FIBA Basketball World Cup qualification the 1994 FIBA World Championship in Canada. This setup continued until the 2002 FIBA World Championship in the USA which were also the Olympic champions; the supposed berth for the Olympic champions were instead given to Americas, the USA's home zone. In the 2006 FIBA World Championship in Japan that saw the field expand to 24 teams, with four invited teams popularly called as "wild cards" were invited by FIBA. This setup will last until 2014, when FIBA announced that they were renaming the competition as the "FIBA Basketball World Cup". In 2012, FIBA announced that the supposed 2018 world
2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup bids the winning bid on 9 December 2017, during its year-end meeting in Mies, Switzerland. Central Board Members from the bidding nations did not participate in the poll. 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup bids The bidding process for the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup was the procedure for the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) in choosing the hosts for the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup. Originally, national federations are allowed to bid for both the 2019 and 2023 editions, but on 16 March 2015, FIBA announced the 2019 edition will be held in Asia, which was then awarded to China on 7