2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup

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2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup
18th FIBA Basketball World Cup
Tournament details
Host countryChina
DatesAugust 31 – September 15
Teams32
Venue(s)8 (in 8 host cities)
Official website
www.fiba.basketball/basketballworldcup/2019
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The 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup will be the 18th tournament of the FIBA Basketball World Cup for men's national basketball teams. The tournament will be hosted in China and it will mark a new era for the competition as described. Rescheduled from 2018 to 2019, this edition will be the first FIBA Basketball World Cup since 1967 that will not occur in the same year as the FIFA World Cup, but a year following the latter. Also, the group stage will expand from 24 to 32 teams. The top 8 teams including Japan as the host for the 2020 Summer Olympics (where 2 teams each are coming from the Americas and Europe; and the top teams from Africa, Asia and Oceania) in this competition will guarantee a spot at the men's basketball event in the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.

Hosts selection

Main article: 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup bids

The whole bidding process started in April 2014. Bids from numerous nations were submitted. On 16 March 2015, it was confirmed that the World Cup will be staged in Asia, with China and Philippines as the final countries to be the basis for the selection of the Hosts.[1][2] On 7 August 2015, it was announced that China won the bid against the Philippines and will host the upcoming World Cup.[3]

Voting results

2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup bidding results
Nation Votes
 China 14
 Philippines 7

Venues

Beijing
Nanjing
LeSports Center Youth Olympic
Sports Park Gymnasium
Capacity: 18,000 Capacity: 22,000
Shanghai Wuhan
Mercedes-Benz Arena Wuhan Gymnasium
Capacity: 18,000 Capacity: 13,000
Venues within Guangdong
Dongguan
Foshan
Nissan Sports Centre
Foshan Metro
Sports Arena
(new venue)
Capacity: 16,000 Capacity: 14,700
Guangzhou Shenzhen
Guangzhou International
Sports Arena 		Shenzhen Universiade
Sports Centre
Capacity: 18,000 Capacity: 18,000

Qualification

Main article: 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup qualification

China as hosts automatically qualified for the tournament. The continental championships will no longer belong to the qualification system for the World Cup. Instead, two rounds of continental qualifying tournaments will be held over two years.[4]

The first round of the Americas, Asia/Oceania and Africa qualifiers will feature 16 teams each, whereas Europe will have 32 teams. Division A teams will be split in groups of four, to be held in a home-and-away round-robin. The top three teams in each groups will advance to round two, and last placed teams will play the best Division B teams to qualify for the next season's Division A.

In round two of the World Cup qualifiers, teams will be split in groups of six, totaling four groups in Europe and two in the other qualifiers. Teams will carry 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 will qualify for the World Cup.

Starting 2019, no Wild card qualification will be held, and the Olympic Champions are not guaranteed a spot in the tournament.

The draw for the qualifiers was held on 7 May 2017 in Guangzhou.[5]

Qualified teams

Team Qualification Appearance Best performance FIBA World Ranking FIBA Zone FIBA Zone Ranking
As Date Last Total Streak
 China Host Nation 7 August 2015 2010 8 1 8th place (1994) / Classification round 24 FIBA Asia 3

Format

The tournament will be played in three stages. In the first stage, the 32 qualified teams will be sorted into eight groups of four (A-H), each team in a group will play each other once. The top two teams from each group will then advance to the second group stage. In the second group stage there will be four groups (I-L) of four made up of the teams that advanced from the first round, again playing each other once. The top two teams from groups I to L will qualify for the final knockout phase.[6]

Reports suggest that the classification rounds will be revived after it was not held in 2014. They were traditionally held in every World Championship/World Cup and were last seen in action in 2010.[7]

In total, 96 games will be played over a total of 16 days.

