EuroBasket 2013
| FIBA EuroBasket 2013 | |||||||||||||
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| 38th FIBA European Basketball Championship | |||||||||||||
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| Host nation |
 Slovenia
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| Dates | 4–22 September | ||||||||||||
| Teams | 24 (from 51 federations) | ||||||||||||
| Venues | 5 (in 4 host cities) | ||||||||||||
| Champions |
 France (1st title)
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| MVP |
Tony Parker
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| Qualified for the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup. | |
| Qualified as host nation for the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup. | |
| Received wild card for the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup. |
EuroBasket 2013 was the 38th edition of the EuroBasket championship that is organized by FIBA Europe. It took place from 4 September until 22 September 2013 in Slovenia. The number of participating teams was 24.
France defeated Lithuania in the final to win its first title.
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Italy and Slovenia brought forward a potential candidature for the FIBA EuroBasket. Countries which were interested in submitting a formal candidature had to do so by 31 August 2010. On 5 September 2010, it was announced that only two countries, Slovenia and Italy had submitted formal bids. On 15 October 2010, Italy announced its withdrawal from the run. The Basketball Federation of Slovenia (BFS) thus remained the only candidate organizer.
The decision on the candidacy was officially reported after FIBA Europe's meeting in Munich, Germany on 5 December 2010. In March 2011, the BFS appointed the economist Aleš Križnar as the director of the event.
In the first stage, every team had to play against every other team of their group (round-robin). This meant five matches per team.
From every group, the three best teams advanced to the second stage and the three worst teams were eliminated. In the second stage, two new groups were formed. The three best teams from groups A and B were united to form group E and the three best teams from groups C and D were united to form group F.
In these two new groups of the second stage only matches by teams that had not yet played each other have to be played. As for the matches that had already happened in the first stage, their results also counted in the second stage. Therefore, every team played three matches and there are 12 teams in the second stage.
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