U-20 European basketball championship

FIBA U20 Europe Championship
Full name	FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship
Association	FIBA Europe
First edition	1992
Teams	Juniors: 38 Division A : 16
Title holder	Israel (juniors); Spain (juniors)
Record winner	Serbia Greece (3; Serbia also 2 as Serbia and Montenegro ) among the juniors; Spain (7) among the juniors

The U-20 Basketball Championship ( English FIBA U20 Championship Europe ) is a basketball contest for juniors -Auswahlmannschaften. It is the official and most recognized competition for national teams in this sport and is organized by FIBA Europe . The best teams within this competition qualified for the now closed competition U-21 Basketball World Cup . The junior European basketball championship was held for the first time in 1992 in the under-22 age group (U-22) among male juniors. The age limit of the competition, which was originally held every two years, was lowered to 20 years for the fifth time in 2000, while a competition for junior women was introduced in the same age group. The competitions for both genders have been held annually since 2005.

mode

For the first final tournament in 1992, twelve select teams in the U-22 age group were qualified, which first played a round tournament in two groups of six teams and then in three blocks in the knockout system, the medals, places five to eight and nine until twelve. This mode was modified at the fourth edition in 1998, with a quarter-finals "crossed over" with regard to group placements between the round-robin tournament and the knockout system for the better teams in each group. This mode was maintained until 2004 after the age group was reduced to U-20s in 2000 and the competition for juniors was introduced.

The mode of the competition was completely changed with the introduction of the annual rhythm in 2005; qualifying competitions for the final tournament have now been waived. Instead, divisions were introduced for all participating countries, with the 16 best male and female selection teams belonging to Division A and all other selection teams belonging to Division B. The A divisions subsequently played the actual European champions each year, while in the B divisions the best teams were able to achieve promotion to Division A the following year and replaced the worst teams in the current event. In the division A tournament, there was initially a round-robin tournament of four groups with four teams each. Like the two worst teams, the two best teams in each group played another round-robin tournament of two groups with four teams; the preliminary round result was not taken because the also qualified preliminary round opponent played in the other intermediate round group. Only then was there a knockout system in four blocks, analogous to the mode of the first competition. The losers in the semi-finals in the bottom block for places 13 to 16 were relegated to Division B.

At the third annual event in 2007, this mode was changed again. The worst team in each preliminary round group played in a further round-robin tournament mode in a relegation round ( English classification round ), in which the two worst teams were relegated to Division B. The remaining twelve teams played the original mode from 1992 after the preliminary round, whereby the preliminary round results were taken and the number of intermediate round games did not increase. This mode was only used twice. As early as 2009, after the preliminary round for the better twelve teams, the mode of 1998 was switched to, which provided for a quarter-finals for the best eight teams as a further knockout round. A year later, the relegation round was expanded to a double tournament in which the teams played against each other twice. While the male juniors expanded the field of division A to 20 teams for the 2013 tournament and had no relegated teams in 2012, only the winners of the relegation round managed to stay in the league for the juniors in 2012. With three promoted teams in the tournament in 2013, the juniors initially played a simple relegation round, which was followed by quarter-final play-downs for the worse half of the participants, which were joined by the two worst teams in each intermediate group. In addition to the participants in the game for 15th place, the losers in the game for 13th place were relegated to Division B, which was the German junior selection at the premiere in 2013. Basically nothing changed in the mode for the better teams.

In 2013, the male juniors expanded the field of participants in Division A to 20 teams and the preliminary round groups by one team to five teams per group. While there were no mode changes for the top twelve teams, the two worst preliminary round teams in each group played a simple relegation round tournament in two groups, whereby no preliminary round result was taken because the respective preliminary round opponent played in the other relegation group. Subsequently, places 13 to 16 and 17 to 20 were played in the knockout system. In addition to the teams in the game for 19th place, the loser of the game for 17th place was relegated to Division B. For the 2016 tournament, the field of participants was reduced to 16 teams again, which is why at the 2015 tournament all teams were relegated from 14th place to enable three more participants in Division B to advance to the 2016 tournament. At the 15th tournament in the U-20 age group in 2016, both genders will continue to play after the preliminary round in four groups with four teams each directly in the knockout system including play-downs . The three best teams receive medals, while for the following year the three worst teams are relegated to Division B and replaced by the medal winners of the Division B tournament.

Event overview

Male juniors

year	venue		final			Result	Fourth	further placements	MVP
1992	Athens	Italy	65 -63	Greece	France	63 -60	Israel	12. Germany	Gheorghe Mureșan
1994	Slovenia	Belarus	96 -91	Italy	Spain	83 -69	Greece	9. Germany	Boris Gorenc
1996	Turkey	Lithuania	85 -81	Spain	BR Yugoslavia	67 -62	Turkey		Radoslav Nesterović
1998	Trapani	BR Yugoslavia	92 -73	Slovenia	Turkey	64 -57	Spain	7. Germany	Igor Rakočević
2000	Ohrid	Slovenia	66 -65	Israel	Spain	82 -77	Croatia		Sani Bečirovič
2002	Lithuania	Greece	77 -73	Spain	France	95 -78	Russia		Nikolaos Zisis
2004	Brno	Slovenia	66 -61	Israel	Lithuania	92 -63	Greece		Erazem Lorbek
2005	Chekhov	Russia	61 -53	Lithuania	Serbia and Montenegro	63 -45	Israel	13. Germany	Nikita Kurbanov
2006	İzmir	Serbia and Montenegro	64 -58	Turkey	Slovenia	83 -75	Italy	15. Germany	Ersan İlyasova
2007	/ Gorizia	Serbia	87 -78	Spain	Italy	74 -63	Russia		Miloš Teodosić
2008	Riga	Serbia	96 -89	Lithuania	Spain	91 -72	Turkey	17. Germany	Miroslav Raduljica
2009	Rhodes	Greece	90 -85	France	Spain	75 -72	Italy	14. Germany	Kostas Papanikolaou
2010	Croatia	France	73 -62	Greece	Spain	86 -79	Croatia	14. Germany 17. Austria	Andrew Albicy
2011	Bilbao	Spain	82 -70	Italy	France	66 -50	Russia	5. Germany 15. Austria	Nikola Mirotic
2012	Slovenia	Lithuania	50 -49	France	Spain	67 -66	Serbia	5. Germany	Léo Westermann
2013	Tallinn	Italy	67 -60	Latvia	Spain	70 -63	Russia	11. Germany	Amedeo Della Valle
2014	Crete	Turkey	65 -57	Spain	Serbia	79 -66	Croatia	14. Germany	Cedi Osman
2015	Province of Udine	Serbia	70 -64	Spain	Turkey	84 -74	France	11. Germany	Marko Gudurić
2016	Helsinki	Spain	68 -55	Lithuania	Turkey	76 -61	Germany		Marc García
2017	Crete	Greece	65 -56	Israel	France	72 -58	Spain	7. Germany	Vasileios Charalampopoulos
2018	Chemnitz	Israel	80 -66	Croatia	Germany	80 -71	France		Yovel Zoosman
2019	Tel Aviv	Israel	92 -84	Spain	Germany	73 -65	France		Deni Avdija
2020	Klaipeda

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Competition was held in the U-22 age group.
2. ↑ ^{a b} No MVP of this competition is known. Instead, the top scorer is given.
3. ↑ ^{a b} The MVP of this competition was also the top scorer in points per game.
4. ↑ ^{a b} The team was tournament winner in Division B.
5. ↑ The German team, Robin Benzing, was the top scorer in points per game.

Medal table

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total	first participation	Participation	host
1	Greece	3	2	0	5	1992	21st	4th
2	Serbia	3	0	1	4th	2007	13	0
3	Spain	2	6th	8th	14th	1992	22nd	1
4th	Lithuania	2	3	1	6th	1996	20th	1
5	Israel	2	3	0	5	1992	19th	1
6th	Italy	2	2	1	5	1992	20th	3 *
7th	Slovenia	2	1	1	4th	1994	20th	3 *
8th	Serbia and Montenegro	2	0	2	4th	1996	7th	0
9	France	1	2	4th	7th	1992	22nd	0
10	Turkey	1	1	3	5	1992	21st	2
11	Russia	1	0	0	1	1994	16	1
12	Belarus	1	0	0	1	1994	5	0
13	Croatia	0	1	0	1	1998	16	1
	Latvia	0	1	0	1	1998	16	1
15th	Germany	0	0	2	2	1992	16	1
	total	22nd	22nd	22nd	66	-

• Only those participations were counted in which a selection had qualified and participated for the final tournament (Division A).

