FIBA excluded Russia and Belarus from Eurobasket 2025

The ongoing war in Ukraine it still affects sports as well.

After FIBA’s initiative to exclude the Russian national team from the next ones Olympic Gamesthe world basketball federation made another similar decision regarding Eurobasket 2025.

Specifically, FIBA ​​announced that the Russia and the Belarus they will not be able to compete in the qualifiers of the European championship, which practically means that there is no way for them to compete in the finals of the competition.

We remind you that Eurobasket of 2025 will be jointly organized by four countries: Latvia, Cyprus, Finland and Poland.

FIBA’s announcement:

“With this letter, we would like to inform you that the FIBA ​​Europe Executive Committee has unanimously decided not to allow the registration of the Belarus and Russia men’s national team in the FIBA ​​EuroBasket 2025 Qualifiers, with the Third Round scheduled to take place in July-August 2023.

Following the recommendation issued by the International Olympic Committee (“Teams of athletes with Russian and Belarusian passports cannot be considered”), the FIBA ​​Executive Committee decided last week not to allow the registration of the Russian men’s national team in its Olympic Qualifier FIBA. -Qualifying Tournament 2023 (FIBA Pre-OQTS)’.