FIBA Basketball World Cup records

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

FIBA Basketball World Cup records are the records attained throughout the history of the FIBA Basketball World Cup.

General performances[]

Performances of host countries[]

Map of countries' best results

From 1959 to 1982, the host qualified directly to the final round, thus bypassing the preliminary round (group stages). As a result, the host's final rank would no worse than the number of teams in the final round (between six and eight); however, from 1986 the host was made to compete in the preliminary round.

However, the success rate of hosts winning the tournament is rather low (14%, 3 of 18), as compared to the FIFA World Cup's success rate of 22% (6 of 21); furthermore, no host has won the championship since Yugoslavia won in 1970, and only one host since then has won any type of medal (Turkey with a silver medal in 2010).

Year Host country When hosting Better when hosting? When not hosting
Performance Stage Performance Stage
1950  Argentina Champions Final round (1st of 6) Yes Runner-up Final
1954  Brazil Runner-up Final round (2nd of 8) No Champions Final round (1st of 7)
1959  Chile Third place Final round (3rd of 7) No Third place Final round (3rd of 6)
1963  Brazil Champions Final round (1st of 7) No Champions Final round (1st of 7)
1967  Uruguay Seventh place Final round (7th of 7) No Third place Final round (3rd of 7)
1970  Yugoslavia Champions Final round (1st of 7) No Champions Final
1974  Puerto Rico Seventh place Final round (7th of 8) No Fourth place Semifinals
1978  Philippines Eighth place Final round (8th of 8) No Third place Final round (3rd of 7)
1982  Colombia Seventh place Final round (7th of 7) Not applicable - only appearance is when they hosted
1986  Spain Fifth place 5th-place playoffs No Champions Final
1990  Argentina Eighth place Second round (4th of 4) No Runner-up Final
1994  Canada Seventh place 5th-place playoffs No Sixth place Final round (6th of 8)
1998  Greece Fourth place Semifinals No Runner-up Final
2002  United States Sixth place Quarterfinals No Champions Final
2006  Japan Seventeenth place Preliminary round (5th of 6) No 11th place Classification round (4th of 6)
2010  Turkey Runner-up Final Yes Sixth place Quarterfinals
2014  Spain Fifth place Quarterfinals No Champions Final
2019  China Twenty-fourth place Preliminary round (3rd of 4) No Eighth place 7th place classification game
2023  Philippines TBA TBA TBD Third place Final round (3rd of 7)
 Indonesia Not applicable - only appearance is when they hosted
 Japan TBD Eleventh place Classification round (4th of 6)

By top four finishes[]

Rank Nation Number of
appearances
Years in
semifinals
1.  United States 14 (1950, 1954, 1959, 1963, 1967, 1974, 1982, 1986, 1990, 1994, 1998, 2006, 2010, 2014)
2.  Yugoslavia /  FR Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) 10 (1963, 1967, 1970, 1974, 1978, 1982, 1986, 1990, 1998, 2002)
3.  Brazil 8 (1950, 1954, 1959, 1963, 1967, 1970, 1978, 1986)
 Soviet Union 8 (1963, 1967, 1970, 1974, 1978, 1982, 1986, 1990)
5.  Argentina 4 (1950, 2002, 2006, 2019)
6.  France 3 (1954, 2014, 2019)
 Greece 3 (1994, 1998, 2006)
 Spain 3 (1982, 2006, 2019)
9.  Chile 2 (1950, 1959)
 Italy 2 (1970, 1978)
 Lithuania 2 (2010, 2014)
 Russia 2 (1994, 1998)
 Serbia 2 (2010, 2014)
14.  Philippines 1 (1954)
 Formosa 1 (1959)
 Cuba 1 (1974)
 Puerto Rico 1 (1990)
 Croatia 1 (1994)
 Germany 1 (2002)
 New Zealand 1 (2002)
 Turkey 1 (2010)
 Australia 1 (2019)

Most Valuable Players[]

[1]

Year MVP National Team
1950 Argentina Oscar Furlong  Argentina
1954 United States Kirby Minter  United States
1959 Brazil Amaury Pasos  Brazil
1963 Brazil Wlamir Marques  Brazil
1967 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Ivo Daneu  Yugoslavia
1970 Soviet Union Sergei Belov  Soviet Union
1974 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Dragan Kićanović  Yugoslavia
1978 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Dražen Dalipagić  Yugoslavia
1982 Panama Rolando Frazer  Panama
1986 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Dražen Petrović  Yugoslavia
1990 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Toni Kukoč  Yugoslavia
1994 United States Shaquille O'Neal  United States
1998 Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Dejan Bodiroga Federal Republic of Yugoslavia FR Yugoslavia
2002 Germany Dirk Nowitzki  Germany
2006 Spain Pau Gasol  Spain
2010 United States Kevin Durant  United States
2014 United States Kyrie Irving  United States
2019 Spain Ricky Rubio  Spain

Top scorer by tournament[]

Points per game[]

[2][3]

Retrieved from ""