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Chinanews.com client, October 26, according to the official website of the FIBA News, the 2021 Asian Cup of Men's Basketball Qualifiers will cancel the home and away system and change to a tournament system.
The Chinese men's basketball team will be divided into Group B with Chinese Taipei, Japan and Malaysia. The match will be held in Doha.
The FIBA official website wrote: “Considering the health of athletes, referees, and officials, and on the proposal of the FIBA Medical Committee and Competition Committee, the FIBA Executive Committee confirmed that the current window game will cancel the home and away system and change it to In the same competition area."
The Chinese men's basketball team is divided into the same group as Chinese Taipei, Japan and Malaysia.
By then, the Chinese team will go to Doha, Qatar to compete.
Previously, FIBA had announced the specific schedule of the Asian Cup qualifiers, but due to the impact of the epidemic, the game was forced to postpone.
The postponed schedule will be announced later.
On September 1 this year, the Chinese men's basketball team began a new training session to prepare for the 2021 Olympic Games and the men's basketball Asian Cup qualifiers.
The 2021 FIBA Asian Cup qualifiers are divided into 6 groups, with 4 teams in each group. The top two teams in the group will directly qualify for the main match, and the third place in each group will compete for the last 4 seats.
In the last Asian Cup of Men's Basketball, the Chinese men's basketball team finally narrowly defeated Lebanon 79:78 in qualifying to get fifth place.
Since the Chinese men's basketball team first participated in the Asian Championships in 1975 (restructured into the Asian Cup in 2017), they have won 16 championships in team history.
The worst result was 10th in the 2007 Tokushima Asian Championships.
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