FIBA Basketball World Cup records are the records attained throughout the history of the FIBA Basketball World Cup.
General performances Performances of host countries
From 1959 to 1982, the host qualified directly to the final round, thus bypassing the preliminary round (group stages). As a result, the host's final rank would no worse than the number of teams in the final round (between six and eight); however, from 1986 the host was made to compete in the preliminary round.
However, the success rate of hosts winning the tournament is rather low (14%, 3 of 18), as compared to the FIFA World Cup's success rate of 22% (6 of 21); furthermore, no host has won the championship since Yugoslavia won in 1970, and only one host since then has won any type of medal (Turkey with a silver medal in 2010).
Year Host country When hosting Better when hosting?When not hosting Performance Stage Performance Stage1950 Champions Final round (1st of 6) Yes Runner-up Final1954 Runner-up Final round (2nd of 8) NoChampions Final round (1st of 7)1959 Third place Final round (3rd of 7) No Third place Final round (3rd of 6)1963 Champions Final round (1st of 7) NoChampions Final round (1st of 7)1967 Seventh place Final round (7th of 7) No Third place Final round (3rd of 7)1970 Champions Final round (1st of 7) NoChampions Final1974 Seventh place Final round (7th of 8) No Fourth place Semifinals1978 Eighth place Final round (8th of 8) No Third place Final round (3rd of 7)1982 Seventh place Final round (7th of 7) colspan="3" 1986 Fifth place 5th-place playoffs NoChampions Final1990 Eighth place Second round (4th of 4) No Runner-up Final1994 Seventh place 5th-place playoffs No Third place Final round (3rd of 8)1998 Fourth place Semifinals No Runner-up Final2002 Sixth place Quarterfinals NoChampions Final2006 Seventeenth place Preliminary round (5th of 6) No 11th place Classification round (4th of 6)2010 Runner-up Final Yes Sixth place Quarterfinals2014 Fifth place Quarterfinals NoChampions Final2019 Twenty-fourth place Preliminary round (3rd of 4)No Eighth place 7th place classification game2023 Twenty-fourth place Preliminary round (4th of 4)No Third place Final round (3rd of 7) colspan="2" colspan="2" Nineteenth place Preliminary round (3rd of 4)No Eleventh place Classification round (4th of 6)2027 Twenty-first place Preliminary round (6th of 6)
By top four finishes RankNationNumber ofappearancesYears insemifinals1.15(1950, 1954, 1959, 1963, 1967, 1974, 1982, 1986, 1990, 1994, 1998, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2023)2. / 10(1963, 1967, 1970, 1974, 1978, 1982, 1986, 1990, 1998, 2002)3.8(1950, 1954, 1959, 1963, 1967, 1970, 1978, 1986)8(1963, 1967, 1970, 1974, 1978, 1982, 1986, 1990)5.4(1950, 2002, 2006, 2019)6.3(1954, 2014, 2019)3(1994, 1998, 2006)3(1982, 2006, 2019)3(2010, 2014, 2023)9.2(1950, 1959)2(1970, 1978)2(2010, 2014)2(1994, 1998)2(2002, 2023)14.1(1954)1(1959)1(1974)1(1990)1(1994)1(2002)1(2010)1(2019)1(2023)
Most Valuable Players
FIBA Archive - Most Valuable Player. Year MVP National Team1950 Oscar Furlong 1954 Kirby Minter 1959 Amaury Pasos 1963 Wlamir Marques 1967 Ivo Daneu 1970 Sergei Belov 1974 Dragan Kićanović 1978 Dražen Dalipagić 1982 Rolando Frazer 1986 Dražen Petrović 1990 Toni Kukoč 1994 Shaquille O'Neal 1998 Dejan Bodiroga FR Yugoslavia2002 Dirk Nowitzki 2006 Pau Gasol 2010 Kevin Durant 2014 Kyrie Irving 2019 Ricky Rubio 2023 Dennis Schröder
Top scorer by tournament Points per game
Top scorer of each FIBA Basketball World Cup. World Championship for Men.
