FIBA Asia Cup

The Asian Basketball Confederation (ABC) Championship was inaugurated in Manila in 1960. The championship was held to find Asia's best team and for qualification to the World Championship and the Olympics. On the next four tournaments, the Philippines won 3 with the Japanese beating the Filipinos in 1965. Korea, Japan and the Philippines split the next 3 championships until China debuted in 1975 at Bangkok with the championship, where they have dominated for 40 years.

Right after the Philippines had started sending amateur players when the Philippine Basketball Association was established in 1975 as the first professional basketball league in Asia and therefore not allowed to lend the country's best players,^{[citation needed]} China emerged as the new dominant country in Asian basketball.

From 1975 to 2007, there were only two instances where China did not win the championship. In 1985, the Philippines defeated a full-strength Chinese team, which were by then five-time defending champions, in the championship round. The Chinese then won every game in the championship until 1997, where they to lost to South Korea in the semi-finals where they complained about the climate in Riyadh.^{[citation needed]} The Koreans beat the Japanese in the final, but the Chinese would then start a championship streak of four tournaments, led by Yao Ming.

By 2005, the tournament had been renamed as the FIBA Asia Championship; in that year's tournament in Doha, the Chinese easily won against the Lebanese in the final. During the 2007 championship, the Chinese did not send their "A" team since they had already qualified to the Olympics by virtue of hosting it. In this championship, West Asian teams started to compete with the traditional East Asian powers, as evidenced of an all-West Asian final when Iran defeated Lebanon. In 2009, Iran defeated the Chinese team A in the 2009 final to become only the 3rd team to successfully defend the championship. The 2009 championship started a streak of finals contested between a team from the Middle East and a team from the Far East; in 2011, Iran was eliminated by Jordan in the quarterfinals, which would then lose to hosts China by one point in the final. The 2013 championship would be the first to be hosted outside East Asia since 2005 in the Philippines, the hosts, emerged as finalists; China had been eliminated by Chinese Taipei in the quarterfinals, which were then defeated by the Iranians, who then beat the Filipinos in the Final.

As FIBA implemented a new cycle and tournament format, the 2013 FIBA Asia Championship held in Manila and the 2015 FIBA Asia Championship held in Changsha were the last Asian Championships to serve as qualification to either the FIBA Basketball World Cup and the Olympic Games, respectively. The 2017 FIBA Asia Championship marked firsts and lasts for the Asian Championship, as it was the first Asian Championship as a standalone tournament, meaning it did not serve as the qualifier for either the Basketball World Cup or the Olympic Games. The 2017 tournament was the last Asian Championships to be ever held under a 2-year cycle. After 2017, the Asian Championships and the FIBA Oceania Championship merged into a tournament to be known as the FIBA Asia Cup. It was held every 4 years like the EuroBasket, AfroBasket and AmeriCup, which are held 2 years before/after the FIBA World Cup.

Qualification is via the different FIBA Asia subzones. The East, Gulf, Southeast and West subzones receive two berths each, while the Central and South zones get one each. The host and the champion from the preceding FIBA Asia Cup also get a berth each. Each subzone conducts a qualification tournament up to a year before the championship to determine the qualifying teams. The other four berths are distributed to the subzones in reference to their performance in the previous year's FIBA Asia Cup, with the subzone receiving an extra berth for each team in the top four excluding the champion and the host.

There had been a variety of tournament formats used before. Most were similar to the format of two group stages and a knockout stage. The current format, as first applied in 2017, is a multistage tournament. The 16 teams are grouped in four groups in the preliminary round. The teams play against each other once; the top team will directly advance to the quarterfinals, and the second placed teams will play an elimination game between the third placed team of another group. The four winning teams of the elimination games will advance to the quarterfinals. After the elimination games, the knock-out phase will follow.

The classification games will be conducted as follows:

1. 13–16th place games are for the teams eliminated from the group phase.
2. The 9th to 12th place games are for the losing teams of the elimination games.
3. The 5–8th place games are for the eliminated teams in the quarterfinals.

Most recent award winners (2022)

Year	Winner
2022	Wael Arakji

Year	Player	Position	Team
2022	Wael Arakji	Point guard	Lebanon
	Mitch McCarron	Shooting guard	Australia
	Tohi Smith-Milner	Power forward	New Zealand
	Thon Maker	Power forward/center	Australia
	Zhou Qi	Center	China

• Minimum of five games played (GP).^[3][4]

Rank	Player	Team	GP	Pts	PPG	Tournaments
1	Michael Madanly	Syria	11	314	28.5	2007,   2017
2	Sani Sakakini	Palestine	8	179	22.4	2015
3	Alkhas Zaid	Jordan	7	156	22.3	2003
4	Fadi El Khatib	Lebanon	39	860	22.1	2001,   2005,  2007,   2009,   2017
5	Jamal Abu-Shamala	Palestine	8	172	21.5	2015
6	Wael Arakji	Lebanon	10	212	21.2	2017,   2022
7	Abdullah Alsarraf	Kuwait	14	290	20.7	2003,   2005
8	A. Mohamad	Syria	7	139	19.9	2003
9	K. Satiyseelan	Malaysia	7	138	19.7	2003
10	Rasheim Wright	Jordan	26	504	19.4	2007,   2009,   2011

