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; Latvia, Cyprus, Finland and Poland. 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 counties submitted separate candidacies to host Eurobasket 2025:

 (Limassol)
 (Tampere)
 (Budapest)
 (Riga)
 (Perm)
 (Kyiv, Lviv and 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.

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

Draw
The draw will take place in Riga, Latvia sometime in 2024.

Each of the four hosts (Cyprus, Finland, Latvia and Poland) will be granted the right to select a partner federation for commercial and marketing criteria. These teams would automatically be placed into the same group as their chosen partner country.

The 24 qualified teams will be 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 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 are 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.

Preliminary round

Group A

Venue: Riga, Latvia.

Group B

Venue: Tampere, Finland.

Group C

Venue: Limassol, Cyprus.

Group D

Venue: Katowice, Poland.

Knockout stage
Venue: Riga, Latvia.

Bracket

References

External links

 
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2025–26 in European basketball
2020s in Riga
August 2025 sports events in Europe
September 2025 sports events in Europe
International basketball competitions hosted by Cyprus
International basketball competitions hosted by Finland
International basketball competitions hosted by Latvia
International basketball competitions hosted by Poland
EuroBasket, 2025
Sport in Katowice
Sport in Limassol
Sport in Riga
Sport in Tampere