^{* In} 2007 Slovenia and Italy hosted the final tournament together in the border town of Gorizia .

Female juniors

year	venue		final			Result	Fourth	further placements	MVP
2000	Slovakia	Russia	84 -57	Czech Republic	Romania	58 -55	Turkey	10. Germany	Zuzana Žirková
2002	Zagreb	Czech Republic	77 -74	Russia	France	77 -62	Latvia	12. Germany	Daniela Číkošová
2004	Brittany	Russia	80 -64	France	Czech Republic	72 -52	Hungary		Oleksandra Horbunowa
2005	Brno	France	72 -57	Poland	Latvia	65 -36	Greece	9. Germany	Oleksandra Horbunowa
2006	Sopron	Russia	77 -68	Hungary	France	64 -55	Spain	6. Germany	Isabelle Yacoubou
2007	Sofia	Spain	75 -60	Serbia	France	65 -63	Turkey	8. Germany	Silvia Domínguez
2008	Abruzzo	Russia	67 -58	France	Serbia	73 -46	Spain	13. Germany	Natalia Vieru
2009	Gdynia	France	74 -52	Spain	Latvia	78 -75	Russia	8. Germany	Alba Torrens
2010	Liepaja	Russia	75 -74	Spain	Latvia	53 -49	France	14. Germany	Anastasia Logunova
2011	Novi Sad	Spain	62 -53	Russia	Poland	67 -65	Serbia	15. Germany	Queralt Casas
2012	Debrecen	Spain	59 -46	Russia	Turkey	58 -56	Netherlands	18. Germany (B-Vice)	Xenia Tikhonenko
2013	Samsun	Spain	59 -53	Italy	Turkey	53 -38	Belarus	14. Germany	Astou Ndour
2014	Udine	France	47 -42	Spain	Italy	68 -63	Serbia	17. Germany	Olivia Époupa
2015	Lanzarote	Spain	66 -47	France	Netherlands	63 -51	Russia	13. Germany	Leticia Romero
2016	Matosinhos	Spain	71 -69	Italy	Russia	78 -72	Serbia	16. Germany	Cecilia Zandalasini
2017	Matosinhos	Spain	73 -63	Slovenia	Russia	80 -59	France		María Araújo
2018	Sopron	Spain	69 -50	Serbia	Netherlands	65 -60	Italy	9. Germany	Iris Mbulito
2019	Klatovy

1. ↑ ^{a b c} No MVP of this competition is known. Instead, the top scorer is given.
2. ↑ The MVP of this competition was also the top scorer in points per game.
3. ↑ The selection was tournament winner in Division B.

Medal table

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total	first participation	Participation	host
1	Spain	8th	3	0	11	2000	17th	1
2	Russia	5	3	2	10	2000	17th	0
3	France	3	3	3	9	2002	16	1
4th	Czech Republic	1	1	1	3	2000	10	1
5	Italy	0	2	1	3	2000	17th	2
	Serbia	0	2	1	3	2007	12	1
6th	Poland	0	1	1	2	2000	14th	1
8th	Hungary	0	1	0	1	2000	10	3
	Slovenia	0	1	0	1	2017	2	0
10	Latvia	0	0	3	3	2000	15th	1
11	Turkey	0	0	2	2	2000	15th	1
	Netherlands	0	0	2	2	2010	9	0
13	Romania	0	0	1	1	2000	4th	0
	total	17th	17th	17th	51	-

• Only those participations were counted in which a selection had qualified and participated for the final tournament (Division A).

See also

• European basketball championship

Web links

• FIBA U20 European Championship - Website of the competition for juniors at FIBA ​​Europe ( English )
• Events: U20 European Championship Men - Tabular overview on the archive pages of FIBA (English)
• FIBA U20 Women's European Championship - Website of the competition for women at FIBA ​​Europe
• Events: U20 European Championship Women - Tabular overview on the archive pages of FIBA ​​(English)
• European Championship for Men '22 and Under ' - Website of the previous competition at FIBA ​​Europe (English)
• Events: European Championship for Men "22 and Under" - Tabular overview on the archive pages of FIBA ​​(English)