Eight teams will take to the floor in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, from October 17 to 24 for the first of six regional qualifiers for the 2026 FIBA Women's Basketball League Africa (WBLA). The participating clubs are Dynamo and Les Hippos from Burundi, KPA and Equity Bank from Kenya, REG and APR from Rwanda, and Fox Divas BC and Vijana Queens BC from Tanzania.
The top two finishers in Dar es Salaam will advance to the WBLA finals, scheduled for December 11 to 20 in Cairo, Egypt.
Further qualifying windows are lined up across the continent. Zone 3 will be held from November 4 to 8 in Monrovia, Liberia, featuring Énergie Basketball from Benin, Friends Basketball Association from Côte d'Ivoire, and Liberia's D-Rockas Basketball Club and Flames Basketball Club. Nigerian representatives are yet to be confirmed. Zone 4 runs from October 24 to 28 in Brazzaville, Congo, with six clubs from Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo and Gabon contesting two spots.
Luanda will host the Zone 6 qualifiers, where Angola's 1° de Agosto, BDFV Basketball Team of Botswana, Bravehearts Basketball Club of Malawi, Ferroviario Maputo of Mozambique and Zambia's Dolphins will compete for two places in Cairo. Information on Zones 1, 2 and 7 will be announced later.
