The EuroBasket 2025 was the 42nd edition of the EuroBasket championship, the quadrennial international men's basketball championship organized by FIBA Europe. It took place from 27 August to 14 September 2025, returning to its usual calendar slot, after the previous tournament was postponed by a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Like the previous three editions, the tournament was co-hosted by multiple countries; Cyprus, Finland, Poland, and Latvia.
Spain, the defending champions, were eliminated in the group stage. It was their earliest exit in a 36-year stint since Yugoslavia 1989 and the earliest exit by a defending champion since Germany in EuroBasket 1995.
Finland became the first Nordic country to reach the semi-final of the tournament, falling against Germany. The latter went on to finish the competition undefeated after beating Turkey 88–83 in the final to be crowned champions of Europe. It was the reigning world champions second title in history, achieved after 32 years since EuroBasket 1993. Greece claimed bronze medals by defeating Finland 92–89. Germany's point guard Dennis Schröder was recognized as the FIBA EuroBasket MVP.
Host selection FIBA Europe opened three bidding options for hosting: to host a 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:
(Limassol) (Tampere) (Budapest) (Riga) (Perm) (Kyiv, Lviv or Dnipro)
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.
Venues Riga is the host city for Latvia and selected for the tournament's final phase. Limassol is the host city for Cyprus. On 6 March 2023, Tampere was announced as the host city for Finland. On March 17, Katowice was announced as the host city for Poland. 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.
Riga Tampere Xiaomi ArenaCapacity: 11,200 Nokia ArenaCapacity: 13,455 Limassol Katowice Spyros Kyprianou Athletic CenterCapacity: 8,000 SpodekCapacity: 11,036
Branding The official logo was unveiled on 5 December 2023.
The visual identity was developed in close cooperation with the four host cities—Limassol, Tampere, Katowice, and Riga—and is characterized by a bold, architectural aesthetic designed to make a lasting impression for the 42nd edition of Europe’s flagship basketball tournament.
Each host city is represented through distinct color combinations embedded within the tournament’s broader visual identity.
According to FIBA’s Official Technical Supplier, the visual identity—including the logo—is further reinforced on-court via an innovative custom print technology. This allows court designs to feature three-dimensional effects, color gradients, and layered transparency, turning the playing surface into an immersive visual extension of the tournament branding.
Qualification
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 minus Russia and Belarus, who were banned from competing because of the ongoing military action in Ukraine. 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.
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 returns after a fourteen year absence having last appeared in 2011. Sweden progressed to the finals for the first time since 2013. Co-host Latvia and Iceland will return after missing out on 2022.
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.
Qualified teams
Draw The allocation draw for the hosting nations was advanced by the FIBA Europe Board in its June 2023 meeting and was held during the Final Phase of EuroBasket Women 2023 in Ljubljana on 24 June 2023. The Group A got pulled for Latvia, Group B for Finland, Group C for Cyprus and Group D for Poland.
After the tournament seedings got finalised, each of the hosting federations were granted the right to select a partner federation from non-corresponding pots to be pre-paired together for the draw capitalizing on commercial and marketing criteria. Latvia's choice was Estonia, Finland's choice was Lithuania, Cyprus's choice was Greece and Poland's choice was Iceland. Given the selections involved three of four teams from the Seed 2, Slovenia was consequently also guaranteed into Group D with Poland.
The main draw took place in Riga, Latvia on 27 March 2025.
Seeding The 24 qualified teams were seeded according to the FIBA Men's World Ranking. The seeding was announced on 25 February 2025. In bold are the teams that host the tournament.
+ Seed 1 Team 2 3 4 5
+ Seed 2 Team 9 10 11 13
+ Seed 3 Team 14 16 17 19
+ Seed 4 Team 20 24 27 39
+ Seed 5 Team 40 41 43 48
+ Seed 6 Team 49 50 56 85
Referees The following 45 referees were selected for the tournament.
