Competitions

FIBA Basketball World Cup

Also Known As FIBA World Championship (name used 1950 to 2010)

Citation Formats

General Reference

Sport and Games Atlas. "FIBA Basketball World Cup." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://sport.interactiveatlas.org/competitions/fiba-basketball-world-cup.

APA Style

Sport and Games Atlas. (n.d.). FIBA Basketball World Cup. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://sport.interactiveatlas.org/competitions/fiba-basketball-world-cup

BibTeX

@misc{sportandgamesatlas-fiba-basketball-world-cup,
  author = {Sport and Games Atlas},
  title = {FIBA Basketball World Cup},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://sport.interactiveatlas.org/competitions/fiba-basketball-world-cup},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

The FIBA Basketball World Cup is the sport's premier international national-team tournament, first held in 1950 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and won by the host nation. Known as the FIBA World Championship from 1950 until 2010, it was renamed the FIBA Basketball World Cup starting with the 2014 edition.

Facts

Founding Year

1950 1

Founding Date

1950-10-22 2

Opening day of the inaugural 1950 tournament at Luna Park in Buenos Aires; the final was played on 3 November 1950.

Frequency

Every four years since 1950, generally in the same year as the FIFA World Cup, except that the cycle shifted by one year starting with the 2019 edition to separate it from the Summer Olympic Games schedule. 3

Host History

Argentina hosted the inaugural 1950 tournament. Later hosts include Brazil (1954, 1963), Chile (1959), Uruguay (1967), Yugoslavia (1970), Puerto Rico (1974), the Philippines (1978), Colombia (1982), Spain (1986, 2014), Argentina again (1990), Canada (1994), Greece (1998), the United States (2002), Japan (2006), Turkey (2010), China (2019), and a three-nation co-hosting by the Philippines, Japan and Indonesia (2023). 3

Cross-Tradition Connections