2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup The 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup will be the 18th tournament of the FIBA Basketball World Cup for men's national basketball teams. The tournament will be hosted in China and it will mark a new era for the competition as described. Rescheduled from 2018 to 2019, this edition will be the first FIBA Basketball World Cup since 1967 that will not occur in the same year as the FIFA World Cup, but a year following the latter. Also, the group stage will expand from 24 to 32 teams. The top 8 teams, including Japan as
2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup qualification will qualify for the World Cup. Starting in 2019, no wild card qualification will be held, and the Olympic champions will not directly qualify to the World Cup. The draw for the qualifiers was held on 7 May 2017 in Guangzhou, China. All 16 teams which qualify for the 2017 FIBA Asia Cup played in the Asian qualification round of the 2019 FIBA World Cup, which included teams from FIBA Oceania. The 24 national teams that qualified for EuroBasket 2017 had also qualified for Division A of FIBA Basketball World Cup Qualifying. The last eight teams qualified through the FIBA