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2025 FIBA Asia Cup
| بطولة أمم آسيا لكرة السلة 2025 |
|---|
| Saudi Arabia |
| Jeddah |
| 5–17 August |
| 16 (from 1 confederation) |
| 1 (in 1 host city) |
| Australia (3rd title) |
| China |
| Iran |
| New Zealand |
| 36 |
| 39,473 (1,096 per game) |
| Jaylin Galloway |
| Muhammad-Ali Abdur-Rahkman (26.0 ppg) |
| 2025 FIBA Asia Cup |
The 2025 FIBA Asia Cup was the 31st edition of the FIBA Asia Cup, the continental men's basketball championship in Asia. It was held from 5 to 17 August 2025. The tournament was organized by FIBA Asia and returned to its usual four-year cycle, after the previous tournament was delayed to 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Saudi Arabia hosted the tournament for the second time after staging the 1997 edition.
Australia entered the tournament as defending champions after beating Lebanon in the 2022 final. They defended their title with a win over China in the final, 90–89.
On 7 December 2023, Saudi Arabia was selected to host the Asia Cup in 2025, with games to be played in Jeddah.
Map of qualifiers for the 2025 FIBA Asia Cup:.mw-parser-output .legend{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .legend-color{display:inline-block;min-width:1.25em;height:1.25em;line-height:1.25;margin:1px 0;text-align:center;border:1px solid black;background-color:transparent;color:black}.mw-parser-output .legend-text{} Team qualified for 2025 FIBA Asia Cup Team failed to qualify Did not enter
30 teams took part in qualification, including the hosts Saudi Arabia, who participated for preparation reasons.
The qualification started on 22 June 2022. Teams that did not manage to advance to the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup qualification and the teams that did not participate in it played in the first round of the pre-qualifiers. Pre-qualifiers were held in the western and eastern regions to determine the eight teams who will join the 16 teams that participated in the 2022 FIBA Asia Cup. In the qualifiers, 24 teams (12 in West and East region) are split into six groups of four, with three groups allocated to each region. The top two from each group qualified for the Asia Cup while the third place teams advanced to the final qualifying tournament, where the top two from each region qualifies for the Asia Cup.
Of the teams who qualified, 13 of them participated in the last edition. Guam will make their debut at this tournament, becoming the third Oceanian team to qualify for the tournament after Australia and New Zealand. Iraq and 2027 FIBA Basketball World Cup hosts Qatar, also qualified after missing out on 2022.
Of the teams who failed to qualify, Kazakhstan didn't advance after appearing at the previous four tournaments. Their non qualification marks the first time since 1993 that no countries from Central Asia will be present at the Asia Cup. 2022 FIBA Asia Cup and 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup hosts, Indonesia failed to qualify after losing all their games in the qualifiers. Bahrain also missed out, after losing both of their games in the final qualification round.
| Team | Qualification method | Date of qualification | Appearance(s) | Previous best performance | WR | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saudi Arabia | Host nation | 7 December 2023 | 10th | 1989 | 2022 | 2 | Third place (1999) | 65 |
| Australia | Group A top two | 24 November 2024 | 3rd | 2017 | 3 | Champions (2017, 2022) | 7 | |
| Japan | Group C top two | 30th | 1960 | 29 | Champions (1965, 1971) | 21 | ||
| Philippines | Group B top two | 25 November 2024 | 29th | 8 | Champions (1960, 1963, 1967, 1973, 1985) | 34 | ||
| New Zealand | 3rd | 2017 | 3 | Third place (2022) | 22 | |||
| Lebanon | Group F top two | 11th | 1999 | 4 | Runners-up (2001, 2005, 2007, 2022) | 29 | ||
| Jordan | Group D top two | 17th | 1983 | 10 | Runners-up (2011) | 35 | ||
| South Korea | Group A top two | 20 February 2025 | 31st | 1960 | 31 | Champions (1969, 1997) | 53 | |
| China | Group C top two | 24th | 1975 | 24 | Champions (Sixteen times) | 30 | ||
| Iran | Group E top two | 21 February 2025 | 19th | 1973 | 10 | Champions (2007, 2009, 2013) | 28 | |
| Qatar | 11th | 1991 | 2017 | 1 | Third place (2003, 2005) | 87 | ||
| Syria | Group F top two | 24 February 2025 | 8th | 1999 | 2022 | 3 | Fourth place (2001) | 71 |
| Chinese Taipei | Group G top two | 21 March 2025 | 26th | 1960 | 19 | Runners-up (1960, 1963) | 75 | |
| Guam | 1st | Debut | 91 | |||||
| India | Group H top two | 22 March 2025 | 27th | 1965 | 2022 | 11 | Fourth place (1975) | 81 |
| Iraq | 23 March 2025 | 5th | 1977 | 2017 | 1 | Sixth place (1977) | 93 |
The draw took place on 8 April 2025 in Jeddah.
