EuroBasket 2022: Everything You Need to Know – Schedule, Groups, Format, Scores, and Live Stream

EuroBasket 2022, the newest edition of the quadrennial competition to decide the basketball champion of Europe, warned Thursday (Sept. 1) and runs through Sept. 18 with games in the Czech Republic, Georgia, Italy, and Germany. The knockout stage of the competition, including the final, will be held in Berlin. Luka Doncic and defending champions Slovenia should defend their title in 2021, when the 2020 Olympics were delayed a year because of COVID-19, EuroBasket was likewise pushed back.

The slight schedule adjustment won’t influence future competitions, and the next event will be held in 2025 as scheduled.

Two-time MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo will play for Greece while reigning consecutive MVP Nikola Jokic will prepare for Serbia. Those two, alongside Doncic, feature the list of NBA players who will be in action when the competition kicks off. Additionally worth watching is France, which won the silver medal at the 2020 Olympics. France has five NBA players getting ready, including three-time Defensive Player of the Year Rudy Gobert.

In front of the competition, here’s everything you need to know about EuroBasket 2022:

EuroBasket 2022: Groups

Note: Montenegro supplanted Russia, which was disqualified from partaking by FIBA because of the invasion of Ukraine.

Group A

Belgium
Bulgaria
Georgia
Montenegro
Spain
Turkey

Group B

Bosnia and Herzegovina
France
Germany
Hungary
Lithuania
Slovenia

Group C

Croatia
Estonia
Great Britain
Greece
Italy
Ukraine

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Group D

Czech Republic
Finland
Israel
Netherlands
Poland
Serbia

EuroBasket 2022: Format

The competition EuroBasket 2022 will start with the group stage, which features four groups of six teams. Each group will play a round-robin, in which each team will play the other five teams in its group once.

Teams will get two points for success and one point for a loss, and the top four teams in each group will progress to the knockout stage. Assuming two teams are tied in points, their head-to-head matchup will be the first tiebreaker. Ensuing tiebreakers will be point differential followed by points scored if necessary.

The 16 teams that develop to the knockout stage will then, at that point, be placed in a bracket in light of their qualifying position. From that point, it’s single-elimination matchups as far as possible until the last, which will be played in Berlin on Sept. 18.

EuroBasket 2022: Schedule, scores, live stream

All times Eastern

Group A

Sept. 1: Spain 114, Bulgaria 87
Sept. 1: Turkey 72, Montenegro 68
Sept. 1: Belgium 79, Georgia 76
Sept. 3: Montenegro vs. Belgium | 7:20 a.m. | ESPN+
Sept. 3: Bulgaria vs. Turkey | 10:05 a.m. | ESPN+
Sept. 3: Georgia vs. Spain | 12:50 p.m. | ESPN+
Sept. 4: Bulgaria vs. Montenegro | 7:20 a.m. | ESPN+
Sept. 4: Spain vs. Belgium | 10:05 a.m. | ESPN+
Sept. 4: Turkey vs. Georgia | 12:50 p.m. | ESPN+
Sept. 6: Belgium vs. Turkey | 7:20 a.m. | ESPN+
Sept. 6: Montenegro vs. Spain | 10:05 a.m. | ESPN+
Sept. 6: Georgia vs. Bulgaria 12:50 p.m. | ESPN+
Sept. 7: Turkey vs. Spain | 7:20 a.m. | ESPN+
Sept. 7: Bulgaria vs. Belgium | 10:05 a.m. | ESPN+
Sept. 7: Georgia vs. Montenegro | 2:20 p.m. | ESPN+

