Tournament details | |
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Host countries | Czech Republic Germany Greece Italy |
Dates | 18–29 June |
Teams | 16 (from 1 confederation) |
Venue(s) | 4 (in 4 host cities) |
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The 2025 European Women Basketball Championship, commonly called EuroBasket Women 2025, is the 40th edition of the continental tournament in women's basketball, sanctioned by the FIBA Europe. It will be held in the Czech Republic, Germany, Greece and Italy.
The top six teams will qualify for one of the qualifying tournaments for the 2026 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup joining Germany who automatically qualified as host.
Belgium are the defending champions.
On 7 September 2023, FIBA announced that the Czech Republic (Brno [6] ), Germany (Hamburg [7] ), Greece (Piraeus) and Italy (Bologna) will host the tournament. Each country will host a group and the final round is scheduled to take place in Athens, Greece. [8] Bologna was selected as the host city for Italy on 11 December 2023, while on the same day, the final round was relocated from Athens to Piraeus. [9] [10]
The draw will take place on 19 September 2023. The qualification began in November 2023 and will end in February 2025. [8]
Country | Qualified as | Date of qualification | Last appearance | Best placement in tournament | WR |
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Czech Republic | Host nation | 8 September 2023 | 2023 | Champions (2005) | 22 |
Germany | Third place (1997) | 25 | |||
Greece | Fourth place (2017) | 18 | |||
Italy | Champions (1938) | 15 | |||
The tournament will be played in four venues in four cities. One venue will be used in one country each. The preliminary matches were scheduled to be held in Prague, Hamburg, Bologna and Piraeus. The final round was to be played in the Greek capital, Athens, but was changed to the port city, Piraeus, instead.
The official logo was revealed on 8 March 2024 to mark International Women's Day. [13]
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