Basketball at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification explained

2016 FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournaments
Subtitle:	For Men
Continent:	World
Year:	2016
Host:
Dates:	4 – 10 July 2016
Teams:	18
Federations:	5
Venues:	3
Cities:	3
Prevseason:	2016
Nextseason:	2020

The basketball qualification for the Summer Olympics men's basketball tournament occurred from 2014 to 2016; all five FIBA (International Basketball Federation) zones sent in teams.

The first qualifying tournament was the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup in which the champion was guaranteed of a place in the Olympics. Throughout the next two years, several regional tournaments served as qualification for the zonal tournaments, which doubled as intercontinental championships, to determine which teams would participate in the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympics.

Method

Qualification via continental championships and World Cup

A total of 12 teams will take part in the Olympics, with each NOC sending in one team.

There were a total of 5 zonal tournaments (doubling as intercontinental championships) that determined the qualifying teams, with a total of 7 teams qualifying outright. Each zone was allocated with the following qualifying berths:

FIBA Africa

1 team (Champion)

FIBA Americas

2 teams (Champion and runner-up)

FIBA Asia

1 team (Champion)

FIBA Europe

2 teams (Champion and runner-up)

FIBA Oceania

1 team (Champion)

Furthermore, the current world champion, the United States qualified automatically by winning at the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup.

Qualification via hosting the Olympics

The host nation qualified after FIBA voted to allow them to qualify as hosts in a meeting at Tokyo in August 2015.

Qualification via the wild card tournament

The additional three teams will be determined at the 2016 FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Men, with the best non-qualifying teams participating from teams that did not qualify outright. Each zone was allocated with the following berths:

Hosts: 3 teams
FIBA Africa

3 teams

FIBA Americas

3 teams

FIBA Asia

3 teams

FIBA Europe

5 teams

FIBA Oceania

1 team

There would be three tournaments, with the winners in each tournament winning a berth to the Olympics. All teams that are participating in the continental championships are allowed to bid as hosts. If the host team already qualified outright, the next best team from its continent would be invited to participate instead of them.

Qualified teams

Teams are arranged by time of qualification.

Team	Qualification		Appearance			Best performance	FIBA World Rankings
Team	Date	As	Last	Total	Streak	Best performance	FIBA World Rankings
	14 September 2014		2012	17	9th	14× gold medalists	1
	9 August 2015		2012	15	2nd	3× bronze medalists	9
	18 August 2015		2012	14	12th	4th place	11
	30 August 2015		2012	2	2nd	10th place	25
	11 September 2015		1992	2	1st	11th place	22
	11 September 2015		2012	7	4th	1× gold medalists	4
	17 September 2015		2012	12	4th	3× silver medalists	2
	18 September 2015		2012	7	7th	3× bronze medalists	3
	3 October 2015		2012	11	1st	5th place	14
	9 July 2016		2004	3	1st	1× silver medalists	6
	9 July 2016		2008	3	1st	1× silver medalists	12
	10 July 2016		2012	9	2nd	1× silver medalists	5

2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup

See main article: 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup. As winners of the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup, the USA automatically qualified for the 2016 Olympics, and chose not to participate in the 2015 FIBA Americas Championship.

width=20px	!	width=160px	Team !	width=40px	W–L !	width=180px	Qualification
		9–0	Qualify to the Olympics
		5–4
		6–3
4		6–3
5		6–1
6		5–2
7		5–2
8		4–3
9		5–1
10		3–3
11		3–3
12		3–3
13		2–4
14		2–4
15		2–4
16		2–4
17		2–3
18		2–3
19		1–4
20		1–4
21		1–4
22		1–4
23		0–5
24		0–5

FIBA Africa

AfroBasket qualification

See main article: AfroBasket 2015 qualification. Hosts Tunisia and defending champions Angola qualified automatically. The other berths were disputed per each FIBA Africa zone, with three wild card berths awarded to complete the 16-team roster.

Zone 1

width=20px	!	width=160px	Team !	width=40px	W–L !	width=180px	Qualification
		2–1	Qualify to the AfroBasket
		2–1	Selected as a wild card
		0–2	Withdrew

Zone 2

Group B

width=20px	!	width=160px	Team !	width=40px	W–L !	width=180px	Qualification
		2–0	Qualify to the AfroBasket
		0–2	Selected as a wild card

Group C

width=20px	!	width=160px	Team !	width=40px	W–L !	width=180px	Qualification
		2–0	Qualify to the AfroBasket
		0–2

Zone 3

Group D

width=20px	!	width=160px	Team !	width=40px	W–L !	width=180px	Qualification
		2–0	Qualify to the AfroBasket
		0–2

