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 to L will qualify for the final knockout phase. Classification rounds will be revived after they were not held in 2014. They were traditionally held in every World Championship/World Cup and were last seen in action in 2010. In total, 92 games will be played over a total of 16 days. The draw will take place on March 16, 2019 in Shenzhen. Bottom 2 teams from each group in Round 1 will play in the Classification Round. The official logo of the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup was officially unveiled on 21 March 2017 in a ceremony held in Shanghai.