EuroBasket 2015 was the 39th edition of the EuroBasket championship that was organized by FIBA Europe. It was co-hosted by Croatia, France, Germany, and Latvia, making it the first EuroBasket held in more than one country. It started on 5 September and ended on 20 September 2015.
The top two teams ( and ) qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics. The next five teams (, , , and the ) advanced to the World Olympic Qualifying Tournaments. and later qualified due to Serbia and Italy hosting two of the Olympic qualifying tournaments while also qualified as an invitee.
Spain won their third title by defeating Lithuania 80–63 in the final. France won bronze on home soil defeating Serbia (81–68). The final game was held in the Stade Pierre-Mauroy and set a new record for the highest attendance in a EuroBasket game, with 26,922. Pau Gasol was named the tournament's MVP.
Host selection On 18 December 2011, FIBA Europe decided to let Ukraine host EuroBasket 2015, after France, Croatia, Germany and Italy withdrew their joint bid.Ukraine to host Eurobasket 2015, Eurosport (18 December 2011) On 19 March 2014, tournament director Markiyan Lubkivsky announced that EuroBasket 2015 would not take place in Ukraine because of the Russo-Ukrainian War and the championship would be relocated.Clarification on 'Hosts withdrawal' claims; FIBA Europe, 19 March 2014 But later, FIBA Europe was forced to deny reports that Ukraine had given up the hosting rights for EuroBasket 2015 due to the continuous political situation and security issues in Ukraine.FIBA Europe removes U-18 event from Ukraine but EuroBasket remains, for now On 13 June 2014, FIBA Europe officially announced that Ukraine would not be hosting the championships.FIBA Europe Relocate EuroBasket 2015
Sixteen countries expressed an initial interest to bid for the relocated event. National Federations were called by FIBA Europe to officially bid for hosting the tournament or parts of the tournament until 31 July 2014. The next day FIBA Europe announced eight official bids from potential organizers:FIBA Europe - Eight bid to host EuroBasket 2015
All interested federations were provided the option to bid to stage either one of the four groups in the Group Phase of the tournament, one of the groups and the Final Phase, only the finals, or the entire tournament. FIBA Europe was scheduled to officially announce the details of the bids after 27 August 2014.
Croatia, France, Poland and Turkey bid to host one of the four groups in the Group Phase and the Final Phase in the knock-out round. Additionally, Turkey also bid to host the Final Phase only.
All other countries bid to host only one of the four groups in the Group Phase. Prior to the Board Meeting, Turkey withdrew their candidature from hosting any part of the tournament while Poland and Croatia withdrew their candidature to host the Final Phase of the tournament, leaving France as the only candidate to host the Final Phase.
On 8 September 2014, it was announced that the FIBA EuroBasket 2015 tournament would be hosted in Germany (Berlin), Croatia (Zagreb), Latvia (Riga) and France (Montpellier), with each of the countries hosting one respective group during the group stage of the tournament. France would be the hosts of the finals in the knock-out phase in the city of Lille at the multi-functional Stade Pierre-Mauroy, which has a 27,000 capacity for basketball.
Venues
Lille Stade Pierre-MauroyCapacity: 27,500 Montpellier Park&Suites ArenaCapacity: 10,700Zagreb Berlin Riga Arena Zagreb Mercedes-Benz Arena Arena Riga Capacity: 16,500 Capacity: 14,500 Capacity: 11,200
Qualification
Qualification for the tournament took place in two phases; the first featured 13 teams who failed to qualify for FIBA EuroBasket 2013, the winner of which qualifying directly for the finals. The remaining teams then went into qualification with the remaining FIBA Europe sides.
Qualified teams Team Qualification Date of qualification Tournament appearance Last appearance Host nation of 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup & 3rd place of FIBA EuroBasket 2013 30 2013 6th place at FIBA EuroBasket 2013 7 2013 Winners of 1st round of FIBA EuroBasket 2015 qualification 5 2001 Winners of FIBA EuroBasket 2013 37 2013 5th place at FIBA EuroBasket 2013 12 2013 4th place at FIBA EuroBasket 2013 12 2013 Runner-up at FIBA EuroBasket 2013 13 2013 7th place at FIBA EuroBasket 2013 5 2013 Wild card at 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup 13 2013 Wild card at 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup 25 2013 Wild card at 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup 22 2013 1st in Second round Group F 13 2013 1st in Second round Group B 28 2013 1st in Second round Group A 9 2013 1st in Second round Group D 16 2013 1st in Second round Group E 3 2013 2nd in Second round Group E 4 2013 2nd in Second round Group C 23 2013 2nd in Second round Group B 15 1989 1st in Second round Group C 27 2013 2nd in Second round Group D 5 2013 1st in Second round Group G 36 2013 2nd in Second round Group G 12 2013 2nd in Second round Group A 1 –
Draw Seedings FIBA Europe released the seedings for the EuroBasket 2015 draw on 27 November 2014. According to the FIBA Europe regulations the participating nations, the 10 participants of the 2014 World Cup would be seeded first, based on their respective records in FIBA EuroBasket 2013, with the remaining teams seeded based on their qualification records.
