2026 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup Pre-Qualifying Tournaments

The 2026 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup Pre-Qualifying Tournaments will be held from 19 to 25 August 2024 in Mexico City, Mexico and Kigali, Rwanda. The winner of each tournament, are qualified for the 2026 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup Qualifying Tournaments.

Creation
On 2 February 2022, FIBA announced a new tournament that would act as pre qualifiers for the next Olympics or World Cup. It would replace the regional pre-qualifiers that started in 2019 and was created to give more opportunities for member associations to play more meaningful games.

Format
16 teams (four per continent) will participate in two tournaments, where the winning team will advance to the 2026 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup Qualifying Tournaments. Originally, the 16 teams would play for only 1 spot in the global qualifiers. However, on 28 November 2023, FIBA decided to increase to spots from one to two.

Teams
Teams qualified via their final ranking at the FIBA Continental Cups in 2023. Despite originally qualifying, Colombia (5th at the 2023 FIBA Women's AmeriCup) and Italy (9th at the EuroBasket Women 2023) didn't enter. Mexico and Great Britain took the vacant spots.


 * QT Participated in the 2024 FIBA Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournaments
 * 4th, 5th, 6th: Position at the continental championship.

Draw
The draw was held at 14:00 CET on 25 April 2024 at the FIBA headquarters in Mies, Switzerland. Rwandan Minister of Sports, Aurore Mimosa Munyangaju, helped perform the draw.

Seeding
The seeding was revealed on 24 April 2024. As hosts of the pre-qualifiers, Mexico and Rwanda were placed into pot 1.

Tournament 1
The schedule was announced on 29 April 2024.

All times are local (UTC−6).

Tournament 2
The schedule was announced on 29 April 2024.

All times are local (UTC−2).