Host nation Qatar Venues 2 (in 1 host city) MVP Yao Ming | Dates September 8–16 Champions China (14th title) | |
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Teams 16 (from 44 federations) | ||
The 2005 FIBA Asia Championship was the men's basketball qualifying tournament for FIBA Asia at the 2006 FIBA World Championship at Japan.
In order to qualify for the tournament, teams would have to go through regional qualifiers. At the main tournament, three nations qualified for the world championships: China, Lebanon and host Qatar. China defeated Lebanon in the championship game, 77–61; Qatar defeated Korea, 89–77.
Qualification
According to the FIBA Asia rules, each zone had two places, and the hosts (Qatar) and Stanković Cup champion (Korea as runner-up) were automatically qualified. The other four places are allocated to the zones according to performance in the 2004 FIBA Asia Stanković Cup.
References
2005 FIBA Asia Championship Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA