FIBA EuroBasket 2025: Teams to be hosted by Cyprus to announced, ticket sales to begin

The Cyprus National Team will learn which teams will be its opponents in the FIBA ​​EuroBasket 2025 group stage today during the group draw for the competition.

The Thursday, 27 March group draw ceremony will take place at the Riga Circus venue in the Latvian capital, and will begin at 3pm Cyprus time.

According to the Cyprus Basketball Federation, its President Andreas Mouzourides (pictured above), the President of the FIBA ​​EuroBasket 2025 Organising Committee in Cyprus Mark Klerides and the Director of the Organising Committee, Athos Antoniou, will be present.

The draw will be broadcast live on a special broadcast on the Federation’s YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@BasketCyprus) with presenters Herodotus Miltiadous and Louis Patsalides, where there will be a direct connection with Riga and several guests in the studio in Nicosia.

Group A will be held in Riga, Latvia, Group B in Tampere, Finland, Group C in Limassol and Group D in Katowice, Poland.

The matches in Cyprus will be held between 28 August and 4 September. The day after the draw, at 9pm on Friday, 28 March, tickets for all 15 individual matches will go on sale via the website more.com.

The four co-host countries have selected one partner country, which will be placed in the same group.

Cyprus has chosen Greece, Latvia has chosen Estonia, Finland has chosen Lithuania and Poland has chosen Iceland.

The 24 teams will be drawn into four groups of six teams, while the capacity groups have been divided based on the FIBA ​​Men's World Ranking.

The hosts and partner countries will be placed in the groups first, before the remaining teams follow.

Through the draw, the schedule of the matches to be held will also be determined.

The capacity groups, in view of the draw, are:

1st group

• Serbia, Germany, France, Spain

2nd group

• Latvia (co-organiser), Lithuania (Finland group), Slovenia, Greece (Cyprus group)

3rd group

• Italy, Montenegro, Poland (co-organiser), Czech Republic

4th group

• Finland (co-organiser), Georgia, Turkey, Israel

5th group

• Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Estonia (Latvia group), Great Britain

6th group

• Sweden, Iceland (Poland group), Portugal, Cyprus (co-organiser)

(Source: InBusinessNews)