Basketball at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification

A total of 12 teams will take part in the Olympics, with each NOC sending in one team.

There were a total of 5 zonal tournaments (doubling as intercontinental championships) that determined the qualifying teams, with a total of 7 teams qualifying outright. Each zone was allocated with the following qualifying berths:

• FIBA Africa: 1 team (Champion)
• FIBA Americas: 2 teams (Champion and runner-up)
• FIBA Asia: 1 team (Champion)
• FIBA Europe: 2 teams (Champion and runner-up)
• FIBA Oceania: 1 team (Champion)

Furthermore, the current world champion, the United States qualified automatically by winning at the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup.

The host nation (Brazil) qualified after FIBA voted to allow them to qualify as hosts in a meeting at Tokyo in August 2015.

The additional three teams will be determined at the 2016 FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Men, with the best non-qualifying teams participating from teams that did not qualify outright. Each zone was allocated with the following berths:

• Hosts: 3 teams
• FIBA Africa: 3 teams
• FIBA Americas: 3 teams
• FIBA Asia: 3 teams
• FIBA Europe: 5 teams
• FIBA Oceania: 1 team

There would be three tournaments, with the winners in each tournament winning a berth to the Olympics. All teams that are participating in the continental championships are allowed to bid as hosts. If the host team already qualified outright, the next best team from its continent would be invited to participate instead of them.

Hosts Tunisia and defending champions Angola qualified automatically. The other berths were disputed per each FIBA Africa zone, with three wild card berths awarded to complete the 16-team roster.

Zone 1 # Team W–L Qualification  Morocco 2–1 Qualify to the AfroBasket  Algeria 2–1 Selected as a wild card  Libya 0–2 Withdrew

Zone 2 Group B # Team W–L Qualification  Mali 2–0 Qualify to the AfroBasket  Senegal 0–2 Selected as a wild card Group C # Team W–L Qualification  Cape Verde 2–0 Qualify to the AfroBasket  Guinea 0–2

Zone 3 Group D # Team W–L Qualification  Ivory Coast 2–0 Qualify to the AfroBasket  Benin 0–2 Group E # Team W–L Qualification  Nigeria 2–0 Qualify to the AfroBasket  Burkina Faso 0–2

Zone 4 Group F # Team W–L Qualification  Cameroon 2–0 Qualify to the AfroBasket  Congo 0–2 Group G # Team W–L Qualification  Gabon 3–1 Qualify to the AfroBasket  Central African Republic 2–2 Selected as a wild card  Chad 1–3

Zone 5 # Team W–L Qualification  Egypt 4–0 Qualify to the AfroBasket  Uganda 3–1  Rwanda 2–2 4  Kenya 1–3 5  Somalia 0–4

Zone 6 Group I # Team W–L Qualification  Zimbabwe 3–1 Qualify to the AfroBasket  South Africa 2–2  Seychelles 1–3 Group J # Team W–L Qualification  Mozambique 2–0 Qualify to the AfroBasket  Botswana 0–2

Qualification in the FIBA Americas was first via the Central American and Caribbean championships, where the top three teams in each tournament advance to the Centrobasket, where four FiBA Americas Championship berths were up for grabs. Four berths were disputed in the South American Championship. Mexico, which had already qualified, were awarded hosting duties. Canada and the USA are automatic entrants, but world champions USA chose to skip the tournament as they had already qualified via the World Cup.

Central America # Team W–L Qualification  Mexico 3–0 Qualify to the Centrobasket  El Salvador 2–1  Costa Rica 1–2 4  Honduras 0–3

Caribbean # Team W–L Qualification  Bahamas 4–1 Qualify to the Centrobasket  Cuba 3–2  Virgin Islands 4–1 4  British Virgin Islands 2–3 5  Guyana 2–3 6  Barbados 2–3 7  Antigua and Barbuda 2–3 8  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1–4

Central America and Caribbean Main article: 2014 Centrobasket # Team W–L Qualification  Mexico 6–0 Qualify to the Americas Championship  Puerto Rico 4–2  Dominican Republic 5–1 4  Cuba 3–3 5  Panama 2–2 6  Virgin Islands 2–2 7  Bahamas 1–3 8  Jamaica 1–3 9  Costa Rica 0–4 10  El Salvador 0–4

South America Main article: 2014 South American Basketball Championship # Team W–L Qualification  Venezuela 4–1 Qualify to the Americas Championship  Argentina 4–1  Brazil 3–2 4  Uruguay 2–3 5  Paraguay 3–2 6  Chile 2–3 7  Ecuador 1–4 8  Peru 0–5

Qualification in FIBA Asia was done in two stages. First, on the FIBA Asia Cup, the winner qualifies to the FIBA Asia Championship, while the second to fifth-ranked team get additional berths for their respective FIBA Asia subzones. The second stage was via the subzones. The East Asia subzone chose to award its berths based on the FIBA World Rankings, as no country was willing to host the championship.

There were two rounds of qualification for EuroBasket. On the first round, the group winners qualify to a knockout stage; the winner qualifies to the championship, all other teams, including those eliminated in the group stages, participate in the second round, where the group winners and the runners-up, except for the team with worst record, qualifies to the final tournament. European teams that participated in the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup also Qualify to the final tournament. Hosts Ukraine were stripped of the hosting duties, but still were retained by virtue of participating in the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup; instead hosting rights were awarded to four countries: Croatia, France, Germany and Latvia, each hosting a preliminary round group, with France hosting the final round.

In 2016 three qualifying tournaments, each producing a team which qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics. They were held on 4–10 July 2016 in Turin, Manila and Belgrade.[1] Serbia, Croatia and France qualified for the Olympics as a result of these tournaments.

The format consisted of 18 national teams divided into three tournaments of six teams each, with the winning team from each event qualifying for the Olympics. The draw for the Olympic qualifiers took place at The House of Basketball in Mies, Switzerland on 26 January 2016.[2] The teams were divided into six pots. The draw had three parts. The first part determined in which of the three qualifying tournaments would each team participate, except for the host countries. The second part determined the grouping of each team (Group A or Group B) and the third part determined their position from 1 to 3, which would be used to determine the fixtures.[3]

The teams' FIBA World Rankings on the day of the draw are shown in brackets.[4]

Turin Main article: 2016 FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament – Turin # Team W–L Qualification  Croatia 3–1 Qualify to the Olympics  Italy 3–1  Greece 2–1 4  Mexico 1–2 5  Iran 0–2 6  Tunisia 0–2

Manila Main article: 2016 FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament – Manila # Team W–L Qualification  France 4–0 Qualify to the Olympics  Canada 3–1  New Zealand 1–2 4  Turkey 1–2 5  Senegal 0–2 6  Philippines 0–2

Belgrade Main article: 2016 FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament – Belgrade # Team W–L Qualification  Serbia 4–0 Qualify to the Olympics  Puerto Rico 2–2  Latvia 2–1 4  Czech Republic 1–2 5  Angola 0–2 6  Japan 0–2