WHAT roads would teams set to vie for slots in the 2023 FIBA World Cup take?That will be known today.
The keenly-awaited official draw ceremony for the World Cup qualifiers takes place today at the Patrick Baumann House of Basketball in Mies, Switzerland.
The ceremony marks the tip-off as squads try to successfully navigate their way on the road to the World Cup two years from now in the Philippines, Indonesia, and Japan, the first time three countries will co-host the tilt.
Continuing with FIBA’s new era of event qualification implemented in the 2019 World Cup, the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023 competition system is composed of six windows played over 15 months across the four regions of Africa, Americas, Asia/Oceania, and Europe.
Each qualification window lasts nine days, with the windows running from November 2021 to February 2023.
Eighty countries will try to be included among the 32 teams at the World Cup and it will take teams a cumulative 420 games to get there.
The national sides play home and away games across each of these event windows, a surefire way to ensure there’s intense national team play for players and fans to experience all around the world.
Africa will have 16 national teams vying for five spots in the World Cup.
The Americas qualifiers will feature 16 countries going for seven places, while the Asia/Oceania region will have 16 teams vying for six spots.
The European qualifiers will feature 32 countries with the 12 top gaining World Cup entry.
