FIBA EuroBasket 2009
| FIBA EuroBasket 2009 | |||||||||||||
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| 36th FIBA European Basketball Championship | |||||||||||||
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| Host nation | Poland | ||||||||||||
| Dates | 7 – 20 September | ||||||||||||
| Teams | 16 (from 49 federations) | ||||||||||||
| Venues | 7 (in 7 host cities) | ||||||||||||
| Champions |
 Spain (1st title)
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| MVP |
Pau Gasol
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| Automatic Qualifier for the 2010 FIBA World Championship. | |
| Wild card for the 2010 FIBA World Championship. |
The FIBA EuroBasket 2009 was the 36th FIBA EuroBasket, the biennial regional basketball championship contested by European nations and held by FIBA Europe. The tournament, which was hosted by Poland, began on 7 September 2009 and concluded with the final on 20 September 2009. The competition served as a qualification tournament for the 2010 FIBA World Championship in Turkey.
Spain claimed their first EuroBasket title by routing Serbia 85–63 in the final.Greece captured the bronze medal with a 57–56 victory over Slovenia. The four semifinalists plus France and Croatia claimed the six European qualifying spots for the 2010 FIBA World Championship. Spain's Pau Gasol was named the tournament's most valuable player.
The tournament was played at seven venues in seven cities throughout Poland. Each one of the total six groups in the preliminary and the qualifying round was hosted by a single arena, while the entire knockout stage was played at Spodek Arena, Katowice.
The draw for the qualifying round took place on 16 February 2008 in Venice, Italy. Poland, as host nation, and the seven top-placed nations in EuroBasket 2007 automatically qualified for the tournament finals. From the qualifying round, the winners of the four groups and the three best second-place teams also advanced to the final round of the event. The ten teams who participated in the qualifying round and did not succeed in going through to the final round had been ranked according to their win–loss records, their win–loss percentages and their goal average coefficients. The first six teams took part in an additional qualifying round, held from 5 to 30 August 2009, the winner of which secured the last ticket for the final tournament.
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