EuroBasket: Dates, teams, schedule, history & more

The 42nd edition of EuroBasket is taking place in 2025 and Spain are the defending champions after taking the title for a fourth time back in 2022.

Cyprus, Finland, Poland and Latvia share hosting responsibilities in the FIBA Europe organised event, which takes place in August and September.

EuroBasket 2025 dates

The main tournament will begin on 27th August 2025 and will run until 14th September.

EuroBasket 2025 schedule

The group stages, or preliminary round, begins on 27th August, with four teams qualifying from each group of six for the knockout stage.

The first round of 16 games will be played on 5th September,  the quarter-finals take place on the 8th and 9th September, the semi-finals are on the 11th September and the final and third place play-off games both take place on 14th September.

EuroBasket 2025 teams

Host countries Cyprus, Finland, Poland and Latvia automatically qualified for the event and have been placed into separate groups.

Group A

• Serbia
• Latvia
• Czechia
• Turkey
• Estonia
• Portugal

Group B

• Germany
• Lithuania
• Montenegro
• Finland
• Great Britain
• Sweden

Group C

• Spain
• Greece
• Italy
• Georgia
• Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Cyprus

Group D

• France
• Slovenia
• Poland
• Israel
• Belgium
• Iceland

EuroBasket venues

With the tournament to be staged across four different countries, there are four different venues which will be hosting EuroBasket matches in 2025.

• Nokia Arena - Tampere (Finland)
• Spyros Kyprianou Center - Limassol (Cyprus)
• Xiaomi Arena - Riga (Latvia)
• Spodek - Katowice (Poland)

The knockout stages will be held at the Xiaomi Arena in Riga, Latvia.

EuroBasket history

The first edition of EuroBasket took place in Switzerland in 1935, three years after the establishment of the FIBA organisation, and consisted of 10 teams, with Latvia taking the inaugural title.

Lithuania claimed back-to-back titles in the second and third editions of the tournament before the 1941 event was cancelled due to World War II.

The competition returned in 1946 and Czechoslovakia triumphed before an extended period of dominance for the former Soviet Union, as they claimed 11 wins in 13 tournaments in a run spanning from 1947 to 1971.

Egypt competed in the competition from 1937 to 1953 and they claimed one title during that spell, with Hungary the other team to win the tournament during the Soviet stranglehold on EuroBasket.

Yugoslavia emerged as a power in 1973 and they defended the title in 1975 and 1977, while in recent years Spain have been the dominant force, winning all four of their titles in the last six editions of the tournament.

EuroBasket switched to using four countries as host nations in 2015 and since then games have been played in France, Croatia, Germany (twice), Finland, Latvia, Israel, Finland, Romania, Turkey, Czech Republic, Georgia and Italy.

EuroBasket 2025 will be the first time Cyprus and Poland have hosted games in the tournament proper. 

EuroBasket records and stats

• Most points - 1,183, Pau Gasol (Spain)
• Highest scoring average - 31.2, Nikos Galis (Greece)
• Most points in a game - 63, Eddy Terrace (Belgium)
• Most EuroBasket MVP awards - 2 Kresimir Cosic (Yugoslavia) and Pau Gasol (Spain)
• Most EuroBasket Top Scorer wins - 4, Nikos Galis (Greece) and Radivoj Korac (Yugoslavia)