EuroBasket 2025

EuroBasket 2025

Ευρωπαϊκό Πρωτάθλημα Καλαθοσφαίρισης 2025 (in Greek) Koripallon Euroopan-mestaruuskilpailut 2025 (in Finnish) Europamästerskapet i basket för herrar 2025 (in Swedish) Mistrzostwa Europy w Koszykówce Mężczyzn 2025 (in Polish) 2025. gada Eiropas čempionāts basketbolā (in Latvian)
Tournament details
Host countries	Cyprus Finland Poland Latvia
Dates	27 August–14 September
Teams	24
Venue(s)	4 (in 4 host cities)

The EuroBasket 2025 will be the 42nd edition of the EuroBasket championship, the quadrennial international men's basketball championship organized by FIBA Europe.

Like the previous three editions, the tournament will be co-hosted by multiple countries; Cyprus, Finland, Poland, and Latvia.^[1][2] It will take place from 27 August to 14 September 2025.^[3] The event returns to its usual four-year cycle, after the EuroBasket 2021 was postponed until 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

FIBA Europe opened three bidding options for hosting: to host a preliminary group, to host the final round or to host the entire tournament. The EuroBasket in 2015, 2017 and 2022, tendered in the same way, each of these tournaments was hosted in four countries.

Six countries submitted separate candidacies to host Eurobasket 2025:^[4]

During its meeting on 28 March 2022, the FIBA Europe Board selected Latvia, Cyprus and Finland to host the tournament, with Latvia hosting the knockout phase. Ukraine was an option to be the fourth host during the group stage. Due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Poland was named the fourth country to play host.^[1][2]

Limassol will be the host city for Cyprus.^[5] Riga will be the host city for Latvia and for the final phase. On 6 March 2023, Tampere was announced as the host city for Finland.^[6] On March 17, Katowice was announced as the host city for Poland at a FIBA Europe Board meeting in Seville.^[7] In June 2023, a draw determined which group will be played at each venue. Group A in Riga, Group B in Tampere, Group C in Limassol and Group D in Katowice.^[3]

Tampere	Tampere Limassol Riga Katowice EuroBasket 2025 (Europe)
Nokia Arena
Capacity: 13,455
Limassol
Spyros Kyprianou Athletic Center
Capacity: 8,000
Riga	Katowice
Xiaomi Arena	Spodek
Capacity: 11,200	Capacity: 11,036

The official logo was unveiled on 5 December 2023.^[8]

40 teams took part in qualification, including the four co-hosts who participated for preparation reasons.

The qualification process started in November 2021, with ten teams participating in the pre-qualifiers, including the eight eliminated teams from the 2023 World Cup European Pre-Qualifiers. Eight teams progressed from the pre-qualifiers to the main qualifiers where 32 countries were split into eight groups of four, with the top three from each group qualifying for EuroBasket. The qualifiers draw was held on 8 August 2023 in Munich, Germany.^[9][10]

Of the 24 qualified teams, 19 of them were present in the previous edition. Co-host, Cyprus will make their debut at the edition. Portugal comes backs after a fourteen year absence having last appeared in 2011.^[11] Sweden progressed to the finals for the first time since 2013.^[12] Co-host Latvia and Iceland will return after missing out on 2022.^[13]

Of the teams who failed to qualify, Croatia missed out for the first time ever. Ukraine also failed to progress for the first time since 2009. After taking part in 2017 and 2022, Hungary didn't qualify. Bulgaria and Netherlands failed to qualify after their sporadic appearance in 2022.

Georgia continued their perfect streak of making every edition since their debut. Montenegro made their third consecutive appearance at EuroBasket for the first time ever.

Team	Qualification method	Date of qualification	App	First	Last	Streak	Best placement in tournament	WR
Cyprus	Host nation	29 March 2022	1st	—	—	1	Debut	TBD
Finland			18th	1939	2022	6	Sixth place (1967)	TBD
Latvia			15th	1935	2017	1	Champions (1935)	TBD
Poland		17 September 2022	30th	1937	2022	8	Runners-up (1963)	TBD
Serbia	Group G top two	24 November 2024	8th	2007		8	Runners-up (2009, 2017)	TBD
Lithuania	Group H top two		16th	1937		14	Champions (1937, 1939, 2003)	TBD
Slovenia	Group A top three	25 November 2024	15th	1993		15	Champions (2017)	TBD
Israel			31st	1953		15	Runners-up (1979)	TBD
Türkiye	Group B top three		26th	1949		15	Runners-up (2001)	TBD
Italy			39th	1935		6	Champions (1983, 1999)	TBD
Spain	Group C top two		33rd			32	Champions (2009, 2011, 2015, 2022)	TBD
Belgium		20 February 2025	19th			6	Fourth place (1947)	TBD
Greece	Group F top three	21 February 2025	29th	1949		18	Champions (1987, 2005)	TBD
Georgia	Group G top two		6th	2011		6	11th place (2011)	TBD
Estonia	Group H top two		7th	1937		2	Fifth place (1937, 1939)	TBD
Great Britain	Group F top three		6th	2009		3	13th place (2009, 2011, 2013)	TBD
Czechia			7th	1999		5	Seventh place (2015)	TBD
France	Group E top two		40th	1935		23	Champions (2013)	TBD
Bosnia and Herzegovina			11th	1993		2	Eighth place (1993)	TBD
Portugal	Group A top three		4th	1951	2011	1	Ninth place (2007)	TBD
Germany	Group D top three	23 February 2025	26th	1951	2022	15	Champions (1993)	TBD
Montenegro			5th	2011		3	13th place (2017, 2022)	TBD
Sweden			11th	1953	2013	1	11th place (1995)	TBD
Iceland	Group B top three		3rd	2015	2017	1	24th place (2015, 2017)	TBD

The draw took place in Riga, Latvia on 27 March 2025.^[14][15]

Each of the four hosts (Cyprus, Finland, Latvia and Poland) were granted the right to select a partner federation for commercial and marketing criteria. These teams were automatically placed into the same group as their chosen partner country.

