{"id":636229,"date":"2026-04-28T12:45:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T12:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/636229\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T12:45:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T12:45:12","slug":"angola-cameroon-and-senegal-named-hosts-of-window-3-of-the-2027-world-cup-african-qualifiers-fiba-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/636229\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola, Cameroon and Senegal named hosts of Window 3 of the 2027 World Cup African Qualifiers\u00a0|\u00a0FIBA Basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ABIDJAN (Cote d&#8217;Ivoire) &#8211; The FIBA Regional Office Africa has confirmed that Angola, Cameroon and Senegal will host the third window of the 2027 FIBA Basketball World Cup African Qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p>This decision was ratified at the FIBA Regional Office Africa Board meeting held in Abidjan, C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire, on 15 April.<\/p>\n<p>Window 3 of the qualifiers will take place from 2\u20135 July in Angola, Cameroon, and Senegal.<\/p>\n<p>This follows the conclusion of Window 2 of the World Cup qualifiers, which took place in Alexandria, Egypt, and Dakar, Senegal, in February 2026. <\/p>\n<p>Group A, consisting of Cameroon, Cape Verde, Libya and South Sudan, will be held in Cameroon.<\/p>\n<p>Group B, comprising C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Madagascar and Senegal, will be played in Senegal. <\/p>\n<p>Groups C and D, comprising Guinea, Tunisia, Nigeria and Rwanda and Angola, Egypt, Mali and Uganda respectively, will be played in Angola. <\/p>\n<p>The host countries for Window 4 of the 2027 FIBA Basketball World Cup, which will take place from 27 to 30 August 2026, will be announced at a later date, following the Board&#8217;s decision to extend the application deadline to 15 May 2026. <\/p>\n<p>FIBA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ABIDJAN (Cote d&#8217;Ivoire) &#8211; The FIBA Regional Office Africa has confirmed that Angola, Cameroon and Senegal will host&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-636229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636229","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=636229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}