Co-organizer of Women’s Eurobasket 2025 Greece!
As announced by EECthe Peace and Friendship Stadium” will host the matches of one of the four groups of the competition, as well as the games of the final stage, which means that the new European champion will be crowned in Piraeus!
The games of the remaining groups of Eurobasket 2025 will be played in Bologna (Italy), Brno (Czech Republic) and Hamburg (Germany), with the organization doing a jumble on June 19 and to conclude with the grand final at SEF, on the 29th of the same month!
Present at the event will be National us, ensuring direct qualification as an organizer. 16 teams will participate in Eurobasket Women 2025, which will be divided into four groups of four. The teams that will finish in the first place of each group will qualify directly to the quarter-finals, while the teams that will finish in the 2nd-3rd places of each group will play a cross-match against each other with the background of qualifying for the “8”.
The EEC announcement in detail:
“The “Peace and Friendship” stadium in Piraeus will be the venue of the Women’s Eurobasket 2025 in Greece. SEF is the stadium where the final phase of the competition will be hosted, as well as the matches of one of the four groups.
Known for its history and for hosting top sporting events, the 11,847-seat stadium will add another major event to its resume, welcoming Women’s EuroBasket for the first time, while a year earlier it will also host one of the four Pre-Olympic Tournaments of FIBA.
The announcement of Piraeus, as the host city, coincides with the visit of the president of the Hellenic Republic, Katerina Sakellaropoulou, and the president of the EOK, Vangelis Lioliou, to the home of basketball in Geneva, where they met with the FIBA ​​Secretary General, Andreas Zagli.
Greece has hosted a Women’s EuroBasket in 2003 in Amaliada, Patras and Pyrgos and once again takes over the top European Women’s Basketball event!
“The rise in popularity of EuroBasket Women and women’s basketball in general in Europe is unprecedented in recent years and we are excited that our premier event will be held in a historic stadium,” said Kamil Novak, Executive Director of FIBA ​​Europe and added: “The choice of Piraeus as one of the host cities, together with the new format of EuroBasket where four cities host the four groups, gives the event itself and our athletes the ideal platform to expand its impact and influence Women’s basketball in Europe”.
EuroBasket 2025 will be the first to be hosted in four countries, as the Czech Republic, Germany, Greece and Italy are co-hosts. Brno in the Czech Republic, Bologna in Italy, Hamburg in Germany will be, together with Piraeus, the four cities that will host Eurobasket 2025.
The event will be held June 18-29 and the four host countries have already secured their qualification.
The remaining 32 teams will claim their qualification through the Qualifying Phase of EuroBasket 2025, which has already started and the last 12 tickets in the three windows held from November 2023 to February 2025″.
That @EuroBasketWomen 2025 is coming to SEF. The President of the Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou was present at the announcement at the FIBA ​​headquarters together with A. Zagli and B. Liolio!#EurobasketWomen #Mazi #HellasBasketball ??????https://t.co/5dqCda2FsD
— Hellenic Basketball (@HellenicBF) December 11, 2023
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