FIBA Basketball World Cup qualification the 1994 FIBA World Championship in Canada. This setup continued until the 2002 FIBA World Championship in the USA which were also the Olympic champions; the supposed berth for the Olympic champions were instead given to Americas, the USA's home zone. In the 2006 FIBA World Championship in Japan that saw the field expand to 24 teams, with four invited teams popularly called as "wild cards" were invited by FIBA. This setup will last until 2014, when FIBA announced that they were renaming the competition as the "FIBA Basketball World Cup". In 2012, FIBA announced that the supposed 2018 world
2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup qualification (Europe) group will qualify for the FIBA Basketball World Cup. 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup qualification (Europe) The 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup qualification, for the FIBA Europe region, began in the summer of 2017. Contrary to previous years, no teams were automatically placed into the FIBA World Cup, so all FIBA Europe nations have to participate in qualifications. FIBA Europe has been allocated 12 berths at the World Cup. In total 37 FIBA Europe teams are taking part in the qualification tournament. The qualification consists of the following stages: Teams that did not manage to make EuroBasket 2017 played in