FIBA World Rankings

Top 15 nations
Men # Women
United States  1  United States
Spain  2  Spain
Serbia  3  France
France  4  Australia
Lithuania  5  Czech Republic
Argentina  6  Canada
Brazil  7  Turkey
Turkey  8  Brazil
Russia  9  Serbia
Australia  10  China
Croatia  11  Russia
Slovenia  12  Belarus
Greece  13  Japan
China  14  Cuba
Venezuela  15  South Korea
Historical #1 teams
United States men's national basketball team Argentina national basketball team Serbia national basketball team
United States women's national basketball team

The FIBA World Rankings are FIBA's rankings of national basketball teams. Sponsored by bwin, FIBA ranks men's and women's national teams in both senior and junior competitions. It also publishes combined rankings for all competitions in both genders.

Not included are ranking for 3x3, which is by individual player.

Calculation

Only FIBA tournaments for full five-a-side teams are used in calculations for the tournaments. Other tournaments, such as regional championships, invitationals, and friendlies are not included. Also not counted are tournaments in FIBA's official competition for three-on-three halfcourt basketball, 3x3.[1]

Events' weights

Each FIBA event has a weight, partly based on the strength of the various national teams participating:[1]

Men Ranking

Number Event Weight
2 FIBA Basketball World Cup 5
2 Olympic basketball tournaments 5
4 FIBA Africa Championship 0.2
4 FIBA Americas Championship 0.8
4 FIBA Asia Championship 0.3
4 FIBA EuroBasket 1
4 FIBA Oceania Championship 0.1

Women Ranking

Number Event Weight
2 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup 5
2 Olympic basketball tournaments 5
4 FIBA Africa Championship for Women 0.2
4 FIBA Americas Championship for Women 0.8
4 FIBA Asia Championship for Women 0.3
4 EuroBasket Women 1
4 FIBA Oceania Championship for Women 0.1

Competition ranking points

Map of FIBA World Ranking for men
Map of FIBA World Ranking for women

As opposed to football tournaments, teams still have to go through a series of consolation and classification rounds even if they've been eliminated from title contention, so that a complete ranking of the teams will be possible.[1]

Competition rank Points
Gold medal (1st) 50
Silver medal (2nd) 40
Bronze medal (3rd) 30
4th 15
5th 14
6th 13
7th 12
8th 11
9th 10
10th 9
11th 8
12th 7
13th 6
14th 5
15th 4
16th 3
17th 2
18th and below 1

Cycle and updates

The calculations are done after the tournaments stated above in a group of two Olympic cycles (8 years). The oldest tournament outside the 8-year period is discarded and replaced with the newest competition.[1]

This means that in every computation, there are:

Example

The United States' 1000.0 points were calculated by this method:

Tournament Finish Points Weight Result
Basketball at the 2008 Summer Olympics 1st 50 5 250
2009 FIBA Americas Championship DNP 0 0.8 0
2010 FIBA World Championship 1st 50 5 250
2011 FIBA Americas Championship DNP 0 0.8 0
Basketball at the 2012 Summer Olympics 1st 50 5 250
2013 FIBA Americas Championship DNP 0 0.8 0
2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup 1st 50 5 250
2015 FIBA Americas Championship DNP 0 0.8 0
Total 1000.0

Iran's 93.2 points were calculated by this method:

Tournament Finish Points Weight Result
Basketball at the 2008 Summer Olympics 11th 8 5 40
2009 FIBA Asia Championship 1st 50 0.3 15
2010 FIBA World Championship 19th 1 5 5
2011 FIBA Asia Championship 5th 14 0.3 4.2
Basketball at the 2012 Summer Olympics DNQ 0 0 0
2013 FIBA Asia Championship 1st 50 0.3 15
2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup 20th 1 5 5
2015 FIBA Asia Championship 3rd 30 0.3 9
Total 93.2

After the conclusion of the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup, the points gained from the 2006 World Championship were replaced with those gained from the 2014 World Cup.

