BEIRUT (Lebanon) – The FIBA Office-Asia has announced that Manama (Bahrain) and Taipei City (Chinese Taipei) will host the FIBA Asia Cup 2025 Qualifying Tournaments involving teams that finished third in their respective groups in the recently concluded FIBA Asia Cup 2025 Qualifiers.
Chinese Taipei, Guam and Thailand are the three teams that are involved in the Group G tournament at Taipei City scheduled to be played from March 19-21.
Thailand finished third in Group A of the recently concluded FIBA Asia Cup 2025 Qualifiers as did Chinese Taipei in Group B and Guam in Group C.
Manama will host the Group H tournament which features Bahrain, India and Iraq from March 21-23.
Iraq took the third place in Group D, India in Group E, and Bahrain in Group F.
The top two teams from each tournament will make it to the FIBA Asia Cup 2025 scheduled to be played in Jeddah (Saudi Arabia) from Aug 5-17 this year.
Both tournaments will be round-robin affairs.
A total of 16 National Teams from Asia and Oceania are set to compete in Jeddah, which itself is hosting the FIBA’s flagship event in Asia after a gap of 28 years.
Twenty four teams divided into six groups of four teams each competed over three windows of FIBA Asia Cup 2025 Qualifiers – in February 2024, November 2024 and February 2025 – at the end of which the top two teams from each group qualified for the FIBA Asia Cup 2025.
The twelve teams qualified so far for the FIBA Asia Cup 2025: Australia; China; Iran; Japan; Jordan; Korea; Lebanon; New Zealand; Philippines; Qatar; Saudi Arabia; Syria.
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