Latvia's choice was Estonia, Finland's choice was Lithuania, Cyprus's choice was Greece and Poland's choice was Iceland.^[16]

In Seed 2, Latvia, Lithuania and Greece were already guaranteed to play in Groups A, B and C, respectively, which meant that Slovenia were automatically guaranteed to play in Group D.

The 24 qualified teams were seeded according to the FIBA Men's World Ranking.

The draw to determine the early designation of groups to the host cities of FIBA EuroBasket 2025 took place on 24 June, 2023 in Ljubljana. The request of the four hosts to allocate the groups to the host cities for the 42nd edition of tournament in advance was approved by the FIBA Europe Board in its June meeting.^[3]

The results of the draw were as follows:
Group A will be played in Riga, Latvia
Group B will be played in Tampere, Finland
Group C will be played in Limassol, Cyprus
Group D will be played in Katowice, Poland.

The seeding was announced on 25 February 2025.^[17] In bold are the teams that will host the final tournament.

Seed 1 Team Pos  Serbia 2  Germany 3  France 4  Spain 5

Seed 2 Team Pos  Latvia 9  Lithuania 10  Slovenia 11  Greece 13

Seed 3 Team Pos  Italy 14  Montenegro 16  Poland 17  Czechia 19

Seed 4 Team Pos  Finland 20  Georgia 24  Türkiye 27  Israel 39

Seed 5 Team Pos  Belgium 40  Bosnia and Herzegovina 41  Estonia 43  Great Britain 48

Seed 6 Team Pos  Sweden 49  Iceland 50  Portugal 56  Cyprus 85

The following 45 referees were selected for the tournament.^[18]

Each team consists of 12 players.

The schedule was announced on 30 April 2025.^[19]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Portugal	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Knockout stage
2	Estonia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Latvia (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Türkiye	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	Serbia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
6	Czechia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

27 August 2025
Czech Republic		v		Portugal
Latvia		v		Turkey
Serbia		v		Estonia
29 August 2025
Turkey		v		Czech Republic
Estonia		v		Latvia
Portugal		v		Serbia
30 August 2025
Czech Republic		v		Estonia
Latvia		v		Serbia
Turkey		v		Portugal
1 September 2025
Estonia		v		Turkey
Portugal		v		Latvia
Serbia		v		Czech Republic
3 September 2025
Estonia		v		Portugal
Czech Republic		v		Latvia
Turkey		v		Serbia

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Germany	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Knockout stage
2	Finland (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Great Britain	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Lithuania	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	Sweden	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
6	Montenegro	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

27 August 2025
Great Britain		v		Lithuania
Montenegro		v		Germany
Sweden		v		Finland
29 August 2025
Germany		v		Sweden
Finland		v		Great Britain
Lithuania		v		Montenegro
30 August 2025
Lithuania		v		Germany
Great Britain		v		Sweden
Montenegro		v		Finland
1 September 2025
Sweden		v		Montenegro
Germany		v		Great Britain
Finland		v		Lithuania
3 September 2025
Montenegro		v		Great Britain
Lithuania		v		Sweden
Finland		v		Germany

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Cyprus (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Knockout stage
2	Italy	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Georgia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Spain	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	Greece	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
6	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

28 August 2025
Georgia		v		Spain
Bosnia and Herzegovina		v		Cyprus
Greece		v		Italy
30 August 2025
Italy		v		Georgia
Cyprus		v		Greece
Spain		v		Bosnia and Herzegovina
31 August 2025
Georgia		v		Greece
Spain		v		Cyprus
Bosnia and Herzegovina		v		Italy
2 September 2025
Greece		v		Bosnia and Herzegovina
Cyprus		v		Georgia
Italy		v		Spain
4 September 2025
Bosnia and Herzegovina		v		Georgia
Italy		v		Cyprus
Spain		v		Greece

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Iceland	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Knockout stage
2	France	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Slovenia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Poland (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	Belgium	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
6	Israel	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

28 August 2025
Israel		v		Iceland
Belgium		v		France
Slovenia		v		Poland
30 August 2025
Iceland		v		Belgium
France		v		Slovenia
Poland		v		Israel
31 August 2025
Slovenia		v		Belgium
Israel		v		France
Poland		v		Iceland
2 September 2025
Belgium		v		Israel
Iceland		v		Slovenia
France		v		Poland
4 September 2025
France		v		Iceland
Israel		v		Slovenia
Poland		v		Belgium

All of the matches will be played at the Xiaomi Arena in Riga.

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