EuroBasket, also called the European Basketball Championship, is the main international tournament for the senior men's national basketball teams of Europe. FIBA Europe, the continental zone of the International Basketball Federation, organises it, and it was first held in Switzerland in 1935, is now played every four years, and its 1941 edition was cancelled because of the Second World War. The Soviet Union holds the record with fourteen gold medals, while Yugoslavia, Spain, Greece, Lithuania, Italy, France, Slovenia and Germany have also won titles. Today 24 national teams reach the final tournament through qualifiers, play a group round, and then enter a single-elimination knockout stage with a bronze medal game. Germany won the 2025 title.
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Switzerland was chosen as the host country, and ten countries joined.
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is the main international basketball competition for the senior men's national teams of primarily European countries
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It is held every four years and organised by FIBA Europe
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The competition was first held in 1935.
Competition format, preliminary round
The twenty-four qualified teams are placed into four groups of six, and each group plays a round-robin tournament.
Competition format, knockout stage
The knockout stage is a 16-team single-elimination tournament
Qualification
24 European teams take part in the final competition.
History, beginning
Switzerland was chosen as the host country, and ten countries joined.
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is the main international basketball competition for the senior men's national teams of primarily European countries
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organised by FIBA Europe, the European zone of FIBA, the International Basketball Federation
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