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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. The bottom team from each group was eliminated.
2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup; European Qualification; Tournament details; Dates: 20 February 2020 – 27 February 2023: Teams: 39: Official website; European qualifiers website European pre-qualifiers website
For the groups containing the FIBA EuroBasket 2022 hosts, the host and the two other highest placed teams qualified for the FIBA EuroBasket 2022. [9] The eight teams which failed to qualify for the final tournament played the second round of the World Cup 2023 pre-qualifiers in the summer of 2021. [10]
EuroBasket, also commonly referred to as the European Basketball Championship, is the main international basketball competition that is contested quadrennially, by the senior men's national teams that are governed by FIBA Europe, which is the European zone within the International Basketball Federation.
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 EuroBasket 2022 was the 41st edition of the EuroBasket championship organized by FIBA Europe. It was the first since it was agreed it would take place every four years, with a similar system of qualification as for the FIBA Basketball World Cup . [ 1 ]
EuroBasket 2022 — 90–94 75–66 88–81 2 Georgia: 6 4 2 508 517 −9 10 [a] EuroBasket 2022 as host 66–92 — 70–78 96–88 3 Finland: 6 3 3 448 464 −16 9 EuroBasket 2022: 58–80 85–91 — 92–84 4 Switzerland: 6 1 5 493 526 −33 7 92–90 84–91 64–69 —
A similar occurrence happened at the EuroBasket 1995 in Greece. Croatia lost in the semi-finals 80–90 against Lithuania, but beat Greece 73–68 for the third time in a row in a bronze medal match. That medal to date was the last Croatian medal from any major tournament. At the 1996 Summer Olympics Croatia finished in a subpar seventh place. [10]