The 2014 FIBA BASKETBALL WORLD CUP
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the 2014 FIBA BASKETBALL WORLD CUP fiba.com/spain2014 #SPAIN2014 the 2014 fiba basketball world cup The first-ever FIBA Basketball World Cup will Known from 1950 until 2010 as the FIBA World The inaugural FIBA World Championship took place Since 1998, the winners of the FIBA Basketball take place from 30 August to 14 September 2014 in Championship, the FIBA Basketball World Cup is in Argentina in 1950 with the host nation prevailing World Cup get to celebrate their crowning moment Spain. The host cities will be: the flagship event of the International Basketball in the final against the USA. by holding aloft the Naismith Trophy, named after Federation (FIBA). the inventor of basketball, Dr James Naismith. Preliminary Round Since the first staging of the tournament in Buenos - Bilbao The new name reflects the prestige that FIBA’s Aires where six teams did battle, the field has The FIBA Basketball World Cup has been the centre - Granada tournament has as a premier international grown exponentially to feature the 24 best teams stage for some of international basketball’s biggest - Gran Canaria competition and allows for it to be recognised as from around the world. stars - from Oscar Schmidt and Nikos Galis to Pau - Seville what it truly is: one of the biggest global sporting Gasol and Kevin Durant and many in between. events, along with the FIFA World Cup, the Rugby Yugoslavia have won gold in five of the 16 editions Final Round World Cup and the Cricket World Cup. of the FIBA Basketball World Cup, while the USA - Barcelona account for four and the Soviet Union for three. - Madrid 1 Qualified teams competition format group a group b preliminary round group c group d A1 B1 30/8 - 4/9 C1 D1 A2 B2 C2 D2 Europe france oceania A3 B3 C3 D3 australia lithuania A4 B4 C4 D4 croatia new zealand slovenia wildcards * A5 B5 C5 D5 ukraine ? A6 B6 C6 D6 serbia ? ? ? final round 6/9 madrid 7/9 6/9 barcelona 7/9 a3 - b2 a1 - b4 a4 - b1 a2 - b3 c3 - d2 c1 - d4 c4 - d1 c2 - d3 10/9 10/9 9/9 9/9 1/4 FINAL 1/4 FINAL 1/4 FINAL 1/4 FINAL 12/9 11/9 africa angola madrid usa spain SEMI-FINAL SEMI-FINAL egypt (olympic (host americas 13/9 senegal champions) country) mexico 3RD PLACE FINAL puerto rico asia argentina 14/9 iran dominican republic FINAL philippines korea The Preliminary round venues will be Bilbao, Granada, Gran Canaria and Sevilla. The groups will be allocated to the venues after the draw in February 2014. * FIBA will reveal which four national teams will receive the wild cards at its Central Board Buy your tickets for the FIBA Basketball World Cup on fiba.com/spain2014 meeting on the weekend of 1-2 February 2014 in Barcelona, Spain. 2 host cities Preliminary Round venues final Round venues BILBAO GRANADA BARCELONA MADRID Capital of the province of Biscay (Basque Country) Capital of the province of Granada (Andalusia) Capital of Catalonia and of the province of Capital of Spain and of the community of Madrid Situated on the bank of the Nervion River Placed at the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains Barcelona 2020 Olympic Games Official Candidate - Population: 360,000 - Population: 250,000 Host city of the 1992 Olympic Games - Population: 3.3 million - Arena: Bizcaia Arena - Arena: Palacio Municipal de Deportes - Population: 1.6 million - Arena: Palacio de los Deportes de la Comunidad - Capacity: 16,693 spectators - Capacity: 8,534 spectators - Arena: Palau Sant Jordi - Capacity: 13,383 spectators - Capacity: 16,386 spectators BILBAO BARCELONA MADRID GRAN CANARIA SEVILLE Capital of the province of Gran Canaria and Capital of Andalusia and of the province of Seville co-capital of the autonomous community of the Site of the 1992 Universal Exposition SEVILLE Canary Islands - Population: 705,000 GRANADA Situated 200 kilometres off of the north-western - Arena: Palacio Municipal de Deportes coast of the African continent - Capacity: 7,127 spectators - Population: 380,000 - Arena: Gran Canaria Arena - Capacity: 10,100 spectators Gran Canaria 3 fiba.com/spain2014 #SPAIN2014.