FIBA AFROBASKET 2025
The FIBA AfroBasket is Africa’s prime basketball event and it is hosted by the Regional Office of Africa.
Under FIBA’s new competition system the AfroBasket is held quadrennially and it comprises 16 national teams split into four groups of four teams each.
The 16 national teams are met after a 20-nation AfroBasket Qualifier that runs through three qualifying windows in February and November 2024 and concludes in February 2025.
The 2025 edition of the AfroBasket will be held in Angola, a country that organised the tournament three times (1989, 1999 and 2007). It’s expected to take place in August 2025.
Tunisia won the last two editions of the tournament in 2017 on home soil before lifting their third AfroBasket trophy in 2021 in Kigali, Rwanda.
The AfroBasket comprises 36 games with the finalists playing between 6 and 7 games, depending on how they qualify for the Quarter-Finals. For instance, if a team advances to the next round via a Quarter-Finals Classification Game and go all the way to the Semi-Finals, this team will have played 7 games unlike a team that qualifies directly to the Quarter-Finals who plays one game fewer.
At the end of the tournament, an All-Tournament and Most Valuable Player are announced along with some individual distinctions.
Still under FIBA’s new competition system, the 16 teams that feature in the AfroBasket advance to the World Cup African Qualifiers.