2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup
| 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup | |
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| 18th FIBA Basketball World Cup | |
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| Host nation | China |
| Teams | 32 (from 214 federations) |
| Venues | 8 (in 8 host cities) |
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The 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup (simplified Chinese: 2019年世界杯篮球赛; traditional Chinese: 2019年世界盃籃球賽) will be the 18th tournament of the FIBA Basketball World Cup for men's national basketball teams. The tournament will be hosted in China and described that it will mark a new era for the competition. Rescheduled from 2018 to 2019, this edition will be the first FIBA Basketball World Cup since 1967 that will not occur in the same year as the FIFA World Cup, but year following. Also, the group stage will expand from 24 to 32 teams.The top 7 teams (where 2 teams each are coming from the Americas and Europe; And the top team from Africa, Asia and Oceania) in this competition will qualify directly for the 2020 Olympic Games at Tokyo.
The whole bidding processed started in April 2014. Bids from numerous nations were submitted. On 16 March 2015, it was confirmed that the World Cup will be staged in Asia, with China and Philippines as the final countries to be the basis for the selection of the Hosts. On 7 August 2015, it was announced that China won the bid against the Philippines and will host the upcoming World Cup.
China as hosts automatically qualifies for the tournament. 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.
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.
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