The 2022
FIBA Asia Cup (formerly known as the FIBA Asia Championship) will be the 30th continental
basketball
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championship in
Asia
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. The tournament is organised by
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 ...
.
Originally intended to be the 2021 edition, the tournament was initially scheduled to take place between 3 and 15 August 2021, but it was postponed due to 17 to 29 August 2021 to avoid scheduling conflict with the
2020 Summer Olympics
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Tokyo was selected as the host city during the 1 ...
which was postponed by a year due to the
COVID-19 pandemic
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.
It was later postponed again to 12 to 24 July 2022.
Indonesia
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will be the tournament host for second time after staging the
1993 edition.
Australia is the defending champion.
Host selection
On 7 October 2020, Indonesian Youth and Sports Minister
Zainudin Amali confirmed that FIBA had entrusted Indonesia to host the upcoming Asia Cup in 2021. However, an official announcement by FIBA was yet to be made at that time. On 18 December, FIBA confirmed that the country will host the tournament.
However due to a surge of COVID-19 cases in Indonesia amid the pandemic as of July 2021, FIBA considered postponing the competition to 2022. Jordan has offered to host the tournament as an alternative.
On 23 July 2021, FIBA announced that the Asia Cup was rescheduled to July 2022.
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Venue
Format
16 qualified teams are expected to play in the main round. They will be divided into 4 groups of 4 teams. Every group winner will gain direct access to the quarter final, while runners-up will play third placed teams in a playoff games.
Qualification
The qualification started on 23 February 2018. Teams that did not manage to advance to the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup qualification and the teams that did not participate in it will play in the first round of the pre-qualifiers.
Pre-qualifiers were held in the western and eastern regions to determine the eight teams who will join the 16 teams that participated in the 2017 FIBA Asia Cup
The 2017 FIBA Asia Cup (formerly known as the FIBA Asia Championship) was the 29th continental basketball championship in Asia. The tournament was organised by FIBA Asia. It took place from 8 to 20 August 2017, a week earlier from the initial sche ...
. Below is the list of qualified teams to the 2021 FIBA Asia Cup Qualifiers, which began in February 2020. Out of the 24 teams in the qualifiers, only 16 teams will qualify for the 2021 FIBA Asia Cup.
Indonesia qualified by virtue of being confirmed as host on 18 December 2020, although they have entered the qualification process prior to the confirmation of their hosting.
Qualified teams
Draw
The draw was scheduled to take place on 8 December 2021, but was postponed due to COVID-19 pandemic-related travel restrictions by Indonesia. The draw took place on 18 February 2022.
Seeding
The seeding was announced on 15 February 2022. Indonesia had the right to choose their group.
Preliminary round
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Group A
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Group B
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Group C
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Group D
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Final round
Bracket
Playoffs
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Quarterfinals
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Semifinals
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Third place game
Final
See also
* 2021 FIBA Women's Asia Cup
The 2021 FIBA Women's Asia Cup Division A was the 29th edition of the tournament, held from 27 September to 3 October 2021 in Amman, Jordan. The tournament was originally set to be hosted by India. It served as the Asian and Oceanian qualificatio ...
References
External links
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