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FIBA Africa Championship

FIBA Africa Championship
Current season, competition or edition:
Current sports eventAfroBasket 2017
FIBA Africa logo.jpg
Sport Basketball
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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