The EuroBasket 2025 qualification was a basketball competition that was played from November 2021 to February 2025, to determine the 20 FIBA Europe member nations who would join the automatically qualified co-hosts Cyprus, Finland, Poland and Latvia at the EuroBasket 2025 finals tournament.
Format changes Similar, as for the previous edition, the format involved pre-qualifiers and qualifiers. The pre-qualifiers first round comprised teams that did not play in the 2023 FIBA World Cup qualifiers. Due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, FIBA changed the qualification system during the pre-qualifiers first round.
Old format The pre-qualifiers first round was played by ten teams: Eight eliminated in the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup pre-qualifiers, and two teams who did not apply to enter in those qualifiers. They were divided into three groups: two groups of three teams and one group with four teams. The winner of each group and the best runner-up team would qualified for the second round. The pre-qualifiers second round was played by twelve teams: Eight eliminated in the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup qualifiers first round, and four teams that advanced from the first round. They were divided into four groups by three teams with the group winners advancing to the Qualifiers. The pre-qualifiers third round was played by all remaining teams from the first and the second round which failed to advance to the qualifiers. They competed for the four last places in the qualifiers.
New format The pre-qualifiers first round continued playing in the original format since the decision about a competition system change was taken during its progress. In the meanwhile, Cyprus was announced as one of the tournament hosts, while Russia and Belarus were expelled from all FIBA competitions, which implied few format changes. Instead of originally four teams, now six teams advanced from the pre-qualifiers first round to the second round: three group winners, two best runners-up and Cyprus as host nation, regardless of their result. The pre-qualifiers second round was played by twelve teams: Six (instead of original eight following exclusion of Russia and Belarus) eliminated in the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup Qualifiers first round, and six teams advancing from the first round. Unlike the initial format, they were divided into three groups by four teams with the group winners and Cyprus advancing to the qualifiers. The pre-qualifiers third round was played by all other teams from the first two rounds without any changes.
Qualifiers were played by 32 teams: 24 teams competing at the second round of 2023 FIBA World Cup qualifiers joined by eight teams advanced from Pre-Qualifiers.
Pre-Qualifiers The EuroBasket 2025 Pre-Qualifiers was played over three rounds. The best eight teams advanced to the EuroBasket 2025 Qualifiers.
First round The pre-qualifiers first round was played in three windows: 25–28 November 2021; 24–27 February and 30 June – 3 July 2022.
The winner of each group, the two best runners-up team and Cyprus as a host nation qualified for the second round. All other teams were transferred to the third round.
Draw The draw was made on 20 August 2021.
Seeding The seeding was based on the FIBA World Rankings of 9 August 2021.
+ Seed 1 Team 54 55 60+ Seed 2 Team 61 70 74+ Seed 3 Team 79 89 105+ Seed 4 Team 107
Groups All times are local.
Group A
Group B
Group C
Ranking of second-placed teams Matches against the fourth-placed team in Group A are not included in this ranking.
Second round The pre-qualifiers second round was played in three windows: August 2022, November 2022 and February 2023.
The twelve teams were drawn into three groups by four teams. The winner of each group along with the tournament host Cyprus advanced to the Qualifiers. All other teams were transferred to the third round.
Draw The draw was made on 14 July 2022.
Teams Entrance/qualification method Team(s) Host nation Advanced from First round Eliminated from 2023 World Cup qualification first round
Groups All times are local.
Group D
Group E
Group F
Third round The draw took place on 25 April 2023. The pre-qualifiers third round was played from 19 July to 5 August 2023. Twelve teams participated: the four teams eliminated from the first round were joined by the eight teams eliminated from the second round. The teams played in four groups of three; the four best-ranked teams advanced to the Qualifiers.
Teams Entrance/qualification method Team(s) Eliminated from the First round Eliminated from the Second round
Seeding The seeding was based on the FIBA World Rankings of 27 February 2023.
+ Seed 1 Team 25 47 57 58+ Seed 2 Team 60 61 63 77+ Seed 3 Team 80 93 96 100
Groups All times are local.
Group G
Group H
Group I
Group J
Qualifiers The EuroBasket 2025 Qualifiers were played in the following windows: February 2024, November 2024 and February 2025. 32 teams, including the Eurobasket co-hosts, were drawn into eight groups by four teams. Three teams from each group qualified for the Eurobasket 2025. For the groups containing the host teams: Cyprus, Finland, Latvia and Poland. The host and the two other highest placed teams qualified for the tournament. They also earned their place in the qualifiers for the 2027 FIBA World Cup in Qatar.
Teams Entrance/qualification method Team(s) Host nations Pre-Qualifiers Second round Pre-Qualifiers Third round
Draw The draw was held on 8 August 2023 in Munich, Germany. The 32 participating nations were sorted into eight groups of four teams each at the draw.
Seeding The seeding was announced on 7 August 2023. In bold, teams that host the final tournament.
Teams from seed 1 were drawn into the groups A, C, E and G with teams from seeds 4, 5 and 8. Teams from seed 2 were drawn into the groups B, D, F and H with teams from seeds 3, 6 and 7. Only one host of the final stage could be drawn in any group. + Seed 1 Team 1 5 6 7+ Seed 2 Team 8 9 10 11+ Seed 3 Team 12 14 16 18+ Seed 4 Team 24 25 28 29
+ Seed 5 Team 30 32 33 35+ Seed 6 Team 39 44 45 47+ Seed 7 Team 48 49 50 53+ Seed 8 Team 54 60 61 78
All times are local.
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Group E
Group F
Group G
Group H
Qualified teams TeamQualification methodDate of qualificationAppearance(s)Previous best performance Host nation 1st — — 1 7884 18th 1939 2022 6 (1967) 2420 15th 1935 2017 1 (1935) 299 30th 1937 2022 8 (1963) 1417 Group G top two 8th 2007 8 (2009, 2017) 62 Group H top two 16th 1937 14 (1937, 1939, 2003)8 10 Group A top three 15th 1993 15 (2017) 711 31st 1953 15 (1979) 3439 Group B top three 26th 1949 15 (2001) 1627 39th 1935 6 (1983, 1999) 1014 Group C top two 33rd 32 15 19th 6 (1947) 3040 Group F top three 29th 1949 18 (1987, 2005)913 Group G top two 6th 2011 6 (2011) 3224 Group H top two 7th 1937 2 (1937, 1939) 4443 Group F top three 6th 2009 3 (2009, 2011, 2013) 4848 7th 1999 5 (2015) 1219 Group E top two 40th 1935 23 (2013) 54 11th 1993 2 (1993) 3541 Group A top three 4th 1951 2011 1 (2007) 5456 Group D top three 26th 1951 2022 15 (1993) 113 5th 2011 3 (2017, 2022)18 16 11th 1953 2013 1 (1995) 5049 Group B top three 3rd 2015 2017 1 (2015, 2017)4950
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References
External links Qualifiers website Qualifiers summary Pre-qualifiers website Pre-qualifiers summary