Eurobasket Qualification phase

February 14, 2008

On Saturday will be decided what the groups will be for the Eurobasket 2009 qualifying phase. Eight teams already have their tickets, the first seven teams of Eurobasket 2007 and the organizing Poland.

So before the draw will start, there has been a division into different groups.  And these groups are based also on the last Eurobasket. So here they are

1. FRANCE
2. ITALY
3. PORTUGAL
4. ISRAEL

5.TURKEY
6. LATVIA
7. SERBIA
8. CZECH REPUBLIC

9. FYROM
10. BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA
11. UKRAINE
12. BULGARIA

13. ESTONIA
14. BELGIUM
15. HUNGARY
16. FINLAND
17. GREAT BRITAIN

So as you can see, Serbia and Turkey are only in the second group. So imagine you can have one really tough situation with Italy, Serbia, Ukraine and Estonia in one qualifying group. Knowing that only the winners and the three best second placed teams will qualify, this can become a very tough situation for some teams.

The draw will start on Saturday at 11 a.m. CET and there will probably be a Livecast on Fibaeurope.com

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Comments: 6
  1. Kerem
    17 years ago

    How the f**k is Portugal ahead of Turkey and Serbia?

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  2. 17 years ago

    very easy
    PORTUGAL 9th Place in EuroBasket 2007
    TURKEY 11th Place in EuroBasket 2007

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  3. Kris
    17 years ago

    I’m eager to see Great Britain if they can pull all their talents together.
    Ben Gordon should be getting his passport, same with Kelenna Azubuike and maybe Michael Olowokandi comes back too….don’t forget about Luol Deng, Andrew Betts, Joel Freeland , Nick George and Pops Mensah-Bonsu , that could be a huge team if they get all of them.

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  4. 17 years ago

    @Kris
    that’s a lot of if’s and also, who would be the coach to bring all those talents together and form a team within a few weeks?

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  5. 17 years ago

    Group A
    Italy, Serbia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Finland

    Group B
    Portugal, Latvia, FYROM, Estonia

    Group C
    France, Turquie, Ukraine, Belgium

    Group D
    Israel, Czech Republic, Bosnia, Great Britain

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  6. 17 years ago

    Here is the official way how the best second placed team will be decided

    The best second place teams are not decided by number of points they are decided by win-loss percentage. In the case of two teams having the same W/L % then the tiebreaker is goal average which is points scored divided by points allowed.

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