2016 FIBA Asia Under-18 Championship
The 2016 FIBA Asia Under-18 Championship was the 24th edition of the Asian basketball championship for under-18 men. The tournament was held in Tehran, Iran, from 22 to 31 July 2016. It also served as a qualification for the 2017 FIBA Under-19 World Championship in Egypt, where the top three teams qualified. This was the second time the country hosted the tournament after successfully staging the 20th edition eight years ago.
Iran as the host team won the tournament after defeating Japan in the final, 71–65, to secure their third FIBA Asia Under-18 Championship title.
Qualification
Allocation of berths
According to FIBA Asia rules, the number of participating teams in the FIBA Asia Under-18 Championship was set at 16. The hosts and the defending champions qualified automatically. All FIBA Asia subzones got two berths each, except for the Central and South Asian subzones, which got one berth each. The last four berths were allocated to subzones based on their teams' results in the 2014 FIBA Asia Under-18 Championship.Qualified teams
Only four teams from the East Asia subzone entered despite being allocated six berths.No teams from the Gulf subzone entered despite being allocated two berths.
Draw
Eventually, only 12 teams participated in this tournament. The FIBA Boys' World Rankings as of 31 December 2015 are shown in parentheses.| Group A | Group B |
Venue
This year's tournament was held at the Twelve Thousand People Sport Hall, located in the north & south of the main street of the Azadi Sport Complex.Preliminary round
''All times are in Iran Standard Time ''Referees
The following referees were selected for the tournament.- Hadi Salem
- Zhoobin Jalili
- Mohsen Roushan Zamir
- Zhu Haiying
- Johan Christiana
- Imran Ali Baig
- Hawar Mohammed
- Shigeyuki Arisawa
- Arsen Andryushkin
- Hamlet Arakelyan
- Yevgeniy Mikheyev
- Alexey Stepanenko
- Lee Seung-Mu
- Rabah Noujaim
- Joenard Garcia
- Nattapong Jontapa
- Wei Sheng-Hsuan
Final rankings
| Position | Team | Record |
| 6–2 | ||
| 5–3 | ||
| 6–2 | ||
| 4th | 5–3 | |
| 5th | 7–1 | |
| 6th | 5–3 | |
| 7th | 3–5 | |
| 8th | 2–6 | |
| 9th | 1–4 | |
| 10th | 1–4 | |
| 11th | 1–4 | |
| 12th | 0–5 |