Basketball World Cup 2019 / Qualification

The qualification for the Basketball World Cup 2019 was a global competition for the first time to determine the participants in the World Cup finals in the People's Republic of China 2019. The participating teams in the previous World Cup finals primarily qualified through their placements in the previous continental finals for Selection teams. Due to the change of cycle and the postponement of the 2019 World Cup, this close coupling was deviated from.

With the exception of the host country China, all teams had to qualify for the final round, whereby the number of participants for each continent was already determined and the qualification took place at the level of the continental associations.

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With the exception of the host country China, 31 of the 32 selection teams participating in the final round qualified via the qualifying competition for the 2019 World Cup. In principle, all 213 national associations were registered for the qualifying competition, with the continental associations partially making a pre-selection via the qualification for their continental ones Finals, so that, like previous competitions, also counted as World Cup qualifications and only 80 teams participated in the independent World Cup qualification competition plus five other teams in a pre-qualification of FIBA Europe .

For the qualifying competition in the FIBA Africa and FIBA Asia area, only the 16 teams who had also qualified for the 2017 African Championship and 2017 Asian Championship , including the participants in the FIBA Oceania who had reached the latter competition, were eligible to participate . In the area of FIBA Europe , the 24 final round participants of the European Championship 2017 as well as eight other selection teams took part, which were determined via a pre-qualification from 13 nations running parallel to the European Championship final round. Teams of the former so-called Division C of the small states in Europe could no longer qualify for the World Cup finals directly via a qualifying competition.

In addition to the Asian host country, twelve starting places were reserved for selected teams from FIBA Europe, seven more for those of FIBA America and FIBA Asia and five more for those of FIBA Africa.

continental association	Qualification participant	World Cup starting places
FIBA Africa	16	5
FIBA America	16	7th
FIBA Asia / FIBA Oceania	16	7 + 1 ^*
FIBA Europe	37	12
FIBA total	85	32

^* One starting place for the host country and seven starting places for qualifiers.

Termination

According to old Cycle the World Cup finals should have taken place itself in 2018, with the shift to odd years, the World Association wants to secure greater attention to the event along with the increase of the number of participants that can otherwise by the previously almost parallel FIFA World Cup at risk sees. This ties in with the scheduling of the fourth to fifth world championship finals from 1963 to 1967, which also took place in the middle of uneven years.

As an indirect effect, the continental selection competitions could no longer take place on this date and will therefore be changed from a two-year cycle to a four-year cycle. Whereas the continental finals were previously also considered a qualifying tournament for the world championships that take place in even years and essentially also for the Olympic competition , separate qualifying rounds were introduced specifically for the world championship. These should not take place in the summer of the previous year alone, as was the case with the continental finals, but should be spread over the whole year.

By distributing the qualifying matches over the whole year, the world association wanted to strengthen the presence and marketing of the selection teams and, among other things, increase the income of the national associations. For this request, however, in the basketball competition calendar , similar to comparable qualifying games of the selected teams for a soccer world championship , appointment slots in the form of time windows first had to be created at the expense of the club competitions that had prevailed from October to June, which until then had been largely strictly separated of the selection competitions held from July to September. The organizers of these professional club competitions as well as the club owners as employers of the national players saw the change in the competition calendar very critically and their interests threatened, so that they more or less strongly opposed the plans of the FIBA. The most important professional league, the National Basketball Association (NBA) from the United States , which was organized independently of the world association , was demonstratively disinterested, as there was no effective "storage requirement" for national players for selection games, which the national associations and the continental associations otherwise with the organizers of professional competitions usually agree on their licensing.

Since the FIBA had no sanctions against the NBA for disregarding the new competition calendar, it tacitly recognized its prerogative to the activity of the players, which tended to anger the other organizers of professional competitions, who were threatened by sanctions, even more. The operators of the EuroLeague, for example, one of the most important club competitions after the NBA, terminated their agreement with FIBA when the plans were announced in 2012, risking a status as an unrecognized, “ wild league ”. The FIBA Europe responded with the development of competition competitions such as the Basketball Champions League and various threats of sanctions.

Qualification FIBA Africa

The preliminary round games were played between November 24, 2017 and July 1, 2018. The subsequent games of the main round, in which the participants of FIBA Africa in the World Cup finals are determined, took place from September 2018 to February 2019.

