FIBA Basketball World Cup qualification
Unlike in previous editions results from the prior Summer Olympics and continental championships are not taken into account.Until 2014, the winners of the Summer Olympics and continental championships also received an automatic berth, but starting from the 2019 World Cup this is no longer the case.The two North American nations, the United States and Canada, could still only qualify via the Olympics or via invitation; Mexico participated via the Centrobasket, which it hosted the inaugural tournament.In 2012, FIBA announced that the supposed 2018 World Cup would be moved to 2019, the field would expand to 32 teams, and that a new qualification format will be used.[1] These are the number of teams that participated in all levels of qualification for the World Cup since 2006: Key to map: Qualification format to be used starting at the 2019 FIBA World Cup:[2] The figures below show the first instance a team qualified to the final qualifying tournament (i.e. continental championship).