# EuroBasket 2025

The EuroBasket 2025 will be the 42nd edition of the EuroBasket championship, the quadrennial international men's basketball championship organized by FIBA Europe.
Like the previous three editions, the tournament will be co-hosted by multiple countries; Cyprus, Finland, Poland and Latvia. It will take place from 27 August to 14 September 2025.

## Host selection

FIBA Europe opened three bidding options for hosting: to host a preliminary group, to host the final round or to host the entire tournament. The EuroBasket in 2015, 2017 and 2022, tendered in the same way, each of these tournaments was hosted in four countries.
Six countries submitted separate candidacies to host Eurobasket 2025:
* Cyprus (Limassol)
* Finland (Tampere)
* Hungary (Budapest)
* Latvia (Riga)
* Russia (Perm)
* Ukraine (Kyiv, Lviv or Dnipro)
During its meeting on 28 March 2022, the FIBA Europe Board selected Latvia, Cyprus and Finland to host the tournament, with Latvia hosting the knockout phase. Ukraine was an option to be the fourth host during the group stage. Due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Poland was named the fourth country to play host.

## Venues

Limassol will be the host city for Cyprus. Riga will be the host city for Latvia and for the final phase. On 6 March 2023, Tampere was announced as the host city for Finland. On March 17, Katowice was announced as the host city for Poland at a FIBA Europe Board meeting in Seville. In June 2023, a draw determined which group will be played at each venue. Group A in Riga, Group B in Tampere, Group C in Limassol and Group D in Katowice.
| Tampere | TampereLimassolRigaKatowiceEuroBasket 2025 (Europe) | TampereLimassolRigaKatowiceEuroBasket 2025 (Europe) |
| Nokia Arena | TampereLimassolRigaKatowiceEuroBasket 2025 (Europe) | TampereLimassolRigaKatowiceEuroBasket 2025 (Europe) |
| Capacity: 13,455 | TampereLimassolRigaKatowiceEuroBasket 2025 (Europe) | TampereLimassolRigaKatowiceEuroBasket 2025 (Europe) |
| Limassol | TampereLimassolRigaKatowiceEuroBasket 2025 (Europe) | TampereLimassolRigaKatowiceEuroBasket 2025 (Europe) |
| Spyros Kyprianou Athletic Center | TampereLimassolRigaKatowiceEuroBasket 2025 (Europe) | TampereLimassolRigaKatowiceEuroBasket 2025 (Europe) |
| Capacity: 8,000 | TampereLimassolRigaKatowiceEuroBasket 2025 (Europe) | TampereLimassolRigaKatowiceEuroBasket 2025 (Europe) |
| Riga | Katowice |
| Xiaomi Arena | Spodek |
| Capacity: 11,200 | Capacity: 11,036 |

## Marketing

The official logo was unveiled on 5 December 2023.

## Qualification

The qualification process started in November 2021, with ten teams participating in the pre-qualifiers, including the eight eliminated teams from the 2023 World Cup European Pre-Qualifiers. The co-hosts will participate in the qualifiers, despite automatic qualification to the EuroBasket 2025.

### Qualified teams

| Team | Qualification method | Date of qualification | App | First | Last | Streak | Best placement in tournament |
| Cyprus | Host nation | 29 March 2022 | 1st | — | — | 1 | Debut |
| Finland | Host nation | 29 March 2022 | 18th | 1939 | 2022 | 6 | Sixth place (1967) |
| Latvia | Host nation | 29 March 2022 | 15th | 1935 | 2017 | 1 | Champions (1935) |
| Poland | Host nation | 17 September 2022 | 30th | 1937 | 2022 | 8 | Runners-up (1963) |
| Serbia | Group G top two | 24 November 2024 | 8th | 2007 | 2022 | 8 | Runners-up (2009, 2017) |
| Lithuania | Group H top two | 24 November 2024 | 16th | 1937 | 2022 | 14 | Champions (1937, 1939, 2003) |
| Slovenia | Group A top three | 25 November 2024 | 15th | 1993 | 2022 | 15 | Champions (2017) |
| Israel | Group A top three | 25 November 2024 | 31st | 1953 | 2022 | 15 | Runners-up (1979) |
| Turkey | Group B top three | 25 November 2024 | 26th | 1949 | 2022 | 15 | Runners-up (2001) |
| Italy | Group B top three | 25 November 2024 | 39th | 1935 | 2022 | 6 | Champions (1983, 1999) |
| Spain | Group C top two | 25 November 2024 | 33rd | 1935 | 2022 | 32 | Champions (2009, 2011, 2015, 2022) |
| Belgium | Group C top two | 20 February 2025 | 19th | 1935 | 2022 | 6 | Fourth place (1947) |
| Greece | Group F top three | 21 February 2025 | 29th | 1949 | 2022 | 18 | Champions (1987, 2005) |
| Georgia | Group G top two | 21 February 2025 | 6th | 2011 | 2022 | 6 | 11th place (2011) |
| Estonia | Group H top two | 21 February 2025 | 7th | 1937 | 2022 | 2 | Fifth place (1937, 1939) |
| Great Britain | Group F top three | 21 February 2025 | 6th | 2009 | 2022 | 3 | 13th place (2009, 2011, 2013) |
| Czech Republic | Group F top three | 21 February 2025 | 7th | 1999 | 2022 | 5 | Seventh place (2015) |
| France | Group E top two | 21 February 2025 | 40th | 1935 | 2022 | 23 | Champions (2013) |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | Group E top two | 21 February 2025 | 11th | 1993 | 2022 | 2 | Eighth place (1993) |
| Portugal | Group A top three | 21 February 2025 | 4th | 1951 | 2011 | 1 | Ninth place (2007) |
| Germany | Group D top three | 23 February 2025 | 26th | 1951 | 2022 | 15 | Champions (1993) |
| Montenegro | Group D top three | 23 February 2025 | 5th | 2011 | 2022 | 3 | 13th place (2017, 2022) |
| Sweden | Group D top three | 23 February 2025 | 11th | 1953 | 2013 | 1 | 11th place (1995) |
| Iceland | Group B top three | 23 February 2025 | 3rd | 2015 | 2017 | 1 | 24th place (2015, 2017) |

