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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.
A total of 53 teams from 27 of the 50 FIBA Europe member associations were expected to participate in the 2023–24 FIBA Europe Cup season, but finally 51 teams from 27 of the 50 FIBA Europe member associations participated in the competition. On July 20, 2023, FIBA Europe confirmed 35 teams to take part in the competition. [2]
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
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]
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. In 2015, the national team of Iceland became the smallest nation to ever qualify for a EuroBasket final stage at the population of around 330.000 people.
The draw for the qualifying rounds will be made on 5 July 2023. The 25 teams were divided into six pots. The top eight national champions from the unrepresented nations were placed into Pots 1 and 2, and the remaining clubs into Pots 3–6.
The seeding was announced on 7 August 2023. [13] In bold, teams that host the final tournament. Teams from seed 1 were drawn into the groups A, C, E and G with teams from seeds 4, 5 and 8. Teams from seed 2 were drawn into the groups B, D, F and H with teams from seeds 3, 6 and 7. Only one host of the final stage could be drawn in any group.
Real Madrid have won the European championship on 11 occasions, more than any other club, with its most recent victory in 2023. [1] Panathinaikos of Athens is the current holder of the Euroleague championship of 2023-2024.