MUNICH (Germany) - The FIBA Women's EuroBasket 2027 Qualifiers mark a new chapter in the qualification pathway to Europe's flagship event, with the competition system revamped ahead of the upcoming cycle.
Designed to promote greater parity in qualification opportunities and ensure regular games for all national teams throughout the campaign, the new format will see action take place across four windows starting with November 2025 and culminating in February 2027.
A total of 38 national teams have registered to take part in the FIBA Women's EuroBasket 2027 Qualifiers, which will be split into two stages – First Round and Second Round, each played across two windows.
First Round
Window 1: November 9-19, 2025
Window 2: March 8-18, 2026
Second Round
Window 3: November 8-18, 2026
Window 4: February 7-17, 2027
The four FIBA Women's EuroBasket 2027 co-hosts – Belgium, Finland, Lithuania and Sweden – are qualified for the event automatically and will be placed a separate group, which will be played throughout the Qualifiers campaign.
But how will it work? Let's take a closer look!
First Round
27 national teams will begin their qualification journey in the First Round, which will be played in November 2025 and March 2026.
Teams will be drawn into six groups of four teams and one group of three teams – and will play in a round-robin format. Each window will consist of three gamedays each.
The teams participating in the First Round are as follows: Austria, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Great Britain, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Latvia, Luxembourg, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Ukraine.
The winners and runners-up of each group, as well as the three best-ranked third-placed teams – 17 teams in total – will progress to the Second Round.
To determine the three best-ranked third placed teams in the First Round, all third placed teams will be ranked according to the Official Basketball Rules and the results against the fourth placed teams will be disregarded.
Belgium, Spain, Italy, France, Germany, Czechia, Türkiye and Hungary will participate in the FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup Qualifying Tournaments in March 2026.
Belgium and the three other co-hosts – Finland, Lithuania and Sweden – will participate in Group H, while the remaining seven teams are automatically qualified to the Second Round.
The teams eliminated after the First Round will move to the FIBA Women's EuroBasket 2029 Pre-Qualifiers.
Second Round
The Second Round lineup will consist of 24 teams: 17 teams from the First Round and seven teams from the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2026 Qualifying Tournaments – Czechia, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Spain and Türkiye.
A draw will be held before the start of the Second Round and the teams will be split into six groups of four teams each, once again playing in a round-robin format in November 2025 and March 2026.
Each window will consist of three gamedays each.
The top two teams from each group will qualify for the FIBA Women's EuroBasket 2027 via the Qualifiers, joining the four automatically qualified hosts.
Hosts
The four co-hosts of FIBA Women's EuroBasket 2027 – Belgium, Finland, Lithuania and Sweden – are all placed in Group H, which will run parallel to the First Round and the Second Round.
They will be in action in three of the four windows, November 2025; November 2026; and February 2027 - playing two games in each window.
Draw
The FIBA Women's EuroBasket 2027 Qualifiers Draw will take place at 13:00 CET on Wednesday, July 23, 2025 in Munich, Germany.
The ceremony will be livestreamed on FIBA's official YouTube channel.
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