{"id":485967,"date":"2026-02-28T19:26:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T18:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=485967"},"modified":"2026-02-28T19:26:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T18:26:18","slug":"fiba-announces-postponement-of-four-world-cup-2027-asian-qualifiers-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/fiba-announces-postponement-of-four-world-cup-2027-asian-qualifiers-games\/","title":{"rendered":"FIBA announces postponement of four World Cup 2027 Asian Qualifiers games"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"by4rr1\" data-testid=\"article-header\">\n<p class=\"by4rr7 _1x7ksvi9 _1d88n031 japnshc\" data-contentful-field-id=\"teaser\" data-contentful-entry-id=\"3E5WzddQqJeXgr84hlRzNV\">MIES (Switzerland) &#8211; In light of the developments today in the region, FIBA has decided to postpone all games in groups C and D of the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2027 Asian Qualifiers that were scheduled for Monday, March 2. The impacted games are: <b>Group C<\/b> Iran vs. Syria Iraq vs. Jordan <b>Group D<\/b> Lebanon vs. India Qatar vs. Saudi Arabia FIBA remains in close contact with the National Federations concerned and is taking necessary measures with respect to the safety and security of teams, officials and staff involved in those games.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-contentful-field-id=\"body\" data-contentful-entry-id=\"3E5WzddQqJeXgr84hlRzNV\">\n<div class=\"_10drg250 _1d88n031 japnshd\">\n<article class=\"_1x7ksvi9\" data-testid=\"rich-text-entries\">The aforementioned Group C and Group D games will take place at the same locations at the beginning of the third Qualification Window, set for late June. The updated schedule will be communicated at a later stage.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FIBA has issued a statement on the Asian Qualifiers games that were scheduled to take place on Monday, March 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":485966,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[383],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[15727],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-485967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-cup","typology-press-release-en"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/02\/yk9rw0htbjjvlooy7c3f.webp","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485967"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=485967"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=485967"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=485967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}