The Rugby Europe Championship 2021 and 2022 editions double up as the qualification process for Rugby World Cup 2023.
The top two directly qualify following those two seasons for Rugby World Cup, whilst the third place team goes into the Final Qualification Tournament, which will be organised by World Rugby.
Georgia, Romania, Portugal, Spain, Russia, and the Netherlands will compete in five rounds of competition to be held throughout February and March.
22 November, 2021
28 February, 2023
How countries qualify for the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023
European teams will qualify for the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023 through six tournament windows over 15 months. The Qualifiers run from November 2021 to February 2023, with national sides playing home and away games in each of these event windows. 12 European countries will earn a spot to compete at the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023.
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Event Timeline
31 Aug 21 Draw for #FIBAWC 2023 Qualifiers
25 Nov 21 1st Window | Qualifiers
24 Feb 22 2nd Window | Qualifiers
30 Jun 22 3rd Window | Qualifiers
24 Aug 22 4th Window | Qualifiers
10 Nov 22 5th Window | Qualifiers
23 Feb 23 6th Window | Qualifiers
25 Aug 23 Start of FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023
- 1st Round
- 2nd Round
Attracting millions of viewers around the globe and inspiring a future generation of players, the next edition of the FIBA Basketball World Cup will take place from August 25 to September 10, 2023 in Indonesia, Japan and the Philippines.
Twelve European nations will qualify for the 32 country field that comprises the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023. With Spain coming into this World Cup as the reigning champs, can they keep up their winning ways in 2023?
- Road to the #FIBAWC 2023
The 2023 Women’s World Cup will be the first 32-team event of its kind, and qualifying for a trip to Australia and New Zealand next summer has been unique all over the world. In only one region, Europe, is there a dedicated qualifying tournament solely for the competition, where 11 nations will ultimately and directly punch their tickets.
In Asia and Africa, their regional cup competitions—Asian Cup and Cup of Nations—doubled as qualifying, with finishers of a certain tier also booking their World Cup trips. In Concacaf and South America, the new W Championship and Copa América Femenina, respectively, doubled as World Cup and Olympic qualifying, while in Oceania, qualifying beyond co-host New Zealand was limited to one tournament, the OFC Women’s Nations Cup, whose winner was only guaranteed a place in a new 10-team intercontinental playoff.
That tournament, used as a test event for New Zealand in February 2023, will offer a last chance for three more nations to fill out the biggest Women’s World Cup field ever and fully set the course for next summer. The draw for the ninth Women’s World Cup will be held Oct. 22, so, just like on the men’s side this year, the pots will contain placeholders for the three successful playoff teams, and all eight groups will officially be filled a few months later.
Here’s a closer look at the Women’s World Cup qualifying field and where the remaining places will come from—as 31 other nations try to prevent the U.S. women’s national team from completing a three-peat and winning for a record fifth time.
QUALIFIED TEAMS
Australia [Host nation; Eighth appearance]
New Zealand [Host nation; Sixth appearance]
Japan [AFC Asian Cup semifinalist; Ninth appearance]
Philippines [AFC Asian Cup semifinalist; First appearance]
South Korea [AFC Asian Cup runner-up; Fourth
appearance]
China [AFC Asian Cup winner; Eighth appearance]
Vietnam [AFC Asian Cup playoff winner; First appearance]
Sweden [UEFA World Cup qualifying Group A winner; Ninth appearance]
Spain [UEFA World Cup qualifying Group B winner; Third appearance]
Denmark [UEFA World Cup qualifying Group E winner; Fifth appearance]
France [UEFA World Cup qualifying Group I winner; Fifth
appearance]
United States [Concacaf W Championship winner; Ninth appearance]
Canada [Concacaf W Championship finalist; Eighth appearance]
Costa Rica [Concacaf W Championship semifinalist; Second appearance]
Jamaica [Concacaf W Championship semifinalist; Second appearance]
Zambia [Africa Cup of Nations semifinalist; First appearance]
Morocco [Africa Cup of Nations finalist;
First appearance]
Nigeria [Africa Cup of Nations semifinalist; Ninth appearance]
South Africa [Africa Cup of Nations winner; Second appearance]
Colombia [Copa América Femenina finalist; Third appearance]
Brazil [Copa América Femenina finalist; Ninth appearance]
Argentina [Copa América Femenina third-place finisher; Fourth appearance]
England [UEFA World Cup qualifying Group D
winner; Sixth appearance]
Norway [UEFA World Cup qualifying Group F winner; Ninth appearance]
Italy [UEFA World Cup qualifying Group G winner; Fourth appearance]
Germany [UEFA World Cup qualifying Group H winner; Ninth appearance]
Netherlands [UEFA World Cup qualifying Group C winner; Third appearance]
STILL LEFT TO QUALIFY
UEFA
In addition to the automatic nine slots at the World Cup, two more are decided via playoff, with the nine second-place group finishers in UEFA’s qualifying tournament given another chance. Two of those nine teams will qualify automatically, while a third will go into the intercontinental playoff.
In the UEFA playoff, the three best second-place finishers [Ireland, Iceland, Switzerland] will receive byes, while the six worst [Scotland, Austria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Belgium, Portugal, Wales] are drawn into head-to-head matchups that will eliminate three sides.
The three winners from the second round are then ranked in a table by combining their group finishes and their playoff victories. The top two go to the World Cup, while the third goes to the intercontinental playoff.
The playoff tournament takes place from Oct. 3–11.
INTERCONTINENTAL PLAYOFF
Ten teams will compete for three places in a first-of-its-kind World Cup qualifying tournament next February in New Zealand.
Two teams apiece from Asia [Chinese Taipei, Thailand], Africa [Cameroon, Senegal], Concacaf [Panama, Haiti] and South America [Chile, Paraguay], and one apiece from Oceania [Papua New Guinea] and UEFA make up the field, which is split into two groups of three and one group of four, with the winners of each group advancing to the World Cup.
The FIFA world ranking comes into play in that the top four-ranked teams will be seeded [there can only be one seeded team in each confederation], with the two highest seeds going into the groups of three. That’s significant, because it comes with byes through the semifinals and requires them to win just one more game to reach the World Cup.
The other two seeds go into the four-team group, and the rest of the field will be drawn at random, although no teams from the same confederation can wind up in the same bracket. The final berths in the World Cup will be clinched on Feb. 22 and 23.
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