Team Qualification Position Record EuroBasket 2013 1 EuroBasket 2013 2 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup Host 3 (EuroBasket 2013) EuroBasket 2013 4 EuroBasket 2013 5 EuroBasket 2013 6 EuroBasket 2013 7 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup Wildcard 8 (EuroBasket 2013) 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup Wildcard 11 (EuroBasket 2013) 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup Wildcard 17 (EuroBasket 2013) 2015 Round 2 Q1 6–0, 1.2398 2015 Round 2 Q2 4–0, 1.1386 2015 Round 2 Q3 5–1, 1.2385 2015 Round 2 Q4 5–1, 1.1979 2015 Round 2 Q5 5–1, 1.1450 2015 Round 2 Q6 3–1, 1.1654 2015 Round 2 Q7 4–2, 1.3243 2015 Round 2 Q8 4–2, 1.1195 2015 Round 2 Q9 4–2, 1.1150 2015 Round 2 Q10 4–2, 1.0558 2015 Round 2 Q11 4–2, 1.0107 2015 Round 2 Q12 2–2, 1.1679 2015 Round 2 Q13 2–2, 0.9896 2015 Round 1 Q1st 5–3, 1.1286
Final draw
The draw took place on 8 December 2014 at 16:00 at Disneyland in Paris, France. Criteria for the draw was as follows: The four hosts were drawn together, but as Latvia were amongst the third seeded teams and Germany the fifth, only three teams would be in fourth and sixth pot containing the remaining seeds and these teams could not be drawn into groups with Latvia and Germany respectively. France and Croatia, as hosts, were drawn first and the two remaining first seeds, Spain and Lithuania, were drawn separately into the remaining two groups not already with a top-seeded team. In addition to this, following on from the exceptional circumstances leading to the relocation of EuroBasket 2015, each of the four hosts was granted the right to select a partner federation for commercial and marketing criteria. These teams would automatically be placed into the same group as their chosen partner country. The selections were; France and Finland Germany and Turkey Croatia and Slovenia Latvia and Estonia
Pot 1 (Hosts) Pot 2 (Remaining First Seeds) Pot 3 (Second Seeds) Pot 4 (Remaining Third Seeds) Pot 5 (Fourth Seeds) Pot 6 (Remaining Fifth Seeds) Pot 7 (Sixth Seeds)
Assigned to Group A, for its partnership with France. Assigned to Group B, for its partnership with Germany. Assigned to Group C, for its partnership with Croatia. Assigned to Group D, for its partnership with Latvia.
Squads
Preliminary round The best four teams of each group advance to the knockout stage.
Group A
Venue: Montpellier, France
5 September 2015 68–64 76–73 97–87(OT)6 September 2015 79–82 66–79 54–81 7 September 2015 81–79 84–86(OT) 69–66 9 September 2015 59–88 73–75 67–74 10 September 2015 65–78 61–81 61–86
Group B
Venue: Berlin, Germany
5 September 2015 71–65 70–80 87–89 6 September 2015 68–66 64–71 77–104 8 September 2015 93–64 75–80 98–105 9 September 2015 72–91 89–82(OT) 73–99 10 September 2015 101–82 76–77 111–102(OT)
Group C
Venue: Zagreb, Croatia
5 September 2015 72–73 65–85 80–73 6 September 2015 71–78 79–68 72–70 8 September 2015 81–74 68–79 73–55 9 September 2015 83–72 75–90 72–78 10 September 2015 62–51 71–58 68–65
Group D
Venue: Riga, Latvia
5 September 2015 80–57 67–78 69–68 6 September 2015 55–84 49–68 64–78 7 September 2015 74–76 65–72 71–78 9 September 2015 64–66 74–75 62–64 10 September 2015 71–79 75–64 81–85(OT)
Knockout stage
Venue: Lille, France
Final
Most Valuable Player Pau Gasol
Final standings Official final ranking by FIBA Europe.
Qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics Qualified to Final Olympic Qualifying Tournament as hostsIf the tournament is hosted by a team that has already qualified, the next-best team from the host country's federation will also qualify. Qualified to Final Olympic Qualifying Tournament (Turkey qualified as a replacement invitee) RankTeamRecordFIBA World RankingsBeforeAfterChange 7–222=0 7–243+1 8–155=0 4 7–276+1 5 7–11010=0 6 5–336T-35+1 7 5–4T-4942+7 8 4–5T-38T-35+3 9 3–31212=0 10 3–3T-3837+1 11 3–342T-38+4 12 3–31313=0 13 3–3T-5144+7 14 3–388=0 15 2–45447+7 16 2–43532+3 17 1–467–1 18 1–41820–2 19 1–43234–2 20 1–4NRT-84+4 21 1–4NRT-84+4 22 1–440T-38+2 23 1–4T-58T-53+5 24 0–5NRT-84+4
All-Tournament Team PG – Sergio Rodríguez SG – Nando de Colo SF – Jonas Mačiulis PF – Pau Gasol (MVP) C – Jonas Valančiūnas
Statistical leaders
Points Name PPG Pau Gasol 25.6 Dennis Schröder 21.0 Jan Veselý 19.3 Danilo Gallinari 17.9 Alessandro Gentile 16.8
Rebounds Name RPG Andrey Vorontsevich 9.2 Jan Veselý 9.1 Kyrylo Fesenko 8.8 Pau Gasol 8.8 Jonas Valančiūnas 8.4
Assists Name APG Mantas Kalnietis 7.8 Tomáš Satoranský 7.3 Miloš Teodosić 7.1 Petteri Koponen 6.0 Dmitry Khvostov Dennis Schröder
Blocks Name BPG Pau Gasol 2.3 Rudy Gobert 2.0 D'or Fischer 1.8 Jonas Valančiūnas 1.4 Erik Murphy 1.3
Steals Name SPG Jonas Mačiulis 1.9 Yogev Ohayon 1.7 Tornike Shengelia Alex Renfroe 1.6 Nicolas Batum 1.4
FIBA broadcasting rights
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References
External links
Official website