EuroBasket 2025

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EuroBasket 2025
Ευρωμπάσκετ 2025
Koripallon Euroopan-mestaruuskilpailut 2025
Europamästerskapet i basket för herrar 2025
Mistrzostwa Europy w Koszykówce Mężczyzn 2025
2025. gada Eiropas čempionāts basketbolā
EuroBasket 2025 Logo.png
Tournament details
Host countriesCyprus
Finland
Poland
Latvia
Dates27 August–14 September
Teams24
Venue(s)4 (in 4 host cities)
2022
2029

The EuroBasket 2025 will be the 42nd edition of the EuroBasket championship, the quadrennial international men's basketball championship organized by FIBA Europe.

Contents

Like the previous three editions, the tournament will be co-hosted by multiple countries; Cyprus, Finland, Poland and Latvia. [1] [2] It will take place from 27 August to 14 September 2025. [3]

Host selection

FIBA Europe opened three bidding options for hosting: to host a preliminary group, to host the final round or to host the entire tournament. The EuroBasket in 2015, 2017 and 2022, tendered in the same way, each of these tournaments was hosted in four countries.

Six countries submitted separate candidacies to host Eurobasket 2025: [4]

During its meeting on 28 March 2022, the FIBA Europe Board selected Latvia, Cyprus and Finland to host the tournament, with Latvia hosting the knockout phase. Ukraine was an option to be the fourth host during the group stage. Due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Poland was named the fourth country to play host. [1] [2]

Venues

Limassol will be the host city for Cyprus. [5] Riga will be the host city for Latvia and for the final phase. On 6 March 2023, Tampere was announced as the host city for Finland. [6] On March 17, Katowice was announced as the host city for Poland at a FIBA Europe Board meeting in Seville. [7] In June 2023, a draw determined which group will be played at each venue. Group A in Riga, Group B in Tampere, Group C in Limassol and Group D in Katowice. [3]

Tampere
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Tampere
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Limassol
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Riga
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Katowice
EuroBasket 2025 (Europe)
Nokia Arena
Capacity: 13,455
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Limassol
Spyros Kyprianou Athletic Center
Capacity: 9,600
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Riga Katowice
Xiaomi Arena Spodek
Capacity: 11,200Capacity: 11,036
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Marketing

The official logo was unveiled on 5 December 2023. [8]

Qualification

The qualification process started in November 2021, with ten teams participating in the pre-qualifiers, including the eight eliminated teams from the 2023 World Cup European Pre-Qualifiers. The co-hosts will participate in the qualifiers, despite automatic qualification to the EuroBasket 2025.

Qualified teams

TeamQualification methodDate of qualificationAppFirstLastBest placement in tournament
Flag of Cyprus.svg  Cyprus Host nation29 March 20221stDebut
Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 18th 1939 2022 Sixth place (1967)
Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 15th 1935 2017 Champions (1935)
Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 17 September 202230th 1937 2022 Runners-up (1963)
Flag of Serbia.svg  Serbia Group G top two24 November 20248th 2007 Runners-up (2009, 2017)
Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania Group H top two16th 1937 Champions (1937, 1939, 2003)
Flag of Slovenia.svg  Slovenia Group A top three25 November 202415th 1993 Champions (2017)
Flag of Israel.svg  Israel 31st 1953 Runners-up (1979)
Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey Group B top three26th 1949 Runners-up (2001)
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 39th 1935 Champions (1983, 1999)
Flag of Spain.svg  Spain Group C top two33rdChampions (2009, 2011, 2015, 2022)
Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium 20 February 202519thFourth place (1947)
Flag of Greece.svg  Greece Group F top three21 February 202529th 1949 Champions (1987, 2005)
Flag of Georgia.svg  Georgia Group G top two6th 2011 11th place (2011)
Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia Group H top two7th 1937 Fifth place (1937, 1939)
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain Group F top three6th 2009 13th place (2009, 2011, 2013)
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic 7th 1999 Seventh place (2015)
Flag of France.svg  France Group E top two40th 1935 Champions (2013)
Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina.svg  Bosnia and Herzegovina 11th 1993 Eighth place (1993)
Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal Group A top three4th 1951 2011 Ninth place (2007)
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany Group D top three23 February 202526th 1951 2022 Champions (1993)
Flag of Montenegro.svg  Montenegro 5th 2011 13th place (2017, 2022)
Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 11th 1953 2013 11th place (1995)
Flag of Iceland.svg  Iceland Group B top three3rd 2015 2017 24th place (2015, 2017)

Draw

The draw will take place in Riga, Latvia on 27 March 2025. [9]

Each of the four hosts (Cyprus, Finland, Latvia and Poland) were granted the right to select a partner federation for commercial and marketing criteria. These teams were automatically placed into the same group as their chosen partner country.

