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
FIBA Basketball World Cup qualification qualification in the last 3 world cups: Key to map: Qualification format to be used starting at the 2019 FIBA World Cup: The figures below show the first instance a team qualified to the final qualifying tournament (i.e. continental championship). Countries that had not appeared here may have earlier participated in earlier stages of qualification tournaments. FIBA Basketball World Cup qualification FIBA Basketball World Cup qualification is the qualification process for the FIBA Basketball World Cup, that a senior men's national basketball team undergoes, in order to qualify for the final tournament of the FIBA Basketball World Cup. Each of