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The EuroBasket 2025 will be the 42nd edition of the EuroBasket championship, the quadrennial international men's basketball championship organized by FIBA Europe.
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]
40 teams took part in qualification, including the four co-hosts who participated for preparation reasons.
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. Eight teams progressed from the pre-qualifiers to the main qualifiers where 32 countries were split into eight groups of four, with the top three from each group qualifying for EuroBasket. The qualifiers draw was held on 8 August 2023 in Munich, Germany.[9][10]
Of the 24 qualified teams, 19 of them were present in the previous edition. Co-host, Cyprus will make their debut at the edition. Portugal comes backs after a fourteen year absence having last appeared in 2011.[11]Sweden progressed to the finals for the first time since 2013.[12] Co-host Latvia and Iceland will return after missing out on 2022.[13]
Of the teams who failed to qualify, Croatia missed out for the first time ever. Ukraine also failed to progress for the first time since 2009. After taking part in 2017 and 2022, Hungary didn't qualify. Bulgaria and Netherlands failed to qualify after their sporadic appearance in 2022.
Georgia continued their perfect streak of making every edition since their debut. Montenegro made their third consecutive appearance at EuroBasket for the first time ever.
The draw took place in Riga, Latvia on 27 March 2025.[14][15]
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.[16]
In Seed 2, Latvia, Lithuania and Greece were already guaranteed to play in Groups A, B and C, respectively, which meant that Slovenia were automatically guaranteed to play in Group D.
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.[17] In bold are the teams that will host the final tournament.
First game(s) will be played: 27 August 2025. Source: FIBA Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head results; 3) Points difference; 4) Points scored. (H) Hosts
First game(s) will be played: 27 August 2025. Source: FIBA Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head results; 3) Points difference; 4) Points scored. (H) Hosts
First game(s) will be played: 28 August 2025. Source: FIBA Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head results; 3) Points difference; 4) Points scored. (H) Hosts
First game(s) will be played: 28 August 2025. Source: FIBA Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head results; 3) Points difference; 4) Points scored. (H) Hosts
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