The 2020 FIBA Under-17 Basketball World Cup (Bulgarian: 2020 Световна купа по баскетбол FIBA до 17 години) would have been the 6th edition of the FIBA Under-17 Basketball World Cup, the biennial international men's youth basketball championship contested by the U17 national teams of the member associations of FIBA.

It was originally scheduled to take place between 4 and 12 July 2020, and hosted by Sofia, Bulgaria. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was postponed to 15 to 23 August.^[1] On 12 June 2020, FIBA postponed the tournament again and options were examined to play in 2021, but the tournament was eventually cancelled.^[2]

Venues

Sofia		Sofia
Armeets Arena
Capacity: 12,373

Qualified teams

Means of Qualification	Date	Venue	Berths	Qualifiers
Host Nation	4 April 2019		1	Bulgaria
2019 FIBA Under-16 Americas Championship	3–9 June 2019	Belém do Pará	4	United States  Canada  Dominican Republic  Argentina
2019 FIBA Under-16 African Championship	5–14 July 2019	Praia	2	Egypt  Mali
2019 FIBA Under-16 European Championship	9–17 August 2019	Udine	5	Spain  France  Italy  Russia  Turkey
Asian selection			4	Australia  China  South Korea TBD
Total			16

As the Asian tournament was cancelled, the FIBA used the World rankings to decide the participants. Japan and New Zealand were to play a play-off to decide the last participant as they are equal on points.^[3]

Draw

The draw for the tournament was held on 6 March 2020 in Sofia, Bulgaria.^[4]

Seedings

The seedings were announced on 6 March 2020.^[4]

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Bulgaria (hosts)  United States  Canada  Spain	France  Italy  Russia  Turkey	Australia  China  South Korea  Japan or  New Zealand	Dominican Republic  Argentina  Egypt  Mali

Preliminary round

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
1	Canada	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	Australia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Italy	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Egypt	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Source: FIBA
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head results; 3) Points difference; 4) Points scored.

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
1	China	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	Dominican Republic	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	France	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Bulgaria (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Source: FIBA
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head results; 3) Points difference; 4) Points scored.
(H) Hosts

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
1	Turkey	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	South Korea	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Argentina	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Spain	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Source: FIBA
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head results; 3) Points difference; 4) Points scored.

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
1	Russia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	United States	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Mali	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	TBD	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Source: FIBA
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head results; 3) Points difference; 4) Points scored.

Final round

Final ranking

Rank	Team	Record
4th
5th
6th
7th
8th
9th
10th
11th
12th
13th
14th
15th
16th

References

External links

• Official website