{"id":493891,"date":"2026-04-22T12:35:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T10:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=493891"},"modified":"2026-04-22T12:35:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T10:35:49","slug":"tokyo-to-host-the-2030-fiba-womens-world-cup-france-awarded-the-2031-basketball-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/tokyo-to-host-the-2030-fiba-womens-world-cup-france-awarded-the-2031-basketball-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo to host the 2030 FIBA Women\u2019s World Cup, France awarded the 2031 Basketball World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"2378\" data-end=\"2778\">FIBA has made two major hosting decisions for its flagship national-team events. The <strong data-start=\"2463\" data-end=\"2500\">2030 Women\u2019s Basketball World Cup<\/strong> will be staged in <strong data-start=\"2519\" data-end=\"2528\">Tokyo<\/strong>, while the <strong data-start=\"2540\" data-end=\"2574\">2031 FIBA Basketball World Cup<\/strong> has been awarded to <strong data-start=\"2595\" data-end=\"2605\">France<\/strong>, with games set to be played in <strong data-start=\"2638\" data-end=\"2663\">Paris, Lille and Lyon<\/strong>. The men\u2019s tournament is scheduled from <strong data-start=\"2704\" data-end=\"2739\">August 29 to September 14, 2031<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2780\" data-end=\"3102\">On the women\u2019s side, Tokyo\u2019s selection fits into the new calendar approved by FIBA, which moved future editions of the <strong data-start=\"2899\" data-end=\"2931\">Women\u2019s Basketball World Cup<\/strong> to the <strong data-start=\"2939\" data-end=\"2960\">November-December<\/strong> window starting in 2030. FIBA had already confirmed that the 2030 edition would be held in that period.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3104\" data-end=\"3436\">France\u2019s appointment further underlines the country\u2019s growing role in global basketball hosting. According to FIBA\u2019s official communication on its social channels, <strong data-start=\"3268\" data-end=\"3293\">Paris, Lille and Lyon<\/strong> will share hosting duties for the 2031 tournament, bringing the <strong data-start=\"3358\" data-end=\"3382\">Basketball World Cup<\/strong> back to Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2030 FIBA Women\u2019s Basketball World Cup will be played in Tokyo, Japan, while the 2031 FIBA Basketball World Cup will take place in France, across Paris, Lille and Lyon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":493890,"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":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-493891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-cup"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-22-alle-12.23.30.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493891","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\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493891"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=493891"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=493891"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=493891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}