EuroBasket Women 2015

EuroBasket 2015 Women
35th FIBA European Women's Basketball Championship
Tournament details
Host nations	Hungary Romania
Dates	11–28 June
Teams	20 (from 31 federations)
Venues	8 (in 8 host cities)
< 2013 2017 >

The 2015 European Women Basketball Championship, commonly called EuroBasket Women 2015 will be the 35th edition of the continental tournament in women's basketball, sanctioned by the FIBA Europe. The tournament will be held in Hungary, that will host the championship for the fifth time after 1950, 1964, 1983 and 1997, and Romania that will host it for the second time after 1966 from 11–28 June 2015.^[1][2][3][4]

Host selection

Initially six member federations expressed their intention to organize the tournament: Belarus and Lithuania, who applied a joint bid;^[5] Hungary, Israel, Serbia and Spain.^[6] Lithuania later refused the plan of a joint bid^[7] and eventually two countries submitted an official candidation, Belarus and Hungary.

The final decision was made by the FIBA Europe Board on 18 December 2011 in their meeting in Munich, which awarded the organization rights to Hungary by majority vote. FIBA Europe president Ólafur Rafnsson was on the opinion that "it was an excellent choice as Hungary has tradition in basketball and especially in women's basketball." Attila Czene, State Minister for Sport of the Ministry of National Resources was also pleased, stating that the European Championship great opportunity to upgrade and expand the infrastructure, as Hungary's aim "is to invest in sport and basketball is a main team sport." "As a former Olympic champion, I am happy that we can reintroduce team sport in Hungary. Basketball is a bit behind handball right now and we are trying to close this gap, with 2015 we can start making progress" – he added.^[2]

Romanian Basketball Federation has announced that FIBA Europe board has granted them the rights to co-host EuroBasket Women in 2015 with Hungary. Originally Hungary applied to host and was awarded the tournament as the only host country. According to the announcement current plan has Romania hosting groups in Cluj-Napoca, Oradea and Timișoara.^[3][4][8]

Venues

Location	View	City	Arena	Capacity	Round
Budapest		Budapest	Syma Sport and Events Centre	5,500	Final round
Debrecen		Debrecen	Főnix Hall	5,500	Second round
Győr		Győr	Audi Aréna	5,000	Second round
Szombathely		Szombathely	Arena Savaria	4,000	First round
Sopron		Sopron	MKB Aréna Sopron	2,500	First round
Oradea		Oradea	Arena Antonio Alexe	2,500	First round
Timișoara		Timișoara	Sala Polivalentă "Politehnica"	3,000	First round

Qualification

The qualification was held from 7 June 2013 to 25 June 2014.

Qualified teams

Country	Qualified as	Date of qualification	Last appearance	Best placement in tournament	WR
Hungary	Host nation	02011-12-18-000018 December 2011	2009	Runner-up (1950, 1956)	55
Romania	Host nation	02012-05-19-000019 May 2012	2007	4th place (1962, 1964, 1966)	55
Turkey	Host nation of the 2014 FIBA World Championship for Women & 3rd place of EuroBasket Women 2013	02011-03-13-000013 March 2011	2013	Runner-up (2011)	13
Greece	Winner of 1st Qualification round	02013-06-25-000025 June 2013	2011	5th place (2009)	22
Serbia	4th place of EuroBasket Women 2013	02013-06-26-000026 June 2013	2013	4th place (2013)	29
Spain	Winner of EuroBasket Women 2013	02013-06-26-000026 June 2013	2013	Champion (1993, 2013)	6
Czech Republic	6th place of EuroBasket Women 2013	02013-06-27-000027 June 2013	2013	Champion (2005)	5
France	Runner-up of EuroBasket Women 2013	02013-06-27-000027 June 2013	2013	Champion (2001, 2009)	4
Belarus	5th place of EuroBasket Women 2013	02013-06-28-000028 June 2013	2013	3rd place (2007)	10
Croatia	Winner of Qualification group F	02014-06-22-000022 June 2014	2013	5th place (2011)	19
Sweden	Runner-up of Qualification group E	02014-06-22-000022 June 2014	2013	7th place (1987, 2013)	43
Latvia	Winner of Qualification group C	02014-06-22-000022 June 2014	2013	4th place (2007)	16
Poland	Runner-up of Qualification group A	02014-06-22-000022 June 2014	2011	Champion (1999)	39
Ukraine	Runner-up of Qualification group D	02014-06-23-000023 June 2014	2013	Champion (1995)	43
Russia	Winner of Qualification group E	02014-06-25-000025 June 2014	2013	Champion (2003, 2007, 2011)	3
Slovakia	Winner of Qualification group A	02014-06-25-000025 June 2014	2013	Runner-up (1997)	33
Italy	Runner-up of Qualification group C	02014-06-25-000025 June 2014	2013	Champion (1938)	28
Lithuania	Winner of Qualification group B	02014-06-25-000025 June 2014	2013	Champion (1997)	15
Great Britain	Runner-up of Qualification group B	02014-06-25-000025 June 2014	2013	9th place (2013)	24
Montenegro	Winner of Qualification group D	02014-06-25-000025 June 2014	2013	6th place (2011)	34

Draw

The draw was held on 29 November 2014 in Budapest, Hungary.^[9][10]

Seedings

The seeding was announced on 20 November 2014.^[9] According to the FIBA Europe regulations the participating nations are seeded based on their record in EuroBasket Women 2013 final tournament (shown in brackets for first 6 teams) or EuroBasket Women 2015 qualification (shown in brackets with symbol Q).^[9]

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4	Pot 5
Spain (1)  France (2)  Turkey (3)  Serbia (4)	Belarus (5)  Czech Republic (6)  Croatia (Q1)  Slovakia (Q2)	Lithuania (Q3)  Ukraine (Q4)  Poland (Q5)  Latvia (Q6)	Montenegro (Q7)  Russia (Q8)  Sweden (Q9)  Italy (Q10)	Great Britain (Q11)  Greece (Q1st)  Hungary (host)  Romania (host)

First round

Qualified to the second round

Group A

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
France	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Czech Republic	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ukraine	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Montenegro	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Romania	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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Group B

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
Turkey	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Belarus	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Poland	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Italy	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Greece	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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Group C

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
Serbia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Croatia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Latvia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Russia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Great Britain	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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Group D

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
Spain	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Slovakia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Lithuania	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sweden	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hungary	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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Second round

Qualified to the final round

Group E

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
A1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
B1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
A2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
B2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
A3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
B3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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Group F

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
C1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
D1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
C2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
D2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
C3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
D3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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Final round

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	24 June
	E1
					26 June
	F4
	24 June
	F2
									28 June
	E3
	25 June
	F1
					26 June
	E4
									Third place
	25 June
	E2
	F3
									28 June

5–8th place bracket

	5–8th place semifinals				Seventh place
	25 June
					27 June
					Fifth place
	26 June			27 June

Quarterfinals

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5–8th place semifinals

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Semifinals

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Seventh place game

Fifth place game

Third place game

Final

References

External links

• Official website

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