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
2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup qualification (Americas) 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup qualification (Americas) The 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup qualification (Americas) process will determine the 7 Americas teams that will participate at the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup. It will be held from November 2017 to February 2019. The top five teams at the 2016 Centrobasket and 2016 South American Basketball Championship, plus the two teams from North America, qualified directly to the 2019 FIBA World Cup qualification. Four additional teams were scheduled to be selected at a pre-qualifier tournament in July 2017, but it was canceled. Instead, the sixth and seventh placed teams at the