FIBA Basketball World Cup

The FIBA Basketball World Cup is an international <a href="/facts/Basketball/M5pl4Pzo">basketball</a> competition between the senior <a href="/facts/List_of_men%27s_national_basketball_teams/Lj0ByhNF">men's national teams</a> of the members of the <a href="/facts/FIBA/HpcjxLNh">International Basketball Federation</a> (FIBA), the sport's global governing body. It takes place every four years and is considered the flagship event of FIBA. 
From its inception in 1950 until 2010, the tournament was known as the FIBA World Championship. 
The tournament structure is similar, but not identical, to that of the <a href="/facts/FIFA_World_Cup/pGI0SF7r">FIFA World Cup</a>; the current format of the tournament involves 32 teams competing for the title at venues within the host nation. The FIBA Basketball World Cup and the FIFA World Cup were played in the same year as each other from 1970 through 2014. A parallel event for women's teams, now known as the <a href="/facts/FIBA_Women%27s_Basketball_World_Cup/NSVCJoqo">FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup</a>, is also held quadrennially. From 1986 through 2014, the men's and women's championships were held in the same year, though in different countries. Following the 2014 FIBA championships for men and women, the men's World Cup was scheduled on a new four-year cycle to avoid conflict with the FIFA World Cup. The men's World Cup was held in 2019, in the year following the FIFA World Cup. The women's championship, which was renamed from "FIBA World Championship for Women" to "FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup" after its 2014 edition, will remain on the previous four-year cycle, with championships in the same year as the FIFA World Cup.
The winning team receives the <a href="/facts/Naismith_Trophy/yseqmLge">Naismith Trophy</a>, first awarded in <a href="/facts/1967_FIBA_World_Championship/NfQd7XCr">1967</a>. The current champion is <a href="/facts/Germany_men%27s_national_basketball_team/WzsfK7fQ">Germany</a>, which defeated <a href="/facts/Serbia_men%27s_national_basketball_team/vUQurw3c">Serbia</a> in the final of the <a href="/facts/2023_FIBA_Basketball_World_Cup/SgCw0ebF">2023 tournament</a>.
The <a href="/facts/1994_FIBA_World_Championship/cBgXdQHm">1994 FIBA World Championship</a>, which was held in <a href="/facts/Canada/cWWFM8oc">Canada</a>, was the first FIBA World Cup tournament in which currently active US <a href="/facts/NBA/dBtflBtK">NBA</a> players that had already played in an official NBA regular season game were allowed to participate. All FIBA World Championship/World Cup tournaments since then are thus considered fully professional level tournaments.

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FIBA Basketball World Cup