MIES (Switzerland) - Just 2 weeks after announcing the 3x3 World Tour 2025 season, FIBA unveiled the first batch of Challengers on the road to the World Tour.
The Challengers are the premium international qualifiers to the World Tour. They qualify teams directly to 3x3's flagship competition. You can learn more about the FIBA 3x3 competition network on the FIBA 3x3 official website.
Here is the list of confirmed Challengers, sorted by FIBA 3x3 World Tour to which they qualify.
There are 3 ways to qualify for a FIBA 3x3 Challenger: 1. Win a lite quest event (a tour or a standalone event that qualifies directly to a challenger) 2. Rank as high as possible in the FIBA 3x3 Team Ranking (best-ranked teams - at the moment of auto-allocation 5 weeks before the event - have preferential access to challengers) 3. Get one of the wildcards from the tournament hosts A first list of lite quests will be announced at a later stage and available on fiba3x3.basketball.
All organizers interested in hosting a World Tour qualifier can contact FIBA's 3x3 team.