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

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]	USA	Chile	No playoffs^[a]	Brazil	10
1954	Brazil	USA	No playoffs^[a]	Brazil	Philippines	No playoffs^[a]	France	12
1959	Chile	Brazil	No playoffs^[a]	USA	Chile	No playoffs^[a]	Formosa	13
1963	Brazil	Brazil	No playoffs^[a]	Yugoslavia	Soviet Union	No playoffs^[a]	USA	13
1967	Uruguay	Soviet Union	No playoffs^[a]	Yugoslavia	Brazil	No playoffs^[a]	USA	13
1970	Yugoslavia	Yugoslavia	No playoffs^[a]	Brazil	Soviet Union	No playoffs^[a]	Italy	13
1974	Puerto Rico	Soviet Union	No playoffs^[a]	Yugoslavia	USA	No playoffs^[a]	Cuba	14
1978	Philippines	Yugoslavia	82–81 OT	Soviet Union	Brazil	86–85	Italy	14
1982	Colombia	Soviet Union	95–94	USA	Yugoslavia	119–117	Spain	13
1986	Spain	USA	87–85	Soviet Union	Yugoslavia	117–91	Brazil	24
1990	Argentina	Yugoslavia	92–75	Soviet Union	USA	107–105 OT	Puerto Rico	16
1994	Canada	USA	137–91	Russia	Croatia	78–60	Greece	16
1998	Greece	Yugoslavia	64–62	Russia	USA	84–61	Greece	16
2002	United States	Yugoslavia	84–77 OT	Argentina	Germany	117–94	New Zealand	16
2006	Japan	Spain	70–47	Greece	USA	96–81	Argentina	24
2010	Turkey	USA	81–64	Turkey	Lithuania	99–88	Serbia	24
2014	Spain	USA	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)

FIBA Basketball World Cup Media

World map depicting the number of times a country has hosted the World Cup. Dark blue: twice; light blue: once.
World map depicting the number of times a national team has participated in the World Cup as of 2014.
Map of best finishes per team. Defunct countries are denoted by circles.

Related pages

Basketball

References

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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