2025 FIBA Asia Cup qualification
The 2025 FIBA Asia Cup qualification was a basketball competition that was played from June 2022 to March 2025, to determine the fifteen FIBA Asia-Oceania nations who would join the automatically qualified host Saudi Arabia at the 2025 FIBA Asia Cup.
Format
The qualification process started in 2022, with pre-qualifiers being contested on sub-zone and regional basis. Eight teams advanced to the qualifiers, joining the sixteen teams from the 2023 FIBA World Cup Asian Qualifiers.Pre-qualifiers
First round
Teams played a round-robin tournament to determine the three best ranked teams that advanced to the second round.Teams from the WABA, GBA, CABA, and SABA sub-zones played in Group A and B, forming the West region. While teams from Oceania and the SEABA and EABA sub-zones played in Groups C and D, forming the East region. The groups were played at a single venue.
The teams were organized in four groups, according to the serpentine system, according to the FIBA World Ranking as follows:
Group A
The tournament was held in Qatar.Group B
The tournament was held in Palestine.Group C
A four-team tournament was scheduled to be held in Guam. After Hong Kong and Cambodia withdrew before the start of the competition, only one game was planned to be played with both teams advancing to the second round. In October 2022, Hong Kong re-entered the tournament, which was played in India in November 2022.Group D
The tournament was held in Mongolia.Second round
The 12 qualified teams were divided into two groups of six teams. The results against teams that advanced were carried over and the teams played against the teams they did not met in the first round. The top four teams of each group advanced to the qualifiers. The groups were played in a single venue.Group E
The tournament was held in Qatar.Group F
The tournament was held in Mongolia.Qualifiers
24 teams competed for 16 places at the final tournament. Matches were played over three windows: February 2024, November 2024 and February 2025. They also earned their place for the qualifiers of the 2027 FIBA Basketball World Cup in Qatar alongside Qatar who automatically qualified for the World Cup as host. The top two teams of each group qualified for the final tournament and the six third-placed teams played another qualifying tournament for the final four places.The draw took place on 19 September 2023.