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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.^[1] As hosts, Qatar will receive automatic qualification for the tournament.

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:^[2]

Team	Qualification		Appearance			Best performance	FIBA World Ranking[3]
	As	Date	Last	Total	Streak
Qatar	Host	28 April 2023	2006	2	1	21st place (2006)	TBD

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 at early 2025 in Doha.

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

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.

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.

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.

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Switzerland	2	2	0	158	116	+42	4	Second round		—	72–53	22 Feb	20 Feb
2	Azerbaijan	2	1	1	140	149	−9	3[a]	Second round if best second-placed team		24 Nov	—	87–77	23 Feb
3	Kosovo	2	1	1	160	163	−3	3[a]			23 Feb	20 Feb	—	83–76
4	Ireland	2	0	2	139	169	−30	2			63–86	21 Nov	24 Nov	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Luxembourg	2	1	1	134	144	−10	3	Second round		—	58–72	24 Nov
2	Norway	1	1	0	72	58	+14	2	Second round if best second-placed team		20 Feb	—	21 Nov
3	Romania	1	0	1	72	76	−4	1			72–76 (OT)	23 Feb	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Armenia	2	1	1	175	185	−10	3	Second round		—	24 Nov	84–79
2	Austria	1	1	0	106	91	+15	2	Second round if best second-placed team		106–91	—	23 Feb
3	Albania	1	0	1	79	84	−5	1			20 Feb	21 Nov	—

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