2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup qualification explained

Continent:World
2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup
Subtitle:Qualification
Dates:2 August 2017 – 25 February 2019
Teams:213 max.
Federations:213
Website:2019 FIBA World Cup qualification website
Prevseason:2014
Nextseason:2023

The 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup qualification was the first World Cup for which teams had to qualify for under the new qualification system. The process determined 31 out of the 32 teams that participated at the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup.

Qualified teams

TeamQualificationAppearancewidth=160 rowspan=2Best performancewidth=30 rowspan=2
AsDateLastTotalStreak
Host nation 7 August 2015 9 1 30
African Second Round Group E Top 2 15 September 2018 2 1 51
African Second Round Group F Top 2 15 September 2018 4 1 33
European Second Round Group L Top 3 16 September 2018 8 4 8
European Second Round Group L Top 3 16 September 2018 6 1 22
European Second Round Group K Top 3 16 September 2018 N/A 1 1 24
European Second Round Group J Top 3 17 September 2018 5 4 6
Asian Second Round Group F Top 3 30 November 2018 12 4 11
European Second Round Group K Top 3 30 November 2018 8 4 3
African Second Round Group F Top 2 1 December 2018 8 5 39
Asian Second Round Group E Top 3 1 December 2018 6 5 38
Asian Second Round Group E Top 3 2 December 2018 8 2 32
European Second Round Group I Top 3 2 December 2018 12 10 2
European Second Round Group I Top 3 2 December 2018 5 5 17
Americas Second Round Group E Top 3 2 December 2018 18 18 1
Americas Second Round Group F Top 3 2 December 2018 4 1 20
Americas Second Round Group E Top 3 2 December 2018 14 9 5
Americas Second Round Group F Top 3 3 December 2018 14 1 23
Americas Second Round Group F Top 3 21 February 2019 18 18 12
African Second Round Group F Top 222 February 2019 5 2 37
European Second Round Group J Top 3 22 February 2019 9 1 13
European Second Round Group J Top 3 22 February 2019 2 1 25
European Second Round Group K Top 3 24 February 2019 5 1 10
Asian Second Round Group F Top 3 24 February 2019 5 1 48
Asian Second Round Group E Top 3 24 February 2019 2 1 49
Asian Second Round Group F Top 3 24 February 2019 3 3 27
24 February 2019 6 2 31
European Second Round Group L Top 3 24 February 2019 3 4
24 February 2019 4 1 64
European Second Round Group I Top 3 25 February 2019 N/A 1 1 28
Americas Second Round Group E Top 3 25 February 2019 14 9 16
25 February 2019 3 2 18

Format

The continental championships no longer belong to the qualification system for the World Cup. Instead, two rounds of continental qualifying tournaments were held over two years in a home-and-away format.[1]

The first round of the qualifiers were held in late 2017 and early 2018. The Americas, Asia / Oceania and Africa qualifiers featured 16 teams each, whereas Europe had 32 teams. Division A teams was split in groups of four, to be held in a home-and-away round-robin. The top three teams in each groups advanced to round two, and last placed teams played the best Division B teams to qualify for the next season's Division A.

Round two of the World Cup qualifiers were held in late 2018 and early 2019. Teams were split in groups of six, totaling four groups in Europe and two in the other qualifiers. Teams carried over the points from round one, and face another three teams again in a home-and-away round-robin. The best teams in each group qualified for the World Cup.

Starting in 2019, no wild card qualification were held, and the Olympic champions no longer directly qualified to the World Cup.

The draw for the qualifiers was held on 7 May 2017 in Guangzhou, China.[2]

FIBA zone Qualifying tournaments World Cup berths
Division A
top ranked
teams
Division B
maximum
possible entrants
Allocated
berths
Berth as the
host nation
Total
berths
16 2 5 0 5
16 2 7 0 7
FIBA Asia
FIBA Oceania
16 17 7 1 8
32 13 12 0 12
Total 80 114 31 1 32

Confederation qualifications

FIBA Africa

See main article: article and 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup qualification (Africa).

First round

Group D

Second round

Best third placed team

FIBA Americas

See main article: article and 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup qualification (Americas).

First round

Group D

Second round

Best fourth placed team

FIBA Asia and FIBA Oceania

See main article: article and 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup qualification (Asia).

All 16 teams which qualified for the 2017 FIBA Asia Cup played in the Asian qualification round of the 2019 FIBA World Cup, which included teams from FIBA Oceania.

First round

Group B

Australia defeated Philippines by default following a brawl left Philippines with only 1 player on court

Group D

Second round

Best fourth placed team

FIBA Europe

See main article: article and 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup qualification (Europe).

European Pre-Qualifiers

The 24 national teams that qualified for EuroBasket 2017 had also qualified for Division A of FIBA Basketball World Cup Qualifying. The last eight teams qualified through the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019 European Pre-Qualifiers which were held in August 2017.[3]

In order to determine the last eight spots in Division A, 13 teams participated in four home-and-away round robin groups on 2 to 19 August 2017. The draw to determine the 4 groups was held in Prague, Czech Republic on 10 December 2016.

Group D

First round

Group H

Second round

Group L

Statistical leaders

Player averages

Category Player Team Average
Points 27.2
Rebounds 12.8
Assists 6.4
Steals 3.3
Blocks 2.4
Efficiency 34.0

Team averages

Category Team Average
Points 92.9
Rebounds 45.3
Assists 23.3
Steals 12.8
Blocks
4.5
Efficiency 113.8

Notes and References

  1. Web site: FIBA competitions calendar format 2017-2020 . FIBA . 19 September 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151217175329/http://www.fiba.com/pages/eng/fc/even/compCalendar/p/openNodeIDs/27288/selNodeID/27288/the_new_system.html . 17 December 2015 . dead .
  2. News: Draw results in for FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019 Qualifiers. https://web.archive.org/web/20170824072143/http://www.fiba.basketball/basketballworldcup/2019/news/draw-results-in-for-fiba-basketball-world-cup-2019-qualifiers. live. August 24, 2017. fiba.com. FIBA. 7 May 2017. Press release.
  3. Web site: FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019 European Pre-Qualifiers groups confirmed. https://web.archive.org/web/20180624121425/http://www.fiba.basketball/en/basketballworldcup/2019/news/fiba-basketball-world-cup-2019-european-pre-qualifiers-groups-confirmed. live. June 24, 2018. FIBA.com. 11 December 2016.