African championship basketball

This article describes the men's African Basketball Championship ; for the women’s African Championship, see African Women’s Basketball Championship .

FIBA African Basketball Championship
Association	FIBA Africa
First edition	1962
Teams	16
Title holder	Tunisia (2)
Record winner	Angola (11)
Website	http://www.fibaafrica.com/

The AfroBasket (officially: Afrobasket ), the World Association FIBA and the continental association FIBA Africa discharged African continental championship in basketball . It has been held every two years since 1962 and is also the African qualifying tournament for the Basketball World Cup or the Summer Olympics . The record holder is Angola , which has won 11 of the 15 events since 1989.

Previous events

year	Final tournament venue		final				3rd place match
			gold	Result	silver		bronze	Result	fourth place
1962 details	Cairo ( VAR Egypt )		VAR		Sudan		Morocco		Guinea
1964 details	Casablanca ( Morocco )		VAR		Morocco		Palestine		Tunisia
1965 details	Tunis ( Tunisia )		Morocco		Tunisia		Algeria		Senegal
1968 details	Casablanca ( Morocco )		Senegal	67-60	Morocco		Central African. Rep.	76-60	Mali
1970 details	Alexandria ( VAR Egypt )		VAR	70-63	Senegal		Tunisia	73-56	Central African. Rep.
1972 details	Dakar ( Senegal )		Senegal	61-54	Egypt		Mali	107-74	Central African. Rep.
1974 details	Bangui ( Central African Rep. )		Central African. Rep.	72-67	Senegal		Tunisia	82-72	Cameroon
1975 details	Alexandria ( Egypt )		Egypt		Senegal		Sudan		Zaire
1978 details	Dakar ( Senegal )		Senegal	103-72	Ivory Coast		Egypt		Sudan
1980 details	Rabat ( Morocco )		Senegal	96-90	Ivory Coast		Morocco	97-83	Algeria
1981 details	Mogadishu ( Somalia )		Ivory Coast	81-65	Egypt		Somalia		Algeria
1983 details	Alexandria ( Egypt )		Egypt	94-68	Angola		Senegal	78-71	Ivory Coast
1985 details	Abidjan ( Ivory Coast )		Ivory Coast	84-73	Angola		Egypt	74-73	Senegal
1987 details	Tunis ( Tunisia )		Central African. Rep.	94-87	Egypt		Angola	73-71	Mali
1989 details	Luanda ( Angola )		Angola	89-62	Egypt		Senegal	65-53	Mali
1992 details	Cairo ( Egypt )		Angola	71-66	Senegal		Egypt	97-81	Mali
1993 details	Nairobi ( Kenya )		Angola	69-61	Egypt		Senegal	90-76	Kenya
1995 details	Algiers ( Algeria )		Angola	68-55	Senegal		Nigeria	58-51	Algeria
1997 details	Dakar ( Senegal )		Senegal	69-48	Nigeria		Angola	79-55	Egypt
1999 details	Luanda, Cabinda ( Angola )		Angola	79-72	Nigeria		Egypt	75-63	Mali
2001 details	Casablanca, Rabat ( Morocco )		Angola	78-68	Algeria		Egypt	77-71	Tunisia
2003 details	Alexandria ( Egypt )		Angola	85-65	Nigeria		Egypt	81-79	Senegal
2005 details	Algiers, Staouéli ( Algeria )		Angola	70-61	Senegal		Nigeria	88-76	Algeria
2007 details	Luanda 1 ( Angola )		Angola	86-72	Cameroon		Cape Verde	53-51	Egypt
2009 details	Tripoli , Benghazi ( Libya )		Angola	82-72	Ivory Coast		Tunisia	83-68	Cameroon
2011 details	Antananarivo ( Madagascar )		Tunisia	67-56	Angola		Nigeria	77-67	Ivory Coast
2013 details	Abidjan ( Ivory Coast )		Angola	57-40	Egypt		Senegal	57-56	Ivory Coast
2015 details	Radès ( Tunisia )		Nigeria	74-65	Angola		Tunisia	82-73	Senegal
2017 details	Radès / Dakar ( Tunisia / Senegal )		Tunisia	77-65	Nigeria		Senegal	73-62	Morocco

¹ The preliminary round matches of the 2007 finals also took place in Lubango , Huambo , Benguela and Cabinda .

Eternal table

Medal table
space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Angola	11	4th	2	17th
2	Egypt / VAR	5	6th	6th	17th
3	Senegal	5	6th	5	16
4th	Ivory Coast	2	3	0	5
5	Tunisia	2	1	4th	7th
6th	Central African Republic	2	0	1	3
7th	Nigeria	1	4th	3	8th
8th	Morocco	1	2	2	5
9	Algeria	0	1	1	2
	Sudan	0	1	1	2
11	Cameroon	0	1	0	1
12	Cape Verde	0	0	1	1
	Mali	0	0	1	1
	Palestine	0	0	1	1
	Somalia	0	0	1	1

Award for most valuable player of the tournament

year	winner
1999	Lamine Diawara
2001	Miguel Lutonda
2003	Miguel Lutonda
2005	Boniface N'dong
2007	Joaquim Gomes
2009	Joaquim Gomes
2011	Salah Mejri
2013	Carlos Morais
2015	Chamberlain Oguchi
2017	Ike Diogu

Web links

• archive.fiba.com Events: FIBA Africa Championship for Men - Overview of previous sweeps on the archive pages of FIBA (English)
• Official website of FIBA ​​Africa (English / French)
• Official website of Afrobasket 2011 (English / French)