With regular and competitive tournaments scheduled throughout the year, the qualification system tips off in November 2023 to qualify teams for the Olympic Games.

For this current cycle, there will be a FIBA Women's Olympic Pre-Qualifying Tournament in one region - Americas – in November 2023, with 4 national teams playing in order to qualify for one of four global FIBA Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournaments. Accordingly, the 2 first placed teams in the FIBA Women's Olympic Pre-Qualifying Tournament are qualified for the FIBA Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournaments taking place in February 2024. USA (winner of the FIBA Women's World Cup 2022) plus the best following ranked team in the FIBA Women's AmeriCup 2023 are directly qualified for the FIBA Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournaments 2024.

In the other regions (Africa, Asia/Oceania, and Europe), teams will qualify directly for the FIBA Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournaments from each FIBA Women's Continental Cup.

• 2 highest placed teams in the FIBA Women's AfroBasket 2023
• 4 highest placed teams in the FIBA Women's Asia Cup 2023
• 6 highest placed teams in the FIBA Women's EuroBasket 2023

A total of 16 teams will participate in one of four global FIBA Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournaments taking place from 8 to 11 February 2024, 12 of them, including the host (France*) and the Winner of the FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup 2022 (USA), will qualify to the Women's Olympic Basketball Tournament.

The next Olympic Games will take place in Paris in 2024 from July 26 to August 11.