Rankings

Men's

Top 20 Rankings after the 2016 Summer
Olympics Basketball Tournament
[2]
#+/TeamPointsZone
1 Steady  United States 1000.0FIBA Americas
2  Spain665.0FIBA Europe
3 Increase 3  Serbia 553.0FIBA Europe
4 Increase 1  France 444.0FIBA Europe
5 Decrease 2  Lithuania 442.0FIBA Europe
6  Argentina 360.0FIBA Americas
7 Increase 2  Brazil 323.0FIBA Americas
8 Steady  Turkey 281.0FIBA Europe
9 Decrease 2  Russia 255.0FIBA Europe
10 Increase 1  Australia 234.0FIBA Oceania
11  Croatia 184.0FIBA Europe
12  Slovenia 163.0FIBA Europe
13 Decrease 3  Greece 155.0FIBA Europe
14 Steady  China 131.2FIBA Asia
15 Increase 7  Venezuela 115.4FIBA Americas
16 Increase 9  Nigeria 106.2FIBA Africa
17 Decrease 1  Puerto Rico 97.2FIBA Americas
18 Steady  Dominican Republic 87.6FIBA Americas
19  Mexico 86.6FIBA Americas
20 Increase 1  New Zealand 72.0FIBA Oceania

Women

Top 20 Rankings after the 2016 Summer
Olympics Basketball Tournament
[3]
#+/TeamPointsZone
1 Steady  United States 1000.0FIBA Americas
2 Increase 1 Spain670.0FIBA Europe
3  France 560.0FIBA Europe
4 Decrease 2  Australia460.0FIBA Oceania
5 Steady Czech Republic 356.0FIBA Europe
6 Increase 3  Canada 340.0FIBA Americas
7  Turkey 304.0FIBA Europe
8 Increase 1  Brazil 296.0FIBA Americas
9 Increase 5  Serbia 276.0FIBA Europe
10 Decrease 2 China 256.0FIBA Asia
11 Decrease 5  Russia 244.0FIBA Europe
12 Decrease 2  Belarus 224.0FIBA Europe
13 Increase 3  Japan 173.0FIBA Asia
14 Decrease 1  Cuba 131.0FIBA Americas
15 Decrease 3  South Korea 130.0FIBA Asia
16 Decrease 1  Argentina 124.2FIBA Americas
17 Increase 7  Senegal 84.0FIBA Africa
18 Steady Angola 79.0FIBA Africa
19 Increase 1 Croatia 74.0FIBA Europe
20  Greece 69.0FIBA Europe

Combined

Top 20 Rankings after the 2015
Continental Championships
[4]
#+/TeamPointsZone
1 Steady United States USA 3280.0FIBA Americas
2 Spain Spain 1995.0FIBA Europe
3 France France 1410.0FIBA Europe
4 Australia Australia 1166.0FIBA Oceania
5 Russia Russia 1133.0FIBA Europe
6 Argentina Argentina 1033.6FIBA Americas
7 Increase2 Canada Canada 984.8FIBA Americas
8 Decrease1 Brazil Brazil 976.0FIBA Americas
9 Serbia Serbia 925.0FIBA Europe
10 Steady Turkey Turkey 884.0FIBA Europe
11 Lithuania Lithuania 809.0FIBA Europe
12 China China 776.4FIBA Asia
13 Czech Republic Czech Republic 672.0FIBA Europe
14 Croatia Croatia 620.0FIBA Europe
15 Greece Greece 537.0FIBA Europe
16 South Korea Korea 426.1FIBA Asia
17 Increase2 Italy Italy 346.0FIBA Europe
18 Steady Japan Japan 340.4FIBA Asia
19 Decrease2 Puerto Rico Puerto Rico 333.8FIBA Americas
20 Increase3 Latvia Latvia 271.0FIBA Europe

Notes and references

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