FIBA Asia Cup 2022 Draw to Be Held on Friday

The procedure for the FIBA Asia Cup 2022 Draw has been issued ahead for the event which will take place on Friday.

Sixteen teams have qualified to play in FIBA Asia Cup 2022 with this being the first Asia Cup ever that teams qualify from the Asia Cup Qualifiers. All teams are distributed into four pots of four teams each, based on the FIBA World Ranking Men.

The latest edition of the FIBA World Ranking Men was updated on December 7, 2021 and is used to reference the selection of the top seeds for the FIBA Asia Cup 2022 draw.

Defending Asia Cup champion, Australia, is ranked 3rd in the world and the 1st ranked team in Asia/Oceania with 690.7 points. Three-time Asia Cup champion, Iran, is ranked 2nd in Asia with 444.8 points. It is followed immediately by Asia Cup 2017 Semi-Finalist, New Zealand, who is ranked at 3rd with 372.1 points. 16-time Asia Cup Champion, China is ranked 4th with 361.7 points. These four teams will be the top seeds in Pot A.

Pot A: Australia, Iran, New Zealand, China
Pot B: Korea, Philippines, Japan, Jordan
Pot C: Lebanon, Chinese-Taipei, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia
Pot D: Indonesia (host), Syria, India, Bahrain

As host of Asia Cup 2022, Indonesia is given priority to choose the group that it wants to be in.

Four additional pots each containing numbers 1-4 will be used to determine the position of each team in their group and the subsequent order of their games.

Each Group will draw one team from each pot until the Group is full.

The FIBA Asia Cup 2022 Draw will be complete once all the pots have been emptied and have fed their respective Groups.