The 2016

FIBA Asia Under-18 Championship The FIBA Under-18 Asian Championship refers to the under-18 basketball championship for the International Basketball Federation's FIBA Asia zone. The event used to be known as the Asian Basketball Confederation Juniors Championship. The top four ...

was the 24th edition of the

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Championship for Junior Men aged 18 years old and below. The tournament was held in

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from July 22 to 31. The top three teams will qualify and will represent

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the

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. This will be the second time the country will host the tournament after successfully staging the 20th edition eight years ago.

Qualification

According to the FIBA Asia rules, the number of participating teams in the

is sixteen. Each of the six FIBA Asia Sub-Zones had two places, and the hosts (Iran) and holders (China) were automatically qualified. The other four places are allocated to the zones according to performance in the

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Allocation

Only 12 teams registered to participate in this tournament. No teams from the Persian Gulf region entered despite being allocated two automatic berths.

Teams

Draw

Only 12 teams participate in this tournament. The FIBA Boys' World Ranking are shown within the parenthesis.

Venue

This year's tournament was held at the Twelve Thousand People Sport Hall, located in the north & south of the main street of the

Azadi Sport Complex The Āzādi Sport Complex ( fa, مجموعه ورزشی آزادی) formerly known as Āryāmehr Sports Complex ( fa, مجموعه ورزشی آریامهر) is the national sports complex of Iran based in Tehran. It is the biggest sports comple ...

Preliminary round

''All times are in

Iran Standard Time Iran Standard Time (IRST) or Iran Time (IT) is the time zone used in Iran. Iran uses a UTC offset UTC+03:30. IRST is defined by the 52.5 degrees east meridian, the same meridian which defines the Iranian calendar and is the official meridian of I ...

( UTC+04:30)''

Group A

Group B

Final round

Quarterfinals

5th-8th place semifinals

Semifinals

7th place game

5th place game

Bronze medal match

Final

Referees

The following referees were selected for the tournament.Referees
/ref> * Hadi Salem * Zhoobin Jalili * Mohsen Roushan Zamir * Zhu Haiying * Johan Christiana * Imran Ali Baig * Hawar Mohammed * Shigeyuki Arisawa * Arsen Andryushkin * Hamlet Arakelyan * Yevgeniy Mikheyev * Alexey Stepanenko * Lee Seung-Mu * Rabah Noujaim * Joenard Garcia * Nattapong Jontapa * Wei Sheng-Hsuan

Final Rankings

References

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