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The FIBA Asia
FIBA Asia
FIBA Asia is a zone within the International Basketball Federation which contains all 44 Asian FIBA federations.-National teams:East AsiaGulfMiddle AsiaSoutheast AsiaWest Asia-Top ten FIBA Asia teams:...

Championship for Men (formerly Asian Basketball Confederation Championship) is a tournament which takes place every two years between teams of the continent. This is the Asian qualifying tournament for the FIBA World Championship

FIBA World Championship

The FIBA World Championship is an international basketball competition contested by the men's national teams of the members of the International Basketball Federation , the sport's global governing body...

and the Olympic basketball tournament

Basketball at the Summer Olympics

Basketball has been a Summer Olympics sport for men consistently since 1936. Prior to its inclusion as a medal sport, it was held as demonstration event in 1904 and 1932, both in the United States. Women's basketball was played in the Olympics only since 1976....

. The tournament is also known as the Asian Championships.

History

The Asian Basketball Confederation Championship was inaugurated in Manila in 1960. The championship was held to find Asia's best team and for qualification to the World Championship and the Olympics. On the next four tournaments, the Philippines

Philippines national basketball team

The men's national basketball team of the Philippines represents the Philippines in international basketball competitions. It is managed by its national basketball federation, the Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas...

won 3 with the Japanese

Japan national basketball team

The Japanese national basketball team represents Japan in international basketball competitions. It is governed by the Japan Basketball Association . Japan is the second leading nation in qualifications to the Asian Basketball Championships...

beating the Filipinos on 1965. Korea, Japan and the Philippines split the next 3 championships until China

China national basketball team

The Chinese men's national basketball team is the basketball team representing China in international competitions. The governing body of Chinese basketball operations is the Basketball Association of China...

debuted on 1975 at Bangkok with the championship, where they've dominated ever since.

There were only four instances where China didn't win the championship since then: in 1986 when the Philippines won; in 1997, when the Chinese complained at Riyadh's climate; the loss to South Korean Nationals in 2007 and when the Chinese sent their "B team" since they've already qualified for the Olympics by virtue of their hosting, and in 2009 when Iran defeated a full-strength Chinese team in Tianjin

Tianjin

' is a metropolis in northern China and one of the five national central cities of the People's Republic of China. It is governed as a direct-controlled municipality, one of four such designations, and is, thus, under direct administration of the central government...

to become the first team since the Chinese to successfully defend the championship

Korea had been the perennial runner-ups, with Japan and DPR Korea sneaking in. The Philippines had become weaker due to its players turning professional (therefore ineligible for FIBA participation until 1989). By the 21st century, the tournament had been renamed the FIBA Asia Championship. During the 2007 Championship

FIBA Asia Championship 2007

The 2007 FIBA Asia Championship for Men is the qualifying tournament for FIBA Asia at the men's basketball tournament at the 2008 Summer Olympics at Beijing. The tournament was held in Tokushima, Japan from July 28 to August 5, 2007....

, West Asian teams were able to compete with the traditional East Asian powers, as evidenced of an all-West Asian final when Iran

Iran national basketball team

The Iran national basketball team represents Iran in international basketball competitions and is controlled by IR Iran Basketball Federation. It is one of the strongest teams in Asia, and the two time champions of the FIBA Asia Championship.-History:...

defeated Lebanon

Lebanon national basketball team

The Lebanon national basketball team is the basketball team representing Lebanon in international competitions.-History:The first time basketball was ever played in Lebanon was in the mid-1920s in the American University of Beirut...