Group E

width=20px	!	width=160px	Team !	width=40px	W–L !	width=180px	Qualification
		2–0	Qualify to the AfroBasket
		0–2

Zone 4

Group F

width=20px	!	width=160px	Team !	width=40px	W–L !	width=180px	Qualification
		2–0	Qualify to the AfroBasket
		0–2

Group G

width=20px	!	width=160px	Team !	width=40px	W–L !	width=180px	Qualification
		3–1	Qualify to the AfroBasket
		2–2	Selected as a wild card
		1–3

Zone 5

width=20px	!	width=160px	Team !	width=40px	W–L !	width=180px	Qualification
		4–0	Qualify to the AfroBasket
		3–1	Qualify to the AfroBasket
		2–2
4		1–3
5		0–4

Zone 6

Group I

width=20px	!	width=160px	Team !	width=40px	W–L !	width=180px	Qualification
		3–1	Qualify to the AfroBasket
		2–2
		1–3

Group J

width=20px	!	width=160px	Team !	width=40px	W–L !	width=180px	Qualification
		2–0	Qualify to the AfroBasket
		0–2

AfroBasket

See main article: AfroBasket 2015.

width=20px	!	width=160px	Team !	width=40px	W–L !	width=180px	Qualification
		6–1	Qualify to the Olympics
		5–2	Qualify to Final Qualifying Tournament
		6–1
4		5–2
5		6–1
6		3–4
7		3–4
8		1–6
9		3–2
10		3–2
11		2–3
12		2–3
13		1–4
14		1–4
15		1–4
16		0–5

FIBA Americas

FIBA Americas Championship qualification

See main article: 2015 FIBA Americas Championship qualification. Qualification in the FIBA Americas was first via the Central American and Caribbean championships, where the top three teams in each tournament advance to the Centrobasket, where four FiBA Americas Championship berths were up for grabs. Four berths were disputed in the South American Championship. Mexico, which had already qualified, were awarded hosting duties. Canada and the USA are automatic entrants, but world champions USA chose to skip the tournament as they had already qualified via the World Cup.

Central America

width=20px	!	width=160px	Team !	width=40px	W–L !	width=180px	Qualification
		3–0	Qualify to the Centrobasket
		2–1
		1–2
4		0–3

Caribbean

width=20px	!	width=160px	Team !	width=40px	W–L !	width=180px	Qualification
		4–1	Qualify to the Centrobasket
		3–2
		4–1
4		2–3
5		2–3
6		2–3
7		2–3
8		1–4

Central America and Caribbean

See main article: 2014 Centrobasket.

width=20px	!	width=160px	Team !	width=40px	W–L !	width=180px	Qualification
		6–0	Qualify to the Americas Championship
		4–2
		5–1
4		3–3
5		2–2
6		2–2
7		1–3
8		1–3
9		0–4
10		0–4

South America

See main article: 2014 South American Basketball Championship.

width=20px	!	width=160px	Team !	width=40px	W–L !	width=180px	Qualification
		4–1	Qualify to the Americas Championship
		4–1
		3–2
4		2–3
5		3–2
6		2–3
7		1–4
8		0–5

FIBA Americas Championship

See main article: 2015 FIBA Americas Championship.

width=20px	!	width=160px	Team !	width=40px	W–L !	width=180px	Qualification
		6–4	Qualify to the Olympics
		8–2	Qualify to the Olympics
		8–2	Qualify to Final Qualifying Tournament
4		7–3
5		4–4
6		2–6
7		2–6
8		2–6
9		1–3	Qualify as host nation
10		0–4

FIBA Asia

FIBA Asia Championship qualification

See main article: 2015 FIBA Asia Championship qualification. Qualification in FIBA Asia was done in two stages. First, on the FIBA Asia Cup, the winner qualifies to the FIBA Asia Championship, while the second to fifth-ranked team get additional berths for their respective FIBA Asia subzones. The second stage was via the subzones. The East Asia subzone chose to award its berths based on the FIBA World Rankings, as no country was willing to host the championship.

