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The IFWNA Wheel of Nations Cup 2024 is the 1st Wheel of Nations Cup, the world championship for national wheeling nations organized by IFWNA. The event will take place on May 25 to 9 June 2024. It will be hosted by 5 cities in France after the IFWNA appointed them the hosting rights for this tournament. It will be the first-ever Wheel of Nation Cup event in the history and the first time that Europe hosted the tournament.

Format
The IFWNA Wheel of Nation Cup is an international wheeling event held between nations of the world, organized by IFWNA. The tournament qualification process started in September 17, 2023 and concluded in May 18, 2024, and this is the first edition of the event in France, and it will be contested by 32 nations since this edition. The tournament is contested with eight round-robin teams groups followed by a knockout round for the 16 teams. The official dates for this event were revealed on May 15, 2024.

Venues
With the help of the France National Wheeling Committee, the French Government, and the IFWNA, 8 venues were unveiled for the Wheel of Nations Cup on September 16, 2023. 4 of the venues are stadiums and Stade de France is the main and the opening venue for the Nations Cup, and the other 4 venues are arenas. All of these venues will hold the Group Stage and the Round of 16 Matches. Meanwhile, the 4 stadiums will hold the Quarter Finals Matches. Stade de France & Stade Vélodrome will hold the Semi-Final Matches, Paris La Défense Arena will hold the Bronze Medal Match, and Stade de France will be the venue for the Finals and the Opening and Closing Ceremony of the 1st Wheel of Nations 2024.

Qualification
Main Article: 2024 IFWNA Wheel of Nations Cup qualifications

IFWNA's six continental confederations organized their qualifying competitions. All 210 IFWNA member associations were eligible to enter qualification. France, as hosts, qualified automatically for the tournament. However, the Confederation of European Wheel Association (CEWA) obliged France to participate in the first round of European qualifiers, and France placed third place in Group G.

Bangladesh initially entered the WAF first round qualifiers and won, but withdrew to the second round due to lack of funding, Israel also participate to the first round of CEWA qualifiers, but due to nations pressuring the IFWNA and amid on what's happening to the Israel–Hamas war, the IFWNA suspended Israel to participate to the qualifiers.

The qualified teams, listed by region, with numbers in parentheses indicating final positions in the IFWNA World Ranking in August 2023

WAF (5)
 * 🇯🇵 Japan (24)
 * 🇰🇷 South Korea (16)
 * 🇵🇭 Philippines (3)
 * 🇮🇳 India (8)
 * (52)

AWF (4)
 * 🇹🇳 Tunisia (25)
 * 🇰🇪 Kenya (36)
 * 🇳🇬 Nigeria (51)
 * 🇿🇦 South Africa (10)

FENACCAWA (3) CONSUDAS (5) OWF (1)
 * 🇺🇸 United States (1)
 * 🇲🇽 Mexico (47)
 * 🇨🇷 Costa Rica (41)
 * 🇨🇴 Colombia (12)
 * 🇺🇾 Uruguay (18)
 * 🇧🇷 Brazil (6)
 * 🇦🇷 Argentina (29)
 * 🇻🇪 Venezuela (17)
 * 🇳🇿 New Zealand (33)

CEWA (14)
 * 🇨🇭 Switzerland (39)
 * 🇸🇪 Sweden (32)
 * 🇫🇮 Finland (19)
 * Great Britain (5)
 * 🇫🇷 France (4) (host)
 * 🇭🇷 Croatia (23)
 * 🇷🇸 Serbia (9)
 * 🇵🇹 Portugal (136)
 * 🇨🇿 Czech Republic (11)
 * 🇩🇪 Germany (14)
 * 🇮🇸 Iceland (44)
 * 🇪🇸 Spain (3)
 * Türkiye (20)
 * 🇮🇹 Italy (27)

Draw
The final draw will be held in Paris Expo Porte de Versailles, in Paris, France, on May 22, 2024 19:00 CET. The draw is expected to have 3,400 guesses.

For the draw, 32 teams were allocated into four pots based on the IFWNA World Rankings of August 2023. Pot 1 contained host France (who were automatically assigned to position A1) and the best seven teams. Pot 2 contained the next best eight teams, with the next best eight teams into pot 3. Pot 4 contained the five lowest-ranked teams.

Group Stage
The group stage was played from May 25 to June 6. Competing nations were divided into eight groups of four nations (groups A to H). Teams in each group played one another in a round-robin, where the top two teams advanced to the knockout stage.

Bracket
The tournament bracket is shown below, with bold denoting the winners of each match.

