A continent-wide slate of national-team basketball returns this week, as the Second Round of European qualifying for the 2027 FIBA Basketball World Cup gets underway with tickets available for fixtures from Zadar to Zaragoza.
Twenty-four European teams were split into four Second Round groups of six last November, with the top three finishers from each group punching a ticket to the 2027 World Cup in Qatar. Spain, Portugal, Greece, Montenegro, Ukraine and Georgia make up Group I; Türkiye, Italy, Serbia, Lithuania, Iceland and Bosnia and Herzegovina form Group J; Poland, Croatia, Germany, Israel, the Netherlands and Latvia sit in Group K; and Finland, France, Hungary, Estonia, Sweden and Slovenia round out Group L. This first of three qualifying windows runs August 27-31, 2026, with two more windows in November 2026 and February 2027 before the World Cup tips off in Doha in 2027.
National federations have been releasing tickets on a market-by-market basis over recent weeks. Spain's federation, for instance, opened sales back on June 4 for its men's team's August 28 clash with Portugal at the Pabellón Príncipe Felipe in Zaragoza — part of a double-header weekend that also features the Spanish women's team in warm-up matches. Similar sales windows have opened across the continent as hosts lock in venues for the opening round.
Tickets for this window's matches, including Croatia vs. Latvia, Serbia vs. Iceland and Spain vs. Portugal, are listed through national federations and international ticketing partners. Infotickets carries listings for the full August window in its FIBA Basketball World Cup 2027 European Qualifiers collection, covering fixtures across all four groups for fans looking to catch a qualifier close to home or while traveling. Catalan fans who'd rather see top-level basketball closer to home between international windows can also check FC Barcelona's own basketball listings on Infotickets.
Qualifying windows sell arena-by-arena rather than through a single central portal, so it pays to check the host federation's own site first before turning to secondary marketplaces. Group-deciding matches — like Spain vs. Portugal, where both teams are chasing a top-three finish — tend to draw the strongest local demand, so earlier booking helps. And because this is only the first of three windows, fans who miss out this time will get two more chances before the group standings are finalized.
With twelve World Cup spots on the line and only three qualifying windows to settle them, this August round is where the qualification picture starts coming into focus — and tickets are already moving across the continent.