The 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup will be the 19th tournament of the FIBA Basketball World Cup for national men's basketball teams. This will be the 2nd tournament under the new cycle which will start in 2019. It is also expected that there will be 32 teams in the tournament. The Basketball World Cup may be hosted by Germany, Turkey, Qatar, Israel, Serbia, Russia or the Philippines.
FIBA's Executive Committee convened a meeting on 7 June 2016, during which it approved the bidding process for the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023. Countries wishing to be taken into consideration had to confirm their interest by 31 August 2016. Following the Applicant Phase and the Candidate Phase, FIBA's Central Board will ultimately announce the host(s) of the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023 at its end-of-year meeting in 2017.
FIBA held a bidding workshop 1-2 November 2016 on hosting FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023 for all interested nations. The FIBA Central Board convened for a meeting on 27-28 January 2017 in Mies, however a review of the bidding process for the 2023 World Cup was not an item in the agenda.
The official candidate host countries are to be announced in February 2017.
Joint bids by member federations was approved by the FIBA Central Board starting from the 2023 edition and there is no restriction for a country from the confederation which hosted the previous edition (China of FIBA Asia) to bid for the World Cup hosting rights.
Israel
On 8 September 2016 the Israel Basketball Association announced it submitted its paperwork to host the competition. They are one of the host nations for the EuroBasket 2017.
Germany
Germany made a bid to host the 2023 FIBA World Cup.
Qatar
Qatar entered a bid when FIBA asked to bid for the 2019 and 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cups and specified that it was the only nation interested solely for 2023. They hosted the 2005 FIBA Asia Championship. However, Qatar was not present at the FIBA bidding workshop for the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup.
Philippines / Indonesia
The Philippines was considering to bid for the 2023 FIBA World Cup after it lost its 2019 bid to China. The Philippines was exploring the possibility of bidding with another country (Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea) leaning on co-bidding the World Cup with a Southeast Asian country.
On 28 January 2017 the Philippines along with Indonesia submitted a joint bid to FIBA. Both countries proposed to hold group stage matches while the Philippines was proposed as the sole host country of the final knockout phase.
The Philippines hosted the 1978 FIBA World Championship, three editions of the FIBA Asia Championship (1960, 1973, 2013), and also hosted one of the 2016 FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournaments. Indonesia, meanwhile, had hosted the 1993 ABC Championship.
Turkey
Turkey made a bid to host the 2023 FIBA World Cup.
Argentina / Uruguay
Argentina and Uruguay made a bid to host 2023 FIBA World Cup. Argentina has hosted the 1950 and 1990 FIBA World Cup, and the FIBA Americas Championship in 1995, 2001 and 2011. Uruguay has hosted the 1967 FIBA World Championship, and 1988 and 1997 Tournament of the Americas.
Eleven National Federations including Argentina, Israel, Germany, the Philippines, and Turkey participated in a workshop held by FIBA on the Basketball World Cup 2023 bidding process. Qatar, which earlier submitted a bid to host the 2023 tournament was not present in the workshop.
Australia
On 30 October 2016 it was reported that Basketball Australia will submit a bid during a two-day forum in Geneva. Australia hosted the FIBA Oceania Championship several times.
Hong Kong
Japan
Poland
Russia
Russian sports minister Vitaly Mutko announced on 20 April 2015 that he is in talks with the governing body of basketball for the country to bid to host the 2023 World Cup.
Serbia
On 14 September 2016 Basketball Federation of Serbia announced to host the competition. Serbia co-hosted three editions of the EuroBasket (1961, 1975, 2005), and also hosted one of the 2016 FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournaments.
It is expected that the format (including Qualifiers) will be followed from 2019.
