Basketball at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification

The men's qualification for the Olympic basketball tournament occurred between August 2023 and 2024,^[2] allocating twelve teams for the final tournament. All five FIBA (International Basketball Federation) zones were expected to have a representation in the Olympic basketball event.^[3]

As the host nation, France reserved a quota place in the men's 5×5 basketball; this was confirmed by a FIBA Central Board decision on 30 April 2023.^[3][4] The 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup produced seven directly qualified national teams for Paris 2024. The last four quota places were assigned to the winners of separate wild card tournaments.^[5]

Method

Twelve teams will participate in the men's basketball tournament, with each NOC sending a roster of 12 players.

Host nation

As the host nation, France reserved a direct quota place in the men's basketball subject to the FIBA Central Board decision originally to be made on 30 June 2023.^[3] Their automatic qualification was confirmed by the FIBA Central Board decision on 30 April 2023.^[4]

Qualification via World Cup

Similar to the 2019 format, the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup distributed seven quota places to the best teams from respective continents based on the final classification as follows:^[3]

• FIBA Africa – 1 team
• FIBA Americas – 2 teams
• FIBA Asia – 1 team
• FIBA Europe – 2 teams
• FIBA Oceania – 1 team

Qualification via the wild card tournament

The four remaining quota places were attributed to the 12-team field through the two-round FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournaments. The first rounds, the FIBA Olympic pre-qualifying tournaments (FOPQTs), were played at the continental level and the second, the FIBA Olympic qualifying tournaments (FOQTs), at the global level.^[1]

Participation in the FIBA Olympic pre-qualifying tournaments

Forty teams that failed to qualify for the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup were eligible to participate in the FOPQTs. For each continent, teams were selected by competing in the second round of 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup qualification and by certain qualification or ranking criteria among those that did not play in the second round.^[6]

• FIBA Africa – 8 teams: 7 teams eliminated from the second round of the African qualifiers for the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup, along with the highest-ranked team by FIBA ranking that did not play in the second round.
• FIBA Americas – 8 teams: 5 teams eliminated from the second round of the Americas qualifiers for the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup, along with three of the highest-ranked teams by FIBA ranking that did not play in the second round.
• FIBA Asia and FIBA Oceania – 8 teams: 4 teams eliminated from the second round of the Asia and Oceania qualifiers for the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup, along with the four teams eliminated from the first round
• FIBA Europe – 16 teams: 12 teams eliminated from the second round of the European qualifiers for the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup, along with the four teams advanced from the second round of EuroBasket 2025 pre-qualifiers to qualifiers.

From the Africa, Americas, and Asia tournaments, the winner advanced to the FOQTs, while two teams from European FOPQTs clinched their spot at FOQTs.

Participation in the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournaments

Twenty-four teams participated in four tournaments with winners earning the last four berths at the Olympics. Along with the five teams advanced from FOPQTs, 19 teams were selected based on their performance at 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup:

• FIBA Africa – the highest-ranked team from Africa at the World Cup apart from direct qualifiers
• FIBA Americas – the highest-ranked team from the Americas at the World Cup apart from direct qualifiers
• FIBA Asia and FIBA Oceania – the highest-ranked team from Asia/Oceania at the World Cup apart from direct qualifiers
• The next sixteen best-placed teams not directly qualified for the Olympics

Qualified teams

Qualification method[5]		Date	Venue	Berths	Qualified team
Host nation		—	—	1	France
2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup	Africa	25 August – 10 September 2023	Philippines Indonesia Japan	1	South Sudan
	Americas			2	Canada
					United States
	Asia			1	Japan
	Europe			2	Germany
					Serbia
	Oceania			1	Australia
2024 FIBA Men's Olympic Qualifying Tournaments		2–7 July 2024	Valencia	1	Spain
			Riga	1	Brazil
			Piraeus	1	Greece
			San Juan	1	Puerto Rico
Total				12

Qualification via 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup ranking

Main article: 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup

Final standing by FIBA zone

	Qualify for the 2024 Summer Olympics via sub-zone rank
	Qualify for the 2024 FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament
	Qualify for the 2024 Summer Olympics as the host country

