Germany and Qatar will organize the Women’s and Men’s Mundobasket of 2026 and 2027

MADRID, 28 Abr. (EUROPA PRESS) –

FIBA granted this Friday to Germany and Qatar the organizations of the 2026 Women’s World Cup and the 2027 Men’s World Cup respectively, as decided by the Central Committee of the organization.

In this way, the women’s competition will be held in September in Berlin, in what will be the second time that Germany has hosted this event, which it already hosted in 1998. Last year, the country will host another major international championship after being one of the venues of the Men’s Eurobasket.

“We are happy with the work of the German federation and for awarding the celebration of the 2026 Women’s World Cup to Germany. We have received important candidacies that confirm the excellent moment of women’s basketball after the success of the last edition in Sydney,” Hamane explained. Niang, FIBA ​​President.

This Mundobasket will host 16 teams that will qualify through previous qualifying tournaments and in 2024 new pre-qualifying tournaments will be introduced, increasing the options to participate, indicated from FIBA. “There is no doubt that this will be an exceptional new event and that women’s basketball will continue to grow worldwide,” said Andreas Zagklis, secretary general of the organization.

The Central Committee also announced that the Qatar Basketball Federation (QBF) will be the organizer of the 2027 Men’s World Cup and that all matches will be played in the capital Doha. The Asian country already organized the World Cup last year and in 2015 it also hosted the men’s handball.

For FIBA, the Qatari candidacy has shown “great flexibility with the programming of the matches and has placed an emphasis on sustainability since all the pavilions are already built and use ecological technology that meets the FIBA ​​objective of carbon neutral events by 2027 “. “We are impressed with the candidacy,” Niang stressed.

“It is going to be really special to be able to have the 32 participating teams in the same city and we are sure that fans will be able to live a unique experience having access to more matches. In addition, we must highlight the extensive experience they have in organizing international sporting events of top level, world cups, cups and other Olympic sports,” said Zagklis.

On the other hand, FIBA ​​also reported that the final phase of the 2023 World Cup will be held at the Mall of Asia pavilion and the first two matches of the Philippine group in the first phase will take place at the Philippines Arena.