2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup

2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup
19th FIBA Basketball World Cup
Tournament details
Dates September 11 - October 12
Teams 32 (expected) (from 213 federations)
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The 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup will be the 19th tournament of the FIBA Basketball World Cup for national men's basketball teams. This will be the 2nd tournament under the new cycle which will start in 2019. It is also expected that there will be 32 teams in the tournament. The Basketball World Cup may be hosted by Germany, Turkey, Qatar, Russia or the Philippines.

Host selection

All FIBA national federations are allowed to bid for the 2019 Basketball World Cup, but FIBA also added that a federation can bid on both the 2019 and 2023 World Cups or bid only for 2023 and award hosts for events at the same time.[1]

Potential bids

Originally, national federations could bid for the 2019 and/or 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup. However, on 16 March 2015, FIBA identified the nations shortlisted to host the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup while deciding the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup to be played in Asia. The hosts for the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup will be decided by 2016.[2] Joint bids by member federations was approved by the FIBA Central Board starting from the 2023 edition and there is no restriction for a country from the confederation which hosted the previous edition (China of FIBA Asia) to bid for the World Cup hosting rights.[3]

The official bidding process shall be launched with FIBA sending out a circular letter to all of its National Member Federations in Summer 2016. The final bid presentation and host selection shall be made in June 2017.[3]

Germany bid - optionally a co-bid together with France - for the 2019 Basketball World Cup, but when FIBA decided the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup to be played in Asia, Germany's bid for the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup was cancelled.
Like Germany, Turkey also bid originally for 2019 and was therefore cancelled when FIBA decided the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup to be played in Asia. Turkey also hosted the 2010 FIBA World Championship and 2014 FIBA World Championship for Women. 2023 is the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Turkish Republic.
The Philippines is considering to bid for the 2023 FIBA World Cup after it lost its 2019 bid to China. The Philippines is exploring the possibility of bidding with another country (Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea) leaning on co-bidding the World Cup with a Southeast Asian country.[3]
Qatar entered a bid when FIBA asked to bid for the 2019 and 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cups and specified that it was the only nation interested solely for 2023. They hosted the 2005 FIBA Asia Championship.
Russian sports minister Vitaly Mutko announced on 20 April 2015 that he is in talks with the governing body of basketball for the country to bid to host the 2023 World Cup.[4]

Format

It is expected that the format (including Qualifiers) will be followed from 2019.

References

  1. ↑ "Process launched to find host of 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup". FIBA Europe. 2014-04-16. Retrieved 2014-04-23.
  2. ↑ "Executive Committee confirms 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup will be played in Asia". FIBA. 2015-03-16. Retrieved 2015-03-17.
  3. 1 2 3 Henson, Joaquin (22 March 2016). "MVP mulls bidding for 2023 World Cup". The Philippine Star. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  4. ↑ "Russia in talks to bid for 2023 basketball World Cup". Yahoo. 2015-04-20. Retrieved 2015-05-01.
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