2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup qualification (Africa)

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Dates22 November 2021 – 26 February 2023
Teams16
2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup
African Qualification
Tournament details
Dates22 November 2021 – 26 February 2023
Teams16
Official website
African qualifiers website
2019
2027

The 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup qualification for the FIBA Africa region, began in November 2021 and concluded in February 2023. The process determined the five African teams that would participate at the 2023 FIBA World Cup.[1]

The qualification structure is as follows:

  • First round: 16 teams were divided into four groups of four teams and played a double round-robin system (home-and-away or two tournaments at a single venue). The three best-placed teams from each group advanced to the second round.
  • Second round: 12 teams were divided into two groups of six teams. Each group was formed from teams advancing from the four first round groups. All results from the previous round were carried over. The two-best placed teams from each group and the best third-placed team qualified for the World Cup.

Entrants

The 16 teams that qualified for AfroBasket 2021 participated in the first round of the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup African qualifiers.

Draw

The draw for the first round was held on 31 August 2021 in Mies, Switzerland.[2][3]

Seeding

Seedings were announced on 30 August 2021.[4] Teams were seeded based on FIBA rankings. Teams from pots 1 and 4 were drawn to Groups A and B. Teams from pots 2 and 3 were drawn to Groups C and D. Teams from pots 5 and 6 were drawn across the four groups.

Pot 1
TeamPos
 Nigeria23
 Tunisia30
Pot 2
TeamPos
 Angola33
 Senegal36
Pot 3
TeamPos
 Ivory Coast46
 Egypt62
Pot 4
TeamPos
 Cameroon63
 Mali75
Pot 5
TeamPos
 Central African Republic76
 DR Congo81
 Uganda90
 South Sudan94
Pot 6
TeamPos
 Rwanda95
 Cape Verde100
 Kenya111
 Guinea118

First round

Second round

Statistical leaders

As of 26 February 2023

Notes

References

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