2025 FIBA Asia Cup qualification explained

Tourney Name:2025 FIBA Asia Cup qualification
Num Teams:30
Confederations:2
Website:Qualifiers website
Pre-qualifiers website
Prevseason:2022
Nextseason:2029

The 2025 FIBA Asia Cup qualification is a basketball competition that is being played from June 2022 to February 2025, to determine the fifteen FIBA Asia-Oceania nations who will 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 will advance to the qualifiers, joining the sixteen teams from the 2023 FIBA World Cup Asian Qualifiers.[1]

Entrants

width=30% colspan=2Teams entering the qualifiers
(from the 2022 FIBA Asia Cup)
width=15%West Regionwidth=15%East Region
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width=30% colspan=7Teams entering the pre-qualifiers
(any team that did not participate in the 2022 FIBA Asia Cup)
width=15% colspan=4West Regionwidth=15% colspan=3East Region
width=15% West Asia
(WABA sub-zone)
width=15% Gulf
(GBA sub-zone)
width=15% Central Asia
(CABA sub-zone)
width=15% South Asia
(SABA sub-zone)
width=15% East Asia
(EABA sub-zone)
width=15% Southeast Asia
(SEABA sub-zone)
width=15% Oceania
(FIBA Oceania)[2]
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Pre-qualifiers

Participating teams

width=60% colspan=2Teams entering
width=30%West Regionwidth=30%East Region
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First round

Teams played a round-robin tournament to determine the three best ranked teams that will advance 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.[3]

The teams are organized in four groups, according to the serpentine system (for each Region), according to the FIBA World Ranking (December 2021) as follows:

width=50% colspan=2West Regionwidth=50% colspan=2East Region
width=31%Group Awidth=23%Group Bwidth=23%Group Cwidth=23%Group D
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(126)
(132)
(157)
valign=top (86)
(89)
(141)
(144)
(N/A)
valign=top (88)
(112)
(114)
(159)
valign=top (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.[4]

Group D

The tournament was held in Mongolia.

Second round

The 12 qualified teams will be 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 are carried over and the teams will play against the teams they did not meet in the first round. The top four teams of each group advance to the qualifiers. The groups will be played in a single venue.[5]

Group E

The tournament was held in Qatar.

Group F

The tournament was held in Mongolia.

Qualifiers

24 teams will compete for 16 places at the final tournament. Matches will be played over three windows: February 2024, November 2024 and February 2025.[6] They will also earn 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 qualify for the final tournament and the six third-placed teams will play another qualifying tournament for the final four places.

The draw took place on 19 September 2023.[7] [8]

Participating teams

width=40% colspan=2Teams entering the qualifiers
(from the 2022 FIBA Asia Cup)
width=16% colspan=2Teams qualified through
the regional pre-qualifiers
width=25%West Regionwidth=25%East Regionwidth=25%West Regionwidth=25%East Region
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Seeding

The seeding was announced on 19 September 2023, according to the FIBA rankings.[9] 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 be allocated in Pot 1 and 5.[10]

East Region
width=23%Pot 1width=23%Pot 2width=23%Pot 3width=31%Pot 4
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(21)
(26)
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(38)
(51)
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(76)
(78)
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(100)
(119)
West Region
width=23%Pot 5width=23%Pot 6width=23%Pot 7width=31%Pot 8
valign=top (27)
(28)
(32)
valign=top (66)
(68)
(69)
valign=top (71)
(81)
(90)
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(103)
(104)

Groups

All times are local.

Group F

Final qualifying tournament

The six third-placed teams from the qualifiers will play for the final four places at the final tournament depending on the final tournament host nation Saudi Arabia's performance.

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: FIBA Asia Cup 2025 Pre-Qualifiers confirmed to tip-off May 2022. FIBA. 5 January 2022.
  2. Web site: Tahiti has booked an all-important ticket to the FIBA Asia Cup Pre-Qualifiers together with Gold Medalist Guam.. 16 March 2022.
  3. Web site: Locations for First Round of FIBA Asia Cup 2025 Pre-Qualifiers confirmed. FIBA. 16 March 2022.
  4. Web site: Locations, schedule for First Round of Asia Cup 2025 Pre-Qualifiers in Groups C, D confirmed. FIBA. 4 October 2022.
  5. Web site: Locations, schedule for Second Round of Asia Cup 2025 Pre-Qualifiers confirmed . FIBA. 25 November 2022.
  6. Web site: Qualifiers. FIBA. 29 May 2022.
  7. Web site: Road to FIBA Asia Cup 2025 takes crucial turn as Qualifiers' draw date set. FIBA. 16 September 2023.
  8. Web site: Groups, games settled following successful FIBA Asia Cup 2025 Qualifiers Draw. FIBA. 19 September 2023.
  9. Web site: Top seeds confirmed ahead of FIBA Asia Cup 2025 Qualifiers Draw. FIBA. 19 September 2023.
  10. Web site: Pots, procedure confirmed for FIBA Asia Cup 2025 Qualifiers Draw. FIBA. 19 September 2023.