Group B

Sept. 1: Bosnia and Herzegovina 95, Hungary 85
Sept. 1: Slovenia 92, Lithuania 85
Sept. 1: Germany 76, France 63
Sept. 3: Germany vs. Bosnia and Herzegovina | 8:20 a.m. | ESPN
Sept. 3: Lithuania vs. France | 11:35 a.m. | ESPN+
Sept. 3: Hungary vs. Slovenia | 2:20 p.m. | ESPN+
Sept. 4: Lithuania vs. Germany | 8:20 a.m. | ESPN+
Sept. 4: Slovenia vs. Bosnia and Herzegovina | 11:35 a.m. | ESPN+
Sept. 4: France vs. Hungary | 2:20 p.m. | ESPN+
Sept. 6: Bosnia and Herzegovina vs. France | 8:20 a.m. | ESPN+
Sept. 6: Hungary vs. Lithuania | 11:05 a.m. | ESPN+
Sept. 6: Germany vs. Slovenia | 2:20 p.m. | ESPN+
Sept. 7: Lithuania vs. Bosnia and Herzegovina | 8:20 a.m. | ESPN+
Sept. 7: France vs. Slovenia | 11:05 a.m. | ESPN+
Sept. 7: Hungary vs. Germany | 2:20 p.m. | ESPN+

Group C

Sept. 2: Ukraine vs. Great Britain | 8:05 a.m. | ESPN+
Sept. 2: Croatia vs. Greece | 10:50 a.m. | ESPN+
Sept. 2: Italy vs. Estonia | 2:50 p.m. | ESPN+
Sept. 3: Great Britain vs. Croatia | 8:05 a.m. | ESPN+
Sept. 3: Estonia vs. Ukraine | 10:50 a.m. | ESPN+
Sept. 3: Greece vs. Italy | 2:50 p.m. | ESPN+
Sept. 5: Croatia vs. Estonia | 8:05 a.m. | ESPN+
Sept. 5: Great Britain vs. Greece | 10:50 a.m. | ESPN+
Sept. 5: Ukraine vs. Italy | 2:50 p.m. | ESPN+
Sept. 6: Estonia vs. Great Britain |8:05 a.m. | ESPN+
Sept. 6: Greece vs. Ukraine | 10:50 a.m. | ESPN+
Sept. 6: Italy vs. Croatia | 2:50 p.m. | ESPN+
Sept. 8: Croatia vs. Ukraine | 8:05 a.m. | ESPN+
Sept. 8: Estonia vs. Greece | 10:50 a.m. | ESPN+
Sept. 8: Great Britain vs. Italy | 2:50 p.m. | ESPN+

Group D

Sept. 2: Israel vs. Finland | 7:50 a.m. | ESPN+
Sept. 2: Poland vs. the Czech Republic | 11:20 a.m. | ESPN+
Sept. 2: Serbia vs. Netherlands | 2:50 p.m. | ESPN+
Sept. 3: Finland vs. Poland | 7:50 a.m. | ESPN+
Sept. 3: Czech Republic vs. Serbia | 11:20 a.m. | ESPN+
Sept. 3: Netherlands vs. Israel | 2:50 p.m. | ESPN+
Sept. 5: Poland vs. Israel | 7:50 a.m. | ESPN+
Sept. 5: Czech Republic vs. Netherlands | 11:20 a.m. | ESPN+
Sept. 5: Serbia vs. Finland | 2:50 p.m. | ESPN+
Sept. 6: Netherlands vs. Poland | 7:50 a.m. | ESPN+
Sept. 6: Finland vs. the Czech Republic | 11:20 a.m. | ESPN+
Sept. 6: Israel vs. Serbia | 2:50 p.m. | ESPN+
Sept. 8: Finland vs. Netherlands | 7:20 a.m. | ESPN+
Sept. 8: Czech Republic vs. Israel | 11:20 a.m. | ESPN+
Sept. 8: Serbia vs. Poland | 2:50 p.m. | ESPN+

EuroBasket 2022: Knockout Stage

Round of 16: Sept. 10-11
Quarterfinals: Sept. 13-14
Semifinals: Sept. 16
Third Place: Sept. 18
Final: Sept. 18