Geert Jacobs Ademir Zurapović Martin Horozov Ventsislav Velikov Matthew Kallio Josip Jurčević Martin Vulić Ilias Kounelles Ivor Matějek Mihkel Männiste Nicolas Maestre Yohan Rosso Carsten Straube Georgios Poursanidis Péter Praksch Ofer Manheim Lorenzo Baldini Saverio Lanzarini Takaki Kato Andris Aunkrogers Mārtiņš Kozlovskis Gatis Saliņš Juozas Barkauskas Gvidas Gedvilas Gintaras Mačiulis Viola Györgyi Julio Anaya Wojciech Liszka Michał Proc Dariusz Zapolski Paulo Marques Jorge Vázquez Marius Ciulin Petar Pešić Siniša Prpa Boris Krejić Fernando Calatrava Luis Castillo Ariadna Chueca Antonio Conde Kerem Baki Yener Yılmaz Zafer Yılmaz Serhiy Zashchuk Gediminas Petraitis
Squads
Each team consists of 12 players.
Group phase The schedule was announced on 30 April 2025.
Group A
The games were played at the Xiaomi Arena in Riga, Latvia.
27 August 2025 50–62 73–93 98–64 29 August 2025 92–78 70–72 69–80 30 August 2025 75–89 80–84 95–54 1 September 2025 64–84 62–78 82–60 3 September 2025 65–68 75–109 95–90
Group B
The games were played at the Nokia Arena in Tampere, Finland.
27 August 2025 70–94 76–106 90–93 29 August 2025 105–83 94–67 109–79 30 August 2025 88–107 59–78 66–85 1 September 2025 81–87 120–57 78–81 3 September 2025 83–89 74–71 61–91
Group C
The games were played at the Spyros Kyprianou Athletic Center in Limassol, Cyprus.
28 August 2025 83–69 91–64 75–66 30 August 2025 78–62 69–96 88–67 31 August 2025 53–94 91–47 79–96 2 September 2025 77–80 61–93 67–63 4 September 2025 84–76 89–54 86–90
Group D
The games were played at the Spodek in Katowice, Poland.
28 August 2025 83–71 64–92 95–105 30 August 2025 64–71 103–95 66–64 31 August 2025 86–69 82–69 84–75 2 September 2025 89–92 79–87 83–76 4 September 2025 114–74 96–106 69–70
Final phase
Matches are played at the Xiaomi Arena in Riga.
Bracket
Final
Final standings Teams were ranked according to the Official Basketball Rules, with earned position as the primary criterion, followed by the group phase overall record and point differential. Assuming all these factors are equal, the World Ranking would have served as the last competitive tiebraker.
RankTeam Group phase resultsFIBA World RankingsBeforeAfterChange 9 9–0 1st 10 529 365 +164 3 2 1 8–1 459 359 +100 27 12 15 7–2 9 432 354 +78 13 4 5–4 3rd 8 426 406 +20 20 17 3 Eliminated in quarterfinals5 7 5–2 2nd 9 431 393 +38 10 9 16 4–3 8 400 387 +13 17 19 27 4–3 3rd 8 469 452 +17 11 14 38 3–4 4th 7 367 386 −19 24 20 4 Eliminated in round of 169 6 4–2 1st 9 461 391 +70 4 10 4–2 2nd 9 434 368 +66 2 3 111 4–2 9 396 333 +63 14 15 112 3–3 3rd 8 412 384 +28 9 11 213 3–3 8 401 401 0 41 33 814 3–3 4th 8 417 401 +16 39 32 715 2–4 7 315 368 −53 56 47 916 1–5 6 403 418 −15 49 40 9 Eliminated in group phase17 5 2–3 5th 7 397 354 +43 5 7 218 2–3 7363 403 −40 40 35 519 1–4 6 352 397 −45 43 39 420 1–4 6 378 455 −77 16 18 221 1–4 6th 6 354 484 −130 48 43 522 0–5 5 363 439 −76 50 46 423 0–5 5 338 434 −96 19 23 424 0–5 5 295 460 −165 84 71 13
Awards The following awards were presented at the conclusion of the championship.
