Women's Basketball FIBA World Cup 2026 Road to LA 2028

[JoshMartini007 2,858]

Canada now needs Turkey to defeat Hungary in order to qualify 

[Ozzy Kemp 13]

36 minutes ago, George_D said:

One thing that i cant understand is why the teams which already have qualified they are also taking part. Their results can impact other teams classification 

I really dont understand why the FIBA did that.. just dont count the champions for the QT. No reason to have the already qualified teams hog up the space 

[hoversaBR 859]

49 minutes ago, George_D said:

One thing that i cant understand is why the teams which already have qualified they are also taking part. Their results can impact other teams classification 

I read somewhere that it's because women's teams hardly ever play, so it's an opportunity for the already qualified teams to play friendlies against teams from outside the continent. It was probably just a theory. How much sense does that make? I don't know... 

[Mr. Cam 14]

1 hour ago, Ozzy Kemp said:

I really dont understand why the FIBA did that.. just dont count the champions for the QT. No reason to have the already qualified teams hog up the space 

On 3/12/2026 at 6:07 PM, clemsonbeav said:

I'm assuming that the teams that already qualified are just competing now for experience?

Exactly!!!

 

Most teams have their actual Berlin roster.

[JoshMartini007 2,858]

1 hour ago, hoversaBR said:

I read somewhere that it's because women's teams hardly ever play, so it's an opportunity for the already qualified teams to play friendlies against teams from outside the continent. It was probably just a theory. How much sense does that make? I don't know... 

They could also host a 5 team tournament among the already qualified nations.

[Josh 13,426]

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[JoshMartini007 2,858]

Also the state of women's basketball in our continent outside of the United States is horrible. 

 

Puerto Rico may be the only other nation qualifying and that's because they are in a very easy group

[Josh 13,426]

 failed to qualify for the World Cup, disaster 

 

Worried we might not even qualify for the Olympics…

[CanadaWolvesFC 50]

So now Canada's hopes of qualifying is on the qualifying tournaments? How likely is qualifying?

[CanadaWolvesFC 50]

4 minutes ago, CanadaWolvesFC said:

So now Canada's hopes of qualifying is on the qualifying tournaments? How likely is qualifying?

looking at the qualifying document it says that 2 teams from the Americas qualify at the World Cup. But with only Puerto Rico having a chance at qualifying what would happen to the other Americas quota?

 

Edit:  nevermind I was looking at the wrong area lol 

Edited 55 minutes ago by CanadaWolvesFC