BEIRUT (Lebanon): The FIBA Regional Office-Asia on Friday announced the schedule for FIBA Asia Cup 2029 Pre-Qualifiers First Round to be played later this year.
The FIBA Asia Cup 2029 Pre-Qualifiers, played over two rounds, will identify eight teams who will join the sixteen automatically teams – by virtue of their participation in FIBA Asia Cup 2025 in Jeddah (Saudi Arabia) – in the FIBA Asia Cup 2029 Qualifiers.
Eighteen National Teams – 17 from Asia along with Fiji from Oceania – feature in the FIBA Asia Cup 2029 Pre-Qualifiers First Round after addition of Singapore in Group C of the competition for the first round.
Dubai in UAE, Almaty in Kazakhstan (instead of Atyrau as announced earlier), Seremban in Malaysia and Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia will host First Round of the FIBA Asia Cup 2029 Pre-Qualifiers, marking the first step towards identifying the teams that will feature in the FIBA Asia Cup 2029, FIBA’s flagship competition for men’s National Teams in Asia.
