FIBA EuroBasket

FIBA EuroBasket
	Current season or competition:; FIBA EuroBasket 2013
	; Logo FIBA Europe
Sport	Basketball
Founded	1935
Inaugural season	1935
No. of teams	24
Country(ies)	FIBA Europe member associations
Continent	FIBA Europe (Europe)
Most recent champion(s)	Spain
Most titles	Soviet Union (14 titles)
Related competitions	EuroBasket Division B; EuroBasket Division C
Official website	www.FIBAEurope.com

This article is about the basketball tournament. For the basketball news website, see Eurobasket.com. For the women's tournament, see EuroBasket Women.

The FIBA EuroBasket, also referred to as the FIBA European Basketball Championship, is the main basketball competition contested biennially by the men's national teams governed by FIBA Europe, the European zone within the International Basketball Federation. The championship was first held in 1935 and has been regularly awarded every two years since 1947. It also alternates between serving as a qualifying tournament for the Summer Olympic Games and the FIBA Basketball World Cup. The most successful nation is the now defunct Soviet Union with fourteen titles, while Spain are the 2009 and 2011 reigning champions.

Qualification

24 European teams take part in the final competition. The qualification format that existed until EuroBasket 2011 permitted 16 teams to compete. Eight spots were determined by the host nation and the top seven finishers at the previous EuroBasket. The remaining Division A teams competed in the qualification tournament. There, they were divided into four groups. Each group played a double round-robin. The top team in each group qualified for EuroBasket. The best three of the four runners-up also qualified.

Of the ten teams that did not qualify in the qualification tournament, the six best got another chance in the additional qualifying round. The remaining four competed in a relegation round, with two being sent to Division B for the next qualification cycle (and replaced by the two best teams from Division B).

The final spot was determined by the additional qualifying round. The six teams were divided into two groups of three, with each group playing a double round-robin. The top team in each group played in the final against the other group's top team; the winner of that game received the final EuroBasket qualification spot.

Competition format

EuroBasket has used a number of different formats, ranging from the simple round-robin used in 1939 to the three-stage tournament currently in use.

The current format begins with a preliminary round. The twenty-four qualified teams are placed into four groups of six, and each group plays a round-robin tournament. The top three teams in each group (12 overall) advance to the qualifying round. The two groups of six in the qualifying round are each a combination of two preliminary round groups: Preliminary Groups A and B form Qualifying Group E, while Preliminary Groups C and D form Qualifying Group F. Results from the preliminary round carryover, and each team plays once against teams from the other Preliminary Group in its Qualifying Group.

The top four teams in each Qualifying Group advance to the knockout stage. The knockout stage is a single-elimination tournament, with a bronze medal game for semifinal losers and classification games for the quarterfinal losers to determine fifth to eighth places.