Summary

Year	Host	Final			Third Place Game
Year	Host	Champion	Score	Second Place	Third Place	Score	Fourth Place
1960 Details	Manila Manila Manila is the capital of the Philippines. It is one of the sixteen cities forming Metro Manila.Manila is located on the eastern shores of Manila Bay and is bordered by Navotas and Caloocan to the north, Quezon City to the northeast, San Juan and Mandaluyong to the east, Makati on the southeast,...		No playoffs			No playoffs
1963 Details	Taipei Taipei Taipei City is the capital of the Republic of China and the central city of the largest metropolitan area of Taiwan. Situated at the northern tip of the island, Taipei is located on the Tamsui River, and is about 25 km southwest of Keelung, its port on the Pacific Ocean...		91–77			No playoffs
1965 Details	Kuala Lumpur Kuala Lumpur Kuala Lumpur is the capital and the second largest city in Malaysia by population. The city proper, making up an area of , has a population of 1.4 million as of 2010. Greater Kuala Lumpur, also known as the Klang Valley, is an urban agglomeration of 7.2 million...		No playoffs			No playoffs
1967 Details	Seoul Seoul Seoul , officially the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. A megacity with a population of over 10 million, it is the largest city proper in the OECD developed world...		No playoffs			No playoffs
1969 Details	Bangkok Bangkok Bangkok is the capital and largest urban area city in Thailand. It is known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon or simply Krung Thep , meaning "city of angels." The full name of Bangkok is Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom...		No playoffs			No playoffs
1971 Details	Tokyo Tokyo , ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...		No playoffs			No playoffs
1973 Details	Manila Manila Manila is the capital of the Philippines. It is one of the sixteen cities forming Metro Manila.Manila is located on the eastern shores of Manila Bay and is bordered by Navotas and Caloocan to the north, Quezon City to the northeast, San Juan and Mandaluyong to the east, Makati on the southeast,...		No playoffs			No playoffs
1975 Details 1975 ABC Championship The 1975 Asian Basketball Confederation Championship for Men were held in Bangkok, Thailand.-Group A:-Group B:-Final round:...	Bangkok Bangkok Bangkok is the capital and largest urban area city in Thailand. It is known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon or simply Krung Thep , meaning "city of angels." The full name of Bangkok is Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom...		No playoffs			No playoffs
1977 Details	Kuala Lumpur Kuala Lumpur Kuala Lumpur is the capital and the second largest city in Malaysia by population. The city proper, making up an area of , has a population of 1.4 million as of 2010. Greater Kuala Lumpur, also known as the Klang Valley, is an urban agglomeration of 7.2 million...		No playoffs			No playoffs
1979 Details	Nagoya		No playoffs			No playoffs
1981 Details	Kolkata Kolkata Kolkata , formerly known as Calcutta, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly River, it was the commercial capital of East India...		No playoffs			No playoffs
1983 Details	Hong Kong Hong Kong Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...		95–71			83–60
1985 Details	Kuala Lumpur Kuala Lumpur Kuala Lumpur is the capital and the second largest city in Malaysia by population. The city proper, making up an area of , has a population of 1.4 million as of 2010. Greater Kuala Lumpur, also known as the Klang Valley, is an urban agglomeration of 7.2 million...		No playoffs			No playoffs
1987 Details	Bangkok Bangkok Bangkok is the capital and largest urban area city in Thailand. It is known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon or simply Krung Thep , meaning "city of angels." The full name of Bangkok is Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom...		86–79 OT			89–75
1989 Details	Beijing Beijing Beijing , also known as Peking , is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The city is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's...		102–72			69–58
1991 Details	Kobe Kobe , pronounced , is the fifth-largest city in Japan and is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture on the southern side of the main island of Honshū, approximately west of Osaka...		104–88			63–60
1993 Details	Jakarta Jakarta Jakarta is the capital and largest city of Indonesia. Officially known as the Special Capital Territory of Jakarta, it is located on the northwest coast of Java, has an area of , and a population of 9,580,000. Jakarta is the country's economic, cultural and political centre...		93–72			86–70
1995 Details	Seoul Seoul Seoul , officially the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. A megacity with a population of over 10 million, it is the largest city proper in the OECD developed world...		87–78			69–63
1997 Details	Riyadh Riyadh Riyadh is the capital and largest city of Saudi Arabia. It is also the capital of Riyadh Province, and belongs to the historical regions of Najd and Al-Yamama. It is situated in the center of the Arabian Peninsula on a large plateau, and is home to 5,254,560 people, and the urban center of a...		78–76			94–68
1999 Details	Fukuoka Fukuoka, Fukuoka is the capital city of Fukuoka Prefecture and is situated on the northern shore of the island of Kyushu in Japan.Voted number 14 in a 2010 poll of the World's Most Livable Cities, Fukuoka is praised for its green spaces in a metropolitan setting. It is the most populous city in Kyushu, followed by...		63–45			93–67
2001 Details	Shanghai Shanghai Shanghai is the largest city by population in China and the largest city proper in the world. It is one of the four province-level municipalities in the People's Republic of China, with a total population of over 23 million as of 2010...		97–63			95–94 OT
2003 Details	Harbin Harbin Harbin ; Manchu language: , Harbin; Russian: Харби́н Kharbin ), is the capital and largest city of Heilongjiang Province in Northeast China, lying on the southern bank of the Songhua River...		106–96			77–67
2005 Details	Doha Doha Doha is the capital city of the state of Qatar. Located on the Persian Gulf, it had a population of 998,651 in 2008, and is also one of the municipalities of Qatar...		77–61			89–77
2007 Details	Tokushima Tokushima, Tokushima is the capital city of Tokushima Prefecture on Shikoku island in Japan.As of May 1, 2011, the city had an estimated population of 263,372, with 114,325 households, and a population density of 1,377.25 persons per km². Its total area is 191.23 km²....		74–69			80–76
2009 Details	Tianjin Tianjin ' is a metropolis in northern China and one of the five national central cities of the People's Republic of China. It is governed as a direct-controlled municipality, one of four such designations, and is, thus, under direct administration of the central government...		70–52			80–66
2011 Details	Wuhan Wuhan Wuhan is the capital of Hubei province, People's Republic of China, and is the most populous city in Central China. It lies at the east of the Jianghan Plain, and the intersection of the middle reaches of the Yangtze and Han rivers...		70–69			70–68

