EuroBasket 2015 was the 39th edition of the EuroBasket championship that was organized by FIBA Europe. It was co-hosted by

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, and Latvia, making it the first EuroBasket held in more than one country. It started on 5 September and ended on 20 September 2015. The top two teams ( and ) qualified to the 2016 Summer Olympics. The next five teams (, , , and the ) advanced to the World Olympic Qualifying Tournaments. and later qualified due to

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and

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hosting two of the Olympic qualifying tournaments while also qualified as an invitee. Spain won their third title by defeating Lithuania 80–63 in the final. France won bronze on home soil defeating Serbia (81–68). The final game was held in the

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and set a new record for the highest attendance in a EuroBasket game, with 26,922. Pau Gasol was named the tournament's MVP.

Host selection

On 18 December 2011, FIBA Europe decided to let

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host EuroBasket 2015, after

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and

withdrew their joint bid.Ukraine to host Eurobasket 2015

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(18 December 2011) On 19 March 2014, tournament director Markiyan Lubkivsky announced that EuroBasket 2015 would not take place in Ukraine because of the

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and the championship would be relocated. But later, FIBA Europe was forced to deny reports that Ukraine had given up the hosting rights for EuroBasket 2015 due to the continuous political situation and security issues in Ukraine. On 13 June 2014, FIBA Europe officially announced that Ukraine would not be hosting the championships.FIBA Europe Relocate EuroBasket 2015
/ref> Sixteen countries expressed an initial interest to bid for the relocated event. National Federations were called by FIBA Europe to officially bid for hosting the tournament or parts of the tournament until 31 July 2014. The next day FIBA Europe announced eight official bids from potential organizers:FIBA Europe - Eight bid to host EuroBasket 2015
/ref> * * * * * * * * All interested federations were provided the option to bid to stage either one of the four groups in the Group Phase of the tournament, one of the groups and the Final Phase, only the finals, or the entire tournament. FIBA Europe was scheduled to officially announce the details of the bids after 27 August 2014. Croatia, France, Poland and Turkey bid to host one of the four groups in the Group Phase and the Final Phase in the knock-out round. Additionally, Turkey also bid to host the Final Phase only. All other countries bid to host only one of the four groups in the Group Phase. Prior to the Board Meeting, Turkey withdrew their candidature from hosting any part of the tournament while Poland and Croatia withdrew their candidature to host the Final Phase of the tournament, leaving France as the only candidate to host the Final Phase. On 8 September 2014, it was announced that the FIBA EuroBasket 2015 tournament would be hosted in

(

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), Latvia ( Riga) and

( Montpellier), with each of the countries hosting one respective group during the group stage of the tournament.

would be the hosts of the finals in the knock-out phase in the

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at the multi-functional

, which has a 27,000 capacity for

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Venues

Qualification

Qualification for the tournament took place in two phases; the first featured 13 teams who failed to qualify for

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, the winner of which qualifying directly for the finals. The remaining teams then went into qualification with the remaining FIBA Europe sides.

Qualified teams

Draw

Seedings

FIBA Europe released the seedings for the EuroBasket 2015 draw on 27 November 2014. According to the FIBA Europe regulations the participating nations, the 10 participants of the

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would be seeded first, based on their respective records in

, with the remaining teams seeded based on their

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records.

Final draw

The draw took place on 8 December 2014 at 16:00 at

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. Criteria for the draw was as follows: *The four hosts were drawn together, but as Latvia were amongst the third seeded teams and Germany the fifth, only three teams would be in fourth and sixth pot containing the remaining seeds and these teams could not be drawn into groups with Latvia and Germany respectively. *France and Croatia, as hosts, were drawn first and the two remaining first seeds, Spain and Lithuania, were drawn separately into the remaining two groups not already with a top-seeded team. *In addition to this, following on from the exceptional circumstances leading to the relocation of EuroBasket 2015, each of the four hosts was 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 selections were; ** France and Finland ** Germany and Turkey ** Croatia and Slovenia ** Latvia and Estonia : Assigned to Group A, for its partnership with

. : Assigned to Group B, for its partnership with

. : Assigned to Group C, for its partnership with

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. : Assigned to Group D, for its partnership with Latvia.

Squads

Preliminary round

The best four teams of each group advance to the knockout stage.

Group A

Venue: Montpellier,

Group B

Venue:

Group C

Venue:

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Group D

Venue: Riga, Latvia Eurobasket 2015 fanzone Riga 01

Knockout stage

Venue:

Final

Final standings

Official final ranking by FIBA Europe. EB2015Results

All-Tournament Team

* PG – Sergio Rodríguez * SG – Nando de Colo * SF – Jonas Maciulis * PF – Pau Gasol (

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) * C – Jonas Valanciunas

Statistical leaders

;Points ;Rebounds ;Assists ;Blocks ;Steals

FIBA broadcasting rights

References

External links

Official website
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