Results

Summaries
Year	Host (Final phase/game)	Gold medal game			Bronze medal game
Year	Host (Final phase/game)	Gold	Score	Silver	Bronze	Score	Fourth place
1935	Switzerland (Geneva)	Latvia	24–18	Spain	Czechoslovakia	25–23	Switzerland
1937	Latvia (Riga)	Lithuania	24–23	Italy	France	27–24	Poland
1939	Lithuania (Kaunas)	Lithuania	¹	Latvia	Poland	¹	France
1946	Switzerland (Geneva)	Czechoslovakia	34–32	Italy	Hungary	38–32	France
1947	Czechoslovakia (Prague)	Soviet Union	56–37	Czechoslovakia	Egypt	50–48	Belgium
1949	Egypt (Cairo)	Egypt	57-36	France	Greece	¹	Turkey
1951	France (Paris)	Soviet Union	45–44	Czechoslovakia	France	55–52	Bulgaria
1953	USSR (Moscow)	Soviet Union	¹	Hungary	France	¹	Czechoslovakia
1955	Hungary (Budapest)	Hungary	¹	Czechoslovakia	Soviet Union	¹	Bulgaria
1957	Bulgaria (Sofia)	Soviet Union	¹	Bulgaria	Czechoslovakia	¹	Hungary
1959	Turkey (Istanbul)	Soviet Union	83–72	Czechoslovakia	France	62–60	Hungary
1961	Yugoslavia (Belgrade)	Soviet Union	60–53	Yugoslavia	Bulgaria	55–46	France
1963	Poland (Wrocław)	Soviet Union	60–53	Poland	Yugoslavia	89–61	Hungary
1965	Soviet Union (Moscow)	Soviet Union	58–49	Yugoslavia	Poland	86–70	Italy
1967	Finland (Helsinki)	Soviet Union	89–77	Czechoslovakia	Poland	80–76	Bulgaria
1969	Italy (Naples)	Soviet Union	81–72	Yugoslavia	Czechoslovakia	77–75	Poland
1971	West Germany (Essen)	Soviet Union	69–64	Yugoslavia	Italy	85–67	Poland
1973	Spain (Barcelona)	Yugoslavia	78–67	Spain	Soviet Union	90–58	Czechoslovakia
1975	Yugoslavia (Belgrade)	Yugoslavia	¹	Soviet Union	Italy	¹	Spain
1977	Belgium (Liège)	Yugoslavia	74–61	Soviet Union	Czechoslovakia	91–81	Italy
1979	Italy (Turin)	Soviet Union	98–76	Israel	Yugoslavia	99–92	Czechoslovakia
1981	Czechoslovakia (Prague)	Soviet Union	84–76	Yugoslavia	Czechoslovakia	101–90	Spain
1983	France (Nantes)	Italy	105–96	Spain	Soviet Union	105–70	Netherlands
1985	West Germany (Stuttgart)	Soviet Union	120–89	Czechoslovakia	Italy	102–90	Spain
1987	Greece (Athens)	Greece	103–101 overtime	Soviet Union	Yugoslavia	98–87	Spain
1989	Yugoslavia (Zagreb)	Yugoslavia	98–77	Greece	Soviet Union	104–76	Italy
1991	Italy (Rome)	Yugoslavia	88–73	Italy	Spain	101–83	France
1993	Germany (Munich)	Germany	71–70	Russia	Croatia	99–59	Greece
1995	Greece (Athens)	FR Yugoslavia	96–90	Lithuania	Croatia	73–68	Greece
1997	Spain (Barcelona)	FR Yugoslavia	61–49	Italy	Russia	97–77	Greece
1999	France (Paris)	Italy	64–56	Spain	FR Yugoslavia	74–62	France
2001	Turkey (Istanbul)	FR Yugoslavia	78–69	Turkey	Spain	99–90	Germany
2003	Sweden (Stockholm)	Lithuania	93–84	Spain	Italy	69–67	France
2005	Serbia and Montenegro (Belgrade)	Greece	78–62	Germany	France	98–68	Spain
2007	Spain (Madrid)	Russia	60–59	Spain	Lithuania	78–69	Greece
2009	Poland (Katowice)	Spain	85–63	Serbia	Greece	57–56	Slovenia
2011	Lithuania (Kaunas)	Spain	98–85	France	Russia	72–68	Macedonia
2013	Slovenia (Ljubljana)
2015	Ukraine (Kiev)

Performance

The medal table below lists the national teams according to the respective table of the FIBA World Championship published by FIBA.²

Map of the countries' best finishes

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	14	3	4	21
2	Yugoslavia	5	5	3	13
3	Lithuania	3	1	1	5
3	Serbia^{A 1}	3	1	1	5
4	Spain	2	6	2	10
5	Italy	2	4	4	10
6	Greece	2	1	2	5
7	Czechoslovakia	1	6	5	12
8	Russia	1	1	2	4
9	Hungary	1	1	1	3
10	Latvia	1	1	0	2
10	Germany	1	1	0	2
12	Egypt	1	0	1	2
13	France	0	2	5	7
14	Poland	0	1	3	4
15	Bulgaria	0	1	1	2
16	Turkey	0	1	0	1
16	Israel	0	1	0	1
18	Croatia	0	0	2	2
19	Macedonia	0	0	0	0

