FIBA Basketball World Cup

The FIBA Basketball World Cup, known as the FIBA World Championship from 1950 through 2010, is a world basketball tournament for men's national teams held once every four years by the International Basketball Federation (FIBA). After the 2014 FIBA World Cup, the tournament will move to a new four-year cycle to avoid conflict with the FIFA World Cup. To that end, no tournament will be held in 2018; the FIBA World Cup will resume in 2019.

The current champions are Spain. They defeated Argentina 95-75 in the 2019 tournament at the Cadillac Center in Beijing, China.

Tournaments[change | change source]

Year	Hosts	Gold Medal Game			Bronze Medal Game			Number of Teams
Year	Hosts	Gold	Score	Silver	Bronze	Score	Fourth Place	Number of Teams
1950	Argentina	Argentina	No playoffs^[a]	United States	Chile	No playoffs^[a]	Brazil	10
1954	Brazil	United States	No playoffs^[a]	Brazil	Philippines	No playoffs^[a]	France	12
1959	Chile	Brazil	No playoffs^[a]	United States	Chile	No playoffs^[a]	Formosa	13
1963	Brazil	Brazil	No playoffs^[a]	Yugoslavia	Soviet Union	No playoffs^[a]	United States	13
1967	Uruguay	Soviet Union	No playoffs^[a]	Yugoslavia	Brazil	No playoffs^[a]	United States	13
1970	Yugoslavia	Yugoslavia	No playoffs^[a]	Brazil	Soviet Union	No playoffs^[a]	Italy	13
1974	Puerto Rico	Soviet Union	No playoffs^[a]	Yugoslavia	United States	No playoffs^[a]	Cuba	14
1978	Philippines	Yugoslavia	82–81 OT	Soviet Union	Brazil	86–85	Italy	14
1982	Colombia	Soviet Union	95–94	United States	Yugoslavia	119–117	Spain	13
1986	Spain	United States	87–85	Soviet Union	Yugoslavia	117–91	Brazil	24
1990	Argentina	Yugoslavia	92–75	Soviet Union	United States	107–105 OT	Puerto Rico	16
1994	Canada	United States	137–91	Russia	Croatia	78–60	Greece	16
1998	Greece	Yugoslavia	64–62	Russia	United States	84–61	Greece	16
2002	United States	Yugoslavia	84–77 OT	Argentina	Germany	117–94	New Zealand	16
2006	Japan	Spain	70–47	Greece	United States	96–81	Argentina	24
2010	Turkey	United States	81–64	Turkey	Lithuania	99–88	Serbia	24
2014	Spain	United States	129–92	Serbia	France	95–93	Lithuania	24
2019	China	Future event			Future event			32
2023	Philippines Japan Indonesia	Future event			Future event			32 (expected)

Related pages[change | change source]

Basketball

References[change | change source]

Notes

↑ ^1.00 ^1.01 ^1.02 ^1.03 ^1.04 ^1.05 ^1.06 ^1.07 ^1.08 ^1.09 ^1.10 ^1.11 ^1.12 ^1.13 No final was played; teams played each other once in the final group round-robin; the best team with the best record wins the championship.

[nofinal-1] 1.00 ^1.01 ^1.02 ^1.03 ^1.04 ^1.05 ^1.06 ^1.07 ^1.08 ^1.09 ^1.10 ^1.11 ^1.12 ^1.13 No final was played; teams played each other once in the final group round-robin; the best team with the best record wins the championship.

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