FIBA Asia Cup

See main article: 2014 FIBA Asia Cup.

width=20px	!	width=160px	Team !	width=40px	W–L !	width=180px	Qualification
		4–1	Qualify to the Asian Championship
		4–1	+1 East Asia berth
		3–2	+1 Southeast Asia berth
4		2–3
5		3–2	+1 West Asia berth
6		2–3	+1 East Asia berth
7		1–4
8		0–5
8		0–5

Central Asia

width=20px	!	width=160px	Team !	width=40px	W–L !	width=180px	Qualification
		1–0	Qualify to the Asian Championship
		0–1

East Asia

width=160px	Team !	width=40px	Rank !	width=180px	Qualification
	14	Qualify to the Asian Championship
	28
	44
	47
	69

Persian Gulf

width=20px	!	width=160px	Team !	width=40px	W–L !	width=180px	Qualification
		5–0	Qualify to the Asian Championship
		4–1	Qualify to the Asian Championship
		3–2
4		2–3
5		1–4
6		0–5

South Asia

See main article: 2015 SABA Championship.

width=20px	!	width=160px	Team !	width=40px	W–L !	width=180px	Qualification
		5–0	Qualify to the Asian Championship
		4–1
		2–3
4		2–3
5		2–3
6		0–5

Southeast Asia

See main article: 2015 SEABA Championship.

width=20px	!	width=160px	Team !	width=40px	W–L !	width=180px	Qualification
		5–0	Qualify to the Asian Championship
		4–1
		3–2
4		2–3
5		1–4
6		0–5

West Asia

width=20px	!	width=160px	Team !	width=40px	W–L !	width=180px	Qualification
		4–0	Qualify to the Asian Championship
		3–1
		2–2
4		1–3
5		0–4

FIBA Asia Championship

See main article: 2015 FIBA Asia Championship.

width=20px	!	width=160px	Team !	width=40px	W–L !	width=240px	Qualification
		9–0	Qualify to the Olympics
		7–2	Qualify to Final Olympic Qualifying Tournament as host
		7–2	Qualify to Final Qualifying Tournament
4		5–4	Qualify to Final Qualifying Tournament
5		5–4	Stripped of qualification to Final Qualifying Tournament
6		5–4
7		4–5
8		3–6
9		5–3
10		4–4
11		2–6
12		1–7
13		3–2
14		1–4
15		1–4
16		0–5

FIBA Europe

EuroBasket qualification

See main article: EuroBasket 2015 qualification. There were two rounds of qualification for EuroBasket. On the first round, the group winners qualify to a knockout stage; the winner qualifies to the championship, all other teams, including those eliminated in the group stages, participate in the second round, where the group winners and the runners-up, except for the team with worst record, qualifies to the final tournament. European teams that participated in the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup also Qualify to the final tournament. Hosts Ukraine were stripped of the hosting duties, but still were retained by virtue of participating in the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup; instead hosting rights were awarded to four countries: Croatia, France, Germany and Latvia, each hosting a preliminary round group, with France hosting the final round.

First round

Group A

width=20px	!	width=160px	Team !	width=40px	W–L !	width=180px	Qualification
		3–0	Advance to knockout stage
		2–2	Advance to second round
		1–3	Advance to second round

Group B

width=20px	!	width=160px	Team !	width=40px	W–L !	width=180px	Qualification
		3–1	Advance to knockout stage
		2–2	Advance to second round
		1–3	Advance to second round

Group C

width=20px	!	width=160px	Team !	width=40px	W–L !	width=180px	Qualification
		5–1	Advance to knockout stage
		5–1	Advance to second round
		2–4
4		0–6

Group D

width=20px	!	width=160px	Team !	width=40px	W–L !	width=180px	Qualification
		3–1	Advance to knockout stage
		2–2	Advance to second round
		1–3	Advance to second round

Knockout stage

width=20px	!	width=160px	Team !	width=40px	W–L !	width=180px	Qualification
		2–2	Qualify to EuroBasket
		3–1	Advance to second round
		1–1
		0–2

Second round

Group A

width=20px	!	width=160px	Team !	width=40px	W–L !	width=180px	Qualification
		4–0	Qualify to EuroBasket
		2–2	Qualify to EuroBasket
		0–4

Group B

width=20px	!	width=160px	Team !	width=40px	W–L !	width=180px	Qualification
		4–2	Qualify to EuroBasket
		4–2	Qualify to EuroBasket
		3–3
4		1–5

Group C

width=20px	!	width=160px	Team !	width=40px	W–L !	width=180px	Qualification
		5–1	Qualify to EuroBasket
		4–2	Qualify to EuroBasket
		3–3
4		0–6

Group D

width=20px	!	width=160px	Team !	width=40px	W–L !	width=180px	Qualification
		5–1	Qualify to EuroBasket
		5–1	Qualify to EuroBasket
		2–4
4		0–6

Group E

width=20px	!	width=160px	Team !	width=40px	W–L !	width=180px	Qualification
		4–2	Qualify to EuroBasket
		4–2	Qualify to EuroBasket
		4–2
4		0–6

Group F

width=20px	!	width=160px	Team !	width=40px	W–L !	width=180px	Qualification
		6–0	Qualify to EuroBasket
		4–2
		2–4
4		0–6

