# 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup qualification (Europe) – Pre-qualifiers

The article describes the european pre-qualifiers for the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup qualification.

## First round
### Draw

The draw was held on 29 October 2019 and the seeding was based on the FIBA Men's World Ranking.
Pot 1 :
| Pot 1 TeamPos  Iceland46  Belarus52 | Pot 2 TeamPos  Portugal61  Slovakia68 | Pot 3 TeamPos  Kosovo69  Cyprus78 | Pot 4 TeamPos  Luxembourg86  Albania109 |
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, each group played the November window at a single venue. The same was done for the February 2021 games.
All times are local.

### Group A

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Portugal | 6 | 5 | 1 | 447 | 369 | +78 | 11 | Pre-qualifiers second round |
| 2 | Belarus | 6 | 5 | 1 | 498 | 347 | +151 | 11 | Pre-qualifiers second round |
| 3 | Cyprus | 6 | 1 | 5 | 354 | 481 | −127 | 7 | |
| 4 | Albania | 6 | 1 | 5 | 391 | 493 | −102 | 7 | |
* 1 2 Portugal 131–129 Belarus
* 1 2 Cyprus 152–137 Albania

### Group B

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Iceland | 6 | 5 | 1 | 517 | 455 | +62 | 11 | Pre-qualifiers second round |
| 2 | Slovakia | 6 | 3 | 3 | 467 | 459 | +8 | 9 | Pre-qualifiers second round |
| 3 | Luxembourg | 6 | 2 | 4 | 481 | 495 | −14 | 8 | |
| 4 | Kosovo | 6 | 2 | 4 | 455 | 511 | −56 | 8 | |
* 1 2 Luxembourg 179–173 Kosovo

## Second round

The four qualified teams were joined by the eight teams that were eliminated from the EuroBasket 2022 qualifiers.

### Draw

The draw was made on 28 April 2021. Teams that advanced from the previous round were assigned to Pot 3, while teams eliminated from EuroBasket 2022 qualifiers were assigned to Pots 1 or 2, according to FIBA rankings.
Pot 1 :
| Pot 1 TeamPos  Montenegro26  Latvia27  North Macedonia52  Sweden54 | Pot 2 TeamPos  Romania55  Denmark56  Austria57  Switzerland61 | Pot 3 TeamPos  Iceland46  Belarus51  Portugal58  Slovakia63 |
Austria withdrew before this round had commenced and was replaced by Luxembourg, as best ranked team from the previous round which did not advance, on 19 June 2021.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, each group played the August window at a single venue.
All times are local.

### Group C

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Sweden | 4 | 3 | 1 | 379 | 273 | +106 | 7 | Qualifiers |
| 2 | Portugal (H) | 4 | 3 | 1 | 302 | 304 | −2 | 7 | Qualifiers |
| 3 | Luxembourg | 4 | 0 | 4 | 282 | 386 | −104 | 4 | |
* 1 2 Sweden 156–139 Portugal
* ↑ Luxembourg replaced Austria, who withdrew before the start of the round.

### Group D

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Latvia (H) | 4 | 4 | 0 | 362 | 284 | +78 | 8 | Qualifiers |
| 2 | Belarus | 4 | 2 | 2 | 314 | 313 | +1 | 6 | Qualifiers |
| 3 | Romania | 4 | 0 | 4 | 279 | 358 | −79 | 4 | |

### Group E

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Montenegro (H) | 4 | 4 | 0 | 323 | 284 | +39 | 8 | Qualifiers |
| 2 | Iceland | 4 | 2 | 2 | 329 | 308 | +21 | 6 | Qualifiers |
| 3 | Denmark | 4 | 0 | 4 | 278 | 338 | −60 | 4 | |

### Group F

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | North Macedonia (H) | 4 | 2 | 2 | 270 | 263 | +7 | 6 | Qualifiers |
| 2 | Slovakia | 4 | 2 | 2 | 259 | 262 | −3 | 6 | Qualifiers |
| 3 | Switzerland | 4 | 2 | 2 | 249 | 253 | −4 | 6 | |