2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup: Difference between revisions
International basketball competition
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| Host countries | Philippines Japan Indonesia |
| Dates | 25 August – 10 September |
| Teams | 32 (from 4 confederations) |
| Venue(s) | 5[a] (in 5 host cities) |
The 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup will be the 19th tournament of the FIBA Basketball World Cup for men’s national basketball teams. The tournament will be the second to feature 32 teams and will be hosted by multiple nations for the first time in its history; the Philippines, Japan, and Indonesia, from 25 August to 10 September 2023.[3]
It will be the first World Cup to be hosted in Indonesia, and the second to be hosted in both the Philippines and Japan since they first hosted the tournament in 1978 and 2006, respectively. The tournament will also be the second of three-straight World Cups to be held in Asia after China’s hosting of the 2019 edition and Qatar’s upcoming hosting of the 2027 tournament, and the first time in tournament history that a host nation has not qualified.
The tournament will serve as qualification for the 2024 Summer Olympics, where the top two teams from each of the Americas and Europe, and the top team from each of Africa, Asia and Oceania, will qualify alongside the tournament’s host France.
Spain will be the defending champions, having beaten Argentina in the 2019 final.
Host selection[edit]
On 7 June 2016, FIBA approved the bidding process for the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup.[4]
Joint bids by member federations were also approved by the FIBA Central Board starting from the 2023 edition and there is no restriction for a country from the confederation which hosted the previous edition to bid for the World Cup hosting rights.[5]
On 1 June 2017, FIBA confirmed the list of candidates for the hosting of the World Cup.
Solo bidders Russia and Turkey ended their bids, leaving joint bids of the Philippines–Japan–Indonesia, and Argentina–Uruguay left in the race, automatically marking the 2023 tournament as the first to be hosted by multiple nations.
Voting results[edit]
On 9 December 2017, it was announced that the Philippines, Japan, and Indonesia won the bid and will host the upcoming World Cup,[6][7] after Argentina and Uruguay withdrew their joint-bid on the same day, leaving FIBA to award the hosting rights via a unanimous vote.[8]
Qualification[edit]
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As co-hosts, the Philippines and Japan each got an automatic qualification for the tournament when they were awarded the joint hosting rights along with co-host Indonesia. However, Indonesia’s host qualification slot was conditional as FIBA wanted the Indonesian national team to be competitive by 2021 and thus required Indonesia to qualify for and finish in the top-eight (advance to the quarter-finals) of the 2022 FIBA Asia Cup (postponed from 2021). Indonesia officially qualified for the Asia Cup as host and advanced from the preliminary round-robin round, but lost to China in the playoff round (round of 16) and were therefore unable to secure qualification for their hoped-for FIBA Basketball World Cup debut.[9][10][11][12][13] This is the first time in the history of the FIBA Basketball World Cup that a host nation has not qualified.
80 teams from four FIBA zones qualified for the World Cup qualifiers through qualification for the FIBA Continental Cups (AfroBasket 2021, 2022 FIBA AmeriCup, 2022 FIBA Asia Cup, and EuroBasket 2022). For Europe and the Americas, additional teams qualified through the pre-qualifiers of the said regions. The participants of both the AfroBasket and the Asia Cup comprise the teams that will also take part in the qualifiers for their respective regions. The first game of the qualifiers took place in Minsk on 25 November 2021 between Belarus and Turkey, as part of the European Qualifiers. The draw for the World Cup qualifiers was held at the Patrick Baumann House of Basketball in Mies, Switzerland, on 31 August 2021.[14]
The first round of the Americas, Asia/Oceania, and Africa qualifiers featured 16 teams each, whereas Europe will have 32 teams. Division A teams were split into groups of four, to be held in a home-and-away round-robin. The top three teams in each group advanced to the second round. In round two of the World Cup qualifiers, teams were split into six groups, totaling four groups in Europe and two in the other qualifiers. Teams carried over the points from round one, and faced the other three teams again in a home-and-away round-robin. The best teams in each group qualified for the World Cup. No wild card selection was held, and the Olympic champions (United States) were not guaranteed a spot in the tournament.
The complete field of 32 teams that will participate…
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