MIES (Switzerland) - The Draw for the FIBA U19 Women's Basketball World Cup 2025 will be held on February 4 in Brno and will be undertaken by former Czechia national team stars, Ivana Vecerova and Eva Viteckova.
This year's global competition will be held in Brno, Czechia from July 12-20 and will see 16 nations battling it out for the prestigious silverware.
Watch the Draw live
The draw will start at 11.00 AM (local and CET) and viewers can tune in to watch it live via the official tournament website or directly on YouTube.
Draw Principles
The participating teams of the FIBA U19 Women's Basketball World Cup 2024 have been distributed in four pots created to reflect the strength of the continents regarding the current FIBA World Ranking Girls, presented by Nike and the results of the previous FIBA U18 Women's Continental Cups 2024.
The pots are as follows:
POT 1: Czechia, USA, France, Canada POT 2: Spain, Australia, China, Israel POT 3: Mali, Portugal, Japan, Korea POT 4: Hungary, Argentina, Brazil, Nigeria
The teams from each pot will be distributed in four groups and assigned competition numbers.
There will be a maximum of 1 team from Africa, Americas and Asia/Oceania in the same group.
There will be a minimum of 1 and maximum of two teams from Europe in the same group.
Ivana Vecerova and Eva Viteckova will perform the draw
Synonymous with basketball in Czechia and both former players at the highest level in Brno, the duo will be on hand to perform the draw.
A graduate of the FIBA Players' Mentorship Program, Vecerova is a two-time Olympian who played at two FIBA Women's Basketball World Cups, as well as in five editions of the FIBA Women's EuroBasket, winning the competition in 2005. A year later, she was crowned a EuroLeague Women champion with Gambrinus Brno.
Three-time Olympian Viteckova is part of the FIBA U19 Women's Basketball World Cup 2025 Local Organizing Committee and shared many of the successes experienced by her former teammate - including the FIBA Women's EuroBasket and EuroLeague Women titles. Viteckova featured in three editions of the FIBA Basketball World Cup and six different FIBA Women's EuroBasket competitions.
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