The Polish basketball team will be one of the hosts of this year's Eurobasket, which will also take place in Finland, Latvia and Cyprus. The team led by Igor Militia has just met rivals in the group stage.
Polish basketball players met their rivals in Eurobasket 2025. It will happen!
Before the draw, each of the hosts could choose a partner federation, officially in terms of commercial and marketing criteria. Poles who will play in group D (Katowice) indicated Iceland.
Slovenia automatically joined these two teams, which was the only team in the second basket outside the group of the hosts or chosen as a partner federation. This is good news for Polish fans that at the end of 2024, Luka Donć, a great NBA star, announced their participation in the continent championships. And it is worth recalling that three years ago Poles played Slovenes (90:87) in the quarter -finals of the European Championships.
Division into baskets before the draw of EuroBasket groups 2025 (according to the position in the FIBA ranking)
- Basket 1: Serbia, Germany, Spain, France
- Basket 2: Latvia (host), Lithuania (partner federation of the Finns), Slovenia, Greece (Cypriots' Partner Federation)
- Basket 3: Italy, Montenegro, Poland (host), Czech Republic
- Basket 4: Finland (host), Georgia, Türkiye (could not be in group C), Israel
- Basket 5: Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Estonia (Latvian Federation), Great Britain
- Basket 6: Sweden, Iceland (partner Federation of Poles), Portugal, Cyprus (host)
The group's draw took place in Riga. Poles were waiting primarily for a rival from the first basket. They fell into France, European and Olympic runners -up, in which the composition will be able to appear, among others known from NBA Rudy Gobert and Victor Wembanyama – the latter may play against club colleague Jeremy Sochan. In addition, the teams of Belgium and Israel will come to Katowice.
See also: Sochan's great match! When he heard it, he said only two words
The results of the Eurobasket group draws 2025
- Group A (Riga): Portugal, Estonia, Latvia, Türkiye, Serbia, the Czech Republic
- Group B (Tampere): Germany, Finland, Great Britain, Lithuania, Sweden, Montenegro
- Group C (Limassol): Cyprus, Italy, Georgia, Spain, Greece, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Group D (Katowice): Iceland, France, Slovenia, PolandBelgium, Israel
Eurobasket 2025 will be played from August 27 – September 14. All knockout matches will take place in Riga.