China News Service, Beijing, November 25. On the 24th local time, FIBA announced that the new men's basketball Asian Cup will be held in Jakarta, Indonesia from July 12-24, 2022.
The Chinese men's basketball team, which has won 16 championships in this event, will compete for the Asian supremacy again in half a year.
Affected by the epidemic, the 2021 Men's Basketball Asian Cup originally scheduled to be held in Jakarta in August this year was postponed for one year.
In the Asian Cup qualifiers in June this year, the Chinese men's basketball team won the Chinese Taipei team twice and the Japanese team doubled to qualify for the Asian Cup as the group leader.
After the Chinese Taipei team caught up with the last train in the Asian preliminaries play-offs in late August, all 16 teams participating in the Asian Cup main match were formed: China, Australia, Japan, Iran, South Korea, New Zealand Team, Chinese Taipei, Philippines, India, Kazakhstan, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Syria and host Indonesia.
The predecessor of the Asian Cup of Men’s Basketball was the Asian Men’s Basketball Championship held every two years.
After 2015, the Men's Basketball Asian Championship was restructured into the Men's Basketball Asian Cup, which was held at the same time as the World Cup, held every four years.
Since participating in the 8th Asian Championships in 1975, the Chinese Men's Basketball Team has won 16 championships.
In the 2017 Men's Basketball Asian Cup, the Australian team, which entered the Asian region for the first time, won the championship, and Iran, South Korea, and New Zealand were ranked 2-4.
The Chinese men's basketball team ranked fifth, tying the team's second-worst record in the Asian Cup (Asian Championship).
Currently, the Chinese men's basketball team is preparing for the first window of the World Cup qualifiers in Sendai, Japan.
On the 27th and 28th, the Chinese men's basketball team will play against the Japanese team.
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