FIBA: Look for EuroLeague Women drama, EuroBasket Women glory in 2025

2025 doesn’t feature a major international women’s basketball competition, with the next FIBA Women’s World Cup scheduled for 2026.

However, that doesn’t mean international basketball will not be part of the women’s basketball stories of the year ahead, with multiple overseas leagues providing high-level action, EuroBasket Women taking place in June and preparations for the World Cup and 2028 Olympics likely to begin. Here are the FIBA wishes for 2025 from Swish Appeal’s staff writers:

An exciting conclusion to the EuroLeague Women season

FIBA instituted a new competition format for EuroLeague Women for the 2024-25 season in an effort to “raise the stakes” of its regular-season games, and so far it’s proven to be a successful change. In the new two-round group play system, the weaker EuroLeague Women clubs are weeded out early in the competition, while the very best clubs tend to avoid each other until later in the season, keeping things exciting at a time of year when playoff seeds were previously more or less already decided.

Right now, EuroLeague Women is currently in its second round of group play, and we’ve already had several marquee matchups live up to their billing….

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Gabby Williams leads Les Bleues to EuroBasket gold

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