{"id":76266,"date":"2025-10-08T14:39:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T14:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=76266"},"modified":"2025-10-08T14:39:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T14:39:19","slug":"dtigress-drawn-against-germany-france-in-2026-world-cup-qualifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/08\/dtigress-drawn-against-germany-france-in-2026-world-cup-qualifiers\/","title":{"rendered":"D\u2019Tigress Drawn Against Germany, France in 2026 World Cup Qualifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Fakande Oluwamayowa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s D\u2019Tigress have been drawn alongside Germany, France, Korea, Colombia, and the Philippines in the 2026 FIBA Women\u2019s Basketball World Cup qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p>The draw, held on October 7 at the Patrick Baumann House of Basketball in Mies, Switzerland, sets the stage for the qualifiers scheduled from March 11-17, 2026, across four host cities: Wuhan (China), Lyon-Villeurbanne (France), San Juan (Puerto Rico), and Istanbul (Turkey).<\/p>\n<p>The African champions will compete in Lyon-Villeurbanne, France, as they seek a third World Cup appearance after reaching the group stage in 2006 and the quarterfinals in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>D\u2019Tigress, who have won five consecutive AfroBasket titles and seven overall, trail only Senegal (11 titles) as the most successful women\u2019s basketball team in Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Fakande Oluwamayowa &nbsp; Nigeria\u2019s D\u2019Tigress have been drawn alongside Germany, France, Korea, Colombia, and the Philippines in the 2026 FIBA Women\u2019s Basketball World Cup qualifiers. The draw, held on October 7 at the Patrick Baumann House of Basketball in Mies, Switzerland, sets the stage for the qualifiers scheduled from March 11-17, 2026, across four [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":76267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76268,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76266\/revisions\/76268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}