Preliminary round

Preliminary group A

space	team	Games	Victories	Dutch	Points for	Points against	Point difference	Points	qualification	Tunisia	Cameroon	Chad	Guinea-a
1	Tunisia Tunisia	6th	6th	0	499	315	+184	12	2nd qualifying round	-	56 : 53	101 :40	94 : 54
2	Cameroon Cameroon	6th	4th	2	438	381	+57	10		66: 67	-	73 : 72	116 : 78
3	Chad Chad	6th	2	4th	383	424	−41	8th		46: 85	60: 65	-	80 : 49
4th	Guinea-a Guinea	6th	0	6th	336	536	−200	6th		56: 96	48: 65	51: 85	-

Preliminary group B

space	team	Games	Victories	Dutch	Points for	Points against	Point difference	Points	qualification	Nigeria	Rwanda	Mali	Uganda
1	Nigeria Nigeria	6th	6th	0	605	387	+218	12	2nd qualifying round	-	108 : 53	93 : 53	109 : 67
2	Rwanda Rwanda	6th	3	3	434	519	−85	9		70: 101	-	74 : 70	92 : 79
3	Mali Mali	6th	2	4th	428	487	−59	8th		59: 82	72: 82	-	79 : 76
4th	Uganda Uganda	6th	1	5	466	540	−74	7th		86: 102	79 : 63	80: 95	-

Preliminary group C

space	team	Games	Victories	Dutch	Points for	Points against	Point difference	Points	qualification	Angola	Egypt	Morocco	Congo Democratic Republic
1	Angola Angola	6th	4th	2	371	369	+2	10	2nd qualifying round	-	65 : 58	62 : 56	56: 66
2	Egypt Egypt	6th	3	3	376	387	−11	9		64: 68	-	59 : 53	63: 77
3	Morocco Morocco	6th	3	3	382	374	+8	9		61 : 47	63: 67	-	88 : 81 a.d.
4th	Congo Democratic Republic Dem. Rep. Congo	6th	2	4th	407	406	+1	8th		64: 73	61: 65 a.d.	58: 61 a.d.	-

Preliminary group D

space	team	Games	Victories	Dutch	Points for	Points against	Point difference	Points	qualification	Senegal	Central African Republic	Ivory Coast	Mozambique
1	Senegal Senegal	6th	5	1	425	390	+35	11	2nd qualifying round	-	70 : 65	66 : 61	60 : 52
2	Central African Republic Central African Rep.	6th	3	3	403	405	−2	9		82: 91	-	69 : 60	52: 59
3	Ivory Coast Ivory Coast	6th	2	4th	365	369	−4	8th		67 : 60	62: 63 a.d.	-	62 : 45
4th	Mozambique Mozambique	6th	2	4th	348	382	−34	8th		63: 78	63: 72	66 : 53	-

Main round

The results from the preliminary round are all taken over, including those against teams that did not qualify for the main round.

Main round group E

space	team	Games	Victories	Dutch	Points for	Points against	Point difference	Points	qualification	Tunisia	Angola	Cameroon	Egypt	Morocco	Chad
1	Tunisia Tunisia	12	10	2	933	669	+264	22nd	World Cup qual	-	84 : 64	-	69 : 47	89 : 51	-
2	Angola Angola	12	9	3	829	748	+81	21st	World Cup qual	69 : 63	-	83 : 76	-	-	90 : 50
3	Cameroon Cameroon	12	7th	5	872	794	+78	19th		-	73: 77	-	58: 62	84 : 74	-
4th	Egypt Egypt	12	7th	5	802	799	+3	19th		73 : 64 a.d.	-	60: 80	-	-	99 : 83
5	Morocco Morocco	12	4th	8th	739	789	−50	16		50: 65	-	57: 63	-	-	62 : 54
6th	Chad Chad	12	3	9	721	898	−177	15th		-	33: 75	-	58: 85	69 : 63	-

Main round group F

space	team	Games	Victories	Dutch	Points for	Points against	Point difference	Points	qualification	Nigeria	Senegal	Ivory Coast	Central African Republic	Rwanda	Mali
1	Nigeria Nigeria	12	10	2	1073	805	+268	22nd	World Cup qual	-	89 : 61	46: 72	114 : 69	-	-
2	Senegal Senegal	12	10	2	889	781	+108	22nd	World Cup qual	84 : 63	-	-	-	84 : 79	62 : 38
3	Ivory Coast Ivory Coast	12	7th	5	806	720	+86	19th	"Best third"	73: 84	-	-	-	87 : 60	69 : 49
4th	Central African Republic Central African Rep.	12	6th	6th	816	844	−28	18th		59: 72	-	-	-	77 : 69	65: 66
5	Rwanda Rwanda	12	3	9	807	997	−190	15th		-	41: 81	53: 71	61: 68	-	-
6th	Mali Mali	12	3	9	768	909	−141	15th		-	71: 82	59: 69	57: 75	-	-

Qualification FIBA America

The preliminary group games took place between November 23, 2017 and July 2, 2018. After the suspension of the Brazilian association CBB , one place in preliminary group B was vacant. The subsequent games of the main round, in which the participants of FIBA America in the World Cup finals were determined, took place from September 2018 to February 2019.