17 February, 2020
28 August, 2021

How to qualify

How To Qualify

Road to the FIBA Asia Cup 2021



After the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup in November 2019, the qualification process for the 2021 FIBA Asia Cup begins. With the 16 FIBA Asia Cup 2017 teams and best 8 teams that played the Pre-Qualifiers during the previous qualification windows.

This makes a total of 24 teams playing qualification games for the 2021 FIBA Asia Cup. The 24 teams are divided into 6 groups of 4 teams and each team plays the other 3 teams on a home and away basis over 3 windows with 2 games per window.

The third place teams from each group will qualify to play in a Qualifying Tournament. if hosts Indonesia finish third (3rd) in their group, a total of five (5) teams will participate in the Qualifying Tournaments.

 

 

Event Timeline

  • 8 Jun 19 Draw
  • 20 Feb 20 Window 1
  • 27 Nov 20 Window 2
  • 18 Feb 21 Window 3
  • 12 Jun 21 Jordan bubble
  • 16 Jun 21 Philippines bubble
  • 20 Aug 21 Third ranked teams Qualifying Tournament