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Qualification for the 2015 FIBA Asia Championship was held to determine the participants in the
2015 FIBA Asia Championship The 2015 FIBA Asia Championship was the 28th and last edition of the FIBA Asia Championship in men's basketball in Asia. It was organised by FIBA Asia. At the FIBA Asia Congress held in Doha, Qatar, the Central Board awarded the hosting rights to ...
. secured qualification by being named as hosts. The other fifteen berths were disputed per
FIBA Asia FIBA Asia is a zone within the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) which contains all 44 Asian FIBA federations. Member associations Tournaments Organized by FIBA Asia National teams * FIBA Asia Cup – since 2017, also inclu ...
zone, and via the 2014 FIBA Asia Cup.


Qualification format

The following are eligible to participate: * The organizing country. * The champion team from the previous FIBA Asia Cup. * The four best-placed teams from the previous FIBA Asia Cup will qualify the same number of teams from their respective sub-zones. * The two best teams from the sub-zones of East Asia, Gulf, Southeast Asia and West Asia and the winner from the sub-zones of South Asia and Central Asia.


Qualified teams


FIBA Asia Cup

The 2014 FIBA Asia Cup was held at
Wuhan Wuhan (, ; ; ) is the capital of Hubei Province in the People's Republic of China. It is the largest city in Hubei and the most populous city in Central China, with a population of over eleven million, the ninth-most populous Chinese city an ...
,
Hubei Hubei (; ; alternately Hupeh) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, and is part of the Central China region. The name of the province means "north of the lake", referring to its position north of Dongting Lake. The ...
, China from 11 to 19 July 2014. * The host nation was not yet determined at the conclusion of the tournament. China was chosen as the hosts a week later.


Central Asia

The Central Asia qualifiers was a one-game playoff between Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan in
Astana Astana, previously known as Akmolinsk, Tselinograd, Akmola, and most recently Nur-Sultan, is the capital city of Kazakhstan. The city lies on the banks of the Ishim River in the north-central part of Kazakhstan, within the Akmola Region, tho ...
.


East Asia

The 4th East Asian Basketball Championship was cancelled as no countries were willing to host it. The four countries with the highest FIBA rankings (excluding finals hosts China) took the 4 finals berths available to East Asian teams: , , , and . The participation of Japan was dependent if FIBA lifts its suspension in time for the draw.


Gulf

The 14th Gulf Basketball Championship was held at Dammam,
Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in Western Asia. It covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and has a land area of about , making it the fifth-largest country in Asia, the second-largest in the A ...
from 13 to 20 October 2014.


South Asia

The 4th
SABA Championship The SABA Championship is a basketball tournament for national teams organized by the South Asia Basketball Association, a sub-zone of the FIBA Asia. It serves as a qualifier for various FIBA Asia events such as the FIBA Asia Championship and th ...
was held at Bengaluru,
India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...
from 3 to 5 July 2015.


Southeast Asia

The 11th
SEABA Championship The SEABA Championship is a basketball tournament national teams organized by the Southeast Asia Basketball Association, a sub-zone of the FIBA Asia. It serves as a qualifier for the FIBA Asia Cup The FIBA Asia Cup (formerly the FIBA Asia Cham ...
was held at
Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, bor ...
from 27 April to 1 May 2015.


West Asia

The WABA Championship was held at
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, Amman from 29 May to 2 June 2015. As original hosts were already qualified by winning the 2014 FIBA Asia Cup, they gave up hosting the tournament and withdrew. Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine qualified.


References

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FIBA Asia Cup qualification
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