FIBA Basketball World Cup records are the records attained throughout the history of the
FIBA Basketball World Cup.
General performances
Performances of host countries
From 1959 to 1982, the host qualified directly to the final round, thus bypassing the preliminary round (group stages). As a result, the host's final rank would no worse than the number of teams in the final round (between six and eight); however, from 1986 the host was made to compete in the preliminary round.
However, the success rate of hosts winning the tournament is rather low (14%, 3 of 18), as compared to the
FIFA World Cup
The FIFA World Cup, often simply called the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of the ' ( FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The tournament ha ...
's success rate of 22% (6 of 21); furthermore, no host has won the championship since
Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia (; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Jugoslavija, Југославија ; sl, Jugoslavija ; mk, Југославија ;; rup, Iugoslavia; hu, Jugoszlávia; rue, label=Pannonian Rusyn, Югославия, translit=Juhoslavija ...
won in
1970
Events
January
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, and only one host since then has won any type of medal (
Turkey
Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula in ...
with a silver medal in
2010).
By top four finishes
Most Valuable Players
Top scorer by tournament
Points per game
Total points scored
FIBA Basketball World Cup All-Tournament Team
All-time top cumulative points scorers
All time highest scoring averages
* Player must have played at least 5 games to appear in this statistic
Games with most overtimes
Age records
Oldest
Youngest
''*describes age on first day of the tournament''
Game score records
Biggest game score
Lowest game score
Biggest margin
Top scorers in a single game
Players with the most tournaments and games played
Top medalists
Players with the most total medals won
All-time team records
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*Defunct country
* Source
* update after
2019 World Cup
Notes and references
External links
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Records
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Basketball statistics