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EuroBasket 1985

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Host nation
  
West Germany

MVP
  
Arvydas Sabonis

Dates
  
5–16 June

EuroBasket 1985

Teams
  
12 (from 34 federations)

Venues
  
3 Karlsruhe, Leverkusen, Stuttgart (in 3 host cities)

Champions
  
Soviet Union (14th title)

The 1985 FIBA European Championship, commonly called FIBA EuroBasket 1985, was the 24th FIBA EuroBasket regional basketball championship, held by FIBA Europe. It took place from 5 to 16 June 1985 in West Germany. The Soviet Union defeated Czechoslovakia in the final to win its fourteenth title.

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Qualification

A total of twelve teams qualified for the tournament. To the top eight teams from the previous tournament, four more teams were granted berths via a qualifying tournament.

  • Top eight teams from Eurobasket 1983:
  •  France
  •  Israel
  •  Italy
  •  Netherlands
  •  Soviet Union
  •  Spain
  •  West Germany
  •  Yugoslavia
  • Top four teams from the qualifying stage:
  •  Bulgaria
  •  Czechoslovakia
  •  Romania
  •  Poland

    • Format

  • The teams were split in two groups of six teams each. The top four teams from each group advance to the quarterfinals. The winners in the knockout semifinals advance to the Final, and the losers figure in a third-place playoff.
  • The losers from the quarterfinals stage compete in a separate bracket to define places 5th through 8th in the final standings.
  • The fifth and sixth teams from each group competed in another bracket to define places 9th through 12th in the final standings.

    • Group A

    Times given below are in Central European Time (UTC+1).

    References

    EuroBasket 1985 Wikipedia
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