Those teams that had qualified for the 2014 World Basketball Championship in Spain were already qualified for the European Championship . These were the teams that finished 1 to 7 in the 2013 European Basketball Championship . In addition, as the host of the world championship, FIBA awarded three out of four wildcards to European teams.
In the first round of qualification, which was played among the teams that did not take part in the 2013 European Championship, a final place was drawn.
A total of eleven participants had qualified for the European Championship before the start of the second qualifying round. In the second qualifying round, the missing 13 participants were determined, so that the European Championship was held with a total of 24 teams.
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National teams that could not qualify for the 2013 European Championship took part in the first qualifying round. They first played out the semi-finalists in four groups, and then determined a fixed participant in the final round in the first and second leg. The winner was Estonia. The group stage draw took place on December 8, 2012 in Freising , the games themselves from August 1 to September 1, 2013.
In the event of a tie, the placement was made by comparing the points of the direct encounters and, if necessary, by comparing the basket conditions.
All teams not yet qualified took part in the second qualifying round. The game was played in seven groups with three or four teams per group, each with a return leg. The seven group winners and the six best runners-up qualified for the final round. When determining the six best runners-up in the group, the games against a possibly existing fourth in the group were disregarded for reasons of better comparability. The draw took place on February 3, 2014 in Barcelona , the games took place in August 2014.
In the event of a tie, the placement was made by comparing the points of the direct encounters and, if necessary, by comparing the basket conditions.
