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2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup qualification

Advances to the World Cup outright
Already in the World Cup, but still participated in qualification
Advances to the World Cup as a wild card
Advances to the continental championship outright
Already in the continental championship, but still participated in qualification
Advances to the continental championship as a wild card
Advances to next round of qualifying
Disqualified and suspended by FIBA

Qualifying for the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup to be held in Spain began in earnest on the 2011 Caribbean Championships, a qualifier to the 2012 Centrobasket, which is in itself a qualifier to the 2013 FIBA Americas Championship. The winners of the 2012 Olympic basketball tournament, the United States, qualified outright. The USA joined the host nation Spain, which was earlier elected to host the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup in July 2009.

Qualification would be via each of FIBA's zones, with each zone allocated at least two berths, with additional berths given according to the strengths of the teams within each zone. In this setup, FIBA Europe gets six berths, FIBA Americas has 4, FIBA Africa and FIBA Asia, 3 teams each, and FIBA Oceania, 2 berths.

The continental championships in each FIBA zone doubles as a qualifying tournament. The top teams in each tournament qualify to the World Cup of Basketball.

In addition, after the continental championships are done, four more wild cards berths will be awarded by FIBA to complete the 24-team tournament.

This shall be the final set of qualification tournaments under this method. FIBA announced that the next edition of the World Cup shall be held in 2019, the number of participating teams raised from 24 to 32, FIBA Asia and FIBA Oceania shall combine into one region for purposes of qualifying for the World Cup, and that qualifying will be done in a home and away format.

Each FIBA zone has a default number of berths, generally following the strengths of the national teams there. These berths, plus four wild cards and the host total in 24. However, a berth is subtracted from the FIBA zone of the Olympic champion; in this case, the United States' gold medal in 2012 reduced FIBA Americas' number of berths from five to four, with the United States qualifying as a result of their 2012 Olympic gold medal.

A total of 117 national teams participated in qualifying. This number includes teams that participated but were later suspended (Lebanon and Panama), and excludes hosts Spain, which still participated in qualifying matches, and the United States, which qualified automatically and no longer participated in qualifying matches.


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