Statistics

Participation details

Team	1935	1937	1939	1946	1947	1949	1951	1953	1955	1957	1959	1961	1963	1965	1967	1969	1971	1973	1975	1977
Albania	-	-	-	-	14th	-	-	-	-	16th	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Austria	-	-	-	-	12th	-	11th	-	13th	14th	16th	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	12th
Belgium	6th	-	-	7th	4th	-	7th	10th	-	12th	7th	8th	8th	-	15th	-	-	-	-	8th
Bosnia and Herzegovina	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Bulgaria	8th	-	-	-	8th	-	4th	9th	4th	2nd	5th	3rd	5th	5th	4th	7th	6th	6th	5th	6th
Croatia	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Czech Republic	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Czechoslovakia	3rd	7th	-	1st	2nd	-	2nd	4th	2nd	3rd	2nd	5th	10th	7th	2nd	3rd	5th	4th	6th	3rd
Denmark	-	-	-	-	-	-	14th	16th	18th	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
East Germany	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	14th	12th	6th	10th	14th	-	-	-	-	-
Egypt	-	8th	-	-	3rd	1st	-	8th	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
England	-	-	-	10th	-	-	-	-	12th	-	-	19th	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Estonia	-	5th	5th	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Macedonia	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Finland	-	-	8th	-	-	-	9th	12th	10th	11th	13th	14th	14th	12th	6th	-	-	-	-	10th
France	5th	3rd	4th	4th	5th	2nd	3rd	3rd	9th	8th	3rd	4th	13th	9th	11th	-	10th	10th	-	11th
Georgia	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Germany	-	-	-	-	-	-	12th	14th	17th	13th	-	16th	-	14th	-	-	9th	-	-	-
Great Britain	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Greece	-	-	-	-	-	3rd	8th	-	-	-	-	17th	-	8th	12th	10th	-	11th	12th	-
Hungary	9th	-	7th	3rd	7th	-	-	2nd	1st	4th	4th	6th	4th	15th	13th	8th	-	-	-	-
Iran	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	17th	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Israel	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5th	-	-	11th	11th	9th	6th	8th	11th	11th	7th	7th	5th
Italy	7th	2nd	6th	2nd	9th	-	5th	7th	6th	10th	10th	-	12th	4th	7th	6th	3rd	5th	3rd	4th
Latvia	1st	6th	2nd	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Lebanon	-	-	-	-	-	7th	-	15th	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Lithuania	-	1st	1st	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Luxembourg	-	-	-	8th	-	-	17th	-	15th	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Montenegro	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Netherlands	-	-	-	6th	11th	5th	10th	-	-	-	-	15th	16th	-	16th	-	-	-	10th	7th
Poland	-	4th	3rd	9th	6th	-	-	-	5th	7th	6th	9th	2nd	3rd	3rd	4th	4th	12th	8th	-
Portugal	-	-	-	-	-	-	15th	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Romania	10th	-	-	-	10th	-	18th	13th	7th	5th	8th	7th	11th	13th	5th	9th	8th	9th	11th	-
Russia	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Scotland	-	-	-	-	-	-	16th	-	-	15th	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Serbia	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Slovenia	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Soviet Union	-	-	-	-	1st	-	1st	1st	3rd	1st	1st	1st	1st	1st	1st	1st	1st	3rd	2nd	2nd
Spain	2nd	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	15th	13th	7th	11th	10th	5th	7th	2nd	4th	9th
Sweden	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	17th	16th	-	-	18th	-	16th	-	12th	-	-	-	-
Switzerland	4th	-	-	5th	-	-	13th	11th	14th	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Syria	-	-	-	-	-	6th	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Turkey	-	-	-	-	-	4th	6th	-	11th	9th	12th	10th	15th	-	-	-	12th	8th	9th	-
Ukraine	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Yugoslavia	-	-	-	-	13th	-	-	6th	8th	6th	9th	2nd	3rd	2nd	9th	2nd	2nd	1st	1st	1st

Team	1979	1981	1983	1985	1987	1989	1991	1993	1995	1997	1999	2001	2003	2005	2007	2009	2011	2013	Total
Albania	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		2
Austria	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		6
Belgium	12th	-	-	-	-	-	-	12th	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	21st		14
Bosnia and Herzegovina	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	8th	-	15th	15th	13th	15th	13th	-	-	17th		7
Bulgaria	11th	-	-	8th	-	7th	8th	14th	-	-	-	-	-	13th	-	13th	13th		24
Croatia	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	3rd	3rd	11th	11th	7th	11th	7th	6th	6th	13th		10
Czech Republic	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	-	-	-	12th	-	-	-	13th	-	-		2
Czechoslovakia	4th	3rd	10th	2nd	8th	-	6th	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	24
Denmark	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		3
East Germany	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5
Egypt	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4
England	-	12th	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		4
Estonia	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	6th	-	-	-	14th	-	-	-	-	-		4
Macedonia	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	-	-	-	13th	-	-	-	-	9th	4th	Q	4
Finland	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	14th	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	9th		12
France	8th	8th	5th	6th	9th	6th	4th	7th	8th	10th	4th	6th	4th	3rd	8th	5th	2nd	Q	37
Georgia	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	11th		1
Germany	-	10th	8th	5th	6th	-	-	1st	10th	12th	7th	4th	9th	2nd	5th	11th	9th		21
Great Britain	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	13th	13th	Q	3
Greece	9th	9th	11th	-	1st	2nd	5th	4th	4th	4th	16th	9th	5th	1st	4th	3rd	6th	Q	25
Hungary	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	14th	-	-	-	-	-	-		14
Iran	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
Israel	2nd	6th	6th	9th	11th	-	-	15th	9th	9th	9th	10th	7th	9th	11th	13th	13th		26
Italy	5th	5th	1st	3rd	5th	4th	2nd	9th	5th	2nd	1st	11th	3rd	9th	9th	-	17th		34
Latvia	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	10th	-	16th	-	8th	13th	13th	13th	13th	21st		11
Lebanon	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2
Lithuania	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	-	2nd	6th	5th	12th	1st	5th	3rd	11th	5th	Q	12
Luxembourg	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		3
Montenegro	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	-	-	21st		1
Netherlands	10th	-	4th	12th	10th	8th	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		14
Poland	7th	7th	9th	11th	7th	-	7th	-	-	7th	-	-	-	-	13th	9th	17th		25
Portugal	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	9th	-	21st		3
Romania	-	-	-	10th	12th	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		17
Russia	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	2nd	7th	3rd	6th	5th	8th	8th	1st	7th	3rd	Q	11
Scotland	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		2
Serbia^{A 1}	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	1st	1st	3rd	1st	6th	9th	13th	2nd	8th		9
Slovenia	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	16th	12th	14th	10th	15th	10th	6th	7th	4th	7th	Q	11
Soviet Union	1st	1st	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	21
Spain	6th	4th	2nd	4th	4th	5th	3rd	5th	6th	5th	2nd	3rd	2nd	4th	2nd	1st	1st	Q	29
Sweden	-	-	12th	-	-	-	-	13th	11th	-	-	-	16th	-	-	-	-		9
Switzerland	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		5
Syria	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
Turkey	-	11th	-	-	-	-	-	11th	13th	8th	8th	2nd	12th	9th	11th	8th	11th		21
Ukraine	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	-	-	13th	-	16th	14th	13th	-	-	17th		5
Yugoslavia	3rd	2nd	7th	7th	3rd	1st	1st	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	21

