The 2025 FIBA Asia Cup qualification was a basketball competition that was played from June 2022 to March 2025, to determine the fifteen FIBA Asia-Oceania nations who would join the automatically qualified host Saudi Arabia at the 2025 FIBA Asia Cup.
Format The qualification process started in 2022, with pre-qualifiers being contested on sub-zone and regional basis. Eight teams advanced to the qualifiers, joining the sixteen teams from the 2023 FIBA World Cup Asian Qualifiers.
Entrants Teams entering the qualifiers(from the 2022 FIBA Asia Cup)West RegionEast Region
Teams entering the pre-qualifiers(any team that did not participate in the 2022 FIBA Asia Cup)West RegionEast RegionWest Asia(WABA sub-zone)Gulf(GBA sub-zone)Central Asia(CABA sub-zone)South Asia(SABA sub-zone)East Asia(EABA sub-zone)Southeast Asia(SEABA sub-zone)Oceania(FIBA Oceania)
Pre-qualifiers
Participating teams Teams enteringWest RegionEast Region
First round Teams played a round-robin tournament to determine the three best ranked teams that advanced to the second round.
Teams from the WABA, GBA, CABA, and SABA sub-zones played in Group A and B, forming the West region. While teams from Oceania and the SEABA and EABA sub-zones played in Groups C and D, forming the East region. The groups were played at a single venue.
The teams were organized in four groups, according to the serpentine system (for each Region), according to the FIBA World Ranking (December 2021) as follows:
West RegionEast RegionGroup AGroup BGroup CGroup D (76) (126) (132) (157) (86) (89) (141) (144) (N/A) (88) (112) (114) (159) (97) (107) (121) (140) (N/A)
Group A The tournament was held in Qatar.
Group B The tournament was held in Palestine.
Group C A four-team tournament was scheduled to be held in Guam. After Hong Kong and Cambodia withdrew before the start of the competition, only one game was planned to be played with both teams advancing to the second round. In October 2022, Hong Kong re-entered the tournament, which was played in India in November 2022.
Group D The tournament was held in Mongolia.
Second round The 12 qualified teams were divided into two groups of six teams (teams from groups A/B form Group E and teams from groups C/D into Group F). The results against teams that advanced were carried over and the teams played against the teams they did not meet in the first round. The top four teams of each group advanced to the qualifiers. The groups were played in a single venue.
Group E The tournament was held in Qatar.
Group F The tournament was held in Mongolia.
Qualifiers 24 teams competed for 16 places at the final tournament. Matches were played over three windows: February 2024, November 2024 and February 2025. They also earned their place for the qualifiers of the 2027 FIBA Basketball World Cup in Qatar alongside Qatar who automatically qualified for the World Cup as host. The top two teams of each group qualified for the final tournament and the six third-placed teams played another qualifying tournament for the final four places.
The draw took place on 19 September 2023.
Participating teams Teams entering the qualifiers(from the 2022 FIBA Asia Cup)Teams qualified throughthe regional pre-qualifiersWest RegionEast RegionWest RegionEast Region
Seeding The seeding was announced on 19 September 2023, according to the FIBA rankings. Eight pots were used for the seeding of the 24 qualified teams based on geographical and ranking principles. The first four pots were allocated for teams in the East Region, covering teams from the EABA (East Asia), SEABA (Southeast Asia), and FIBA Oceania (Oceania), and the rest for teams in the West Region which has the WABA (West Asia), GBA (Gulf), CABA (Central Asia), and SABA (South Asia) in its scope. The top seeded teams for each region were allocated in Pot 1 and 5.
East RegionPot 1Pot 2Pot 3Pot 4 (4) (21) (26) (29) (38) (51) (74) (76) (78) (91) (100) (119)West RegionPot 5Pot 6Pot 7Pot 8 (27) (28) (32) (66) (68) (69) (71) (81) (90) (97) (103) (104)
Groups All times are local.
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Group E
Group F
Final qualifying tournament The six third-placed teams from the qualifiers played for the final four places at the final tournament. The tournaments were played between 19 and 23 March 2025.
Eastern Region Final Qualifying Tournament Group G
Western Region Final Qualifying Tournament Group H
Qualified teams TeamQualification methodDate of qualificationAppearance(s)Previous best performance WR Host nation 7 December 2023 10th 1989 2022 2 (1999) 65 Group A top two 24 November 2024 3rd 2017 3 (2017, 2022) 7 Group C top two 30th 1960 29 (1965, 1971) 21 Group B top two 25 November 2024 29th 8 (1960, 1963, 1967, 1973, 1985) 34 3rd 2017 3 (2022) 22 Group F top two 11th 1999 4 (2001, 2005, 2007, 2022) 29 Group D top two 17th 1983 10 (2011) 35 Group A top two 20 February 2025 31st 1960 31 (1969, 1997) 53 Group C top two 24th 1975 24 (Sixteen times) 30 Group E top two 21 February 2025 19th 1973 10 (2007, 2009, 2013) 28 11th 1991 2017 1 (2003, 2005) 87 Group F top two 24 February 2025 8th 1999 2022 3 (2001) 71 Group G top two 21 March 2025 26th 1960 19 (1960, 1963) 75 1st Debut 91 Group H top two 22 March 2025 27th 1965 2022 11 (1975) 81 23 March 2025 5th 1977 2017 1 (1977) 93
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References
External links Qualifiers website Qualifiers summary Pre-qualifiers website Pre-qualifiers summary