2027 FIBA Basketball World Cup
The 2027 FIBA Basketball World Cup will be the 20th tournament of the FIBA Basketball World Cup for men's national basketball teams. The tournament will be hosted in Qatar between 27 August and 12 September 2027. It will be the third to feature 32 teams.

It will be the first FIBA Basketball World Cup to be held in the Arab world, and the third straight to be held in Asia after the 2019 tournament in China and the 2023 edition co-hosted by the Philippines, Japan, and Indonesia. Qatar will also be the second Muslim country to host after the 2010 edition in Turkey.

Host selection

During its Central Board meeting in Manila, Philippines, on 28 April 2023, FIBA announced that Qatar will host the upcoming World Cup in 2027.

Venues
In their official bid video, Qatar proposed four venues for the World Cup.

Qualification

As hosts, Qatar earned an automatic qualification for the tournament when they were awarded the hosting rights.

80 teams from four FIBA zones will qualify for the World Cup qualifiers through qualification for the FIBA Continental Cups (AfroBasket 2025, 2025 FIBA AmeriCup, 2025 FIBA Asia Cup, and EuroBasket 2025). For Europe and the Americas, additional teams will qualify through the pre-qualifiers of the said regions. The participants of both the AfroBasket and the Asia Cup comprise the teams that will also take part in the qualifiers for their respective regions.

The first round of the Americas, Asia/Oceania, and Africa qualifiers will feature 16 teams each, whereas Europe will have 32 teams. Division A teams will be split into groups of four, to be held in a home-and-away round-robin. The top three teams in each group will advance to the second round. In round two of the World Cup qualifiers, teams will be split into six groups, totaling four groups in Europe and two in the other qualifiers. Teams carried over the points from round one, and faced the other three teams again in a home-and-away round-robin. The best teams in each group will qualify for the World Cup. No wild card selection will be held, and the Olympic champions will not be guaranteed a spot in the tournament.

The qualifiers will start on 24 November 2025.

The complete field of 32 teams that will participate in the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2027 will be determined on 2 March 2027, at the conclusion of the sixth window of qualifiers.

Qualified teams

See also
 2026 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup

References

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