Group G

width=20px	!	width=160px	Team !	width=40px	W–L !	width=180px	Qualification
		3–1	Qualify to EuroBasket
		2–2	Qualify to EuroBasket
		1–3

EuroBasket

See main article: EuroBasket 2015.

width=20px	!	width=160px	Team !	width=40px	W–L !	width=180px	Qualification
		7–2	Qualify to the Olympics
		7–2	Qualify to the Olympics
		8–1	Qualify to Final Qualifying Tournament
4		7–2	Qualify to Final Olympic Qualifying Tournament as host
5		7–1	Qualify to Final Qualifying Tournament
6		5–3	Qualify to Final Olympic Qualifying Tournament as host
7		5–4	Qualify to Final Qualifying Tournament
8		4–5
9		3–3
10		3–3
11		3–3
12		3–3
13		3–3
14		3–3	Qualify to Final Qualifying Tournament as replacement team for Lebanon
15		2–4
16		2–4
17		1–4
18		1–4
19		1–4
20		1–4
21		1–4
22		1–4
23		1–4
24		0–5

FIBA Oceania

FIBA Oceania Championship

See main article: 2015 FIBA Oceania Championship.

width=20px	!	width=160px	Team !	width=40px	W–L !	width=180px	Qualification
		2–0	Qualify to the Olympics
		0–2	Qualify to Final Qualifying Tournament

FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournaments

Draw

In 2016 three qualifying tournaments, each producing a team which qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics. They were held on 4–10 July 2016 in Turin, Manila and Belgrade.^[1] Serbia, Croatia and France qualified for the Olympics as a result of these tournaments.

The format consisted of 18 national teams divided into three tournaments of six teams each, with the winning team from each event qualifying for the Olympics.The draw for the Olympic qualifiers took place at The House of Basketball in Mies, Switzerland on 26 January 2016.^[2] The teams were divided into six pots. The draw had three parts. The first part determined in which of the three qualifying tournaments would each team participate, except for the host countries. The second part determined the grouping of each team (Group A or Group B) and the third part determined their position from 1 to 3, which would be used to determine the fixtures.^[3]

The teams' FIBA World Rankings on the day of the draw are shown in brackets.^[4]

width=16%	Pot 1!	width=16%	Pot 2!	width=16%	Pot 3!	width=16%	Pot 4!	width=16%	Pot 5!	width=16%	Pot 6
(5) (6) (host) (10)	(35) (host) (42) (26)	(28) (host) (17) (48)	(15) (23) (31)	(35) (12) (8)	(19) (16) (21)
Source: FIBA

Turin

See main article: 2016 FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament – Turin. The tournament was held in Turin, Italy.

width=20px	!	width=160px	Team !	width=40px	W–L !	width=180px	Qualification
		3–1	Qualify to the Olympics
		3–1
		2–1
4		1–2
5		0–2
6		0–2

Manila

See main article: 2016 FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament – Manila. The tournament was held in Manila, Philippines.

width=20px	!	width=160px	Team !	width=40px	W–L !	width=180px	Qualification
		4–0	Qualify to the Olympics
		3–1
		1–2
4		1–2
5		0–2
6		0–2

Belgrade

See main article: 2016 FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament – Belgrade. The tournament was held in Belgrade, Serbia.

width=20px	!	width=160px	Team !	width=40px	W–L !	width=180px	Qualification
		4–0	Qualify to the Olympics
		2–2
		2–1
4		1–2
5		0–2
6		0–2

Notes and References

Web site: FIBA awards Philippines, Italy, Serbia, hosting rights to Olympic Qualifiers. Slam. Dy. Adrian. 19 January 2016. 20 January 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160424174931/http://www.slamonlineph.com/fiba-awards-philippines-italy-serbia-hosting-rights-to-olympic-qualifiers/. 24 April 2016. dead.
News: Italy, Philippines and Serbia to host Olympic Qualifying Tournaments; France to stage Women's Tournament. https://archive.today/20160120154407/http://www.fiba.com/news/italy-philippines-and-serbia-to-host-olympic-qualifying-tournaments-france-to-stage-womens-tournament. live. January 20, 2016. 19 January 2016. FIBA. 19 January 2016.
News: Procedures for Official Draws of the 2016 FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournaments for Men and Women to the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. https://archive.today/20160126232831/http://www.fiba.com/news/procedures-for-official-draws-of-2016-fiba-olympic-qualifying-tournaments-for-men-and-women-to-rio-2016-olympics. live. January 26, 2016. 26 January 2016. FIBA. 25 January 2016.
Web site: FIBA World Ranking for Men. https://archive.today/20140708234421/http://www.fiba.com/rankingmen. live. July 8, 2014. FIBA. 26 January 2016.