AfroBasket 2017 qualification occurred on various dates on 2017. It determined which African national basketball teams qualified for the 2017 FIBA Africa Championship. Teams competed with other teams in their respective "zones" for a spot in the Championship tournament.[1] [2]
Two teams qualified for the tournament before the qualification round will take place. Fourteen more teams claimed spots in the tournament through Zonal Qualifying.
| Event | Date | Location | Vacancies | Qualified | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Host Nation | 1 | TBA | |||
| AfroBasket 2015 Champions |  Tunis | 1 | |||
| AfroBasket 2017 Qualification Zone 1 | 16–18 March 2017 24–26 March 2017 | Algiers Tunis | 2 | ||
| AfroBasket 2017 Qualification Zone 2 | 19 March 2017 26 March 2017 |  Bamako Dakar | 2 | ||
| AfroBasket 2017 Qualification Zone 3 | 14–18 March 2017 22–26 March 2017 |  Cotonou Abidjan | 1 | ||
| AfroBasket 2017 Qualification Zone 4 | 24–29 March 2017 19–20 March 2017 |  Yaoundé Bangui | 2 | ||
| AfroBasket 2017 Qualification Zone 5 | 12–18 March 2017 |  Cairo | 2 | ||
| AfroBasket 2017 Qualification Zone 6 and Zone 7 | 25–30 March 2017 19–25 March 2017 | Lusaka Harare | 3 | ||
| AfroBasket 2017 Qualification Wildcard | 18 April 2017 | 2 | |||
| Qualifying tournament | 19–21 May 2017 | Bamako | 1 | ||
| Total | 16 | ||||
Zone 1 was played from March 16 to April 1, 2017, in Algeria and Tunisia.
The qualifiers were played in a tournament played over two legs with the two top teams qualified. The first leg of the qualifier was played in Bamako on 19 March with the return game following in Dakar a week later.
Eight teams will play a round-robin format tournament - from 12 to 18 March in Cairo, Egypt - to secure the two places for the Final Round.
The winner of each group will secure automatic qualification for Africa's flagship competition taking place in Brazzaville, while the teams that finish second in Groups G and H will face each other for the remaining qualification spot.
Group 1 will be played from 25 to 30 March in Lusaka, Zambia to secure one place for the Final Round.
Group 2 will be played from 19 to 25 March in Harare, Zimbabwe to secure one place for the Final Round.
FIBA Africa's executive committee on Tuesday, 18 April awarded the two wild cards for FIBA AfroBasket 2017 to Guinea and Rwanda.[3]
Chad, the Central African Republic and Zimbabwe faced off in Bamako, Mali from 19 to 21 May, with the winner of this additional qualifier filling the void left by the Republic of Congo.[4]