2025 FIBA Asia Cup qualification

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2025 FIBA Asia Cup qualification
Tournament details
Dates 2 June 2022 – February 2025
Teams 30 (from 2 confederations)
Official website
Qualifiers website
Pre-qualifiers website
2022
2029

The 2025 FIBA Asia Cup qualification is a basketball competition that is being played from June 2022 to February 2025, to determine the FIBA Asia-Oceania nations who will qualify for the 2025 FIBA Asia Cup.

Format

The qualification process started in 2022, with Pre-qualifiers being contested on sub-zone and regional basis. Eight teams will advance to the qualifiers, joining the sixteen teams from the 2023 FIBA World Cup Asian Qualifiers.[1]

Entrants

Teams entering
the Qualifiers (from Asia Cup 2021)
West Region East Region

 Iran
 Jordan
 Lebanon
 Kazakhstan
 Saudi Arabia
 India
 Syria
 Bahrain

 Australia
 New Zealand
 China
 South Korea
 Philippines
 Japan
 Chinese Taipei
 Indonesia

Teams entering
the Pre-Qualifiers (any team that did not participate in Asia Cup 2021)
West Region East Region
West Asia
WABA sub-zone
Gulf
GBA sub-zone
Central Asia
CABA sub-zone
South Asia
SABA sub-zone
East Asia
EABA sub-zone
South East Asia
SEABA sub-zone
Oceania sub-zone[2]

 Iraq
 Palestine

 Qatar
 United Arab Emirates
 Kuwait
 Oman

 Uzbekistan

 Sri Lanka
 Bangladesh

 Hong Kong
 Mongolia

 Thailand
 Malaysia
 Singapore
 Vietnam
 Cambodia

 Guam
 Tahiti

Pre-qualifiers

First round

Teams played a round-robin tournament to determine the three best ranked teams that will advance to the second round.

Teams from the WABA, GBA, CABA, and SABA sub-zones played in Group A and B, forming the West region. While teams from Oceania and the SEABA and EABA sub-zones played in Groups C and D, forming the East region. The groups were played at a single venue.[3]

Group A

The tournament was held in Qatar.

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Group B

The tournament was held in Palestine.

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Group C

A four-team tournament was scheduled to be held in Guam. After Hong Kong and Cambodia withdrew before the start of the competition, only one game was planned to be played with both teams advancing to the second round.[4] In October 2022, Hong Kong re-entered the tournament, which was played in India in November 2022.[5]

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Group D

The tournament was held in Mongolia.[5]

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Second round

The 12 qualified teams will be divided into two groups of six teams (teams from groups A/B form Group E and teams from groups C/D into Group F). The results against teams that advanced are carried over and the teams will play against the teams they did not meet in the first round. The top four teams of each group advance to the qualifiers. The groups will be played in a single venue.[6]

Group E

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Group F

The tournament was held in Mongolia.

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Qualifiers

24 teams will compete for 16 places at the final tournament. Matches will be played over three windows: February 2024, November 2024 and February 2025.[7] They will also earn their place for the qualifiers of the 2027 FIBA Basketball World Cup in Qatar alongside Qatar who automatically qualified for the World Cup as host. The top two teams of each group qualify for the final tournament and the six third-placed teams will play another qualifying tournament for the final four places.

The draw took place on 19 September 2023.[8][9]

Participating teams

Teams entering
the Qualifiers (from Asia Cup 2021)
Teams qualified through
the Regional Pre-qualifiers
West Region East Region West Region East Region

 Bahrain
 India
 Iran
 Jordan
 Kazakhstan
 Lebanon
 Saudi Arabia
 Syria

 Australia
 China
 Chinese Taipei
 Indonesia
 Japan
 New Zealand
 Philippines
 South Korea

 Iraq
 Palestine
 Qatar
 United Arab Emirates

 Guam
 Hong Kong
 Mongolia
 Thailand

Seeding

The seeding was announced on 19 September 2023, according to the FIBA rankings.[10] Eight pots were used for the seeding of the 24 qualified teams based on geographical and ranking principles. The first four pots were allocated for teams in the East Region, covering teams from the EABA (East Asia), SEABA (Southeast Asia), and FIBA Oceania and the rest for teams in the West Region which has the GBA (Gulf), WABA (Middle East), CABA (Central Asia), and SABA (South Asia) in its scope. The top seeded teams for each region were be allocated in Pot 1 and 5.[11]

East Region
Pot 1 Pot 2 Pot 3 Pot 4
 Australia (4)
 New Zealand (21)
 Japan (26)
 China (29)
 Philippines (38)
 South Korea (51)
 Indonesia (74)
 Guam (76)
 Chinese Taipei (78)
 Thailand (91)
 Mongolia (100)
 Hong Kong (119)
West Region
Pot 5 Pot 6 Pot 7 Pot 8
 Iran (27)
 Lebanon (28)
 Jordan (32)
 Saudi Arabia (66)
 Kazakhstan (68)
 Bahrain (69)
 Syria (71)
 India (81)
 Iraq (90)
 Palestine (97)
 United Arab Emirates (103)
 Qatar (104)

Groups

Group A

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Group B

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Group C

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Group D

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Group E

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Group F

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Final qualifying tournament

The six third-placed teams from the qualifiers will play for the final four places at the final tournament.

References

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