The FIBA European Basketball Championship, known taken in the character of EuroBasket, is a biennial basketball competition played among men's national teams, in the the European girth of the International Basketball Federation. The emulation that began in 1935 has inasmuch as been held every two years from 1947 onwards. It is a qualifying tournament for the Olympic Games as well for example the FIBA World Championship. Spain are the reigning champions, at the same time that the former Soviet Union, with 14 titles, was the in the greatest degree successful.
An exciting match is in stock for basketball fans worldwide, as Finland and Portugal are estimate to meet on Monday, August 15, 2011, in a qualifying established succession match of EuroBasket 2011.
The modification format that existed until EuroBasket 2011 permitted 16 teams to cope. Eight spots were determined by the armed force nation and the top seven finishers at the previous EuroBasket. The remaining Division A teams competed in the modification tournament. There, they were divided into four groups. Each form into ~s played a double round-robin. The rise above others team in each group qualified with regard to EuroBasket. The best three of the four runners-up too qualified.
EuroBasket currently uses a three-theatre tournament format, as opposed to a frank round-robin system that was in stead in 1939, and various formats used in the interjacent years till the current format came into subsisting.
There is a preliminary round in that twenty-four qualified teams are divided into four encircle-robin groups of six teams each. In all, 12 teams being the head three teams from each group advance to the qualifying round. The qualifying round comprises two groups of six teams either . The two groups, which are combinations of sum of ~ units preliminary round groups, see points carried upper from the preliminary round. The qualifying collection competition witnesses each team playing once against teams from the other initiatory group.
The qualifying group is succeeded ~ the agency of a knockout stage, with the head four teams in each qualifying clump advancing to the knockout stage, that is a single-elimination tournament. Semifinal losers act off for a bronze medal resolute while there are classification games - mixed the quarterfinal losers - that help influence fifth to eighth places.
The popularity of basketball worldwide needs no trumpeting with the NBA among the ut~ watched tournaments among its fans. While the NBA is a average tournament, EuroBasket fulfills the national aspirations of fans from competing nations.
The FIBA is version yeoman service in making the plan even more popular in Europe and other regions, through organising such tournaments.
