2020 FIBA Under-17 Basketball World Cup

The 2020 FIBA Under-17 Basketball World Cup (Bulgarian pronunciation: [2020 Световна купа по баскетбол FIBA ​​до 17 години]) will be an international basketball competition held in Sofia, Bulgaria. It will be the sixth edition of the FIBA Under-17 Basketball World Cup. Sixteen national teams will compete in the tournament.[1] Bulgaria previously bid for the 2018 edition but lost to Argentina. This will be the first time Bulgaria has hosted a FIBA world tournament. It was originally scheduled to take place between 4 and 12 July 2020, but it was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic to 15 to 23 August 2020.[2] On 12 June 2020, FIBA postponed the tournament again and options will be examined to play in 2021.[3]

2020 FIBA Under-17 Basketball World Cup
Tournament details
Host nation	Bulgaria
Teams	16  (from 5 federations)
Venues	1  (in 1 host city)
Official website
fiba.basketball/world/u17/2020
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Venues

Sofia		Sofia
Armeets Arena
Capacity: 12,373

Qualified teams

Means of Qualification	Date	Venue	Berths	Qualifiers
Host Nation	4 April 2019		1	Bulgaria
2019 FIBA Under-16 Americas Championship	3–9 June 2019	Belem	4	United States  Canada  Dominican Republic  Argentina
2019 FIBA Under-16 African Championship	5–14 July 2019	Praia	2	Egypt  Mali
2019 FIBA Under-16 European Championship	9–17 August 2019	Udine	5	Spain  France  Italy  Russia  Turkey
Asian selection			4	Australia  China  South Korea TBD
Total			16

As the Asian tournament was cancelled, the FIBA used the World rankings to decide the participants. Japan and New Zealand will play a play-off to decide the last participant as they are equal on points.[4]

Draw

The draw for the tournament was held on 6 March 2020 in Sofia, Bulgaria.[5]

Seedings

The seedings were announced on 6 March 2020.[5]

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Bulgaria (hosts)  United States  Canada  Spain	France  Italy  Russia  Turkey	Australia  China  South Korea  Japan or  New Zealand	Dominican Republic  Argentina  Egypt  Mali

Preliminary round

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
1	Canada	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	Australia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Italy	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Egypt	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played on TBD. Source: FIBA
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head results; 3) Points difference; 4) Points scored.

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
1	China	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	Dominican Republic	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	France	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Bulgaria (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played on TBD. Source: FIBA
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head results; 3) Points difference; 4) Points scored.
(H) Host.

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
1	Turkey	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	South Korea	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Argentina	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Spain	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played on TBD. Source: FIBA
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head results; 3) Points difference; 4) Points scored.

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
1	Russia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	United States	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Mali	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	TBD	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played on TBD. Source: FIBA
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head results; 3) Points difference; 4) Points scored.

Final round

Bracket

Round of 16

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

A1

B4

C2

D3

A3

B2

C4

D1

A2

B3

C1

D4

Third place

A4

B1

C3

D2

9–16th classification playoffs

	Classification quarterfinals				Classification semifinals				Ninth place match
									Eleventh place match

	Classification semifinals				13th place match
					15th place match

5–8th classification playoffs

	Classification semifinals				Fifth place match
					Seventh place match

Final ranking

Rank	Team	Record
4th
5th
6th
7th
8th
9th
10th
11th
12th
13th
14th
15th
16th

References

1. "FIBA Calendar".
2. "FIBA's Executive Committee confirms global calendar update". FIBA. 9 April 2020.
3. "FIBA Executive Committee condemns all forms of racism in open letter from President". FIBA. 12 June 2020.
4. "Draw results in for FIBA U17 Basketball World Cup 2020". FIBA. 6 March 2020.
5. "Draw results in for FIBA U17 Basketball World Cup 2020". FIBA. 6 March 2020.

External links

• Official website