EuroBasket 2025

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

EuroBasket 2025
Tournament details
Host countriesLatvia
Cyprus
Finland
Poland
DatesSeptember
Teams24

Like the previous three editions, the tournament will be co-hosted by multiple countries; Latvia, Cyprus, Finland and Poland.[1][2]

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 counties submitted separate candidacies to host Eurobasket 2025:[3]

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. 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.[4] On March 17, Katowice was announced as the host city for Poland at a FIBA Europe Board meeting in Seville.[5]

Tampere
EuroBasket 2025 is located in Europe
Tampere
Tampere
Limassol
Limassol
Riga
Riga
Katowice
Katowice
EuroBasket 2025 (Europe)
Nokia Arena
Capacity: 13,455
Limassol
Spyros Kyprianou Athletic Center
Capacity: 9,600
RigaKatowice
Arena RigaSpodek
Capacity:Capacity:
11,200 11,036

Qualification
Main article: EuroBasket 2025 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 qualificationAppLastBest placement in tournament
 CyprusHost nation29 March 20221st——
 Finland18th20226th place (1967)
 Latvia15th2017Champions (1935)
 Poland17 September 202230th2022Runners-up (1963)

References
  1. "Latvia, Cyprus and Finland named FIBA EuroBasket 2025 hosts". 29 March 2022. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
  2. "Poland named FIBA EuroBasket 2025 co-host". fiba.basketball. 17 September 2022. Retrieved 17 September 2022.
  3. "Six countries bid to host FIBA EuroBasket 2025". 20 September 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
  4. "Tampere named as Finland's host city for FIBA EuroBasket 2025". fiba.basketball. 6 March 2023. Retrieved 6 March 2023.
  5. "FIBA Europe Board concludes March meeting in Seville". fiba.basketball. 17 March 2023. Retrieved 17 March 2023.
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