FIBA Women's World Ranking

The FIBA Women's World Ranking is the FIBA's rankings of national women's basketball teams. FIBA ranks women's national teams in both senior and junior competitions. It also publishes combined rankings for all competitions involving both sexes.

Top 20 Rankings as of 8 December 2020[1]
RankChangeTeamPoints
1 United States832.9
2 Australia714.5
3 Spain691.9
4 Canada649.3
5 France640.0
6 1 Belgium598.3
7 1 Turkey596.4
8 Serbia582.4
9 China571.5
10 Japan540.1
11 Belarus471.5
12 Russia410.1
13 Greece371.2
14 Nigeria366.6
15 Brazil365.9
16 Italy355.2
17 Czech Republic344.9
18 Great Britain336.9
19 South Korea333.3
20 Sweden319.6
Complete rankings at FIBA.basketball

Calculation

Since November 2019, FIBA uses a game-based system similar to the men's ranking.

Until 2019

FIBA still uses the competition-based system to determine its women's rankings. As noted above, this system was also used to determine men's rankings prior to 2017. FIBA has announced that it will introduce a game-based ranking procedure similar to that currently used for men's rankings in the indeterminate future.[2]

Events' weights

FIBA uses a weighted arithmetic mean to determine the statistical weight of each of the tournaments. Each event is assigned point weight that is based partly on how competitive the tournament is and partly on which national teams are participating:[3]

NumberEventWeight
2FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup5
2Olympic basketball tournaments5
4AfroBasket Women0.2
4FIBA Women's AmeriCup0.8
4FIBA Asia Women's Cup0.3
4EuroBasket Women1
4FIBA Oceania Women's Championship0.1

Competition ranking points
Map of FIBA World Ranking for women

As opposed to football tournaments, teams still have to go through a series of consolation and classification rounds even if they've been eliminated from title contention, so that a complete ranking of the teams will be possible.[3]

Competition rankPoints
Gold medal (1st)50
Silver medal (2nd)40
Bronze medal (3rd)30
4th15
5th14
6th13
7th12
8th11
9th10
10th9
11th8
12th7
13th6
14th5
15th4
16th3
17th2
18th and below1

Cycle and updates
Historical #1 teams
United States women's national basketball team

The calculations are done after the tournaments stated above in a group of two Olympic cycles (8 years). The oldest tournament outside the 8-year period is discarded and replaced with the newest competition.[3]

This means that in every computation, there are:

Example

The United States' 1000.0 points were calculated by this method:

TournamentFinishPointsWeightResult
2010 FIBA World Championship for Women1st505250
2011 FIBA Americas Championship for WomenDNP00.80
Basketball at the 2012 Summer Olympics1st505250
2013 FIBA Americas Championship for WomenDNP00.80
2014 FIBA World Championship for Women1st505250
2015 FIBA Americas Championship for WomenDNP00.80
Basketball at the 2016 Summer Olympics1st505250
2017 FIBA Women's AmeriCupDNP00.80
Total1000.0

After the conclusion of the 2017 continental championships, the points gained from the 2009 continental championships were replaced with those gained from the 2017 editions.

References
  1. "FIBA Ranking for Women". FIBA. Retrieved 8 December 2020.
  2. "FIBA World Ranking Men, presented by Nike – Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)". FIBA. Retrieved 16 October 2017.
  3. FIBA.com: How it works
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