FIBA Africa Championship 1989

For the women's tournament, see 1990 FIBA Africa Championship for Women.

1989 FIBA AfroBasket

15th FIBA African Basketball Championship
Tournament details
Host country	Angola
Dates	December 16-27
Teams	11 (from 42 confederations)
Venue	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Angola (1st title)
← 1987 1992 →

The FIBA Africa Championship 1989 was hosted by Angola from December 16 to December 27, 1989. ^[1] The games were played in Luanda. Angola won the tournament, its first African Championship, by beating Egypt in the final. Both teams qualified for the 1990 FIBA World Championship as a result of their showing in this tournament.

Competing nations

The following national teams competed:

Group A	Group B
Algeria   Central African Republic   Mali   Senegal   Zambia	Angola   Ivory Coast   Egypt   Kenya   Morocco   Tunisia

Preliminary rounds

Group A

Team	Pts	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
Senegal	8	4	4	0	362	234	+128
Mali	6	4	2	2	289	235	+54
Algeria	6	4	2	2	329	297	+32
Central African Republic	6	4	2	2	381	292	+89
Zambia	4	4	0	4	178	481	-303

Day 1

Mali	94–30	Zambia
Senegal	85–74	Central African Republic

Day 2

Zambia	46–110	Senegal
Algeria	60–77	Mali

Day 3

20 December 1989

Central African Republic	165–46	Zambia
Pts: Goporo 44		Pts: Chawelwa 22

Cidadela, Luanda

20 December 1989

Senegal	89–62	Algeria
Pts: Sene 17		Pts: Samir 10

Cidadela, Luanda

Day 4

Central African Republic	67–66	Mali
Zambia	56–112	Algeria

Day 5

Algeria	95–75	Central African Republic
Senegal	78–52	Mali

Group B

Team	Pts	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
Angola	10	5	5	0	426	274	+152
Egypt	9	5	4	1	419	364	+55
Ivory Coast	9	6	3	3	500	503	-3
Tunisia	7	5	2	3	389	402	-13
Morocco	6	5	1	4	348	426	-78
Kenya	4	4	0	4	276	389	-113

Day 1

Angola	72–57	Ivory Coast
Tunisia	98–86	Ivory Coast
Egypt	89–69	Morocco

Day 2

Morocco	87–86	Kenya
Angola	83–66	Tunisia
Egypt	91–81	Ivory Coast

Day 3

20 December 1989

Tunisia	68–64	Morocco
Pts: Ben Cherif 20

Cidadela, Luanda

20 December 1989

Ivory Coast	97–79	Kenya
Pts: Meledj 20		Pts: G.Owino 8

Cidadela, Luanda

20 December 1989

Angola	82–68	Egypt
Pts: Conceição 27		Pts: A.Mohamed 12

Cidadela, Luanda

Day 4

Angola	90–50	Morocco
Egypt	95–71	Kenya
Ivory Coast	86–85	Tunisia

Day 5

Ivory Coast	93–78	Morocco
Egypt	83–72	Tunisia
Angola	110–40	Kenya

Knockout stage

	Semi-finals				Final
	December 26, 1989
	Egypt	81
					December 27, 1989
	Senegal	68
					Egypt	62
	December 26, 1989
					Angola	89
	Angola	92
	Mali	55
					Third place
					December 27, 1989
					Senegal	65
					Mali	53

26 December 1989

Angola	89–62	Egypt
Scoring by half:44–23, 45–39
Pts: J.C. Guimarães 29		Pts: Ashraf Mohamed 18

Cidadela, Luanda Referees: C. Ussene (MOZ), D. Abderahman (ALG)

Classification Stage

Ivory Coast	91–70	Algeria
Tunisia	99–110	Central African Republic
Zambia	65–122	Morocco

Final standings

Rank	Team	Record
1	Angola	7-0
2	Egypt	5-2
3	Senegal	5-1
4	Mali	2-4
5	Ivory Coast	4-3
6	Algeria	2-3
7	Central African Republic	3-2
8	Tunisia	2-4
9	Morocco	2-4
10	Zambia	0-5
11	Kenya	0-4

Awards

1989 FIBA Africa Championship winners
Angola First title

Most Valuable Player

References

1. "1989 African Championship for Men | ARCHIVE.FIBA.COM". archive.fiba.com. FIBA. Archived from the original on 2011-07-26. Retrieved 2025-11-03.