournament were qualified for the FIBA Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournaments, that took place in February 2024. USA (winner of the FIBA Women's World Cup 2022) plus the best following ranked team in the FIBA Women's AmeriCup 2023 were directly qualified for the FIBA Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournaments 2024.

The four-way global FIBA Women's Olympic qualifying tournament, held in February 2024, was contested by the following top sixteen teams across all continents based on the results from the FWOPQTs. The three highest-ranked teams (including the host nation and the World Cup winner) from each of the four tournaments completed the women's basketball lineup for Paris 2024. [4]

Qualified teams

The hosts for the qualifying tournaments were announced on 9 September 2023. [5] The groups with USA and France qualified only two teams.

Qualification method [4] DateVenueBerthsQualified team
Host nation——1Flag of France.svg  France
2022 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup 22 September – 1 October 2022 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Sydney 1Flag of the United States.svg  United States
2024 FIBA Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournaments 8–11 February 2024 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Xi'an 2Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China
Flag of Puerto Rico.svg  Puerto Rico
Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Antwerp 2Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium
Flag of Nigeria.svg  Nigeria
Flag of Brazil.svg Belém 3Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
Flag of Serbia.svg  Serbia
Flag of Hungary.svg Sopron 3Flag of Japan.svg  Japan
Flag of Spain.svg  Spain
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
Total12

FIBA Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournaments

Qualification methodDateVenueBerthsQualified team
2022 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup 22 September –1 October 2022 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Sydney 1Flag of the United States.svg  United States
EuroBasket Women 2023 15–25 June 2023 Flag of Slovenia.svg Ljubljana
Flag of Israel.svg Tel Aviv 		6Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium
Flag of Spain.svg  Spain
Flag of France.svg  France
Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary
Flag of Serbia.svg  Serbia
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
2023 FIBA Women's Asia Cup 26 June – 2 July 2023 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Sydney 4Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China
Flag of Japan.svg  Japan
Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand
2023 FIBA Women's AmeriCup 1–9 July 2023 Flag of Mexico.svg León 1Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil
2023 Women's Afrobasket 28 July – 6 August 2023 Flag of Rwanda.svg Kigali 2Flag of Nigeria.svg  Nigeria
Flag of Senegal.svg  Senegal
FIBA Women's Olympic Pre-Qualifying Tournament – Americas 9–12 November 2023 Flag of Colombia.svg Medellín 2Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
Flag of Puerto Rico.svg  Puerto Rico
Total16

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