EuroBasket Women 2025


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 will qualify for one of the qualifying tournaments for the 2026 World Cup. Germany and Czechia had already qualified for the qualifying tournaments and should one or both of these teams finish in the qualifying positions, the next-best team qualified instead.
Belgium were the defending champions. The Belgians would go undefeated and successfully defend their title with a 67–65 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 Justė Jocytė won 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 111–37 over Switzerland was the biggest winning margin in 49 years.
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Bidding process

The following countries applied:
On 7 September 2023, FIBA announced that the Czechia, Germany, Greece and Italy 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.

Venues

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.
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Allocation of groups

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:
  • Group A will play in Piraeus, Greece.
  • Group B will play in Bologna, Italy.
  • Group C will play in Brno, Czechia.
  • Group D will play in Hamburg, Germany.

Final draw

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.

Seeding

On 19 February 2025, the seeding for the draw was announced. The seeding was based off the FIBA Women's World Ranking as of 14 February 2025.
Team
3
5
6
8

Team
19
20
21
22

Draw

Team
B1
B2
B3
B4

Team
D1
D2
D3
D4

Referees

The following 32 referees were selected for the tournament.
  • Geert Jacobs
  • Martin Horozov
  • Josip Jurčević
  • Jelena Tomić
  • Ivor Matějek
  • Amal Dahra
  • Alexandre Deman
  • Valentin Oliot
  • Carsten Straube
  • Georgios Poursanidis
  • Péter Praksch
  • Silvia Marziali
  • Andris Aunkrogers
  • Gatis Saliņš
  • Gvidas Gedvilas
  • Gintaras Mačiulis
  • Nataša Dragojević
  • Viola Györgyi
  • Julio Anaya
  • Paulina Gajdosz
  • ️Michał Proc
  • Dariusz Zapolski
  • Paulo Marques
  • Ivana Ivanović
  • Veronika Obertová
  • Zdenko Tomašovič
  • Blaž Zupančič
  • Yasmina Alcaraz
  • Ariadna Chueca
  • Sandra Sánchez
  • Çisil Güngör
  • Özlem Yalman

Squads

Each nation has to submit a list of 12 players.

Notable players

The following players were the tallest, smallest, oldest and youngest players at the tournament.
Tallest player

Preliminary round

Classification of teams

  1. Highest number of points earned, with each game result having a corresponding point:
  2. *Win: 2 points
  3. *Loss: 1 point
  4. *Loss by default: 1 point, with a final score of 2–0 for the opponents of the defaulting team if the latter team is not trailing or if the score is tied, or the score at the time of stoppage if they are trailing.
  5. *Loss by forfeit: 0 points, with a final score of 20–0 for the opponents of the forfeiting team.
  6. Head-to-head record via points system above
  7. Point difference in games among tied teams
  8. Points for in games among tied teams
  9. Point difference in all group games
  10. Points for in all group games

Group A

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Group B

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Group C

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Group D

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Knockout stage

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.

Quarterfinals

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Classification games

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Semifinals

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Awards

Player awards

The awards were announced on 29 June 2025.

Statistics and awards

Statistical leaders

Players

;Points
NamePPG
Jessica Shepard22.7
Klara Lundquist19.3
Emma Meesseman19.2
Teaira McCowan16.8
Cecilia Zandalasini16.8

;Rebounds
NameRPG
Jessica Shepard11.3
Teaira McCowan9.8
Klara Lundquist9.7
Emma Meesseman9.2
Laura Juškaitė8.7

;Assists
NameAPG
Klara Lundquist7.3
Holly Winterburn6.7
Eva Lisec6.3
Romane Bernies5.8
Teja Oblak5.7
Pinelopi Pavlopoulou5.7

;Blocks
NameBPG
Giedrė Labuckienė1.8
Emma Meesseman1.8
Eva Lisec1.7
Lin Schwarz1.3
Temi Fagbenle1.3
Maja Bigović1.3
Fanny Wadling1.3
Luisa Geiselsöder1.3

;Steals
NameSPG
Márcia da Costa3.7
Temi Fagbenle2.7
Eleanna Christinaki2.3
Jovana Nogić2.3
Emma Meesseman2.3

;Efficiency
NameEFFPG
Jessica Shepard30.3
Emma Meesseman27.7
Klara Lundquist22.7
Teaira McCowan21.0
Cecilia Zandalasini19.2

Teams

Points
TeamPPG
81.5
79.2
77.0
76.7
76.0

Rebounds
TeamRPG
41.7
40.2
40.0
40.0
37.7

Assists
TeamAPG
22.3
22.3
21.8
21.5
21.5

Blocks
TeamBPG
4.7
3.5
3.3
2.8
2.8
2.8

Steals
TeamSPG
10.0
10.0
9.7
9.7
9.2

Efficiency
TeamEFFPG
95.3
92.5
92.3
91.7
88.8

Marketing

The official logo was revealed on 8 March 2024 to mark International Women's Day.