Beijing time on July 5, Chinese menβs basketball team achieved 4 wins and 2 losses in Group B of the World Preliminaries, ranking second in the group and advancing to the second stage of the World Preliminaries. The opponents of the Chinese men's basketball team in the second stage of the world preliminaries have also been announced. The Chinese team will compete with the top three in Group D, and will have two games each with Kazakhstan , Iran and Bahrain . The Chinese team will also launch an all-out attack to obtain tickets to the 2023 Men's Basketball World Cup.
The 2023 Men's Basketball World Cup will have 32 teams participating, of which the Asia Region has 8 places including the host. This Men's Basketball World Cup will be co-sponsored by Japan, the Philippines and Indonesia. Among them, Japan and the Philippines will directly qualify for the finals. The other host, Indonesia, needs to break into the Men's Basketball Asian Cup that will start this month. Only the top eight can qualify for the World Cup finals. This also means that the top players in Asia will compete for 5-6 places in the Men's Basketball World Cup in the second stage of the World Cup preliminaries.
According to the grouping rules of the men's basketball World Cup preliminaries, in the second stage of the competition, the qualifying teams of Group A and Group C will form Group E; the qualifying teams of Group B and Group D will form Group F. The results of the first stage of the group stage will be carried into the second stage; and the teams that have played against each other in the first stage of the group stage will no longer face each other in the second stage.
The four teams in Group D are Kazakhstan, Iran, Syria and Bahrain. After 6 rounds of group stage competition, Kazakhstan, Iran and Bahrain secured the top three in the group and successfully qualified for the second stage.
For the Chinese men's basketball team, the second stage of the World Cup preliminaries will also face a real test. We look forward to the Chinese menβs basketball team continuing to bring joy to fans and entering the 2023 Menβs Basketball World Cup.
The second stage group
E group: New Zealand , Philippines, India, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia , Jordan
F group: Australia, China, Japan, Kazakhstan, Iran, Bahrain
Chinese men's basketball second stage schedule
2022 8 China VS Kazakhstan
August 29, 2022 China VS Bahrain
November 11, 2022 China VS Iran
November 14, 2022 China VS Bahrain
February 23, 2023 China VS Kazakhstan
February 26, 2023 China VS Iran