The world’s attention is directed towards Doha again when at seven in the evening this evening, the 2027 basketball World Cup qualifiers, with the Al -Hazm Mall as the first version to be held in the Middle East and North Africa region in the history of the World Cup.
The next version will be the largest in the history of the International Basketball Federation that is held in one city, with the participation of 32 teams in an effort to crown the title.
The lottery ceremony will be held at the Al -Hazm Mall theater in the presence of the President of the International Basketball Federation, Sheikh Saud Ali Al Thani, and the Secretary -General of the Federation, Andreas Zagkles, in addition to the Central Council of the Federation, and the President of the Qatar Basketball Federation, Muhammad Al -Mughaisib.
The ceremony will also be attended by the Ambassador of the International Basketball Federation (Fiba), the Olympic champion three times, the American basketball legend (NBA), Carmelo Anthony, along with the Qatari world champion Moataz Issa Barshm, who won four Olympic medals in the high jump, and the star Yassin Ismail, the legend of Gulf and Qatar basketball, and the world champion in 3×3, in addition to more than 60 representatives from National federations around the world.
The basketball World Cup qualifiers will play between November 2025 to March 2027, and six windows will be played for 420 games around the world, with 80 national teams competing to reserve their seats on the World Cup trip to Qatar 2027, with a total of 31 seats, after Al -Annabi qualified as a host.
80 teams compete for two years in the World Cup basketball qualifiers
The basketball World Cup qualifiers will play between November 2025 to March 2027, and six windows will be played for 420 games around the world, with 80 national teams competing to reserve their seats on the World Cup trip to Qatar 2027, with a total of 31 seats, after Al -Annabi qualified as a host.
The continents draw will be withdrawn separately, according to a different system for each continent according to the seats allocated by the International Federation, where the continent of Asia gets 7 seats other than the Qatar seat, compared to five seats for the continent of Africa, seven seats for the continent of America, and 12 seats for the continent of Europe with a total of 31 seats.
At the level of the Asian continent, 16 teams will participate in 6 windows to qualify for 7 seven teams to the World Cup, provided that the Qatari team will participate in the first and second rounds of the qualifiers, despite the guarantee of its qualification to the World Cup as the host.
The Asia Basketball World Cup qualifiers will start with the first round, which includes four groups, each with 4 teams, all of which play back and forth, provided that the first three teams of each group (the two best teams in Qatar Group) qualify to the second round.
The teams will be distributed in the second round in two new groups with the deportation of all the results, which means calculating each match, after that, each team will compete against the teams that you did not face in its group back and forth, to qualify the first three teams in each group, in addition to the best team that occupies fourth place, to the World Basketball Cup 2027, with a total of seven teams that the host Qatari team joins as the eighth representative of the continent in the tournament.