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 bids for 2023 and award hosts for events at the same time. On 16 April 2014, in a press release, FIBA announced the bidding calendar for the 2019 and/or 2023 Basketball World Cup. On 16 March 2015, FIBA announced that its Executive Committee has decided that the 2019 World Cup would be held in Asia, putting the bids of China and the Philippines as the final candidates in the running as hosts. Bids from Germany, Turkey and Qatar were moved for the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup. Those from France, Lithuania, Russia, Venezuela, and Mexico were disregarded. After the final bid