EuroBasket MVP Dennis SchröderFIBA EuroBasket Final MVP Isaac BongaFIBA EuroBasket All-Tournament Team Dennis Schröder Franz Wagner Alperen Şengün Giannis Antetokounmpo Luka DončićFIBA EuroBasket All-Tournament Second Team Cedi Osman Lauri Markkanen Jordan Loyd Deni Avdija Nikola JokićEuroBasket Best Coach Ergin AtamanEuroBasket Rising Star Miikka MuurinenEuroBasket Best Defensive Player Isaac Bonga
Statistics Statistical leaders
Italic text indicates that a subject is no longer active in the tournament after the update date. Players +Points Per Game# Player Pld Pts PPG1 Luka Dončić724334.72 Giannis Antetokounmpo616126.83 Deni Avdija614424.04 Lauri Markkanen818923.65 Jordan Loyd715722.46 Nikola Jokić613422.37 Franz Wagner816921.18 Dennis Schröder816720.99 Alperen Şengün816620.8 Nikola Vučević5104 +Efficiency# Player Pld MPG PPG Eff EffPG1 Luka Dončić733.334.725636.62 Alperen Şengün830.520.824230.3 Nikola Jokić627.022.31824 Giannis Antetokounmpo629.526.817829.75 Nikola Vučević533.920.813927.86 Lauri Markkanen828.623.619324.17 Tryggvi Hlinason533.614.611923.88 Deni Avdija633.024.014123.59 Franz Wagner826.121.117722.110 Kristaps Porziņģis627.220.212621.0 +Rebounds# Player Pld Rebs RPG1 Nikola Vučević55811.6 2 Alperen Şengün88811.03 Tryggvi Hlinason55310.64 Giannis Antetokounmpo6579.55 Nikola Jokić6549.06 Jusuf Nurkić6528.7 Kristaps Porziņģis68 Luka Dončić7608.69 Simon Birgander5428.410 Mateusz Ponitka7578.1 +Assists# Player Pld Asts APG1 Rokas Jokubaitis 4348.52 Luka Dončić7507.13 Alperen Şengün8567.04 Dennis Schröder8536.6 Ondřej Sehnal5335 Yam Madar6386.37 Edin Atić6355.8 Rihards Lomažs69 Stefan Jović6335.510 Arnas Velička 7385.4 Luke Nelson527 +Steals# Player Pld Stls SPG1 Luka Dončić7192.7 Yam Madar6163 Travante Williams6152.54 Lauri Markkanen8182.35 Edin Atić6146 Deni Avdija6122.07 Nikola Jokić6111.88 Alessandro Pajola6101.79 Jaromír Bohačík581.6 Janari Jõesaar Akwasi Yeboah +Blocks# Player Pld Blks BPG1 Tryggvi Hlinason5122.42 Goga Bitadze591.83 Neemias Queta6101.7 Kristaps Porziņģis65 Simon Birgander581.66 Kostas Antetokounmpo8121.57 Daniel Theis891.18 Adem Bona881.0 Jusuf Nurkić66 Ismaël Bako55 +Minutes# Player Pld Mins MPG1 Nikola Vučević 516933.92Tryggvi Hlinason516733.63 Luka Dončić723333.34 Deni Avdija619733.05 Mateusz Ponitka723032.96 Alexander Mamukelashvili722432.17 Jordan Loyd732.08 Shane Larkin824931.29 Michal Sokolowski721731.010 Alperen Şengün824330.5 Kamar Baldwin7213 +Field Goal Shooting# Player Pld FGM FGA FG%16659767.02 Nikola Jokić6477166.23 Jonas Valančiūnas7446864.74 Goga Bitadze6366258.16 Ercan Osmani8386657.6 Neemias Queta634597 Nikola Vučević5417356.28 Alperen Şengün86110956.09 Martin Peterka5234254.810 Artur Konontšuk5234353.5