On Friday, at the FIBA European Division Board meeting, it was decided to exclude the Russian and Belarusian national teams from the 2022/2023 season national team tournaments.
As the Russian national team had qualified for the final tournament of the adult championship, it will be replaced in the championship by Montenegro, which had the best winning and losing balance from the non-winning national team – 3-3. Latvia won the European Championship in 2022 in one of the six games, but Sweden, Denmark and Northern Macedonia won two of the teams left out of the final tournament.
Montenegro will take Russia’s place in subgroup A, where Tbilisi will be hosted by Georgia, Spain, Turkey, Belgium and Bulgaria.
The final tournament of the European Championship was moved from last year to 2022. The final tournament will take place from September 1 to 18 in four countries – the Czech Republic (Prague), Georgia (Tbilisi), Italy (Milan) and Germany (group tournament in Cologne, playoffs in Berlin). 24 teams will take part in it.
The teams in the European Championship are divided into four groups of six each. The four strongest teams in each group will enter the playoffs.
In 2017, Slovenia won Serbia in the final, while Spain won bronze medals.
Distribution of the 2022 European Championship final tournament groups:
Group A – Spain, Montenegro, Turkey, Georgia, Belgium, Bulgaria;
Group B – Slovenia, France, Lithuania, Germany, Hungary, Bosnia and Herzegovina;
Group C – Estonia, Italy, Greece, Croatia, Ukraine, Great Britain;
Group D – Serbia, Czech Republic, Finland, Poland, Israel, Netherlands.