Medal table

1	15	1	2	18
2	5	2	1	8
3	2	11	10	23
4	2	5	7	14
5	2	0	0	2
6	0	3	0	3
7	0	2	2	4
8	0	1	1	2
9	0	1	0	1
10	0	0	2	2
11	0	0	1	1
Total	26	26	26	78

MVP Awards

Year	MVP Award Winner
1960	Carlos Badion Carlos Badion Carlos Velasco Badion is a former Filipino basketball player. Although born in Pampanga, he grew up in Antonio Rivera Tondo, Manila where he started his checkered career playing in sandlot tournaments and for Abad Santos High...
1987	Lee Chung-Hee
1995	Hur Jae Hur Jae Hur Jae is a South Korean basketball player who competed from the late 1980s to the mid 2000s. At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, he took the Athlete's Oath with team handball player Shon Mi-Na....
1997	Chun Hee-Chul
1999	Hu Weidong Hu Weidong Hu Weidong is a former Chinese basketball player, a 6'6", 192 lb. guard.In 1985, Hu joined the Jiangsu Dragons junior teams, debuting with the national team in the category two years later . He was a two-time MVP in the Chinese Basketball Association, and led the league in scoring three times...
2001	Yao Ming Yao Ming Yao Ming is a retired Chinese professional basketball player who last played for the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association...
2003	Yao Ming Yao Ming Yao Ming is a retired Chinese professional basketball player who last played for the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association...
2005	Yao Ming Yao Ming Yao Ming is a retired Chinese professional basketball player who last played for the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association...
2007	Hamed Haddadi
2009	Hamed Haddadi
2011	Yi Jianlian Yi Jianlian Yi Jianlian is a Chinese professional basketball player for the Guangdong Southern Tigers. He has also played in the NBA for the Milwaukee Bucks, New Jersey Nets, and Washington Wizards. Yi played power forward for the Guangdong Southern Tigers of the Chinese Basketball Association in 2002 and...

