2025 FIBA Women's Asia Cup

The 2025 FIBA Women's Asia Cup was the 31st edition of the tournament, held from 13 to 20 July 2025 in Shenzhen, China.

The winner qualified for the 2026 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup and the top six teams (including the winner) will qualify for one of the qualifying tournaments for the 2026 World Cup.

Hosts China were the defending champions, but failed to defend their title after losing in the semifinals to Japan.

Australia won their first title with a final win over Japan. As the winner, Australia qualified for the 2026 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup, while Japan, China, South Korea, New Zealand and Philippines qualified for the qualifying tournaments for the said World Cup.

Venues All Division A games were held at Shenzhen Arena. All Division B games were held at a secondary arena nearby. +2025 FIBA Women's Asia Cup venuesShenzhenShenzhen Arena Capacity: 16,000 Shenzhen Sports Center Gymnasium Capacity: 2,400

Format There were two divisions, with identical tournament formats. Division A determined the champion.

The eight teams were split into two groups of four teams. The first-placed team qualified to the semifinals while the second-and third-placed teams played in a playoff round. The second-placed teams faced off against the third-placed teams. A knockout-system was after the preliminary round with the losing teams playing in a classification game.

In Division A, the fourth-placed teams played in a relegation playoff to determine which team participated in Division A on the next tournament; the loser was relegated to Division B. In Division B, the winner of the final was promoted to Division A.

Qualified teams

Alongside hosts China, every other team who finished in the top seven of the 2023 edition retained their place in Division A. Joining them were the winners of the Division B, Indonesia, who took part in Division A for the first time since divisions were created. For the first time since 1984, Chinese Taipei was not playing at an Asia Cup after being relegated to Division B. For the first time ever, Lebanon participated in Division A consecutively.

+Division A Qualification Host Dates Vacancies Qualified Host Shenzhen 4 March 2024 1 Positions 2–7 at 2023 FIBA Asia Cup Sydney 26 June – 2 July 2023 6 Winner of Division B Bangkok 13–19 August 2023 1

+Division B Qualification Host Dates Vacancies QualifiedSABA Qualifiers New Delhi23–26 February 20251CABA Qualifiers Turkistan28–30 March 20251EABA Qualifiers Ulaanbaatar11–13 April 20251WABA Qualifiers Amman15–17 April 20251Oceania representativesrowspan=2 23 April 20252Wild Card23 April 20252

Summary of qualified teams TeamQualification methodAppearance(s)Previous best performance WR First in 2023 and hosts 25th 1976 2023 25 4 Second in 2023 29th 1965 26 10 Third in 2023 5th 2017 5 2 Fourth in 2023 5th 2017 5 26 Fifth in 2023 31st 1965 31 14 Sixth in 2023 11th 1965 5 39 Seventh in 2023 3rd 2011 2 49 Winner of Division B 13th 1970 1986 1 52

Squads

Each nation had to submit a list of 12 players.

Division A Preliminary round All times are local (UTC+8).

Group A

Group B

Knockout round Bracket

Qualification to semifinals

Semifinals

Seventh place game The winner stayed in Division A, while the loser was relegated to Division B.

Fifth place game

Third place game

Final

Statistics and awards Statistical leaders Players

Points Name PPG Rebecca Akl 16.5 Zhang Ziyu 15.6 Esra McGoldrick 15.0 Kokoro Tanaka 14.8 Kim Pierre-Louis Han Xu

Rebounds Name RPG Jack Animam 10.0 Jillian Archer 9.0 Cayla George 8.4 Rebecca Pizzey 7.6 Yuki Miyazawa 7.3

Assists Name APG Stephanie Reid 7.4 Heo Ye-eun 6.3 Yang Liwei 5.6 Kokoro Tanaka 5.5 An He-ji 5.3

Blocks Name BPG Quinn Dela Rosa 2.0 Esra McGoldrick 1.6 Han Xu 1.4 Jack Animam 1.2 Park Ji-su 1.0

Steals Name SPG Jack Animam 2.6 Park Ji-hyun 2.2 Luo Xinyu 2.0 Agustin Retong Sumayah Sugapong 1.6 Quinn Dela Rosa McKenna Dale

Efficiency Name EFFPG Alexandra Fowler 20.0 Han Xu 18.8 Park Ji-hyun 17.2 Yuki Miyazawa 17.0 Stephanie Reid 16.4 Zhang Ziyu

Teams

Points Team PPG 96.2 93.6 80.8 78.3 68.4

Rebounds Team RPG 50.0 49.0 44.4 43.3 35.7

Assists Team APG 30.0 28.4 27.5 20.0 19.7

Blocks Team BPG 5.4 3.8 3.2 3.0 1.8

Steals Team SPG 2.0 1.9 1.7 1.5

Efficiency Team EFFPG 131.4 122.2 93.2 85.5 79.0

Awards The awards were announced on 20 July 2025.

All-Tournament TeamGuardsForwardCenter Stephanie Reid Park Ji-hyun Kokoro Tanaka Alexandra Fowler Han XuMVP: Alexandra Fowler

Division B Preliminary round All times are local (UTC+8)

Group A

Group B

Knockout round Bracket

Qualification to semifinals

Semifinals

Seventh place game

Fifth place game

Third place game

Final The winner was promoted to Division A, while the loser remained in Division B.

Final standings Division A Qualified for the 2026 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup Qualified for the 2026 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup Qualifying Tournaments Relegated to Division B of the 2027 FIBA Women's Asia Cup Rank Team Record 5–0 4–2 4–1 4 3–3 5 2–3 6 1–4 7 1–3 8 0–4

Division B Promoted to Division A of the 2027 FIBA Women's Asia Cup Rank Team Record 5–0 4–1 3–3 4 3–3 5 3–2 6 1–4 7 1–3 8 0–4

See also 2025 FIBA Asia Cup

Notes

References

External links 2025 Division A website Tournament summary Division B website