Key facts
- Host country
- China
- Dates
- 31 August – 15 September
- Officially opened by
- Xi Jinping
- Teams
- 32 (from 5 confederations)
- Venue
- 8 (in 8 host cities)
- Champions
- Spain (2nd title)
- Runners up
- Argentina
- Third place
- France
- Fourth place
- Australia
- Attendance
- 794,951 (8,641 per game)
- Mvp
- Ricky Rubio
- Top scorer
- Ra Gun-ah , (23.0 points per game), Bogdan Bogdanović , (183 total points)
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The 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup was the 18th tournament of the FIBA Basketball World Cup for men's national basketball teams, held from 31 August to 15 September 2019. The tournament was hosted in China and was rescheduled from 2018 to 2019, becoming the first since 1967 that did not occur in the same year as the FIFA World Cup (which was held the previous year). The tournament expanded from 24 to 32 teams.
The tournament also served as qualification for the 2020 Summer Olympics, which took the top two teams from each of the Americas and Europe, and the top team from each of Africa, Asia and Oceania, alongside the tournament's host Japan. Montenegro and the Czech Republic each made their first appearance as independent nations after previously being part of Serbia and Montenegro and Czechoslovakia respectively, while Poland marked its return to the FIBA Basketball World Cup for the first time since 1967.