Rank	Player	Team	GP	Pts	PPG
1	Fadi El Khatib	Lebanon	39	860	22.1
2	Hamed Haddadi	Iran	60	855	14.3
3	Samad Nikkhah Bahrami	Iran	44	615	14.0
4	Yi Jianlian	China	36	551	15.3
5	Anton Ponomarev	Kazakhstan	43	548	12.7
6	Kim Joo-sung	South Korea	50	523	10.5
7	Rasheim Wright	Jordan	26	504	19.4
8	Daoud Musa Daoud	Qatar	45	487	10.8
9	Wang Zhizhi	China	34	472	13.9
10	Abdulrahman Saad	Qatar	41	467	11.4

Year	Player	Team	GP	Pts	PPG
2007	Michael Madanly	Syria	7	232	33.1
2007	Fadi El Khatib	Lebanon	8	218	27.3
2009	Rasheim Wright	Jordan	9	186	20.7
2011	Marcus Douthit	Philippines	9	197	21.9
2013	Hamed Haddadi	Iran	9	169	18.8
2017	Fadi El Khatib	Lebanon	7	181	25.9
2015	Sani Sakakini	Palestine	8	179	22.4

Year	Player	Team	GP	Reb	RPG
2007	Wissam Yakoub	Syria	7	74	10.6
2009	Hamed Haddadi	Iran	9	118	13.1
2011	Marcus Douthit	Philippines	9	110	12.2
2013	Hamed Haddadi	Iran	9	90	10.0
2015	Sani Sakakini	Palestine	8	101	12.6
2017	Hamed Haddadi	Iran	6	65	10.8

Year	Player	Team	GP	Ast	APG
2007	Sambhaji Kadam	India	7	28	4.0
2009	Samad Nikkhah Bahrami	Iran	9	43	4.8
2011	Mario Wuysang	Indonesia	5	32	6.4
2013	Mehdi Kamrani	Iran	9	59	6.6
2015	Imad Qahwash	Palestine	8	48	6.0
2017	Hamed Haddadi	Iran	6	39	6.5

A total of 33 national teams have appeared in at least one FIBA Asia Cup in the history of the tournament through the 2025 competition. Each successive Asia Cup has had at least one team appearing for the first time. Countries competing in their first Asia Cup are listed below by year.

Year	Debutants	Number
1960	Chinese Taipei,   Hong Kong,   Indonesia,   Japan,   Malaysia,   Philippines,   South Korea	7
1963	Singapore   Thailand,   Vietnam	10
1965	India	11
1967	None	11
1969	Pakistan	12
1971	None	12
1973	Iran	13
1975	China,   Kuwait,   Sri Lanka	16
1977	Bahrain,   Iraq	18
1979	Bangladesh	19
1981	None	19
1983	Jordan,   Macau	21
1985	None	21
1987	None	21
1989	Saudi Arabia	22
1991	North Korea,   Qatar	24
1993	United Arab Emirates	25
1995	Kazakhstan,   Kyrgyzstan,   Uzbekistan	28
1997	None	28
1999	Lebanon,   Syria	30
2001	None	30
2003	None	30
2005	None	30
2007	None	30
2009	None	30
2011	None	30
2013	None	30
2015	Palestine	31
2017	Australia,   New Zealand	33
2022	None	33
2025	TBD	33
Total		33

All-time statistics, as of the 2022 FIBA Asia Cup.

Team	GP	Won	Lost	Pct.
Australia	12	12	0	100.00%
Bahrain	62	20	42	32.26%
Bangladesh	25	0	25	0.00%
China	179	163	16	91.06%
Chinese Taipei	192	115	77	59.90%
Hong Kong	194	53	141	27.32%
India	178	71	107	39.89%
Indonesia	120	33	87	27.50%
Iran	134	90	44	67.16%
Iraq	29	14	15	48.28%
Japan	221	146	75	66.06%
Jordan	119	63	56	52.94%
Kazakhstan	67	28	39	41.79%
Kuwait	84	29	55	34.52%
Kyrgyzstan	8	3	5	37.50%
Lebanon	79	49	30	62.03%
Macau	12	0	12	0.00%
Malaysia	175	59	116	33.71%
New Zealand	13	8	5	61.54%
North Korea	14	10	4	71.43%
Pakistan	73	21	52	28.77%
Palestine	8	4	4	50.00%
Philippines	215	141	74	65.58%
Qatar	72	36	36	50.00%
Saudi Arabia	60	29	31	48.33%
Singapore	127	36	91	28.35%
South Korea	240	185	55	77.08%
Sri Lanka	46	0	46	0.00%
Syria	43	17	26	39.53%
Thailand	145	57	88	39.31%
United Arab Emirates	56	22	34	39.29%
Uzbekistan	45	17	28	37.78%
Vietnam	17	1	16	5.88%

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• Basketball at the Asian Games
• FIBA Basketball World Cup
• FIBA Asia Challenge
• FIBA Asia Under-20 Championship
• FIBA Asia Under-18 Championship
• FIBA Asia Under-16 Championship
• FIBA Asia Women's Cup