Individuals

Main article: FIBA EuroBasket Honors

Below are the lists of all players voted as the MVP³⁴ and the top scorers of each EuroBasket edition. Krešimir Ćosić is the only player to win the MVP award twice. Nikos Galis was the Top Scorer 4 times⁵.

Bronze	Member of the FIBA Hall of Fame.
Silver	Member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
Gold	Member of both the FIBA Hall of Fame and the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
Player (X)	Denotes the number of times the player was selected the MVP or was the Top Scorer.

Tournament	MVP	Top Scorer	PPG
1935 European Championship	Rafael Martín	Livio Franceschini	16.5
1937 European Championship	Pranas Talzūnas	Rūdolfs Jurciņš	12.5
1939 European Championship	Pranas Lubinas	Heino Veskila	16.6
1946 European Championship	Ferenc Németh	Pawel Stok	12.6
1947 European Championship	Joann Lõssov	Jacques Perrier	13.7
1949 European Championship	Hüseyin Öztürk	Hüseyin Öztürk	19.3
1951 European Championship	Ivan Mrázek	Ivan Mrázek	17.1
1953 European Championship	Anatoly Konev	Ahmed Idlibi	15.9
1955 European Championship	János Greminger	Miroslav Skerik	19.1
1957 European Championship	Jiří Baumruk	Eddy Terrace	23.3
1959 European Championship	Viktor Zubkov	Radivoj Korać	28.1
1961 European Championship	Radivoj Korać	Radivoj Korać (2)	24.0
1963 European Championship	Emiliano Rodríguez	Radivoj Korać (3)	26.6
1965 European Championship	Modestas Paulauskas	Emiliano Rodríguez	21.6
1967 European Championship	Jiří Zedníček	Georgios Kolokithas	26.7
1969 European Championship	Sergei Belov	Georgios Kolokithas (2)	23.5
1971 European Championship	Krešimir Ćosić	Edward Jurkiewicz	22.6
1973 European Championship	Wayne Brabender	Atanas Golomeev	22.3
1975 European Championship	Krešimir Ćosić (2)	Atanas Golomeev (2)	22.9
1977 European Championship	Dražen Dalipagić	Kees Akerboom	27.0
1979 European Championship	Miki Berkovich	Mieczyslaw Mlynarski	26.6
1981 European Championship	Dragan Kićanović	Mieczyslaw Mlynarski (2)	23.1
1983 European Championship	Juan Antonio Corbalán	Nikos Galis	33.0
1985 European Championship	Arvydas Sabonis	Doron Jamchi	28.1
1987 European Championship	Nikos Galis	Nikos Galis (2)	37.0
1989 European Championship	Dražen Petrović	Nikos Galis (3)	35.6
1991 European Championship	Toni Kukoč	Nikos Galis (4)	32.4
1993 European Championship	Chris Welp	Sabahudin "Dino" Bilalović	24.6
1995 European Championship	Šarūnas Marčiulionis	Šarūnas Marčiulionis	22.5
1997 European Championship	Saša Đorđević	Oded Katash	22.0
1999 European Championship	Gregor Fučka	Alberto Herreros	19.2
2001 European Championship	Peja Stojaković	Dirk Nowitzki	28.7
2003 European Championship	Šarūnas Jasikevičius	Pau Gasol	25.8
EuroBasket 2005	Dirk Nowitzki	Dirk Nowitzki (2)	26.1
EuroBasket 2007	Andrei Kirilenko	Dirk Nowitzki (3)	24.0
EuroBasket 2009	Pau Gasol	Pau Gasol (2)	18.7
EuroBasket 2011	Juan Carlos Navarro	Tony Parker	22.1