#	FIBA Africa (1/5 teams)		FIBA Americas (2/7 teams)		FIBA Asia (1/6 teams)		FIBA Europe (2/12 teams)		FIBA Oceania (1/2 teams)
	Team	W–L	Team	W–L	Team	W–L	Team	W–L	Team	W–L
1	South Sudan	3–2	Canada	6–2	Japan	3–2	Germany	8–0	Australia	3–2
2	Egypt	2–3	United States	5–3	Lebanon	2–3	Serbia	6–2	New Zealand	2–3
3	Angola	1–4	Puerto Rico	3–2	Philippines	1–4	Latvia	6–2
4	Ivory Coast	1–4	Brazil	3–2	China	1–4	Lithuania	6–2
5	Cape Verde	1–4	Dominican Republic	3–2	Iran	0–5	Slovenia	5–3
6			Mexico	2–3	Jordan	0–5	Italy	4–4
7			Venezuela	0–5			Spain	3–2
8							Montenegro	3–2
9							Greece	2–3
10							Georgia	2–3
11							France	3–2
12							Finland	2–3

FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournaments

Main article: 2024 FIBA Men's Olympic Qualifying Tournaments

Qualification method	Places	Qualified team
2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup
Highest-ranked eligible team – Africa	1	Egypt
Highest-ranked eligible team – Americas	1	Puerto Rico
Highest-ranked eligible team – Asia and Oceania	1	New Zealand
Top 16 eligible teams	16	Latvia
		Lithuania
		Slovenia
		Italy
		Spain
		Montenegro
		Brazil
		Dominican Republic
		Greece
		Georgia
		Finland
		Lebanon
		Philippines
		Mexico
		Angola
		Ivory Coast
2023 FIBA Olympic Pre-Qualifying Tournaments (OPQT)
Winner – FIBA Africa	1	Cameroon
Winner – FIBA Americas	1	Bahamas
Winner – FIBA Asia	1	Bahrain
Winner – FIBA Europe (OPQT1)	1	Poland
Winner – FIBA Europe (OPQT2)	1	Croatia
Total	24

FIBA Olympic Pre-Qualifying Tournaments

Main article: 2024 FIBA Men's Pre-Qualifying Olympic Qualifying Tournaments

The tournaments were held from 12 to 20 August 2023.^[7] The draw took place on 1 May 2023.^[8] The host cities and seedings were announced on 29 April 2023.^[9]

FIBA Africa

Qualification method		Places	Qualified team
2023 FIBA World Cup Qualifiers – Africa	Third (worst-ranked)	1	Senegal
	Fourth	2	Nigeria
			Tunisia
	Fifth	2	Guinea
			DR Congo
	Sixth	2	Uganda
			Cameroon
FIBA World Rankings – Africa (November 2022)		1	Mali
Total		8

FIBA Asia and Oceania

Qualification method		Places	Qualified team
2023 FIBA World Cup Qualifiers – Asia	Round 2 – Fifth	2	Saudi Arabia
			Kazakhstan
	Round 2 – Sixth	2	India
			Bahrain
	Round 1 – Fourth	4	South Korea
			Chinese Taipei
			Indonesia
			Syria
Total		8

FIBA Americas

Qualification method		Places	Qualified team
2023 FIBA World Cup Qualifiers – Americas	Fourth (worst-ranked)	1	Argentina
	Fifth	2	Panama
			Uruguay
	Sixth	2	Bahamas
			Colombia
FIBA World Rankings – Americas (November 2022)		3	Virgin Islands
			Chile
			Cuba
Total		8

FIBA Europe

Qualification method		Places	Qualified team
2023 FIBA World Cup Qualifiers – Europe	Fourth	4	Turkey
			Sweden
			Hungary
			Iceland
	Fifth	4	Belgium
			Israel
			Bosnia and Herzegovina
			Ukraine
	Sixth	4	Great Britain[a]
			Estonia
			Czech Republic
			Netherlands
EuroBasket 2025 Pre-Qualifiers	First	3	North Macedonia
			Poland
			Portugal
Reallocation of unused quota		1	Croatia
FIBA World Rankings – Europe (November 2022)		1	Bulgaria[b]
Total		16

Notes

1. Great Britain withdrew before the start of the tournament.^[8]
2. With a final decision made to decline Russia's entry in April because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Bulgaria was the next highest-ranked European team.^[8]