MUNICH (FIBA EuroBasket 2021 Pre-Qualifiers) – Following the completion of the First Round of the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019 European Qualifiers, the field has been set for the Second Round of the FIBA EuroBasket 2021 Pre-Qualifiers.

Eight teams – the bottom side from each group in the First Round of the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019 European Qualifiers – will join four teams – the three group winners and the best second-placed team – from the FIBA EuroBasket 2021 Pre-Qualifier First Round.

The teams have been divided into four groups of three teams, and will face every other team in their group in both home and away fixtures. The games will take place in the same windows as the FIBA Basketball World Cup Qualifiers, in September 2018, November 2018 and February 2019.

The winning team of each of the four groups will then move directly into the FIBA EuroBasket 2021 Qualifiers which start in autumn 2019. The losing teams meanwhile, will enter the Third Round of the Pre-Qualifiers in August 2019, where they will be joined by the five teams that were knocked out in the First Round of the Pre-Qualifiers, as they seek a second chance to make the Qualifiers.

The groups are as follows:

Group A

• Belarus
• Denmark
• Sweden

Group B

• Kosovo
• The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
• Romania

Group C

• Belgium
• Portugal
• Iceland

Group D

• Austria
• Armenia
• Great Britain

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