The 2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup, the 18th edition of the FIBA Women's World Championship, 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 San Cristóbal de La LagunaSanta Cruz de Tenerife Tenerife Sports Pavilion Santiago Martín Palacio Municipal de Deportes Group Phase, Qualification for Quarter-Finals, Final Phase Group Phase, Qualification for Quarter-Finals Capacity: 5,100 Capacity: 3,600
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.
2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup bidding results Nation Votes Spain18 Israel5
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.
TeamQualificationAppearanceBest PerformanceFIBA World Ranking FIBA Zone RankingMethodDateLastTotalStreak Host nation 16 December 2014 2014 7 7 Runners-up (2014) 2 1 2016 Summer Olympics 20 August 2016 2014 17 15 Champions (1953, 1957, 1979, 1986, 1990, 1998, 2002, 2010, 2014) 1 1 EuroBasket Women 22 June 2017 — 1 1 Debut 28 14 EuroBasket Women 22 June 2017 2014 10 5 3rd Place (1953) 3 2 EuroBasket Women 22 June 2017 2010 2 1 11th Place (2010) 20 9 EuroBasket Women 24 June 2017 — 1 1 Debut 26 12 EuroBasket Women 24 June 2017 2014 2 2 4th Place (2014) 7 4 Women's Asia Cup 27 July 2017 2014 18 18 Runners-up (1967, 1979) 16 4 Women's Asia Cup 27 July 2017 2014 15 14 Champions (2006) 4 1 Women's Asia Cup 27 July 2017 2014 10 10 Runners-up (1994) 10 1 Women's Asia Cup 27 July 2017 2014 13 3 Runners-up (1975) 13 2 Women's AmeriCup 12 August 2017 2014 11 4 3rd Place (1979, 1986) 5 2 Women's AmeriCup 12 August 2017 2010 9 1 6th Place (1953) 15 5 Women's AmeriCup 13 August 2017 –1 1 Debut 22 6 Women's Afrobasket 26 August 2017 2006 2 1 16th Place (2006) 34 5 Women's Afrobasket 26 August 2017 2010 8 1 12th Place (1979) 17 1
Format The tournament was played in two phases. In the first phase, the 16 qualified teams were sorted into four groups of four (A-D), 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 (1) (4) (2) (3) (28) (20) (7) (26) (5) (15) (13) (10) (22) (16) (34) (17)
Preliminary round Group A
22 September 2018 58–89 50–81 23 September 2018 82–63 75–71 25 September 2018 48–58 71–60
Group B
22 September 2018 86–68 63–37 23 September 2018 43–84 74–68 25 September 2018 90–64 70–75
Group C
22 September 2018 71–84 36–86 23 September 2018 75–77 (OT) 78–53 25 September 2018 69–61 72–63
Group D
22 September 2018 61–64 87–67 23 September 2018 70–69 88–100 25 September 2018 66–75 76–102
Final round
Final
Final standings # Team Pld W L PF PA PD Preliminary round FIBA World Ranking Grp Rank W–L GA Old New +/− 6 6 0 526 404 +122 D colspan=3 rowspan=4 1 1 6 5 1 471 356 +115 B 4 3 1 7 5 2 489 429 +60 C 2 2 4th 6 3 3 456 401 +55 C 28 16 12Eliminated at the quarterfinals5th 7 5 2 532 476 +56 A colspan=3 rowspan=4 3 4 16th 7 4 3 499 543 −44 D 10 7 37th 6 4 2 431 389 +42 A 5 5 8th 7 3 4 448 508 −60 B 34 19 15Eliminated at the qualification round9th 4 2 2 298 307 −9 C 3rd 2–1 0.723 13 10 310th 4 1 3 256 279 −23 B 1–2 0.650 7 6 111th 4 1 3 235 261 −26 A 1–2 0.597 20 23 312th 4 1 3 251 294 −43 D 1–2 0.677 17 17 Eliminated at the preliminary round13th 3 0 3 206 236 −30 D 4th 0–3 0.687 26 24 214th 3 0 3 169 229 −60 A 0–3 0.563 16 18 215th 3 0 3 150 222 −72 B 0–3 0.500 15 15 16th 3 0 3 150 233 −83 C 0–3 0.500 22 22 Qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics
Awards and statistics Awards The All-Star Five was revealed on 30 September 2018.
MVP: Breanna Stewart Breanna Stewart Diana Taurasi Astou Ndour Emma Meesseman Liz Cambage
Statistics Player tournament averages
Points Name PPGIndividual statistics 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 Han Xu 1.4 Astou Ndour
Steals Name SPG Maki Takada 2.8 Ezinne Kalu 2.4 Sarah Michel 2.0 Evanthia Maltsi Nako Motohashi 1.8
Team tournament averages
Points Team PPGTeam statistics 87.7 78.5 76.0 74.5
Rebounds Team RPG 48.0 47.3 43.4 42.2 40.6
Assists Team APG 23.8 23.7 23.3 21.5 19.3
Blocks Team BPG 5.3 4.2 3.9 3.5 3.4
Steals Team SPG 9.9 9.3 9.2 9.0 8.6
Tournament game highs StatisticPlayerPl, yer game highsTotalOpponentTeamTeam game highsTotalOpponentPoints Liz Cambage 34 (22 Sep) 102 (25 Sep)Rebounds Emma Meesseman 18 (23 Sep) 62 (28 Sep)Assists Julie Allemand 13 (28 Sep) 30 (29 Sep)Steals Pamela Rosado Ezinne Kalu 5 (23 Sep) (28 Sep) 13 (26 Sep) (29 Sep)Blocks Liz Cambage 5 (30 Sep) 8 (22 Sep) (30 Sep)
Marketing The logo and branding identity was unveiled on 5 February 2018 at the La Laguna Gran Hotel in San Cristóbal de La Laguna, the logo is inspired by the treasures of the island of Tenerife, its coastlines and its heart of Spain.
The Mascot Tina the Turtle were also unveiled at the ceremony in the town hall of Santa Cruz de Tenerife on 7 August 2018, 6 Weeks before the Tournament kick off the mascot name is a short form of Tinerfina which means Coming from or Living from Tenerife, Both Logo and the Mascot were designed by a Tenerife Artist Raul Pena
References
External links Official website