PARDUBICE (Czechia) - Czechia once again showed they belong on the biggest stages as they booked their ticket to the FIBA EuroBasket 2025, making it their fifth straight appearance in the continent's flagship event.
Czechia bounced back from missing the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023 as they continue to build on the country's depth of talent and rely less on their superstar leaders.
Czechia missed out on qualifying in the second window, falling to 2-2 in Group F. But Coach Diego Ocampo's men finished the deal with one gameday to spare after watching Great Britain knock off Netherlands.
How they qualified
Gameday 1: GRE 72-64 CZE Gameday 2: CZE 90-82 GBR Gameday 3: CZE 96-74 NED Gameday 4: NED 77-70 CZE Gameday 5: CZE 89-93 GRE
Remaining fixtures
Gameday 6: GBR vs CZE
Qualifiers heroes
The story for Czechia has been consistency with six players appearing in all five of the games during the Qualifiers - Ondrej Balvin, Jaromir Bohacik, Vojtech Hruban, Tomas Kyzlink, Martin Peterka and Ondrej Sehnal.
All of those players are also key contributors to the Czechia success and then the team this window had the added benefit of star playmaker Tomas Satoransky.
History
Czechia's qualification for FIBA EuroBasket 2025 marks their 7th overall appearance in the continental showcase. They have long grown out of the shadows from their time competing under the Czechoslovakia flag.
After first competing as Czechia in 1993, the country reached the EuroBasket for the first time in 1999 and a second appearance followed in 2007. But they have now become regulars on the big stage with a fifth consecutive EuroBasket ticket.
Czechia's best finish came in 2015 when Jan Vesely and Tomas Satoransky carried the team into the Quarter-Finals, only to lose to Serbia and ended up taking seventh place.
Best finish: 7th - 2015
Tickets
FIBA