PRESS KIT PARTICIPATING TEAMS DRAW SEEDINGS FIBA EuroBasket 2022 marks the 41st edition of the continental showpiece event and will be held in Czech The Draw will see the 24 qualified teams being drawn into four groups of six teams each, with the seedings Republic, Georgia, Italy and Germany. From September 1-18, 2022, Europe’s best players will come together determined by the FIBA World Ranking Men, presented by Nike. in the cities of Berlin, Cologne, Milan, Prague and Tbilisi to fight for the title. With the four co-hosts qualified automatically, the remaining 20 teams punched their tickets via the Qualifiers, which were held over three World Europe World Europe windows, in February 2020, November 2020 and February 2021. Seed Team Rank Rank Seed Team Rank Rank 1 Spain 2 1 4 Germany 17 13 1 Serbia 5 2 4 Ukraine 28 16 1 Greece 6 3 4 Finland 32 17 1 France 7 4 4 Georgia 36 18 BELGIUM BOSNIA AND BULGARIA CROATIA CZECH REPUBLIC FINAL ROUND APPEARANCES: 18 HERZEGOVINA FINAL ROUND APPEARANCES: 24 FINAL ROUND APPEARANCES: 14 FINAL ROUND APPEARANCES: 6 2 Lithuania 8 5 5 Belgium 37 19 BEST FINISH: 4TH FINAL ROUND APPEARANCES: 10 BEST FINISH: 2ND BEST FINISH: 3RD BEST FINISH: 7TH BEST FINISH: 8tH MEDAL COUNT: 2 MEDAL COUNT: 2 2 Russia 9 6 5 Hungary 38 20 2 Italy 10 7 5 Israel 39 21 2 Czech Republic 12 8 5 Great Britain 41 22 3 Poland 13 9 6 Bosnia and Herzegovina 43 23 ESTONIA FINLAND FRANCE GEORGIA GERMANY 3 Croatia 14 10 6 Netherlands 44 24 FINAL ROUND APPEARANCES: 6 FINAL ROUND APPEARANCES: 17 FINAL ROUND APPEARANCES: 39 FINAL ROUND APPEARANCES: 5 FINAL ROUND APPEARANCES: 25 3 Turkey 15 11 6 Estonia 47 26 BEST FINISH: 5TH BEST FINISH: 6tH BEST FINISH: 1ST BEST FINISH: 11th BEST FINISH: 1st TITLES: 2013 TITLES: 1993 MEDAL COUNT: 9 MEDAL COUNT: 2 3 Slovenia 16 12 6 Bulgaria 49 27 Respecting the seedings, FIBA EuroBasket 2022 hosts Czech Republic, Georgia, Germany and Italy had the right to choose a partner federation that will play the Group Phase in the respective country. Host Partner Federation GREAT BRITAIN GREECE HUNGARY ISRAEL I TA LY FINAL ROUND APPEARANCES: 5 FINAL ROUND APPEARANCES: 28 FINAL ROUND APPEARANCES: 16 FINAL ROUND APPEARANCES: 30 FINAL ROUND APPEARANCES: 38 Czech Republic Poland BEST FINISH: 13TH BEST FINISH: 1ST BEST FINISH: 1ST BEST FINISH: 2ND BEST FINISH: 1ST TITLES: 1987, 2005 TITLES: 1955 MEDAL COUNT: 1 TITLES: 1983, 1999 Georgia Turkey MEDAL COUNT: 5 MEDAL COUNT: 3 MEDAL COUNT: 10 Germany Lithuania Italy Estonia LITHUANIA NETHERLANDS POLAND RUSSIA SERBIA FINAL ROUND APPEARANCES: 15 FINAL ROUND APPEARANCES: 16 FINAL ROUND APPEARANCES: 29 FINAL ROUND APPEARANCES: 14 FINAL ROUND APPEARANCES: 7 BEST FINISH: 1ST BEST FINISH: 4TH BEST FINISH: 2ND BEST FINISH: 1ST BEST FINISH: 2ND OFFICIAL TITLES: 1937, 1939, 2003 MEDAL COUNT: 4 TITLES: 2007 MEDAL COUNT: 2 MEDAL COUNT: 7 MEDAL COUNT: 4 MASCOT The official mascot of the FIBA EuroBasket 2022 will be presented at the Draw Ceremony in Berlin. Who is he? SLOVENIA SPAIN TURKEY UKRAINE Some say he was once a baller on the court. Others are convinced he’s a chart-topping DJ. FINAL ROUND APPEARANCES: 14 FINAL ROUND APPEARANCES: 32 FINAL ROUND APPEARANCES: 25 FINAL ROUND APPEARANCES: 9 *Final Round appearances include FIBA EuroBasket 2022. EuroBasket include FIBA appearances *Final Round BEST FINISH: 1ST BEST FINISH: 1ST BEST FINISH: 2ND BEST FINISH: 6TH It’s even been suggested he comes from the future, having tumbled through a gap in time. TITLES: 2017 TITLES: 2009, 2011, 2015 MEDAL COUNT: 1 MEDAL COUNT: 1 MEDAL COUNT: 13 The truth is, no one knows for sure. What we do know is he goes by the name of Bounce. 