FIBA EuroBasket 2005 qualification


Qualification for the 2005 FIBA European Championship, commonly called FIBA EuroBasket 2005 took place between 8 September and 25 September 2004. A total of eleven teams qualified for the tournament. Hosts Serbia and Montenegro plus the top four teams from EuroBasket 2003, Lithuania, Spain, Italy and Greece qualified directly. Greece took the place of the French team, which was the fourth-placed team in EuroBasket 2003.

Format

For this edition of the FIBA EuroBasket tournament, a new qualification format was created. National squads were divided in a two-tier system. Teams in Division A competed for direct qualification to FIBA EuroBasket 2005, while teams in Division B competed for two spots on the next tournament's Division A. Those two spots would correspond to the two teams from Division A that were relegated.
Division A
Division B

Qualifying Round

Group 1

Rules=1) Points; 2) Head-to-head results; 3) Points difference; 4) Points scored.

Group 2

Rules=1) Points; 2) Head-to-head results; 3) Points difference; 4) Points scored.

Group 3

Group 4

Rules=1) Points; 2) Head-to-head results; 3) Points difference; 4) Points scored.

Group 5

Rules=1) Points; 2) Head-to-head results; 3) Points difference; 4) Points scored.

Additional qualifying round

Group A

Rules=1) Points; 2) Head-to-head results; 3) Points difference; 4) Points scored.

Group B

Group C

Final qualifying stage

Relegation stage

Division B

Qualification games