The 2025 FIBA Women's AmeriCup was the 18th edition of the FIBA Women's AmeriCup, which is the main tournament for senior women's basketball national teams of the FIBA Americas. It was held from 28 June to 6 July 2025 in Santiago, Chile.
The winner qualified for the 2026 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup and the top six teams (including the winner) will qualify for one of the qualifying tournaments for the 2026 World Cup.
Brazil were the defending champions, but failed to defend their title after losing in the final to United States.
The United States won its fifth title and qualified for the 2026 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup, after defeating Brazil 92âÂÂ84 in the finals. Alongside the USA, Brazil, Canada, Argentina, Colombia and Puerto Rico qualified for the qualifying tournaments for the World Cup.
On 22 May 2024, two weeks after receiving the 2024 South American Women's Championship, Chile was awarded the hosting rights for the 2025 FIBA Women's AmeriCup. This will be Chile's second time hosting the event after 2007 in Valdivia.
Qualifying took place between August and November 2024, consisting of two tournaments: the 2024 South American Championship for South American teams and the 2024 Centrobasket for teams from Central America and the Caribbean. In total, 17 countries took part in both competitions. Canada and United States were given automatic tickets to the tournament.
Overall, eight of the ten teams that participated in 2023 are present. As hosts, Chile qualified for the first time since 2015, while El Salvador qualified for their second appearance after missing out on 2023. Dominican Republic qualified for their fourth consecutive time for the first time ever. Cuba and Venezuela miss out having taken part in 2023.
The ten teams were split into two groups of five teams. The top four teams per group qualified to the quarterfinals. A first-placed team faced off against the fourth-placed team and a second-placed team battled against a third-placed team of the other group. A knockout-system was used after the preliminary round.
The venue for the entire competition was the in Chile's capital, Santiago. It is located in the , built for the 2023 Pan American Games. The venue inaugurated in 2023 and hosted Gymnastics at the 2023 Pan American Games and Wheelchair rugby at the 2023 Parapan American Games.
The final draw took place at 17:00 ET on 26 March 2025 at the FIBA Americas headquarters in Miami, United States. The guests for the draw were former players Carla Cortijo, Iziane Castro, and Sylvia Fowles. The draw started with, in order, pots 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 being drawn, with each team selected then allocated into the first available group alphabetically. The position for the team within the group would then be drawn (for the purpose of the schedule). Before the draw, hosts Chile had been pre-determined to be placed into position B4.
The seeding was revealed on 7 March 2025. The seeding was based on the FIBA Women's World Ranking as of 14 February 2025.
The following 17 referees were selected for the tournament.
Each nation had to submit a list of 12 players.
All times are local (UTCâÂÂ4).
5âÂÂ8th place bracket
Points
Rebounds
Assists
Blocks
Steals
Efficiency
The awards were announced on 7 July 2025.