On February 10, 2022, the preliminaries of the 2022 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup kicked off in Osaka, Washington and Belgrade. After five days of competition, 12 teams advanced to the 2022 Women's Basketball World Cup.
Serbia, South Korea, China, Nigeria and France qualify in Belgrade, Canada, Japan and Bosnia and Herzegovina qualify in Osaka, and Belgium and Russia qualify in Washington. As the gold medal winners of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, the United States and Australia, the host country, also participated in the preliminaries to exercise in advance.
After that, the Russian women's basketball team was disqualified by the IAAF because of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine on February 24, and was replaced by the Puerto Rican women's basketball team. The Nigerian women's basketball team chose to withdraw from the Women's Basketball World Cup, and was replaced by a strong African team, Mali, and caught the last bus of the Women's Basketball World Cup.
The 2022 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup will be held from September 22nd to 1 October1 This will be the second time that Australia has hosted this event. The last time was in 1994.