Year Player Scoring Average Álvaro Salvadores Oscar Moglia James T. L. Chen Ricardo Duarte Mieczysław Łopatka Shin Dong-pa Arturo Guerrero Kamil Brabenec Rolando Frazer Nikos Galis Oscar Schmidt Andrew Gaze Alberto Herreros Dirk Nowitzki Yao Ming Luis Scola J. J. Barea Ra Gun-ah Luka Dončić
Total points scored
Year Player Total points scored Rufino Bernedo Oscar Moglia Jerry Vayda Ricardo Duarte Bohdan Likszo Shin Dong-pa Wayne Brabender Dražen Dalipagić Dragan Kićanović Nikos Galis Oscar Schmidt Oscar Schmidt Andrew Gaze Alberto Herreros Dirk Nowitzki Dirk Nowitzki Luis Scola Pau Gasol Bogdan Bogdanović Luka Dončić
FIBA Basketball World Cup All-Tournament Team
All-time top cumulative points scorers FIBA Archive - All time top scorers (Top 10).All time top scorers
#Player Games Played Points Scored Scoring Average 1. Oscar Schmidt 34 906 26.7 2. Luis Scola 41 716 17.5 3. Andrew Gaze 29 594 20.5 4. Dražen Dalipagić 35 563 16.1 5. José Rafael Ortiz 33 511 15.5 6. Marcel De Souza 37 494 13.6 7. Dragan Kićanović 25 491 19.7 8. Pau Gasol 24 482 20.1 9. Ubiratan Pereira Maciel 41 474 11.6 10. Panagiotis Giannakis 26 469 18.0 11. Juan Carlos Navarro 33 462 14.0 12. Kirk Penney 27 447 16.6 13. Bogdan Bogdanović 25 444 17.8 14. Wlamir Marques 31 437 10.7 15. Amaury Pasos 33 434 13.2 Antonello Riva 18 24.1
All time highest scoring averages
# Player Games Played Points Scored Scoring Average 1. Nikos Galis 10 337 33.7 2. Shin Dong-pa 8 261 32.6 3. Luka Dončić 8 216 27.0 4. Oscar Schmidt 34 906 26.7 5. Zhang Weiping 7 177 25.3 6. Ed Palubinskas 172 24.6 7. Antonello Riva 18 434 24.1 8. Dirk Nowitzki 425 23.6 9. Wilfredo Ruiz Bruno 7 164 23.4 10. Ra Gun-ah 5 115 23.0 Player must have played at least 5 games to appear in this statistic
Games with most overtimes FIBA Archive - Games with most overtimes (Top 5). Year Round Rivals Extra Periods Ref. 2006 Preliminary Round 103–108 3 2019 Semi-finals 95–88 2 1970 Preliminary Round 94–93 2002 Eighth-Final Round 89–87 2010 Preliminary Round 81–82 1967 Classification Round 79–86 1950 Classification Round 43–46
Age records
Oldest FIBA Archive - Oldest player (Top 5).Oldest and Youngest
#Player Year BirthdateAge * 1. Eduardo Mingas 2019 2. Marcelo Huertas / / 2023 3. Zaid Abbas / / 2023 4. Alex Garcia 2019 5. Marcelinho Machado 2014 6. Luis Scola 2019 7. Fidel Mendonça / / 2023 8. José Rafael Ortiz 2002 9. Moon Tae-jong 2014 10. Miguel Lutonda 2010 11. João Gomes / / 2023 12. Víctor David Díaz 2006 13. Mohamed Koné 2019 14. Reggie Moore 2019 15. Rudy Fernández / / 2023 16. Hamed Haddadi / / 2023 17. Daniel Santiago 2014
Youngest FIBA Archive - Youngest player (Top 10). #Player Year BirthdateAge * 1. Georges Lath 1986 2. Guo Ailun 2010 3. Khaman Maluach // 2023 4. David Dias 1986 5. Chen Jianghua 2006 6. Tiago Splitter 2002 7. Roy Samaha 2002
*describes age on first day of the tournament
Game score records
Biggest game score FIBA Archive - Biggest game score (Top 5). #Year Round Rivals Team score1.1978 Preliminary Round 154 - 97 1542.1990 Preliminary Round 146 - 67 1463.1982 Final Round 76 - 143 1434.1974 Preliminary Round 140 - 48 1405.1990 Preliminary Round 138 - 95 138
Lowest game score FIBA Archive - Lowest game score (Top 5). #Year Round Rivals Team score1.1950 Final Round 19 - 38 192.1950 Repass Round I 40 - 24 243.1950 Preliminary Round I 33 - 27 271950 Final Round 27 - 59 5.1950 Final Round 31 - 28 281954 Final Round 72 - 28
Biggest margin FIBA Archive - Biggest margin (Top 5). #Year Round Rivals Margin points1.1974 Preliminary Round 140 - 48 922.1986 Preliminary Round 128 - 38 903.1990 Preliminary Round 146 - 67 794. 1986 Preliminary Round 131 - 61 705.1982 Final Round 76 - 143 67
Top scorers in a single game FIBA Archive - Most points scored in a game (Top 10).
