The 2025 Women's European Basketball Championship, commonly called EuroBasket Women 2025, was the 40th edition of the biannual continental tournament in women's basketball, sanctioned by the FIBA Europe. It was held in Czechia, Germany, Italy and Greece from 18 to 29 June 2025. This was the first FIBA Women's EuroBasket to be hosted by four countries, copying the hosting format used for the men's EuroBasket since 2015. The tournament involved 16 teams, with the four co-hosts qualifying automatically. Portugal made their debut while Switzerland returned after 69 years.
The winner qualified for the 2026 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup and the top five teams (including the winner) will qualify for one of the qualifying tournaments for the 2026 World Cup. Germany (as host) and Czechia (as winner of a Pre-Qualifying Tournament) had already qualified for the qualifying tournaments and should one or both of these teams finish in the qualifying positions, the next-best team(s) qualified instead.
Belgium were the defending champions. The Belgians would go undefeated and successfully defend their title with a 67âÂÂ65 win over Spain, despite being down by 12 points with three minutes left. Belgium became the third country after Soviet Union and Spain to defend their title. Emma Meesseman won her second MVP award in a row, becoming the first player to win it twice. Mariona Ortiz received the best defensive player award while JustàJocytàwon the rising star award, given to the best young player.
The tournament broke many records on and off the court and was deemed a big success by FIBA Europe. This edition broke the attendance record with 92,851 fans at games. This edition also broke the single game attendance record for the 21st century as Greece's do or die game against Turkey in Piraeus would garner 10,503 spectators, breaking the record previously held by the quarterfinal game between Russia vs Latvia in 2009. On the field, Italy won their first medal the 30 years while Germany and Slovenia achieved their best ever result with fifth and ninth respectively. France's win 111âÂÂ37 over Switzerland was the biggest winning margin in 49 years.
The following countries applied:
On 7 September 2023, FIBA announced that the Czechia (Brno), Germany (Hamburg), Greece (Piraeus) and Italy (unknown city) will host the tournament. Each country will host a group and the final round is scheduled to take place in Athens, Greece. Bologna was selected as the host city for Italy on 11 December 2023, while on the same day, the final round was relocated from Athens to Piraeus.
32 teams took part in qualification, while the four co-hosts played in a separate group for preparation reasons. The 32 teams were divided into eight groups of four, with the eight group winners plus the four best second place teams qualifying. The draw took place on 19 September 2023 in Munich, Germany. Qualification began on 9 November 2023 and ended on 9 February 2025.
Of the sixteen qualified teams, 12 were present in the previous edition. Portugal will make their debut at this edition, marking the first time since EuroBasket Women 2017 that a team will debut at the tournament. Regarding the returnees, Switzerland qualified for the first time ever and will return after a 69 year absence, breaking the record for the longest time between edition appearances. Lithuania comes back after failing to qualify since 2015, while Sweden returns after missing out on 2023. Both Lithuania and Sweden, alongside defending champions Belgium, will all co-host the 2027 edition, with Finland being the only co-host not to qualify.
The most notable absentee is Hungary, who placed fourth in 2023 and narrowly missed out in the 2024 Olympics, Hungary's failure to qualify marks the fourth time in a row that the fourth place team from the previous tournament fails to make the next edition. Slovakia, who were present at the last two editions in 2021 and 2023 also failed to qualify. Latvia, plus 2023 co-host Israel, also failed to advance after taking part in the 2023 competition.
Montenegro, Slovenia and Türkiye all continue their perfect record of qualifying for every tournament since their debut. The first teams to qualify were Sweden and Türkiye, who both qualified in November 2024.
The tournament's four cities are Bologna, Brno, Hamburg and Piraeus. Brno was the only venue to undergo renovations for the tournament. Each city is scheduled to organise one group, with the final round was to be played in Piraeus. This is Germany's first time hosting the event and the second, third and eighth to be hosted in Greece, Czechia and Italy respectively.
On 27 May 2024 in Munich, following a request by the four host nations, FIBA organised a draw to allocate each host a group. The results of the draw as are follows:
The final draw took place at 19:00 CET on 8 March 2025 at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in Athens, Greece. Journalist Lila Kountourioti and actress Yioulika Skafida hosted the draw. Basketball players, Dimitris Diamantidis and Sandrine Gruda, were the guests who assisted the draw. The draw started with the co-hosts being placed into their respective groups and continued with, in order, pots 4, 3, 2 and 1 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).
On 19 February 2025, the seeding for the draw was announced. The seeding was based on the FIBA Women's World Ranking as of 14 February 2025.
The following 32 referees were selected for the tournament.
Each nation has to submit a list of 12 players.
The following players were the tallest, smallest, oldest and youngest players at the tournament.
The final round was the knockout stage of the competition. It took place from 25 to 29 June 2025 and consisted of the top-two teams from Groups A, B, C and D. The round was played in a single-elimination tournament, with all games played at the Peace and Friendship Stadium, Piraeus, Greece. Teams that lost in the quarter-finals would go to the classification stage and play for places 5 to 8.
The awards were announced on 29 June 2025.
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The official logo was revealed on 8 March 2024 to mark International Women's Day.