2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup qualification

2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup
Qualification
Tournament details
Teams	215 max. (from 215 max. federations)
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The 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup qualification process will determine the 31 out of 32 teams that will participate at the 2019 FIBA World Cup.

Qualified teams

  Country qualified for World Cup

  Country may qualify

  Did not participate

  Suspended, may not be able enter the qualifiers

  Country not a FIBA member

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

Format

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.^[1]

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 will not directly qualify.

FIBA zone	Qualifying tournaments		World Cup berths
	Division A top ranked teams	Division B maximum possible entrants	Allocated berths	Berth as the host nation	Total berths
FIBA Africa	16	37	5	0	5
FIBA Americas	16	28	7	0	7
FIBA Asia-Pacific FIBA Asia and FIBA Oceania	16	48	7	1	8
FIBA Europe	32	21	12	0	12
Total	80	134	31	1	32

Issues and concerns

There are concerns from national associations that they will not be able to play the qualifiers with players from top professional leagues globally (National Basketball Association of North America and the Turkish Airlines Euroleague), which is possible with the continental championships held in mid-year. The alleged controversial officiating of the referees in favor of China during the 2015 FIBA Asia Championship had many basketball enthusiasts concerned of the officiating of the FIBA World Cup.^[2][3]

References

1. FIBA competitions calendar format 2017-2020
2. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jan-albert-suing/philippines-vs-china-rip-_b_8238564.html
3. FIBA schedule could leave NBA out - ESPN, September 19, 2013