On Wednesday evening, our women’s national team will play the first game of the FIBA 2027 Eurobasket Qualifiers (first round). The team of head coach Patrick Unger will be in action on the road in Ireland, the game starts at 18.00. It is the first window of possibly 4 windows over the next two years.
Opponents and World ranking
Luxembourg is currently ranked 54th in the World ranking and 25th in Europe. The first opponent Ireland is ranked 83th in the World and 38th in Europe. Israel (52nd in the World and 24th in Europe) has a very similar ranking than Luxembourg while Bosnia Herzegovina (29th in the World and 15th in Europe) is the strongest team of group A in the official FIBA rankings.
The qualification system
A total of 38 national teams have registered to take part in the FIBA Women’s EuroBasket 2027 Qualifiers, which will be split into two stages – First Round and Second Round, each played across two windows.
First Round
Window 1: November 9-19, 2025
Window 2: March 8-18, 2026
–> 27 national teams will begin their qualification journey in the first round, which will be played in November 2025 and March 2026.
Teams will be drawn into six groups of four teams and one group of three teams – and will play in a round-robin format. Each window will consist of three gamedays each.
The teams participating in the First Round are as follows: Austria, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Great Britain, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Latvia, Luxembourg, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Ukraine.
The winners and runners-up of each group, as well as the three best-ranked third-placed teams – 17 teams in total – will progress to the Second Round.
Second Round
Window 3: November 8-18, 2026
Window 4: February 7-17, 2027
–> The second round lineup will consist of 24 teams: 17 teams from the First Round and seven teams from the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2026 Qualifying Tournaments – Czechia, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Spain and Türkiye.
A draw will be held before the start of the Second Round and the teams will be split into six groups of four teams each, once again playing in a round-robin format in November 2026 and February 2027.
Each window will consist of three gamedays each.
The top two teams from each group will qualify for the FIBA Women’s EuroBasket 2027 via the Qualifiers, joining the four automatically qualified hosts.
The four EuroBasket 2027 co-hosts – Belgium, Finland, Lithuania and Sweden – are already qualified for the tournament.
Luxembourg’s roster
The new coaching staff of the FLBB around head coach Patrick Unger has nominated 13 players to the roster for the 3 games.
Coulon Kyra (Basket Esch)
Etute Isi (IMG Academy, USA)
Fuglsang Sofie (Herner TC, Germany)
Irthum Liz (Klosterneuburg, Austria)
Krings Alana (T71 Dudelange)
Madjo Dionne (Flammes Carolo, France)
Mangen Julie (Amicale Steinsel)
Meynadier Magaly (Saarlouis, Germany)
Mreches Catherine (T71 Dudelange)
Nürenberg Svenia (T71 Dudelange)
Schalbar Lena (T71 Dudelange)
Schumacher Laetitia (Basket Flames, Austria)
Simon Anne (Magnolia Campobasso, Italy)
Head coach: Patrick Unger
Assistant coaches: Sidney Parsons & Liz Schmitz
Team manager: Fabienne Deister
Team doctor: Sam Scolati
Strength coach: Marcel Bultel
Kiné: Julie Bouvy
Live stream
All games can be watched live on FIBA’s youtube channel, we will post the live stream link on our website for each game.
The upcoming games in the FIBA Eurobasket 2027 qualifiers
November 12th: Ireland – Luxembourg (18:00)
November 15th: Israel – Luxembourg (in Riga, 20:00)
November 18th: Luxembourg – Bosnia Herzegovina (19:00) –> Ticket presale is open!