Player Points Scored Opponent Year Hur Jae 54 1990 Nikos Galis 53 1986 Oscar Schmidt 52 1990 Jordi Villacampa 48 1990 Dirk Nowitzki 47 2006 Dražen Petrović 1986 Lee Chung-Hee 45 1986 Kamil Brabenec 44 1978 Ricardo Duarte 42 1963 Arturo Guerrero 1974
Players with the most tournaments and games played FIBA Archive - Most participations & games played (Top 10).
Player Number of World Cups Games Played Years played Ref. Ubiratan "Bira" Pereira Maciel 5 41 1963, 1967, 1970, 1974, 1978 Luis Scola 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2019 Marcel De Souza 37 1974, 1978, 1982, 1986, 1990 Rudy Fernández 2006, 2010, 2014, 2019, 2023 Phil Smyth 36 1978, 1982, 1986, 1990, 1994 Jerome Mincy 1986, 1990, 1994, 1998, 2002 Alex Garcia 32 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2019 Daniel Santiago 30 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014 Anderson Varejão 29 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2019 Marcelo Huertas 28 2006, 2010, 2014, 2019, 2023 Leandro Barbosa 27 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2019 Marcelinho Machado 25 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014 Eduardo Mingas 23 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2019 Dražen Dalipagić 4 35 1974, 1978, 1982, 1986 Alexander Belostenny 1978, 1982, 1986, 1990 Oscar Schmidt 34 1978, 1982, 1986, 1990 Rubén Wolkowyski 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006 Amaury Pasos 33 1954, 1959, 1963, 1967 Andrés Jiménez Fernández 1982, 1986, 1990, 1994 José Rafael Ortiz 1990, 1994, 1998, 2002 Juan Carlos Navarro 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014 Marcelo Milanesio 32 1986, 1990, 1994, 1998 Fabricio Oberto 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010 Marc Gasol 2006, 2010, 2014, 2019 Wlamir Marques 31 1954, 1959, 1963, 1970 Sergei Belov 1967, 1970, 1974, 1978 Ray Borner 29 1982, 1986, 1990, 1994 Andrew Gaze 1986, 1990, 1994, 1998 João José Vianna 1986, 1990, 1994, 1998 Krešimir Ćosić 28 1967, 1970, 1974, 1978 Kirk Penney 27 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014 Tiago Splitter 26 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014 Felipe Reyes 23 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014 Hamed Haddadi 19 2010, 2014, 2019, 2023
Top medalists FIBA Archive - All time medallist (Top 10).
Player Gold Medals Silver Medals Bronze Medals Total Medals Krešimir Ćosić 2(1970, 1978) 2(1967, 1974) 0 4 Wlamir Marques 2(1959, 1963) 2(1954, 1970) 0 4 Amaury Pasos 2(1959, 1963) 1(1954) 1(1967) 4 Sergei Belov 2(1967, 1974) 1(1978) 1(1970) 4 Carmo de Souza 2(1959, 1963) 1(1970) 0 3/ Vlade Divac 2(1990, 2002) 0 1(1986) 3 Jatyr Schall 2(1959, 1963) 0 1(1967) 3 Modestas Paulauskas 2(1967, 1974) 0 1(1970) 3 Priit Tomson 2(1967, 1974) 0 1(1970) 3 Dejan Bodiroga 2(1998, 2002) 0 0 2 Stephen Curry 2(2010, 2014) 0 0 2 Predrag Drobnjak 2(1998, 2002) 0 0 2 Rudy Fernández 2(2006, 2019) 0 0 2 Marc Gasol 2(2006, 2019) 0 0 2 Rudy Gay 2(2010, 2014) 0 0 2 Derrick Rose 2(2010, 2014) 0 0 2 Dejan Tomašević 2(1998, 2002) 0 0 2 Waldemar Blatskauskas 2(1959, 1963) 0 0 2
Players with the most total medals won
Player Gold Medals Silver Medals Bronze Medals Total Medals Krešimir Ćosić 2(1970, 1978) 2(1967, 1974) 0 4 Wlamir Marques 2(1959, 1963) 2(1954, 1970) 0 4 Amaury Pasos 2(1959, 1963) 1(1954) 1(1967) 4 Sergei Belov 2(1967, 1974) 1(1978) 1(1970) 4 Alexander Belostenny 1(1982) 3(1978, 1986, 1990) 0 4 Ubiratan "Bira" Pereira Maciel 1(1963) 1(1970) 2(1967, 1978) 4 Dražen Dalipagić 1(1978) 1(1974) 2(1982, 1986) 4
Highest attendance RankYearDateVenueRoundMatchAttendanceSource1Philippine Arena, BocauePreliminary round v 2 1994SkyDome, TorontoFinal v
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