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2008 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship

International basketball competition

Field	Value
continent	Europe U-18
year	2008
size	162
caption	2008 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship
host	Greece
dates	July 25 – August 3
teams	16
federations	49
venues	2
cities	2
champions	Greece
title_number	1
mvp	LIT Donatas Motiejūnas
ppg_p	BUL Zahariev (19.2)
ppg_t	(85.0)
rpg_p	TUR Kanter (14.6)
rpg_t	(43.1)
apg_p	CRO Prostran (5.0)
apg_t	(14.5)
website	Official website (archive)
prevseason	2007
nextseason	2009

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The 2008 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship was an international basketball competition held in Greece from July 25, 2008 until August 3. The hosts, Greeks, emerged as the champions after beating the Lithuanians in the final, 57–50 to clinch their first European Under-18 championship. The tournament served as the European Qualifiers for the 2009 FIBA Under-19 World Championship.

Participating teams

Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D

Squads

Main article: U18 European Championship Men 2008 squads

At the start of tournament, all 16 participating countries will have 12 players on their roster.

Venues

City	Arena	Capacity
Amaliada	Municipal Indoor Arena of Amaliada	2,000
Pyrgos	Municipal Indoor Arena of Pyrgos	3,000

Format

PRELIMINARY ROUND: 4 groups of 4 teams each, playing in a single round-robin elimination. The top 3 teams advance to the second round while the last placed team being eliminated.
SECOND ROUND: 12 teams left will be divided into 2 groups of six teams. All of the results earned from the second round shall be carried over to this round. The top two teams in both groups qualify for the semifinals and to the 2009 FIBA Under-19 Basketball World Cup. The remaining teams then proceed to their respective classification playoffs.
FINAL ROUND:
- 4-team knockout stage for the CHAMPIONSHIP;
- 4-team knockout stage for 5th–8th place classification playoffs;
- 4-team knockout stage for 9th–12th place classification playoffs.

Preliminary round

Teams are divided equally in 4 groups of four teams each and they will play in a single round-robin format. The top three teams in each group qualified for the second round while the last teams in each group were eliminated.

All times are local, UTC+3.

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Second round

Group E

World Cup

Group F

2009 FIBA Basketball Under-19 World Cup

Classification playoffs

9th–12th place classification playoffs

|August 2||80||73 |August 2||76||75 |August 3||95||72 |August 3||84||68

Classification Semifinals

Eleventh place match

Ninth place match

5th–8th place classification playoffs

|August 2||63||85 |August 2||107||91 |August 3||85||89 |August 3||69||71

Classification Semifinals

Seventh place match

Fifth place match

Winner qualified for the World Cup.

Final round

All times are local, UTC+3. |August 2||82||62 |August 2||55||79 |August 3||57||50 |August 3||73||68

Semifinals

Bronze medal match

Final

Final standings

The top 5 teams qualified for the 2009 FIBA Under-19 World Championship.

Awards

All-Tournament Team

Croatia Mario Delas
Greece Kostas Sloukas
Greece Nikos Pappas
Turkey Enes Kanter
Lithuania Donatas Motiejūnas

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