FIBA World Championship for Women
Current season, competition or edition: 2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup
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| Sport | Basketball |
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| Founded | 1953 |
| Inaugural season | 1953 |
| No. of teams | 16 |
| Country | FIBA member nations |
| Continent | FIBA (International) |
| Most recent champion(s) |
 United States (9th title) |
| Most titles |
United States (9 titles) |
The FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup (also called the Basketball World Championship for Women or the FIBA Women's World Cup) is a world basketball tournament for women's national teams held quadrennially. Its inaugural game was in 1953 with the four-year cycle established in 1967. The next FIBA Women's World Cup will be held in September/October2018.
Formerly known as the FIBA World Championship for Women, the name changed shortly after its 2014 edition. From 1986 through 2014, the tournament was held in the same year as the men's FIBA Basketball World Cup, though in different countries. After the 2014 editions of both championships, the men's event was rescheduled on a new four-year cycle (the next in September 2019) to avoid conflict with the men's FIFA World Cup. The Women's World Cup (September 2018) remains on the current four-year cycle, with editions held in the same years as the men's FIFA World Cup (June and July 2018). The next FIFA Women's World Cup is in June and July 2019.
The Women’s World Cup was created by the International Basketball Federation (FIBA). It began in 1953, held in Chile, three years after the first men's World Championship. For most of its early history, it was not held in the same year as the men's championship, and was not granted a consistent quadrennial cycle until 1967. After the 1983 event, FIBA changed the scheduling so that the women's tournament would be held in even-numbered non-Olympic years, a change that had come to the men's tournament in 1970.
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