AfroBasket 2017 qualification occurred on various dates on 2017. It determined which African national basketball teams qualified for the

2017 FIBA Africa Championship FIBA AfroBasket 2017 was the 29th edition of the AfroBasket, a men's basketball continental championship of Africa. The tournament was jointly hosted by Tunisia and Senegal. Angola was proposed by FIBA Africa to host the tournament, an offer dec ...

. Teams competed with other teams in their respective "zones" for a spot in the Championship tournament.

Qualified Teams

Two teams qualified for the tournament before the qualification round will take place. Fourteen more teams claimed spots in the tournament through Zonal Qualifying.

Zones

Zone 1

Zone 1 was played from March 16 to April 1, 2017, in

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First Leg

Second Leg

Zone 2

The qualifiers were played in a tournament played over two legs with the two top teams qualified. The first leg of the qualifier was played in

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on 19 March with the return game following in

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a week later.

First leg

Second Leg

Zone 3

First Leg

Second leg

Zone 4

Group 1

Group 2

Zone 5

Eight teams will play a round-robin format tournament - from 12 to 18 March in

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- to secure the two places for the Final Round.

Group A

Group B

Classification Games

Semi Final

Third Place Game

Final

Zone 6 and Zone 7

The winner of each group will secure automatic qualification for Africa's flagship competition taking place in Brazzaville, while the teams that finish second in Groups G and H will face each other for the remaining qualification spot.

Group 1

Group 1 will be played from 25 to 30 March in

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Zambia Zambia (), officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central Africa, Central, Southern Africa, Southern and East Africa, although it is typically referred to as being in Southern Africa at its most cent ...

to secure one place for the Final Round.

Group 2

Group 2 will be played from 19 to 25 March in

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to secure one place for the Final Round.

Playoff Game

Wildcard

FIBA Africa's executive committee on Tuesday, 18 April awarded the two wild cards for FIBA AfroBasket 2017 to

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and

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Qualifying tournament

Chad Chad (; ar, تشاد , ; french: Tchad, ), officially the Republic of Chad, '; ) is a landlocked country at the crossroads of North and Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic ...

, the

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and

faced off in

Mali Mali (; ), officially the Republic of Mali,, , ff, 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞥆𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 𞤃𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭, Renndaandi Maali, italics=no, ar, جمهورية مالي, Jumhūriyyāt Mālī is a landlocked country in West Africa. Mali ...

from 19 to 21 May, with the winner of this additional qualifier filling the void left by the Republic of Congo.

References

External links

AfroBasket 2017 Qualifiers
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