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The FIBA Basketball World Cup is an international basketball competition between the senior men's national teams of the members of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA), the sport's global governing body. It takes place every four years and is considered the flagship event of FIBA.
- 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup - Wikipedia
The 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup was the 19th tournament...
- History of the FIBA Basketball World Cup - Wikipedia
The FIBA Basketball World Cup is an international basketball...
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The FIBA Basketball World Cup, known as the FIBA World...
- 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup - Wikipedia
The 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup was the 19th tournament of the FIBA Basketball World Cup for men's national basketball teams. The tournament was the second to feature 32 teams and was hosted by multiple nations for the first time in its history—the Philippines, Japan, and Indonesia—from 25 August to 10 September 2023.
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The first international basketball tournament took place in South America in 1930, some forty years after Dr. James Naismithinvented the game. The International Amateur Basketball Federation (better known by its French acronym FIBA) was founded two years later with founding members Argentina, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Portugal, Romania...
Early Years, South American dominance
Like the first FIFA World Cup twenty years before, the first World Championship in 1950 experienced severe growing pains. The most prominent concern was teams' unwillingness to participate: South American champion Uruguay refused to make the short trip to Buenos Aires after Argentinian immigration officials refused to grant visas to members of the Uruguayan press. South American runner-up Brazil had already qualified by finishing third at the 1948 Olympics, so the two South American berths fe...
European Dominance
The 1967 FIBA World Championship was held in South America for the fifth consecutive time, this time in Montevideo, Uruguay. The 1967 tournament ushered in a new era in the World Championship – it was the first all-European final and the first tournament that had a qualification process, albeit an informal one. The Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, Poland, and Italy qualified by finishing in the top four at EuroBasket 1965; Japan grabbed the Asian qualifier spot by winning the 1965 ABC Championship;...
Tournament Expansion and Contraction, the Big Three: Yugoslavia, the Soviet Union, the United States
The 1986 FIBA World Championship brought major changes. The tournament expanded to 24 teams for the first time, divided into four preliminary round groups of six teams each. The three top teams in each group then qualified for two six team semifinal round groups before the top two teams in each of those groups met in a four-team single elimination playoff round. Additionally, the three-point line was added for the first time at this tournament. The defending champions Soviet Union and host Sp...
The FIBA Basketball World Cup has used several different formats between 1950 and 2010 as they have expanded and contracted between 10 and 24 teams throughout the years. Prior to 1978, the tournament most often used two group stages, with the final round being a round-robin. In every year since 1978, the tournament has used some variation of a grou...
Aug 25, 2023 · Spain reigned at the FIBA Basketball World Cup in Japan in the biggest and most competitive international basketball event ever staged. With the field increased from 16 to 24 teams, six European sides reached the last eight with Spain ultimately triumphing over Greece to capture the gold medal.
Aug 25, 2023 · The official website of the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023. Competition schedule, results, stats, teams and players profile, news, games highlights, photos, videos and event guide.
Aug 31, 2019 · The official website of the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019. Competition schedule, results, stats, teams and players profile, news, games highlights, photos, videos and event guide.
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The FIBA Basketball World Cup, known as the FIBA World Championship from 1950 through 2010, is a world basketball tournament for men's national teams held once every four years by the International Basketball Federation (FIBA).
