FIBA Olympic Pre-Qualifying Tournaments: 40 teams to fight for Paris 2024 spots in August 2023
The FIBA Olympic Pre-Qualifying Tournaments, which take place from 12-20 August 2023, will offer a route to the next Olympic Games for men’s teams from Africa, the Americas, Asia and Europe.
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On Tuesday 18 April, FIBA announced a route to Paris 2024 qualification for 40 men’s teams who missed out on a spot in the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023.
At the FIBA Olympic Pre-Qualifying Tournaments, which will be held from 12-20 August 2023, teams from Africa, the Americas, Asia and Europe will duke it out for a spot at the next Olympics that take place in the capital of France from 26 July to 11 August 2024.
The tournaments will feature the 28 nations that competed in the second round of the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023 Qualifier but failed to qualify for this year’s World Cup, as well as the highest-ranked national teams that did not qualify for the Second Round of the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023 Qualifiers. Great Britain did not register for the event and have been replaced by Croatia, while Russia have been replaced by Bulgaria as the next-best-ranked European team.
The selection of hosts for the FIBA Olympic Pre-Qualifying Tournaments will take place on 28-29 April at the FIBA Central Board Meeting, with the tournament draw taking place on 1 May 2023.
Full list of teams taking part in the FIBA Olympic Pre-Qualifying Tournaments
Africa: Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guinea, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Tunisia and Uganda
Americas: Argentina, Bahamas, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Panama, Uruguay and Virgin Islands
Asia: Bahrain, Chinese Taipei, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Republic of Korea, Saudi Arabia and Syrian Arab Republic
Europe: Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czechia, Estonia, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, Türkiye, Ukraine and Bulgaria.
Basketball qualification timeline to Paris 2024
22 September - 1 October 2022: FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup 2022, Australia
June 2023: FIBA Women’s EuroBasket 2023
August 2023: FIBA Olympic Pre-Qualifying Tournaments
25 August - 10 September 2023: FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023, Philippines, Japan and Indonesia
November 2023: FIBA Women’s Olympic Pre-Qualifying Tournaments
30 November 2023: NOCs to confirm use of allocated quota places to FIBA for women’s and men’s events
February 2024: FIBA Women’s Olympic Qualifying Tournaments 2024
TBC: FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournaments 2024
8 July 2024: Paris 2024 Sports Entries deadline
26 July - 11 August 2024: Olympic Games Paris 2024