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The EuroBasket Women 2023 qualification was held from November 2021 to February 2023 to decide the 14 teams to join the co-hosts Israel and Slovenia. It featured 38 teams split in ten groups of three or four teams. The ten group winners and the four best second-ranked teams qualified for the final tournament.
The 24 national teams that qualified for EuroBasket 2022 automatically qualified for this stage. They were joined by eight teams qualified through the pre-qualifiers. In total, 32 teams were divided into eight home-and-away round robin groups of four teams. Games were played in 2021 and 2022. The bottom team from each group was eliminated.
The 2023 European Women Basketball Championship, commonly called EuroBasket Women 2023, was the 39th edition of the continental tournament in women's basketball, sanctioned by the FIBA Europe. It was co-hosted by Ljubljana, Slovenia and Tel Aviv, Israel from 15 to 25 June 2023. [1] Serbia was the defending champions.
However, the Russia national team could still enter qualification, as the ban only applied to the final tournament to decide the world champions. Russia appealed the ruling to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), [ 2 ] which ruled in favour of WADA on 17 December 2020, but cut the ban from four to two years. [ 3 ]
The qualifiers took place from November 2021 to February 2023 with 80 national teams competing for a spot in the World Cup. The road to the 2023 World Cup began in February 2020 with the start of the European pre-qualifiers, which ended in August 2021. The draw for the qualifiers were held on 31 August 2021 in Mies, Switzerland. [6] [7]
The qualifying tournaments took place from 2 to 5 October 2023 with six tournaments consisting of three teams, while one tournament will feature four teams. The winner of each tournament advanced to the regular season, which has been expanded for the 2023–24 season to feature 40 clubs split across 10 groups of four.
The final spot was determined by the additional qualifying round. The six teams were divided into two groups of three, with each group playing a double round-robin. The top team in each group played in the final against the other group's top team; the winner of that game received the final EuroBasket qualification spot.
Israel would eventually get things on track, as they finished the rest of group play at (3–3), enough to advance to the second and final round of qualifying. For the second round of World Cup qualifying, Israel was placed into Group L. Their first two matches of group play were tough loses against Georgia, and Germany.