{"id":435125,"date":"2025-03-27T11:09:31","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T10:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=435125"},"modified":"2025-03-27T15:20:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T14:20:48","slug":"eurobasket-2025-draw-held-in-riga-heavyweights-collide-in-early-group-stage-battles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/eurobasket-2025-draw-held-in-riga-heavyweights-collide-in-early-group-stage-battles\/","title":{"rendered":"EuroBasket 2025 Draw Held in Riga: Heavyweights Collide in Early Group Stage Battles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Jw50LyEmzUQ?si=WDHatynqkTvsi2a_\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"289\" data-end=\"529\">The official group stage draw for <strong data-start=\"357\" data-end=\"381\">FIBA EuroBasket 2025<\/strong> was conducted today in Riga, setting the stage for an intense continental showdown across four host nations: Latvia, Finland, Cyprus, and Poland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"531\" data-end=\"774\">The 24 qualified teams were drawn into four groups of six, and several high-profile clashes are already guaranteed, with traditional powerhouses set to meet in the opening phase of the tournament, scheduled to take place in <strong data-start=\"755\" data-end=\"773\">September 2025<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"\" data-start=\"776\" data-end=\"779\" \/>\n<h3 class=\"\" data-start=\"781\" data-end=\"823\"><strong data-start=\"785\" data-end=\"823\">Group Breakdown \u2013 Early Highlights<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"825\" data-end=\"948\"><strong data-start=\"825\" data-end=\"853\">Group A \u2013 Riga (Latvia):<\/strong><br data-start=\"853\" data-end=\"856\" \/>\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf9 Portugal<br data-start=\"869\" data-end=\"872\" \/>\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddea Estonia<br data-start=\"884\" data-end=\"887\" \/>\ud83c\uddf1\ud83c\uddfb Latvia<br data-start=\"898\" data-end=\"901\" \/>\ud83c\uddf9\ud83c\uddf7 Turkey<br data-start=\"912\" data-end=\"915\" \/>\ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddf8 Serbia<br data-start=\"926\" data-end=\"929\" \/>\ud83c\udde8\ud83c\uddff Czech Republic<\/p>\n<hr class=\"\" data-start=\"1257\" data-end=\"1260\" \/>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1262\" data-end=\"1394\"><strong data-start=\"1262\" data-end=\"1294\">Group B \u2013 Tampere (Finland):<\/strong><br data-start=\"1294\" data-end=\"1297\" \/>\ud83c\udde9\ud83c\uddea Germany<br data-start=\"1309\" data-end=\"1312\" \/>\ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddee Finland<br data-start=\"1324\" data-end=\"1327\" \/>\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7 Great Britain<br data-start=\"1345\" data-end=\"1348\" \/>\ud83c\uddf1\ud83c\uddf9 Lithuania<br data-start=\"1362\" data-end=\"1365\" \/>\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddea Sweden<br data-start=\"1376\" data-end=\"1379\" \/>\ud83c\uddf2\ud83c\uddea Montenegro<\/p>\n<hr class=\"\" data-start=\"1651\" data-end=\"1654\" \/>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1656\" data-end=\"1787\"><strong data-start=\"1656\" data-end=\"1688\">Group C \u2013 Limassol (Cyprus):<\/strong><br data-start=\"1688\" data-end=\"1691\" \/>\ud83c\udde8\ud83c\uddfe Cyprus<br data-start=\"1702\" data-end=\"1705\" \/>\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf9 Italy<br data-start=\"1715\" data-end=\"1718\" \/>\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\uddea Georgia<br data-start=\"1730\" data-end=\"1733\" \/>\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddf8 Spain<br data-start=\"1743\" data-end=\"1746\" \/>\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\uddf7 Greece<br data-start=\"1757\" data-end=\"1760\" \/>\ud83c\udde7\ud83c\udde6 Bosnia and Herzegovina<\/p>\n<hr class=\"\" data-start=\"2095\" data-end=\"2098\" \/>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"2100\" data-end=\"2220\"><strong data-start=\"2100\" data-end=\"2132\">Group D \u2013 Katowice (Poland):<\/strong><br data-start=\"2132\" data-end=\"2135\" \/>\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf8 Iceland<br data-start=\"2147\" data-end=\"2150\" \/>\ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7 France<br data-start=\"2161\" data-end=\"2164\" \/>\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddee Slovenia<br data-start=\"2177\" data-end=\"2180\" \/>\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf1 Poland<br data-start=\"2191\" data-end=\"2194\" \/>\ud83c\udde7\ud83c\uddea Belgium<br data-start=\"2206\" data-end=\"2209\" \/>\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf1 Israel<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-435121 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/03\/hx5ff11lxxi75vozrux2.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/03\/hx5ff11lxxi75vozrux2.webp 1400w, https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/03\/hx5ff11lxxi75vozrux2.webp?resize=150,150 150w, https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/03\/hx5ff11lxxi75vozrux2.webp?resize=300,300 300w, 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See you in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EuroBasket?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#EuroBasket<\/a> 2025?<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcc5 August 27 &#8211; September 14, 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Oda61GPqoW\">pic.twitter.com\/Oda61GPqoW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FIBA EuroBasket (@EuroBasket) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EuroBasket\/status\/1905260786047463771?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 27, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The official group stage draw for FIBA EuroBasket 2025 was conducted today in Riga, setting the stage for an intense continental showdown across four host nations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":435144,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[377,379],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-435125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurobasket","category-italbasket","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-27-alle-15.07.25.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435125"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=435125"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=435125"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=435125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}