The Emirati city’s latest addition to calendar will bring the world’s best 3×3 basketball teams during the final stretch of the season. The event will have ranking points and prize money in the line. Fans in Dubai will witness World Champions, European Champions and Olympians on court, alongside the world’s top ranked teams.

MIES (Switzerland) – Dubai has been added to the FIBA 3×3 World Tour 2026 calendar, with a Masters event taking place on November 7-8.

The world’s best 3×3 basketball teams and players will compete in the emirate as the season enters its closing stretch, with ranking points and prize money on the line. Dubai’s addition brings one of the most recognisable sport and tourism destinations in the world into a season that travels across four regions.

Fans in Dubai will see the elite of the discipline in action. Fans will see World Champions, European Champions and Olympians on court, alongside the world’s top-ranked teams, where every possession counts.

The 2026 FIBA 3×3 World Tour tipped off in Utsunomiya, Japan, on April 25-26 and has since visited urban locations around the world, each contributing its own identity to a global journey that celebrates 3×3 basketball as both elite sport and shared experience. Dubai now takes its place on that calendar ahead of the FIBA 3×3 World Tour Final in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on December 12-13.

3×3 basketball has long been recognised for its ability to combine world-class competition with entertainment, where music, atmosphere and crowd engagement form a central part of the live experience. 

Dubai’s arrival on the calendar comes as part of a three-year partnership, securing the Masters in the emirate through 2028.

Alex Sanchez, Managing Director of FIBA 3×3, said: “We are delighted to welcome Dubai to the FIBA 3×3 World Tour this season. Dubai has firmly established itself as one of the world’s leading tourism, entertainment and major event destinations, with remarkable sports infrastructure and a bold vision for the future of sport.”

Eisa Sharif, Dubai Sports Council Director of Events, said: “Bringing the FIBA 3×3 World Tour to Dubai is another important step in our commitment to supporting and growing basketball in the emirate, while aligning with the ambitions of the Dubai Sports Strategic Plan 2033. We are proud to build on our strong relationship with FIBA and to welcome one of the world’s leading international basketball events to our community. Hosting the world’s best 3×3 players in Dubai also supports our focus on talent development, creating opportunities to inspire the next generation of players and connect local talent with the highest levels of the sport. Dubai is the home for global events, and bringing the FIBA 3×3 World Tour to the emirate further reinforces our commitment to strengthening Dubai’s position as a leading destination for international sport.”

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About FIBA 3×3

Exciting, urban and innovative, 3×3 basketball is inspired by several forms of urban basketball played worldwide and is considered the world’s number one urban team sport. Steered by FIBA, games see two teams of three players face off on a basketball half-court. It was played successfully for the first time in international competition at the 2010 Youth Olympic Games in Singapore and has since benefited from the launch of yearly professional circuits for men and women, the FIBA 3×3 World Tour and FIBA 3×3 Women’s Series respectively, as well as national team competitions. 3×3 basketball made its Olympic debut at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, returned at Paris 2024, and will feature again at LA 2028.

FIBA 3×3 World Tour

The FIBA 3×3 World Tour is the elite professional men’s circuit of the discipline. Teams representing world renowned cities, and professional clubs, compete across a global season hosted in the center of major urban environments, earning ranking points and prize money while building toward the FIBA 3×3 World Tour Final. It is the highest level of professional 3×3 competition.

Media accreditation 

All Media interested in attending the FIBA 3×3 World Tour Dubai should submit their application before November 5, 2026.

All applications, from both local and international media, must be submitted via the FIBA Accreditation Portal. More information on how to apply is available here. 

FIBA

Global basketball governing body FIBA has added a stop in Dubai, UAE, to its top-flight 3×3 World Tour calendar as part of a new multi-year partnership with the Dubai Sports Council (DSC).

The Dubai event, part of the World Tour’s ‘Masters’ elite tier of two-day showcases, will take place on November 7 and 8 as part of a late-season swing of events across Asia before the December season finale in Brazil.

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That will be the first of three annual World Tour stops in Dubai under the agreement, supporting the city’s growing event-hosting ambitions.

Indeed, to this end, DSC director of events Eisa Sharif said: “Bringing the FIBA 3×3 World Tour to Dubai is another important step in our commitment to supporting and growing basketball in the emirate, while aligning with the ambitions of the Dubai Sports Strategic Plan 2033.

“Hosting the world’s best 3×3 players in Dubai also supports our focus on talent development, creating opportunities to inspire the next generation of players and connect local talent with the highest levels of the sport. Dubai is the home for global events, and bringing the FIBA 3×3 World Tour to the emirate further reinforces our commitment to strengthening Dubai’s position as a leading destination for international sport.”

The Dubai World Tour stop is not the top-line Masters event to visit the Middle East, and indeed is not the only stop in the region on the 2026 tour, which will also visit Manama, Bahrain, on November 20 and 21.

Manama, which has hosted Masters events annually since 2023, also hosted the season-ending 3×3 Finals in 2025, while prior events have also been staged in Doha, Qatar, and Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

The tour also stopped in Abu Dhabi, UAE, between 2021 and 2025 (including the 2022 Finals), with Dubai now replacing it as the sole UAE event on the circuit.

Speaking to Sportcal last month, FIBA 3×3 managing director Alex Sanchez discussed why Asian markets are such a target for the tour, saying: “The reality is that two-thirds of the world’s population live in Asia,” he explained. “So if you take this into account, if we want to grow, let’s go where the biggest potential market is, and two-thirds of our potential market actually live in Asia.

“It’s also true that we’ve been able to generate interest in very different kinds of Asian markets: Mongolia, Singapore, and [the Gulf countries], that are culturally and geographically different.”

Read more – FIBA 3×3: How scenic landscapes underpin the World Tour’s global growth

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