The FIBA EuroBasket Women 2017 Draw will take place in Czech capital Prague on 9 December 2016. The draw ceremony will commence at 17:30 CET and can be followed live on YouTube.com/FIBA and Facebook.com/FIBA.
The Draw will see the 16 teams being drawn into four groups of four teams each. Based on the decision of the Competitions Commission and the Board of FIBA Europe, the teams have been seeded according to their results at EuroBasket Women 2015 and the FIBA EuroBasket Women 2017 Qualifiers, on a 50-50 basis.
The seedings are as follows:
Seed
Team
Ranking 2015
Ranking 2017 Qualifiers
Average ranking
1
France
2
2
2*
1
Spain
3
1
2*
1
Russia
6
3
4.5
1
Turkey
5
6
5.5
2
Serbia
1
12
6.5
2
Belarus
4
15
9.5
2
Ukraine
16
4
10
2
Montenegro
7
14
10.5*
3
Greece
10
11
10.5*
3
Slovak Republic
9
13
11*
3
Czech Republic
11
n/a
11*
3
Latvia
13
10
11.5
4
Italy
15
9
12
4
Hungary
17
8
12.5
4
Belgium
21
5
13
4
Slovenia
22
7
14.5
*The ranking at EuroBasket Women 2015 serves as tiebreaker