2026 Women's Basketball World Cup
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It's Berlin, Germany. According to the relevant arrangements of FIBA, Germany will hold the Women's Basketball World Cup in September 2026, which will be the top women's basketball tournament after 28 years, and the last time Germany hosted the Women's Basketball World Cup (formerly World Championships) was in 1998 in the 20th century.
China's women's basketball team will continue to be seeded for the Women's Basketball World Cup in 2026, after all, the Chinese women's basketball team had won the second place in the 2022 Women's Basketball World Cup in Sydney.
The Women's Basketball World Cup in Germany will be held at 2 world-class venues in Berlin, and according to FIBA President Hamane Niang, the German Basketball Federation was selected from several national federations as the submission impressed the jury.
Women's basketball has been booming all over the world in recent years, so more attention has come to the sport as well. The 2026 Women's Basketball World Cup in Germany will feature 16 teams, which will qualify for the final round through the Women's Basketball World Cup qualifiers. This is the second time that the Women's Basketball World Cup has come to the European continent. Unusually, the 2027 Men's Basketball World Cup will be the third consecutive World Cup to be hosted by an Asian country, after China hosted the 2019 Men's Basketball World Cup and the Philippines, Indonesia and Japan co-hosted the 2023 Men's Basketball World Cup.
The 2026 Women's Basketball World Cup will be held in Europe, which is a major benefit for a number of strong women's basketball teams in Europe, which also poses more challenges to the Chinese women's basketball team's preparation. After all, the Chinese women's basketball team in Australia in the Women's Basketball World Cup performance is very good, all the way into the final, although not against the U.S. Women's Basketball won the second place, but also tied the best record in the history of the Chinese women's basketball team.