2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup

The 2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup, the 18th edition of FIBA's premier international tournament for women's national basketball teams, was held in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain from 22 to 30 September 2018. This was the first edition to use the name of FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup. After the last edition in 2014, FIBA changed the name of the competition from the FIBA World Championship for Women, in order to align its name with that of the corresponding men's competition.
The United States were the two-time defending champions. This tournament saw the World Cup debut of Belgium, Latvia and Puerto Rico.
The US Team won the final against Australia, to win their third straight and tenth overall title.

Venues

Hosts selection

The whole bidding process started in October 2014. Bids from two nations were submitted. On 31 October 2014, it was confirmed that Spain and Israel were the bidders. On 16 December 2014, it was announced that Spain won the bid and would host the upcoming World Cup.

Qualification

Spain as the hosts automatically qualified for the tournament in December 2014. The United States were the next to qualify after winning Gold at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
The remaining teams were decided over June, July & August 2017 through the Women’s Continental Cups. The continental qualifiers vary in the number of teams; the European qualifiers featured 16 teams, Africa featured 12 teams, Americas featured 10 teams and Asia featured 8 teams. From the 46 teams competing for the final 14 spots, the field was completed by the top five teams from 2017 EuroBasket Women, the top three teams from the 2017 FIBA Women's AmeriCup, the two finalists from the 2017 Women's Afrobasket; as well as the top four teams from the 2017 FIBA Asia Women's Cup, which saw teams from Asia and Oceania compete together for the first time ever.

Format

The tournament was played in two phases. In the first phase, the 16 qualified teams were sorted into four groups of four, each team in a group played each other once, 24 games were played in the first phase. The top team from each group directly advanced to the quarterfinals. The teams that placed fourth in the group stage were eliminated. The teams placed second and third from each group advanced to the quarterfinal qualifications, where the winners of the qualification round then progressed to the quarterfinals, losers were eliminated.
In the second phase, a knockout stage was used to determine the champion. In the quarterfinals the four winners progressed to the semifinals, the four losers played in classification games for 5–8th. In total, 40 games were played over a total of 8 days.

Squads

Draw

The official draw ceremony took place on 6 February 2018, at San Cristóbal de la Laguna, Island of Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.

Seedings

Included are the respective FIBA World Rankings for women:

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4

Preliminary round

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Final round

Final

Final rankings

Qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics

Awards and statistics

Awards

The All-Star Five was revealed on 30 September 2018.

Player tournament averages

Points

Name	PPG
Liz Cambage	23.8
Emma Meesseman	18.5
Kia Nurse	18.2
Breanna Stewart	16.3
Kim Mestdagh	16.2

Rebounds

Name	RPG
Emma Meesseman	10.7
Liz Cambage	10.5
Evelyn Akhator	9.0
Laura Nicholls	8.9
Yuki Miyazawa	8.8

Assists

Name	APG
Julie Allemand	8.2
Nako Motohashi	5.8
Laia Palau	5.7
Işıl Alben	5.3
Sue Bird	4.8

Blocks

Name	BPG
Liz Cambage	2.8
Kyara Linskens	1.8
Brittney Griner	1.5
Quanitra Hollingsworth	1.5
Han Xu	1.4
Astou Ndour	1.4

Steals

Name	SPG
Maki Takada	2.8
Ezinne Kalu	2.4
Sarah Michel	2.0
Evanthia Maltsi	2.0
Nako Motohashi	1.8

Team tournament averages