{"id":623572,"date":"2026-04-22T13:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T13:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/623572\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T13:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T13:13:10","slug":"france-to-host-mens-basketball-world-cup-in-2031-japan-gets-2030-womens-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/623572\/","title":{"rendered":"France to host men’s basketball World Cup in 2031. Japan gets 2030 women’s tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"

BERLIN \u2014 Victor Wembanyama will have a chance to play a home World Cup in 2031. <\/p>\n

France was awarded the hosting rights to the 2031 men’s tournament by basketball’s governing body FIBA on Wednesday, with Japan getting the 2030 Women’s World Cup. <\/p>\n

\u201cJapan and France are both elite organizers of global scale events, having hosted the two most recent summer Olympic Games, in 2020 and 2024 respectively,\u201d FIBA said.<\/p>\n

Wembanyama was one of the main attractions of the Paris Olympics as the San Antonio Spurs star led France to a silver medal, scoring 26 points in the final against the United States. <\/p>\n

The French cities of Lyon, Lille and Paris will organize the Aug. 29-Sept. 14 men\u2019s tournament, with the final phase to be played in the capital.<\/p>\n

FIBA said the 2030 women\u2019s tournament will be held Nov. 26\u2013Dec. 8 in the Japanese capital of Tokyo.<\/p>\n

Japan\u2019s women also won silver at the Tokyo Olympics in 2020. <\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

The tournament groups are displayed on a screen during the draw for the 2026 FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup, Tuesday, April 21, 2026 in Berlin, Germany. Credit: AP\/Sebastian Gollnow<\/p>\n

Japan hosted the 2006 men’s world championship and was a co-host in 2023. France will organize the tournament for the first time. <\/p>\n

The next women\u2019s World Cup will be held in September in Berlin while the 2027 men\u2019s World Cup will be hosted by Qatar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERLIN \u2014 Victor Wembanyama will have a chance to play a home World Cup in 2031. France was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,10018,10549,85,85183],"class_list":["post-623572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-olympics","tag-san-antonio-spurs","tag-sports","tag-wires-bot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}