Participating nations

Nation	1960	1963	1965	1967	1969	1971	1973	1975 1975 ABC Championship The 1975 Asian Basketball Confederation Championship for Men were held in Bangkok, Thailand.-Group A:-Group B:-Final round:...	1977	1979	1981	1983	1985	1987	1989	1991	1993	1995	1997	1999
									12th	12th				13th		15th			10th	12th
										13th					15th		18th		15th
								1st	1st	1st	1st	1st	3rd	1st	1st	1st	1st	1st	3rd	1st
	2nd	2nd	5th	5th	4th	4th	3rd						6th	5th	3rd	4th	5th	4th	6th	4th
																5th	2nd
	5th	6th	8th	9th	9th	9th	11th	9th	10th	11th	10th	7th	13th	14th	13th	11th	13th	15th	14th	13th
			7th	6th	5th	6th	6th	4th	7th	5th	5th	6th	10th	6th	6th	13th		13th	11th
	6th			4th			8th	10th	13th			12th	11th	12th	14th	14th	12th	18th	12th
							5th				8th	5th	8th		5th	6th	4th	10th	8th
									6th	8th				9th
	3rd		1st	3rd	2nd	1st	4th	2nd	3rd	2nd	3rd	2nd	5th	3rd	4th	3rd	7th	3rd	2nd	5th
												8th	9th	10th		8th	10th	17th	7th
																		5th	13th
	4th	3rd	3rd	2nd	1st	3rd	2nd	3rd	2nd	3rd	2nd	3rd	2nd	2nd	2nd	2nd	3rd	2nd	1st	2nd
								12th				4th				12th	9th	11th		6th
																		8th
																				7th
												15th		15th
	7th	5th	6th	8th	7th	5th	9th	8th	4th	7th	6th	11th	4th	7th	9th	17th	14th	14th		15th
					8th		12th	11th	9th	6th	9th	13th	14th		10th		17th
	1st	1st	2nd	1st	3rd	2nd	1st	5th	5th	4th	4th	9th	1st	4th	8th	7th	11th	12th	9th	11th
																16th
															7th	9th	6th	6th	4th	3rd
		7th	9th	10th		8th	10th	7th	11th	10th	11th	14th	12th	11th	11th	10th	16th
								13th	14th		12th		15th			18th		19th
																				8th
		4th	4th	7th	6th	7th	7th	6th	8th	9th	7th	10th	7th	8th	12th		15th	16th		14th
																	8th	9th	5th	10th
																		7th		9th
		8th	10th
Total	7	8	10	10	9	9	12	13	14	13	12	15	15	15	15	18	18	19	15	15

Nation	2001	2003	2005	2007	2009	2011	Years
						15th	7
							4
	1st	1st	1st	10th	2nd	1st	19
	7th	11th	9th	6th	5th	8th	21
							2
	11th	13th	15th	13th			24
	8th	8th	12th	15th	13th	14th	22
			14th	12th	15th	13th	17
		5th	6th	1st	1st	5th	14
							3
	6th	6th	5th	8th	10th	7th	25
		10th	7th	5th	3rd	2nd	12
		7th	10th	4th	9th		6
	3rd	2nd	4th	3rd	7th	3rd	26
	12th	12th	13th	14th	11th		11
							1
	2nd	4th	2nd	2nd	4th	6th	7
							2
		16th	16th			11th	22
							10
		15th		9th	8th	4th	24
	5th	3rd	3rd	7th	6th	16th	7
			8th				7
	14th						16
					16th		7
	4th	9th		11th		9th	5
	13th						18
	10th			16th	12th	10th	8
	9th	14th	11th		14th	12th	7
							2
Total	14	16	16	16	16	16

General statistics

Team	Played	Won	Lost	%Won
	51	18	33	35.29%
	25	0	25	0.00%
	149	140	9	93.96%
	170	104	66	61.18%
	14	10	4	71.43%
	176	51	125	28.98%
	155	66	89	42.58%
	116	32	84	27.59%
	106	66	40	62.26%
	25	13	12	52.00%
	196	133	63	67.86%
	88	47	41	53.41%
	44	23	21	52.27%
	211	165	46	78.20%
	79	28	51	35.44%
	8	3	5	37.50%
	57	35	22	61.40%
	12	0	12	0.00%
	166	59	107	35.54%
	73	21	52	28.77%
	187	122	65	65.24%
	52	27	25	51.92%
	53	28	25	52.83%
	122	35	87	28.69%
	46	0	46	0.00%
	35	15	20	42.86%
	140	56	84	40.00%
	56	22	34	39.29%
	45	17	28	37.78%
	17	1	16	5.88%
Total: 1337 games

External links

FIBA Asia official website

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