Each group could contain only one team from the East Asia (EABA), Gulf (GBA) and Oceania region/sub-zones. Additionally, each group had to contain a minimum of one and a maximum of two teams from the West Asia (WABA) sub-zone.
The seeding was announced on 4 April 2025 and was based on the FIBA Men's World Ranking of 28 March 2025. Hosts Saudi Arabia had the right to choose which pot they were seeded in, and selected Pot 1.
| Team | Pos | Team | Pos | Team | Pos | Team | Pos |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saudi Arabia | 65 | ||||||
| Australia | 7 | ||||||
| Japan | 21 | ||||||
| New Zealand | 22 | ||||||
| Iran | 28 | ||||||
| Lebanon | 29 | ||||||
| China | 30 | ||||||
| Philippines | 34 | ||||||
| Jordan | 35 | ||||||
| South Korea | 53 | ||||||
| Syria | 71 | ||||||
| Chinese Taipei | 73 | ||||||
| India | 76 | ||||||
| Qatar | 87 | ||||||
| Guam | 88 | ||||||
| Iraq | 92 |
Each team has a roster of twelve players. A team may opt to allocate a roster spot to a naturalized player.
All times are local (UTC+3).
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 300 | 223 | +77 | 6 | Quarterfinals | |
| 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 255 | 266 | −11 | 5 | Playoffs | |
| 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 250 | 270 | −20 | 4 | ||
| 4 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 245 | 291 | −46 | 3 |
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 237 | 165 | +72 | 6 | Quarterfinals | |
| 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 271 | 209 | +62 | 5 | Playoffs | |
| 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 197 | 252 | −55 | 4 | ||
| 4 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 184 | 263 | −79 | 3 |
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 283 | 225 | +58 | 6 | Quarterfinals | |
| 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 249 | 225 | +24 | 5 | Playoffs | |
| 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 232 | 251 | −19 | 4 | ||
| 4 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 212 | 275 | −63 | 3 |
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 312 | 242 | +70 | 6 | Quarterfinals | |
| 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 260 | 265 | −5 | 5 | Playoffs | |
| 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 239 | 246 | −7 | 4 | ||
| 4 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 195 | 253 | −58 | 3 |
| Rank | Team | Record |
|---|---|---|
| Australia | 6–0 | |
| China | 5–1 | |
| Iran | 5–1 | |
| 4 | New Zealand | 4–2 |
| 5 | Chinese Taipei | 3–2 |
| 6 | South Korea | 3–2 |
| 7 | Philippines | 2–3 |
| 8 | Lebanon | 2–3 |
| 9 | Japan | 2–2 |
| 10 | Saudi Arabia | 2–2 |
| 11 | Jordan | 1–3 |
| 12 | Guam | 1–3 |
| 13 | Qatar | 0–3 |
| 14 | Iraq | 0–3 |
| 15 | India | 0–3 |
| 16 | Syria | 0–3 |
| 2025 FIBA Asia Cup champions |
|---|
| Australia3rd title |
The awards were announced on 17 August 2025.
| All-Tournament Team | ||
|---|---|---|
| Sina Vahedi Jaylin Galloway | Jack McVeigh Wang Junjie | Hu Jinqiu |
| MVP: Jaylin Galloway |
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