## Draw

The draw will take place in Riga, Latvia on 27 March 2025.
Each of the four hosts (Cyprus, Finland, Latvia and Poland) were granted the right to select a partner federation for commercial and marketing criteria. These teams were automatically placed into the same group as their chosen partner country.
Latvia's choice was Estonia, Finland's choice was Lithuania, Cyprus's choice was Greece and Poland's choice was Iceland.
In Seed 2, Latvia, Lithuania and Greece are already guaranteed to play in Groups A, B and C, respectively, which means that Slovenia are automatically guaranteed to play in Group D.
The 24 qualified teams were seeded according to the FIBA Men's World Ranking.
The draw to determine the early designation of groups to the host cities of FIBA EuroBasket 2025 took place on 24 June, 2023 in Ljubljana. The request of the four hosts to allocate the groups to the host cities for the 42nd edition of tournament in advance was approved by the FIBA Europe Board in its June meeting.
The results of the draw were as follows: Group A will be played in Riga, Latvia Group B will be played in Tampere, Finland Group C will be played in Limassol, Cyprus Group D will be played in Katowice, Poland.

### Seeding

The seeding was announced on 25 February 2025. In bold are the teams that will host the final tournament.
Seed 1 :
| Seed 1 TeamPos  Serbia2  Germany3  France4  Spain5 | Seed 2 TeamPos  Latvia9  Lithuania10  Slovenia11  Greece13 | Seed 3 TeamPos  Italy14  Montenegro16  Poland17  Czech Republic19 |
Seed 4 :
| Seed 4 TeamPos  Finland20  Georgia24  Turkey27  Israel39 | Seed 5 TeamPos  Belgium40  Bosnia and Herzegovina41  Estonia43  Great Britain48 | Seed 6 TeamPos  Sweden49  Iceland50  Portugal56  Cyprus85 |

## Preliminary round
### Group A

Venue: Riga, Latvia.
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | A1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Knockout stage |
| 2 | Latvia (H) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Knockout stage |
| 3 | A3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Knockout stage |
| 4 | A4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Knockout stage |
| 5 | Estonia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 6 | A6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |

### Group B

Venue: Tampere, Finland.
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | B1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Knockout stage |
| 2 | Lithuania | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Knockout stage |
| 3 | B3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Knockout stage |
| 4 | Finland (H) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Knockout stage |
| 5 | B5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 6 | B6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |

### Group C

Venue: Limassol, Cyprus.
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | C1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Knockout stage |
| 2 | Greece | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Knockout stage |
| 3 | C3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Knockout stage |
| 4 | C4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Knockout stage |
| 5 | C5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 6 | Cyprus (H) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |

### Group D

Venue: Katowice, Poland.
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | D1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Knockout stage |
| 2 | Slovenia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Knockout stage |
| 3 | Poland (H) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Knockout stage |
| 4 | D4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Knockout stage |
| 5 | D5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 6 | Iceland | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |

## Knockout stage

Venue: Riga, Latvia.

### Bracket

| Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Final | Final |
| 6 September | 6 September | | | | |
| | | 9 September | 9 September | | | |
| 7 September | 7 September | | | | | |
| | | | | 12 September | 12 September | |
| 6 September | 6 September | | | | | |
| | | 9 September | 9 September | | | |
| 7 September | 7 September | | | | | |
| | | | | | | 14 September | 14 September |
| 6 September | 6 September | | | | | | |
| | | 10 September | 10 September | | | | |
| 7 September | 7 September | | | | | | |
| | | | | 12 September | 12 September | | |
| 6 September | 6 September | | | | | | |
| 6 September | 6 September | | | | | Third place | Third place |
| | | 10 September | 10 September | | | 14 September | 14 September |
| 7 September | 7 September | | | | | | |