2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup qualification (Europe)

Dates20 February 2020 – 27 February 2023

Teams39

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
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The 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup qualification for the FIBA Europe region, began in February 2020 and concluded in February 2023. The process determined the twelve teams that would qualify for the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup.

On 9 December 2019, the World Anti-Doping Agency initially handed Russia a four-year ban from all major sporting events, after RUSADA was found non-compliant for handing over manipulating lab data and lying to investigators. WADA prohibited the use of the Russian flag and anthem at major international sporting events.^[1] 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] 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]

FIBA Europe was allocated 12 berths at the World Cup. In total, 39 FIBA Europe teams took part in the qualification tournament. The qualification consisted of the following stages:

Pre-Qualifiers
- First round: Eight teams that did not advance to the EuroBasket 2022 qualifiers took part.
- Second round: The four teams were joined by the eight teams that were eliminated from the EuroBasket 2022 qualifiers. Teams that advanced from the previous round were assigned to Pot 3, while teams eliminated from EuroBasket 2022 qualifiers were assigned to Pots 1 or 2, according to FIBA rankings. Austria withdrew before the round and was replaced by Luxembourg.
Qualifiers
- First round: 24 teams that qualified for EuroBasket 2022 and eight teams that advanced from Pre-Qualifiers were organized into eight groups of four. The top three teams of each group qualified for the second round.
- Second round: The top 24 teams from the first round were organised into four groups of six, with results carried over from the first round. The top three teams of each group qualified for the World Cup.

Pre-qualifiers

Teams that did not advance to the EuroBasket 2022 qualifiers took part in the pre-qualifiers round.

First round

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Portugal	6	5	1	447	369	+78	11^[a]	Pre-qualifiers second round
2	Belarus	6	5	1	498	347	+151	11^[a]	Pre-qualifiers second round
3	Cyprus	6	1	5	354	481	−127	7^[b]
4	Albania	6	1	5	391	493	−102	7^[b]

Source: FIBA
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head results; 3) Points difference; 4) Points scored.
Notes:

1 2 Portugal 131–129 Belarus
1 2 Cyprus 152–137 Albania

Group B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Iceland	6	5	1	517	455	+62	11	Pre-qualifiers second round
2	Slovakia	6	3	3	467	459	+8	9	Pre-qualifiers second round
3	Luxembourg	6	2	4	481	495	−14	8^[a]
4	Kosovo	6	2	4	455	511	−56	8^[a]

Source: FIBA
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head results; 3) Points difference; 4) Points scored.
Notes:

1 2 Luxembourg 179–173 Kosovo

Second round

Group C

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Sweden	4	3	1	379	273	+106	7^[a]	Qualifiers
2	Portugal (H)	4	3	1	302	304	−2	7^[a]	Qualifiers
3	Luxembourg^[b]	4	0	4	282	386	−104	4

Source: FIBA
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head results; 3) Points difference; 4) Points scored.
(H) Hosts
Notes:

1 2 Sweden 156–139 Portugal
↑ Luxembourg replaced Austria, who withdrew before the start of the round.^[6]

Group D

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Latvia (H)	4	4	0	362	284	+78	8	Qualifiers
2	Belarus	4	2	2	314	313	+1	6	Qualifiers
3	Romania	4	0	4	279	358	−79	4

Source: FIBA
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head results; 3) Points difference; 4) Points scored.
(H) Hosts

Group E

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Montenegro (H)	4	4	0	323	284	+39	8	Qualifiers
2	Iceland	4	2	2	329	308	+21	6	Qualifiers
3	Denmark	4	0	4	278	338	−60	4

Source: FIBA
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head results; 3) Points difference; 4) Points scored.
(H) Hosts

Group F

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	North Macedonia (H)	4	2	2	270	263	+7	6	Qualifiers
2	Slovakia	4	2	2	259	262	−3	6	Qualifiers
3	Switzerland	4	2	2	249	253	−4	6

Source: FIBA
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head results; 3) Points difference; 4) Points scored.
(H) Hosts

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification	LAT	BEL	SRB	SVK
1	Latvia	6	5	1	475	422	+53	11	Second round (Group I)	—	68–63	66–59	82–74
2	Belgium	6	4	2	460	392	+68	10		65–66	—	73–69	102–59
3	Serbia	6	3	3	448	439	+9	9		101–100	73–74	—	75–63
4	Slovakia	6	0	6	376	506	−130	6		60–93	57–83	63–71	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification	GRE	TUR	GBR	BLR
1	Greece	4	3	1	310	287	+23	7	Second round (Group I)	—	72–71	93–71	Annu.
2	Turkey	4	2	2	307	286	+21	6		67–76	—	84–67	Canc.
3	Great Britain	4	1	3	287	331	−44	5		78–69	71–85	—	Canc.
4	Belarus^[a]	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Expelled	Canc.	Annu.	Canc.	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification	FIN	SLO	SWE	CRO
1	Finland	6	5	1	474	446	+28	11	Second round (Group J)	—	86–76	85–69	77–71
2	Slovenia	6	4	2	506	482	+24	10		79–83	—	94–89	97–69
3	Sweden	6	2	4	479	494	−15	8		72–62	81–84	—	98–105 (OT)
4	Croatia	6	1	5	462	499	−37	7		79–81	74–76	64–70	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification	GER	ISR	EST	POL
1	Germany	6	5	1	474	425	+49	11	Second round (Group J)	—	84–80	66–69	93–83
2	Israel	6	3	3	476	452	+24	9		67–71	—	96–77	69–61
3	Estonia	6	2	4	415	470	−55	8^[a]		57–88	69–79	—	75–71
4	Poland	6	2	4	444	462	−18	8^[a]		69–72	90–85 (OT)	70–68	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification	FRA	MNE	HUN	POR
1	France	6	5	1	464	343	+121	11	Second round (Group K)	—	73–67	81–40	94–56
2	Montenegro	6	4	2	464	428	+36	10		70–69	—	84–88	83–69
3	Hungary	6	3	3	399	469	−70	9		54–78	67–83	—	69–68
4	Portugal	6	0	6	386	473	−87	6		56–69	62–77	75–81	—

2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup qualification (Europe)