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The 24 national teams that qualified for EuroBasket 2022 automatically qualified for this stage. They were joined by eight teams qualified through the pre-qualifiers. In total, 32 teams were divided into eight home-and-away round robin groups of four teams. Games were played in 2021 and 2022.
However, the Russia national team could still enter qualification, as the ban only applied to the final tournament to decide the world champions. Russia appealed the ruling to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), [ 2 ] which ruled in favour of WADA on 17 December 2020, but cut the ban from four to two years. [ 3 ]
The qualifiers format for the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup remained unchanged, with six windows over a 15-month period across the four regions of Africa, Americas, Asia (including Oceania) and Europe. The qualifiers took place from November 2021 to February 2023 with 80 national teams competing for a spot in the World Cup.
The qualifying tournaments took place from 2 to 5 October 2023 with six tournaments consisting of three teams, while one tournament will feature four teams. The winner of each tournament advanced to the regular season, which has been expanded for the 2023–24 season to feature 40 clubs split across 10 groups of four.
The final spot was determined by the additional qualifying round. The six teams were divided into two groups of three, with each group playing a double round-robin. The top team in each group played in the final against the other group's top team; the winner of that game received the final EuroBasket qualification spot.
The Portuguese Basketball Federation was founded in 1927, with the national team playing in their first match on 24 May 1931, a 9–32 defeat to France. Portugal would become a co-founder of FIBA in 1932. Three years later, in 1935, Portugal played in the only qualifying game for the first European Basketball Championship.
The 2023 European Women Basketball Championship, commonly called EuroBasket Women 2023, was the 39th edition of the continental tournament in women's basketball, sanctioned by the FIBA Europe. It was co-hosted by Ljubljana, Slovenia and Tel Aviv, Israel from 15 to 25 June 2023. [1] Serbia was the defending champions.
The EuroBasket Women 2025 qualification is held from November 2023 to February 2025 to decide the 12 teams to join the co-hosts Czech Republic, Germany, Greece and Italy. It features 36 teams split in eight groups of four teams. The eight group winners and the four best second-ranked teams qualify for the final tournament.