African Basketball Championship
Current season, competition or edition: AfroBasket 2017
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| Sport | Basketball |
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| Founded | 1962 |
| Inaugural season | 1962 |
| No. of teams | 16 |
| Country | FIBA Africa member nations |
| Continent | FIBA Africa (Africa) |
| Most recent champion(s) |
 Nigeria (1st title) |
| Most titles |
 Angola (11 titles) |
| Official website | www.FIBAAfrica.com |
The AfroBasket (alternatively known as the FIBA Africa Championship, FIBA African Championship, or FIBA AfroBasket) is the men's basketball continental championship of Africa, played biennially under the auspices of FIBA (International Basketball Federation), basketball's international governing body, and the FIBA African zone thereof. The tournament also serves to qualify teams for participation in the quadrennial FIBA World Cup and the Summer Olympic Games.
Qualification is via the different FIBA Africa subzones from Zone 1 to Zone 7. Six subzones receive two berths each, only Zone 1 get one. The host and the champion from the preceding AfroBasket also get a berth each and finally three teams are selected as wild cards. Each subzone conducts a qualification tournament up to a year before the championship to determine the qualifying teams.
^n/a A round-robin tournament determined the final standings.
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