2 3 QUALIFIERS GROUP PHASE STANDINGS VENUES The three highest-placed teams from each group, except the groups which include the FIBA EuroBasket 2022 hosts, qualified for the Final Round. For the groups containing the FIBA EuroBasket 2022 hosts, the host and the two other highest placed teams qualified for the Final Round. Group A W/L P Group E W/L P 1 Israel 5/1 11 1 Serbia 4/2 10 2 Spain 4/2 10 2 Georgia* 4/2 10 3 Poland 3/3 9 3 Finland 3/3 9 4 Romania 0/6 6 4 Switzerland 1/5 7 Group B W/L P Group F W/L P 1 Italy* 4/2 10 1 Ukraine 4/2 10 Photo: Prague City Tourism City Prague Photo: POPULATION: 1,325,000 POPULATION: 1,184,800 2 Russia 4/2 10 2 Slovenia 4/2 10 3 Estonia 2/4 8 3 Hungary 4/2 10 4 North Macedonia 2/4 8 4 Austria 0/6 6 PRAGUE TBILISI Group C W/L P Group G W/L P 1 Belgium 4/2 10 1 France 4/2 10 Czech Republic Georgia 2 Lithuania 4/2 10 2 Great Britain 4/2 10 3 Czech Republic* 2/4 8 3 Montenegro 3/3 9 4 Denmark 2/4 8 4 Germany* 1/5 7 Group D W/L P Group H W/L P 1 Croatia 4/2 10 1 Bosnia and Herzegovina 5/1 11 2 Netherlands 3/3 9 2 Greece 4/2 10 3 Turkey 3/3 9 3 Bulgaria 2/4 8 4 Sweden 2/4 8 4 Latvia 1/5 7 *Qualified automatically as FIBA EuroBasket 2022 hosts. EuroBasket as FIBA *Qualified automatically CAPACITY CAPACITY 18,000 10,000 ADDRESS ADDRESS Českomoravská 2345/17, University street 15a, 190 00 Praha 9 Tbilisi 4 5 GROUP PHASE FINAL PHASE VENUES VENUE Photo: KölnTourismus GmbH / Udo Haake / Udo GmbH KölnTourismus Photo: Photo: AEG Berlin / Pedro Becerra Berlin / Pedro AEG Photo: POPULATION: 1,399,860 POPULATION: 1,090,000 POPULATION: 3,770,000 CAPACITY ADDRESS MILAN COLOGNE BERLIN Mercedes-Platz 1, Italy Germany Germany 15,280 10243 Berlin Photo: AMG Photo: Heling CAPACITY CAPACITY 12,000 19,250 ADDRESS ADDRESS via Giuseppe Di Vittorio, Willy-Brandt-Platz 3, 6 - 20090 Assago (MI) 50679 Cologne 6 7 DIRK NOWITZKI FIBA EUROBASKET 2022 AMBASSADOR “The whole world of basketball will be watching FIBA EuroBasket 2022. Many superstars from the NBA and from the European top leagues will be there with their teams. That promises a great basketball atmosphere. FIBA EuroBasket 2022 will generate huge interest from the general public, the media and, of course, basketball fans. Eighteen days in September 2022 are all about basketball!” 8 9 FIBA st 2022 COMPETITION SYSTEM ALL-TIME MEDALISTS YEAR VENUE GOLD SILVER BRONZE ROUP A ROUP B ROUP C ROUP D Cluj-Napoca (ROU), Helsinki (FIN), 2017 Slovenia Serbia Spain Goran Dragic (SLO) City A City B City C City D Tel Aviv (ISR), Istanbul (TUR) A6 - A1 B6 - B1 GROUP GROUP Berlin (GER), Riga (LAT), Zagreb (CRO), A5 - A2 B5 - B2 STARTS ONE STARTS ONE 2015 Spain Lithuania France Pau Gasol (ESP) 1 Sep 1 Sep 1 Sep 1 Sep Montpellier, Lille (FRA) Thursday Thursday Thursday DAY LATER