Nigeria’s senior girls’s basketball crew, Nigeria girls’s nationwide basketball crew, will face hosts France girls’s nationwide basketball crew right now in a key match of the 2026 FIBA Girls’s Basketball World Cup qualification tournaments.
The encounter will happen on the Astroballe Area.
The qualifying match is a part of the preparations for the 2026 FIBA Girls’s Basketball World Cup, which can be held in Berlin, Germany from 4 to 13 September 2026.
Nigeria have already secured their place on the World Cup after successful the 2025 FIBA Girls’s AfroBasket. The present competitors due to this fact offers the African champions the prospect to check themselves towards robust worldwide groups and enhance their international rating.
D’Tigress go into the match with two wins and one defeat from their first three video games. They started their marketing campaign with a convincing 70–37 victory over Colombia girls’s nationwide basketball crew earlier than dropping 77–60 to South Korea girls’s nationwide basketball crew.
The Nigerian aspect bounced again strongly of their final sport, beating the Philippines girls’s nationwide basketball crew 101–84 after coming from behind at half-time. The outcome confirmed the crew’s robust attacking means as they scored greater than 100 factors for the primary time within the match.
The crew is led by head coach Rena Wakama, who made historical past as the primary lady to teach Nigeria’s senior girls’s nationwide basketball crew. Underneath her management, D’Tigress gained the AfroBasket title and in addition reached the quarter-finals of the 2024 Summer time Olympics.
At the moment’s sport is predicted to be Nigeria’s hardest check to date, with France considered certainly one of Europe’s strongest basketball nations and the host of the qualifying match.
