BEIRUT (Lebanon) - The FIBA Regional Office-Asia on Thursday, Oct 29 2026, announced that the FIBA Asia Cup 2029 Pre-Qualifiers Second Round will be played in Lebanon and Mongolia this coming November.
Twelve teams have made it to the Second Round coming from four different groups of the FIBA Asia Cup 2029 Pre-Qualifiers First Round and are now drawn into two groups of six teams each.
Group E games involving six teams will be played in Zouk Mikael (Lebanon), while Group F games involving six other teams will be played in Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia).
All teams carry forward their results from the FIBA Asia Cup 2029 Pre-Qualifiers First Round and play against teams from another group in the FIBA Asia Cup 2029 Pre-Qualifiers Second Round.
The top four teams from each group in the Second Round will make it to the FIBA Asia Cup 2029 Qualifiers, joining the sixteen automatically qualified teams – by virtue of their participation in the FIBA Asia Cup 2025 in Jeddah (Saudi Arabia) – in the FIBA Asia Cup 2029 Qualifiers.
The FIBA Asia Cup 2029 Qualifiers will comprise three International Windows followed by two FIBA Asia Cup 2029 Qualifying Tournaments for third-placed teams to ascertain the sixteen teams that will feature in the FIBA Asia Cup 2029.
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