Preliminary round

Group A

Pos Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts Qualification
1 TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advanced to Second round
2 TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
First match(es) will be played: unknown. Source: [citation needed]

Group B

Pos Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts Qualification
1 TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advanced to Second round
2 TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
First match(es) will be played: unknown. Source: [citation needed]

Group C

Pos Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts Qualification
1 TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advanced to Second round
2 TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
First match(es) will be played: unknown. Source: [citation needed]

Group D

Pos Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts Qualification
1 TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advanced to Second round
2 TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
First match(es) will be played: unknown. Source: [citation needed]

Group E

Pos Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts Qualification
1 TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advanced to Second round
2 TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
First match(es) will be played: unknown. Source: [citation needed]

Group F

Pos Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts Qualification
1 TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advanced to Second round
2 TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
First match(es) will be played: unknown. Source: [citation needed]

Group G

Pos Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts Qualification
1 TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advanced to Second round
2 TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
First match(es) will be played: unknown. Source: [citation needed]

Group H

Pos Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts Qualification
1 TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advanced to Second round
2 TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
First match(es) will be played: unknown. Source: [citation needed]

Second round

Group I

Pos Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts Qualification
1 TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advanced to Quarter-finals
2 TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
First match(es) will be played: unknown. Source: [citation needed]

Group J

Pos Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts Qualification
1 TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advanced to Quarter-finals
2 TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
First match(es) will be played: unknown. Source: [citation needed]

Group K

Pos Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts Qualification
1 TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advanced to Quarter-finals
2 TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
First match(es) will be played: unknown. Source: [citation needed]

Group L

Pos Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts Qualification
1 TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advanced to Quarter-finals
2 TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
First match(es) will be played: unknown. Source: [citation needed]

Knockout round

Bracket

 
Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsWorld Cup Final
 
          
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Bronze medal match
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Marketing

Branding

The official logo of the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup was officially unveiled on 21 March 2017 in a ceremony held in Shanghai. The logo's concept was inspired from the Beijing Opera where the actors symbolize concepts such as wisdom, persistence, power and perfection, which are prerequisite characteristics that the participating players of national team will need to exhibit "in order to succeed". The logo design was also inspired from the Chinese Dragon Dance, a cultural tradition depicting a story of two flying dragons battling over a shining pearl which is meant to parallel the competition of national teams for the Naismith Trophy.[8]

Infront China will become the exclusive marketing partner for the domestic commercial rights of FIBA Basketball World Cup China 2019, according to a strategic cooperation agreement officially announced between Infront China, a Wanda Sports company, the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) and the Organizing Committee for the competition. The FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019 will be staged across eight Chinese cities including Beijing, Guangzhou, Nanjing, Shanghai, Wuhan, Shenzhen, Foshan and Dongguan, from 31 August to 15 September 2019.[9]

Issues and concerns

There are concerns from national federations that they will not be able to play the qualifiers with players from top professional leagues globally (the National Basketball Association and EuroLeague), which is possible with professional leagues operating in mid-year.[10]

References

  1. ^ "Mainini: calendar, system of competition and 3x3 our biggest priorities" (Press release). FIBA. 2012-04-20. Retrieved 2012-07-28.
  2. ^ PR N°20 – Central Board gives green light to new format and calendar of competition
  3. ^ "PR N°30 - People's Republic of China to host 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup". FIBA. 7 August 2015. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
  4. ^ FIBA competitions calendar format 2017–2020
  5. ^ "Draw results in for FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019 Qualifiers". fiba.com (Press release). FIBA. 7 May 2017.
  6. ^ "2017-2021: FIBA New Competition System". FIBA.com. 21 October 2015. Retrieved 28 December 2015.
  7. ^ "SBP close to P5-million in spending for 2019 FIBA World Cup bid, hopes to be on November shortlist". Interaksyon.com. Manila: InterAksyon. 17 July 2014. Retrieved 13 December 2014.
  8. ^ "FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019 logo unveiled". FIBA. 21 March 2017. Retrieved 21 March 2017.
  9. ^ "Infront wraps up Fiba World Cup rights deal". Retrieved 2017-11-24.
  10. ^ Basketball Mimics Soccer’s World Cup Qualifying (Minus the Stars) - Marc Stein, THe New York Times, 22 November 2017

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