EuroBasket Women 2025

The 2025 European Women Basketball Championship, commonly called EuroBasket Women 2025, is the 40th edition of the continental tournament in women's basketball, sanctioned by the FIBA Europe. It will be held in the Czech Republic, Germany, Greece and Italy.

The top six teams will qualify for one of the qualifying tournaments for the 2026 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup joining Germany who automatically qualified as host.

Belgium are the defending champions.

Bidding process

 Romania – In March 2023, the president of the Romanian Basketball Federation, Carmen Tocală, said that they intend to apply to host Group games in a new 5,000 capacity multi-complex arena in Constanța. This would be their third time hosting, after 1966 and 2015.

 Italy – On 14 July, the Italian Basketball Federation announced that they would bid for the hosting rights. This would be their eighth time hosting, after 1938, 1968, 1974, 1981, 1985, 1993 and 2007.

On 7 September 2023, FIBA announced that the Czech Republic (Brno), Germany (Hamburg), Greece (Piraeus) and Italy (unknown city) will host the tournament. Each country will host a group and the final round is scheduled to take place in Athens, Greece. Bologna was selected as the host city for Italy on 11 December 2023, while on the same day, the final round was relocated from Athens to Piraeus.

Qualification

The draw will take place on 19 September 2023. The qualification began in November 2023 and will end in February 2025.

Qualified teams

Venues

The tournament will be played in four venues in four cities. One venue will be used in one country each. The preliminary matches are scheduled to be held in Brno, Hamburg, Bologna and Piraeus. The final round was to be played in the Greek capital, Athens, but was changed to the port city, Piraeus, instead.

• Brno (Czech Republic): Winning Group Arena (Capacity: 7,700)
• Hamburg (Germany): Edel-optics.de Arena (Capacity: 3,400)
• Bologna (Italy): PalaDozza (Capacity: 5,570)
• Piraeus (Greece): Peace and Friendship Stadium (Capacity: 11,640)

Draw

The draw will take place in March 2025. Before the draw, in May 2024, the allocation of the groups were announced:

• Group A will play in Piraeus, Greece.
• Group B will play in Bologna, Italy.
• Group C will play in Brno, Czech Republic.
• Group D will play in Hamburg, Germany.

Marketing

The official logo was revealed on 8 March 2024 to mark International Women's Day.

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