Thursday DAY LATER A3 - A4 B3 - B4 2013 Celje, Jesenice, Koper, Ljubljana (SLO) France Lithuania Spain Tony Parker (FRA) C6 - C1 D6 - D1 Alytus, Kaunas, Klaipeda, Panevezys, 2011 Spain France Russia Juan Carlos Navarro (ESP) REST DAY REST DAY C5 - C2 D5 - D2 Siauliai, Vilnius (LTU) 2 Sep 2 Sep 2 Sep 2 Sep Friday Friday Friday Friday C3 - C4 D3 - D4 Katowice, Lodz, Bydgoszcz, Wroclaw, 2009 Spain Serbia Greece Pau Gasol (ESP) Warsaw, Poznan, Gdansk (POL) A1 - A5 B1 - B5 C1 - C5 D1 - D5 A4 - A6 B4 - B6 C4 - C6 D4 - D6 Alicante, Granada, Sevilla, Palma de Mallor- 3 Sep 3 Sep 3 Sep 3 Sep 2007 Russia Spain Lithuania Andrei Kirilenko (RUS) Saturday Saturday Saturday Saturday A2 - A3 B2 - B3 C2 - C3 D2 - D3 ca, Madrid (ESP) 2005 Vrsac, Podgorica, Novi Sad, Belgrade (SCG) Greece Germany France Dirk Nowitzki (GER) A4 - A1 B4 - B1 A3 - A5 B3 - B5 REST DAY REST DAY Boras, Lulea, Norrköpping, Södertälje, 4 Sep 4 Sep 4 Sep 4 Sep 2003 Lithuania Spain Italy Sarunas Jasikevicius (LTU) Sunday Sunday Sunday Sunday Stockholm (SWE) A6 - A2 B6 - B2 1 - 9 September 2001 Ankara, Antalya, Istanbul (TUR) Yugoslavia Turkey Spain Predrag Stojakovic (YUG) C4 - C1 D4 - D1 REST DAY REST DAY C3 - C5 D3 - D5 Antibes, Clermont-Ferrand, Dijon, 5 Sep 5 Sep 5 Sep 5 Sep 1999 Italy Spain Yugoslavia Gregor Fucka (ITA) Monday Monday Monday Monday PHASE Toulouse, Le Mans, Pau, Paris (FRA) P C6 - C2 D6 - D2 1997 Girona, Badalona, Barcelona (ESP) Yugoslavia Italy Russia Aleksandar Djordjevic (YUG) A1 - A3 B1 - B3 C1 - C3 D1 - D3 ROU 1995 Athens (GRE) Yugoslavia Lithuania Croatia Sarunas Marciulionis (LTU) A2 - A4 B2 - B4 C2 - C4 D2 - D4 6 Sep 6 Sep 6 Sep 6 Sep uesday uesday uesday uesday T T T T A5 - A6 B5 - B6 C5 - C6 D5 - D6 1993 Berlin, Karlsruhe, Munich (GER) Germany Russia Croatia Chris Welp (GER) A2 - A1 B2 - B1 1991 Rome (ITA) Yugoslavia Italy Spain Toni Kukoc (YUG) A6 - A3 B6 - B3 REST DAY REST DAY 1989 Zagreb (YUG) Yugoslavia Greece Soviet Union Drazen Petrovic (YUG) 7 Sep 7 Sep 7 Sep 7 Sep ednesday ednesday ednesday ednesday W W W A4 - A5 B4 - B5 W 1987 Athens (GRE) Greece Soviet Union Yugoslavia Nikos Galis (GRE) TRAVEL TO TRAVEL TO C2 - C1 D2 - D1 1985 Karlsruhe, Leverkusen, Stuttgart (GER) Soviet Union Czechoslovakia Italy Arvydas Sabonis (URS) FINAL PHASE FINAL PHASE C6 - C3 D6 - D3 8 Sep 8 Sep 8 Sep 8 Sep 1983 Limoges, Caen, Nantes (FRA) Italy Spain Soviet Union Juan Antonio Corbalan (ESP) Thursday Thursday Thursday VENUE VENUE C4 - C5 Thursday D4 - D5 1981 Bratislava, Havirov, Prague (TCH) Soviet Union Yugoslavia Czechoslovakia Valdis Valters (URS) TRAVEL AND REST DAY Friday 9 Sep 1979 Mestre, Siena, Gorizia, Turin (ITA) Soviet Union Israel Yugoslavia Mickey Berkowitz (ISR) 1977 Liege, Ostend (BEL) Yugoslavia Soviet Union Czechoslovakia Drazen Dalipagic (YUG) Saturday 10 Sep Saturday 10 Sep Saturday 10 Sep Saturday 10 Sep Sunday 11 Sep Sunday 11 Sep Sunday 11 Sep Sunday 11 Sep 1975 Belgrade, Split, Karlovac, Rijeka (YUG) Yugoslavia Soviet Union Italy Kresimir Cosic (YUG) Game 61 Game 63 Game 65 Game 67 Game 62 Game 64 Game 66 Game 68 ROUND OF 16 1973 Badalona, Barcelona (ESP) Yugoslavia Spain Soviet Union Wayne Brabender (ESP) B2 - A3 A1 - B4 B1 - A4 A2 - B3 C1 - D4 D2 - C3