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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.
Had Russia qualified, its players would have been able to use its name, flag and anthem at the World Cup, as a result of the nation's two-year ban expiring on 16 December 2022. [3] [4] However, Russia was later expelled from the tournament due to its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. [5]
The qualifiers took place from November 2021 to February 2023 with 80 national teams competing for a spot in the World Cup. The road to the 2023 World Cup began in February 2020 with the start of the European pre-qualifiers, which ended in August 2021. The draw for the qualifiers were held on 31 August 2021 in Mies, Switzerland. [6] [7]
These matches were played in three windows from 17 to 25 February 2020; from 23 November to 1 December 2020 and from 15 to 23 February 2021 with two games played by each team in every window. [8] The 32 countries played the FIBA EuroBasket 2022 Qualifiers, including the hosts of the final round – Czech Republic, Georgia, Germany, and Italy.
Bounce is the official mascot of the EuroBasket 2022. For EuroBasket 2015 and 2017, FIBA Europe opened three bidding options for hosting: to host a preliminary group, to host the final round, or to host the entire tournament. In the end, each of these two tournaments was hosted in four cities in four countries.
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.
As a participant in the second round of the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup qualification, Serbia was qualified for the second stage of the EuroBasket 2022 qualification. The EuroBasket 2022 was originally scheduled to take place in 2021, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent postponement of the 2020 Summer Olympics to 2021, it has ...
The EuroBasket 2022 Final was the championship game of the EuroBasket 2022 tournament. The game took place on 18 September 2022 in the Mercedes-Benz Arena, Berlin. [1] [2]The game featured Spain and France and was a re-match of the EuroBasket 2011 Final in Kaunas, when Spain won convincingly.