FIBA Basketball World Cup

international basketball tournament

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

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Year Hosts Gold Medal Game Bronze Medal Game Number of Teams
Gold Score Silver Bronze Score Fourth Place
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

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References

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Notes

  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.