Eurobasket 2025 qualifiers: Italy drawn in round B

Eurobasket 2025 qualifiers: Italy drawn in round B

Tuesday saw the draw for the qualifying rounds of EuroBasket 2025, the European Championship to be held in two years’ time between Cyprus (Limassol), Finland (Tampere), Poland (Katowice) and Latvia (Riga).

The Azzurri, in the second bracket in the draw, were placed in Group B with Turkey, Hungary and Iceland.

The competition schedule will also be announced soon.

The competitions will be played along three “windows”: Feb. 19-27, 2024 (two matches), Nov. 18-26, 2024 (two matches) and Feb. 17-25, 2025 (two matches). The top three finishers in each group will qualify for the European Championships except for the groups involving the host teams. Cyprus, Finland, Poland and Latvia are already sure of a pass and will compete out of the competition. Therefore, the top two ranked teams in their respective groups will qualify.

All groups

Group A: Portugal, Slovenia, Ukraine, Israel
Group B: ITALY, Turkey, Hungary, Iceland
Group C: Slovakia, Spain, Latvia, Belgium
Group D: Sweden, Germany, Montenegro, Bulgaria
Group E: Cyprus, France, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Group F: England, Greece, Czech Republic, Netherlands
Group G: Denmark, Serbia, Finland, Georgia
Group H: North Macedonia, Lithuania, Poland, Estonia

Records against Group B opponents

Turkey
58 matches played (47 won/11 lost)
13 matches played in the final stages of the European Championship (10 won/3 lost)
No matches played in the final stages of a World Championship
The first: Friendly, Oct. 4, 1949 (Naples) Italy-Turkey 49-29
The last: Friendly, Aug. 4, 2023 (Trento), Italy-Turkey 90-89 dts
Widest win: Friendly, June 19, 2003 (Porto San Giorgio) Italy-Turkey 85-40 (45)
Heaviest loss: Friendly, Sept. 3, 2005 (Istanbul, Turkey) Turkey-Italy 81-56 (-25)

Hungary
32 games played (20 won/12 lost)
9 games played in the final stages of the European Championship (5 won/4 lost)
The first: Friendly, May 3, 1936 (Padua), Italy-Hungary 48-14
The last: Qualif. World Cup 2019, Feb. 22 (Varese), Italy-Hungary 75-41
Largest win: Qualif. European, Nov. 27, 1988 (Trapani), Italy-Hungary 104-56 (+48)
Heaviest defeat: Friendly, May 26, 1954 (Milan), Italy-Hungary 63-95 (-32)

Iceland
3 games played (2 wins/1 loss)
1 game played in the final stages of the European Championship (1 win)
The first: European Championship, Sept. 6, 2015 (Berlin, Germany), Italy-Iceland 71-64
The last: World Qualification 2023, Feb. 27, 2022 (Bologna, Italy-Iceland 95-87
Widest win: World Qualification 2023, Feb. 27, 2022 (Bologna, Italy), Italy-Iceland 95-87 (8)
Heaviest defeat: World Qualification 2023, Feb. 24, 2022 (Hafnarfjordur, Iceland), Iceland-Italy 107-105 d2ts