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The 2027 FIBA Basketball World Cup qualification process will determine 31 of the 32 teams that will qualify for the 2027 FIBA Basketball World Cup. As hosts, Qatar will receive automatic qualification for the tournament.

Schedule of windows

Similar to the 2019 and the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup qualifications, the matches will be held in six windows over a 15-month period across all FIBA regions. 80 national teams will compete during the qualification process. The schedule for the six windows is as follows:

Qualified teams

Team	Qualification		Appearance				Best performance	FIBA World Ranking
	As	Date	First	Last	Total	Streak
Qatar	Host	28 April 2023	2006	2006	2	1	21st place (2006)	TBD

Format

The qualifiers format for the 2027 FIBA Basketball World Cup remained unchanged, with six windows over a 15-month period across the four regions of Africa, Americas, Asia (including Oceania) and Europe. The qualifiers took place from November 2025 to March 2027 with 80 national teams competing for a spot in the World Cup.

The road to the 2027 World Cup will begin in February 2024 with the start of the European pre-qualifiers, which will end at August 2024.

The draw for the qualifiers will be held at early 2025 in Doha.

Confederation qualifications

FIBA Africa

The 16 teams that qualified for the AfroBasket 2025 will participate in the African qualifiers.

FIBA Americas

The 16 teams including 12 from the 2025 FIBA AmeriCup and the 4 teams from the Americas pre-qualifiers will participate in the Americas qualifiers.

FIBA Asia and FIBA Oceania

The 16 teams that qualified for the 2025 FIBA Asia Cup will participate in the Asian qualifiers. Qatar will participate despite already qualified automatically as host.

FIBA Europe

The 32 teams including 24 from the EuroBasket 2025 and the 8 teams from the European pre-qualifiers will participate in the European qualifiers. Due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russia's participation remains to be seen as the country is currently banned from competing.

Pre-qualifiers

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Switzerland	4	4	0	318	214	+104	8	Second round		—	20 Feb	72–53	75–43
2	Ireland	4	2	2	321	321	0	6	Second round if best second-placed team		63–86	—	91–67	91–85
3	Azerbaijan	4	1	3	262	325	−63	5			55–85	23 Feb	—	87–77
4	Kosovo	4	1	3	288	329	−41	5			23 Feb	83–76	20 Feb	—

Group B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Romania	3	2	1	231	216	+15	5	Second round		—	72–76 (OT)	23 Feb
2	Luxembourg	3	1	2	212	228	−16	4	Second round if best second-placed team		24 Nov	—	58–72
3	Norway	2	1	1	134	133	+1	3			21 Nov	20 Feb	—

Group C

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Austria (A)	3	3	0	334	234	+100	6	Second round		—	106–91	23 Feb
2	Armenia	3	1	2	255	314	−59	4	Second round if best second-placed team		80–129	—	84–79
3	Albania	2	0	2	142	183	−41	2			63–99	20 Feb	—

References

1. "Qatar to host men's basketball World Cup in 2027". ESPN. 28 April 2023. Retrieved 27 July 2013.
2. "Qualifiers". FIBA. Retrieved 7 July 2023.
3. "FIBA World Ranking Presented by NIKE, men". FIBA.

External links

• website

• FIBA Basketball World Cup qualification
• 2027 FIBA Basketball World Cup qualification