{
  "id": 5380018,
  "title": "FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup 2026 full game schedule, start times",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/fiba-womens-basketball-world-cup-2026-full-game-schedule-start-times",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-09-03T18:00:21.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Yahoo Sports",
    "slug": "yahoo-sports",
    "url": "https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/fiba-womens-basketball-world-cup-180021302.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The 2026 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup, set to take place in Berlin from September 4-13, will be the largest international women's basketball tournament before the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. The United States, led by Breanna Stewart and featuring a roster of global championship rookies, is aiming for its fifth consecutive world title. The U.S. team is currently on a 66-game win streak, dating back to their last defeat in the 2006 World Cup semifinals against Russia.\n\nEach of the four-team groups will culminate in a direct advancement to the quarterfinals on September 10. The second- and third-placed teams will then compete in a qualifying round to determine the remaining quarterfinalists.\n\nFor those interested in watching the tournament, the schedule includes games starting at various times throughout the day in Eastern Time (ET). The first round of games takes place on Friday, September 4, with matches between Japan and Mali, Australia and Puerto Rico, the United States and China, and South Korea and Nigeria. The final day of the tournament, Sunday, September 13, will see a 10:30 a.m. match for the third-place game and a 2 p.m. final between two unnamed teams.",
  "summary": "The 2026 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup runs from Sept. 4-13 in Berlin.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 3,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Rolling Stone",
        "title": "How to Watch the 2026 FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup Online",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/how-to-watch-the-2026-fiba-womens-basketball-world-cup-online",
        "published": "2026-09-03T20:21:00.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "SB Nation",
        "title": "Women’s Basketball World Cup: Scores, groups, standings, and more",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/womens-basketball-world-cup-scores-groups-standings-and-more",
        "published": "2026-09-03T21:00:00.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}