# 2027 FIBA Basketball World Cup qualification

The 2027 FIBA Basketball World Cup qualification process will determine 31 of the 32 teams that will qualify for the 2027 FIBA Basketball World Cup. As hosts, Qatar will receive automatic qualification for the tournament.

## Schedule of windows

Similar to the 2019 and the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup qualifications, the matches will be held in six windows over a 15-month period across all FIBA regions. 80 national teams will compete during the qualification process. The schedule for the six windows is as follows:
| Window | Dates |
| 1 | 24 November – 2 December 2025 |
| 2 | 23 February – 3 March 2026 |
| 3 | 29 June – 7 July 2026 |
| 4 | 24 August – 1 September 2026 |
| 5 | 23 November – 1 December 2026 |
| 6 | 22 February – 2 March 2027 |

## Qualified teams

| Team | Qualification | Qualification | Appearance | Appearance | Appearance | Appearance | Best performance | FIBA World Ranking |
| Team | As | Date | First | Last | Total | Streak | Best performance | FIBA World Ranking |
| Qatar | Host | 28 April 2023 | 2006 | 2006 | 2 | 1 | 21st place (2006) | TBD |

## Format

The qualifiers format for the 2027 FIBA Basketball World Cup remained unchanged, with six windows over a 15-month period across the four regions of Africa, Americas, Asia (including Oceania) and Europe. The qualifiers took place from November 2025 to March 2027 with 80 national teams competing for a spot in the World Cup.
The road to the 2027 World Cup will begin in February 2024 with the start of the European pre-qualifiers, which will end at August 2024.
The draw for the qualifiers will be held on 13 May 2025 in Doha.
| FIBA zone | Qualifying tournaments | Qualifying tournaments | World Cup berths | World Cup berths | World Cup berths |
| FIBA zone | Division A top ranked teams | Division B maximum possible entrants | Allocated berths | Berth as the host nation | Total berths |
| FIBA Africa | 16 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| FIBA Americas | 16 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| FIBA Asia FIBA Oceania | 16 | 17 | 7 | 1 | 8 |
| FIBA Europe | 32 | 13 | 12 | 0 | 12 |
| Total | 80 | 114 | 31 | 1 | 32 |

## Confederation qualifications
### FIBA Africa

The 16 teams that qualified for the AfroBasket 2025 will participate in the African qualifiers.

### FIBA Americas

The 16 teams including 12 from the 2025 FIBA AmeriCup and the 4 teams from the Americas pre-qualifiers will participate in the Americas qualifiers.

### FIBA Asia and FIBA Oceania

The 16 teams that qualified for the 2025 FIBA Asia Cup will participate in the Asian qualifiers. Qatar will participate despite already qualified automatically as host.

### FIBA Europe

The 32 teams including 24 from the EuroBasket 2025 and the 8 teams from the European pre-qualifiers will participate in the European qualifiers. Due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russia's participation remains to be seen as the country is currently banned from competing.

#### Pre-qualifiers
##### First round
###### Group A

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification | | | | |
| 1 | Switzerland | 6 | 6 | 0 | 484 | 341 | +143 | 12 | Second round | — | 85–54 | 75–43 | 72–53 |
| 2 | Ireland | 6 | 3 | 3 | 454 | 470 | −16 | 9 | | 63–86 | — | 91–85 | 91–67 |
| 3 | Kosovo | 6 | 2 | 4 | 442 | 489 | −47 | 8 | | 73–81 | 83–76 | — | 81–79 |
| 4 | Azerbaijan | 6 | 1 | 5 | 405 | 485 | −80 | 7 | | 55–85 | 64–79 | 87–77 | — |

###### Group B

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification | | | |
| 1 | Romania | 4 | 3 | 1 | 316 | 287 | +29 | 7 | Second round | — | 85–71 | 72–76 (OT) |
| 2 | Norway | 4 | 2 | 2 | 273 | 277 | −4 | 6 | Second round | 62–75 | — | 68–59 |
| 3 | Luxembourg | 4 | 1 | 3 | 271 | 296 | −25 | 5 | | 78–84 | 58–72 | — |

###### Group C

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification | | | |
| 1 | Austria | 4 | 3 | 1 | 401 | 312 | +89 | 7 | Second round | — | 106–91 | 67–78 |
| 2 | Armenia | 4 | 2 | 2 | 346 | 384 | −38 | 6 | | 80–129 | — | 84–79 |
| 3 | Albania | 4 | 1 | 3 | 290 | 341 | −51 | 5 | | 63–99 | 67–91 | — |

##### Second round
###### Group D

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification | SVK | SUI | UKR |
| 1 | Slovakia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Qualifiers | — | 2 Aug | 20 Aug |
| 2 | Switzerland | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Qualifiers | 13 Aug | — | 6 Aug |
| 3 | Ukraine | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | 9 Aug | 16 Aug | — |

###### Group E

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification | MKD | ROU | HUN |
| 1 | North Macedonia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Qualifiers | — | 2 Aug | 20 Aug |
| 2 | Romania | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Qualifiers | 13 Aug | — | 6 Aug |
| 3 | Hungary | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | 9 Aug | 16 Aug | — |

###### Group F

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification | NED | AUT | BUL |
| 1 | Netherlands | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Qualifiers | — | 2 Aug | 20 Aug |
| 2 | Austria | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Qualifiers | 13 Aug | — | 6 Aug |
| 3 | Bulgaria | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | 9 Aug | 16 Aug | — |

###### Group G

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification | DEN | NOR | CRO |
| 1 | Denmark | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Qualifiers | — | 2 Aug | 20 Aug |
| 2 | Norway | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Qualifiers | 13 Aug | — | 6 Aug |
| 3 | Croatia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | 9 Aug | 16 Aug | — |