Latvia's choice was Estonia, Finland's choice was Lithuania, Cyprus's choice was Greece and Poland's choice was Iceland. [10] [11]

In Seed 2, Latvia, Lithuania and Greece are already guaranteed to play in Groups A, B and C, respectively, which means that Slovenia are automatically guaranteed to play in Group D.

The 24 qualified teams were seeded according to the FIBA Men's World Ranking.

The draw to determine the early designation of groups to the host cities of FIBA EuroBasket 2025 took place on 24 June, 2023 in Ljubljana. The request of the four hosts to allocate the groups to the host cities for the 42nd edition of tournament in advance was approved by the FIBA Europe Board in its June meeting. [3]

The results of the draw were as follows:
Group A will be played in Riga, Latvia
Group B will be played in Tampere, Finland
Group C will be played in Limassol, Cyprus
Group D will be played in Katowice, Poland.

Seeding

The seeding was announced on 25 February 2025. [12] In bold are the teams that will host the final tournament.

Teams from seed 1 were drawn into the groups A, C, E and G with teams from seeds 4, 5 and 8. Teams from seed 2 were drawn into the groups B, D, F and H with teams from seeds 3, 6 and 7. Only one host of the final stage could be drawn in any group.

Seed 1
TeamPos
Flag of Serbia.svg  Serbia 2
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 3
Flag of France.svg  France 4
Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 5
Seed 2
TeamPos
Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 9
Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania 10
Flag of Slovenia.svg  Slovenia 11
Flag of Greece.svg  Greece 13
Seed 3
TeamPos
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 14
Flag of Montenegro.svg  Montenegro 16
Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 17
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic 19
Seed 4
TeamPos
Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 20
Flag of Georgia.svg  Georgia 24
Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey 27
Flag of Israel.svg  Israel 39
Seed 5
TeamPos
Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium 40
Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina.svg  Bosnia and Herzegovina 41
Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia 43
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 48
Seed 6
TeamPos
Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 49
Flag of Iceland.svg  Iceland 50
Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal 56
Flag of Cyprus.svg  Cyprus 85

Preliminary round

Group A

Venue: Riga, Latvia.

PosTeamPldWLPFPAPDPtsQualification
1A10000000 Knockout stage
2Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 0000000
3A30000000
4A40000000
5Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia 0000000
6A60000000
First match(es) will be played: 27 August 2025. Source: FIBA
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head results; 3) Points difference; 4) Points scored.

Group B

Venue: Tampere, Finland.

PosTeamPldWLPFPAPDPtsQualification
1B10000000 Knockout stage
2Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania 0000000
3B30000000
4Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 0000000
5B50000000
6B60000000
First match(es) will be played: 27 August 2025. Source: FIBA
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head results; 3) Points difference; 4) Points scored.

Group C

Venue: Limassol, Cyprus.

PosTeamPldWLPFPAPDPtsQualification
1C10000000 Knockout stage
2Flag of Greece.svg  Greece 0000000
3C30000000
4C40000000
5C50000000
6Flag of Cyprus.svg  Cyprus 0000000
First match(es) will be played: 28 August 2025. Source: FIBA
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head results; 3) Points difference; 4) Points scored.

Group D

Venue: Katowice, Poland.

PosTeamPldWLPFPAPDPtsQualification
1D10000000 Knockout stage
2Flag of Slovenia.svg  Slovenia 0000000
3Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 0000000
4D40000000
5D50000000
6Flag of Iceland.svg  Iceland 0000000
First match(es) will be played: 28 August 2025. Source: FIBA
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head results; 3) Points difference; 4) Points scored.

Knockout stage

Venue: Riga, Latvia.

Bracket

 
Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Final
 
              
 
6 September
 
 
 
 
9 September
 
 
 
 
 
7 September
 
 
 
 
 
12 September
 
 
 
 
 
6 September
 
 
 
 
 
9 September
 
 
 
 
 
7 September
 
 
 
 
 
14 September
 
 
 
 
 
6 September
 
 
 
 
 
10 September
 
 
 
 
 
7 September
 
 
 
 
 
12 September
 
 
 
 
 
6 September
 
  Third place
 
 
 
10 September14 September
 
 
 
  
 
7 September
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 

Final

14 September 2025vs. Arena Riga, Riga

References

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