MIES (Switzerland) - The FIBA Women's Olympic Pre-Qualifying Tournament 2026 will be held in Guadalajara, Mexico, as eight nations take a first step on the road to Los Angeles 2028. The competition will take place from August 17-23, and the winner will qualify for the FIBA Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournaments set for February 2028. Featuring teams who didn't make it to the upcoming FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup 2026 in Berlin, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, New Zealand, the Philippines, Senegal and South Sudan all now have an exciting opportunity to bounce back quickly and fuel their Olympic dreams.
Mexico, as the best-non qualified team in the FIBA World Ranking for Women from the same continent will replace Colombia, who are unable to participate.
The competition will take place in Arena Astros, where several Basketball Champions League Americas games involving Astros Jalisco were successfully held earlier this year.
Draw and competition format
The draw for the FIBA Women's Olympic Pre-Qualifying Tournament will be held at the Patrick Baumann House of Basketball in Mies on Friday, June 20 at 16.00 (CET) and streamed live on the FIBA YouTube channel. The eight FIBA Women's Olympic Pre-Qualifying Tournament nations will be drawn into two groups of four. Each team will play against the other opponents in their group in a single round-robin format, meaning at least three games for every country heading to Guadalajara. The top two teams from each group will advance to the Semi-Finals, with the winner of the subsequent Final taking the ticket to the FIBA Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournaments 2028. For those nations that do not qualify in Guadalajara, they will all remain on the Road to LA 2028. They can still all progress to the FIBA Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournaments via next year's respective Women's Continental Cups 2027. Participating Teams in the FIBA Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournaments 2028: FIBA Women's AfroBasket: Top 2 teams
FIBA Women's AmeriCup: Top 4 teams FIBA Women's Asia Cup: Top 4 teams FIBA Women's EuroBasket: Top 6 teams The winner of Women's Olympic Pre-Qualifying Tournament 2026 will be coming in deduction of its respective region. The 12 best teams in the FIBA Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournaments 2028, including USA the host nation (pending approval of the FIBA Central Board) and FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup 2026 winner will qualify for LA 2028.
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