FIBA EuroBasket 2007 qualification
Qualification for the 2007 FIBA European Championship, commonly called FIBA EuroBasket 2007 took place between 31 August 2006 and 16 September 2007. A total of seven teams qualified for the tournament. Hosts Spain plus the eight European teams that participated in the 2006 [FIBA World Championship] qualified directly.
Format
National squads were divided in a two-tier system. Teams in Division A competed for direct qualification to FIBA EuroBasket 2007, while teams in Division B competed for two spots on the next tournament's Division A. Those two spots would correspond to the two teams from Division A that were relegated.Division A
- Teams were split into four groups of four teams each. The competition system was that of a double round-robin with home and away games where the winner from each group and the two best runners-up qualified to EuroBasket 2007.
- The remaining teams where split into three double round-robin groups, two of three teams and one of four teams, and competed in an additional qualifying round. The winners from each group formed an additional round-robin group where the best team earned the last berth for EuroBasket 2007. The three bottom teams from the additional qualifying round competed in another round-robin group where the bottom-two teams were relegated to Division B for the following tournament.
- Teams were split into two groups of four teams each, and one group of three teams. The competition system was that of a double round-robin with home and away games where the winner from each group plus the best runner-up where paired in two series of home-and-away games. The winner of each series is promoted to Division A for the next tournament.
Division A