FIBA Africa Championship 1981

For the women's tournament, see 1981 FIBA Africa Championship for Women.

FIBA AfroBasket 1981

11th FIBA Africa Basketball Championship
Tournament details
Host country	Somalia
Dates	December 15-23
Teams	11
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Ivory Coast (1st title)
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The FIBA Africa Championship 1981 was hosted by Somalia from December 15 to December 23, 1981. Games were played in the national capital Mogadishu. Egypt and Cote d'Ivoire competed in the final. The Cote d'Ivoire squad wound up winning the tournament, its first FIBA Africa Championship, and as a result qualified for the 1982 FIBA World Championship. Somalia and Algeria played for third place, with the Somalia squad emerging victorious.

Competing Nations

The following national teams competed:

Group A	Group B
Algeria   Angola   Congo   Somalia   Tunisia	Ivory Coast   Egypt   Mauritania   Mozambique   Senegal   Zimbabwe

Preliminary rounds

Group A

Team	Pts	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
Somalia	8	4	4	0	400	264	+35
Algeria	7	4	3	1	364	331	+33
Congo	6	4	2	2	386	371	+15
Tunisia	5	4	1	3	240	301	-61
Angola	4	4	0	4	273	295	-22

Day 1

Somalia	81–31	Angola
Tunisia	56–54	Angola

Day 2

Algeria	56–58	Somalia
Angola	84–85	Algeria

Day 3

Tunisia	71–100	Congo
Congo	73–64	Angola

Day 4

Somalia	65–55	Tunisia
Congo	82–95	Somalia

Day 5

Algeria	82–58	Tunisia
Algeria	141–131	Congo

Group B

Team	Pts	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
Ivory Coast	9	5	4	1	398	274	+124
Egypt	9	5	4	1	393	315	+78
Senegal	8	5	3	2	380	304	+76
Mauritania	7	5	2	3	276	327	-51
Mozambique	7	5	2	3	290	347	-57
Zimbabwe	5	5	0	5	272	442	-160

Day 1

Ivory Coast	102–46	Zimbabwe
Egypt	80–67	Mozambique
Senegal	70–52	Mauritania

Day 2

Egypt	102–73	Zimbabwe
Ivory Coast	72–56	Mauritania
Mozambique	60–58	Senegal

Day 3

Mauritania	64–46	Zimbabwe
Egypt	71–70	Senegal
Ivory Coast	79–24	Mozambique

Day 4

Senegal	96–42	Zimbabwe
Mauritania	65–61	Mozambique
Ivory Coast	66–62	Egypt

Day 5

Mozambique	78–65	Zimbabwe
Senegal	86–79	Ivory Coast
Egypt	78–39	Mauritania

Knockout stage

	Semi-finals				Final
	December 21, 1981
	Ivory Coast	2
					December 23, 1981
	Algeria (w/o)	0
					Ivory Coast	81
	December 21, 1981
					Egypt	65
	Egypt	84
	Somalia	80
					Third place
					December 23, 1981
					Somalia	2
					Algeria (w/o)	0

Classification Stage

Tunisia	55–54	Mauritania
Congo	0–2	Senegal
Mozambique	0–2	Angola

Final standings

Rank	Team	Record
1	Ivory Coast	6-1
2	Egypt	5-2
3	Somalia	5-1
4	Algeria	4-2
5	Senegal	3-2
6	Tunisia	2-3
7	Congo	2-3
8	Angola	1-4
9	Mauritania	2-4
10	Mozambique	2-4
11	Zimbabwe	0-5

Cote d'Ivoire qualified for the 1982 FIBA World Championship in Colombia.

External links

• FIBA Archive