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2025 FIBA Asia Cup
Tournament details
Host country	Saudi Arabia
City	Jeddah
Dates	5–17 August
Teams	16 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Official website
	2025 FIBA Asia Cup
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The 2025 FIBA Asia Cup will be the 31st edition of the FIBA Asia Cup, the continental basketball championship in Asia. The tournament will be organised by FIBA Asia.

Saudi Arabia will the host for second time after staging the 1997 edition.^[1] It will take place between 5 and 17 August 2025.

Australia enter the tournament as defending champions after beating Lebanon in the 2022 final.^[2]

Host selection

On 7 December 2023, Saudi Arabia was selected to host the upcoming Asia Cup in 2025, with games to be played in Jeddah.^[3]

Qualification

The qualification started on 22 June 2022. Teams that did not manage to advance to the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup qualification and the teams that did not participate in it played in the first round of the pre-qualifiers. Pre-qualifiers were held in the western and eastern regions to determine the eight teams who will join the 16 teams that participated in the 2022 FIBA Asia Cup. Below is the list of qualified teams to the 2025 FIBA Asia Cup. Saudi Arabia qualified by virtue of being confirmed as host on 7 December 2023, although they have entered the qualification process prior to the confirmation of their hosting.

Qualified teams

Team	Qualification method	Date of qualification	App	Last	Best placement in tournament
Saudi Arabia	Host nation	7 December 2023	10th	2022	3rd place (1999)
Australia	Group A top two	24 November 2024	3rd		Champions (2017, 2022)
Japan	Group C top two	24 November 2024	30th		Champions (1965, 1971)
Philippines	Group B top two	25 November 2024	29th		Champions (1960, 1963, 1967, 1973, 1985)
New Zealand	Group B top two		3rd		3rd place (2022)
Lebanon	Group F top two		11th		Runners-up (2001, 2005, 2007, 2022)
Jordan	Group D top two		17th		Runners-up (2011)