MUNICH (Germany) - The FIBA Women's EuroBasket Qualifiers have a strong tradition of producing some exciting basketball and shock results, with the first window in the race to make the 2027 edition proving to be no different.
There were surprises across all gamedays, with the FIBA World Ranking Women, presented by NIKE serving as the perfect reference point to assess the scale of the upsets.
Here at the 10 biggest upsets of Window 1:
# | Team | Opponent | Result | Difference in Ranking |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Austria (#82) | vs Great Britain (#22) | 85-81 | 60 |
2 | Ireland (#83) | vs Bosnia and Herzegovina (#29) | 94-67 | 54 |
3 | Bulgaria (#61) | vs Montenegro (#24) | 66-62 | 37 |
4 | Finland (#64) | vs Sweden (#28) | 86-77 | 36 |
5 | Netherlands (#56) | vs Slovenia (#23) | 86-76 | 33 |
| Austria (#82) | vs Switzerland (#49) | 97-78 | 33 |
7 | Lithuania (#31) | vs Belgium (#5) | 73-69 | 26 |
8 | Luxembourg (#54) | vs Bosnia and Herzegovina (#29) | 75-39 | 25 |
9 | Israel (#52) | vs Bosnia and Herzegovina (#29) | 98-91 | 23 |
10 | Denmark (#59) | vs Croatia (#40) | 89-77 | 19 |
| Bulgaria (#61) | vs Ukraine (#42) | 80-60 | 19 |
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