Basketball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification


The men's qualification for the Olympic basketball tournament will take place from 2019 to 2020; all five FIBA zones are expected to have representation in the Olympic basketball event.
Japan as host qualifies directly. The first qualifying tournament was the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup in which seven teams will qualify for the Olympics. The next best 16 teams in the FIBA Basketball World that did not qualify directly to the Olympics along with 2 select teams from each of the four FIBA regions or 24 teams will participate in four separate wild card tournaments which will determine the final four teams which will play in the Olympics.

Method

A total of 12 teams will take part in the Olympics, with each NOC sending in one team.

Qualification via hosting the Olympics

The host nation is qualified to participate in the Olympic men's basketball event as the host.

Qualification via World Cup

The best finishing team/s in the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup from each FIBA zone qualifies directly to the Olympics.
The additional four qualifying teams will be determined through four FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournaments of six teams each or between twenty four teams, totally. The tournaments will be contested by the 16 best non-qualifying teams at the 2019 World Cup and an additional 8 teams; 2 teams from each of the four regions of Africa, Americas, Asia, and Europe. According to the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup results, each zone is allocated with the following berths:

2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup

;Final standing by FIBA zone
Qualify to the 2020 Summer Olympics via sub-zone rank
Qualify to the 2020 FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament
Qualify to the 2020 Summer Olympics as the host country

FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournaments

After the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup results, each zone is represented by the following national teams:
Victoria, Split, Kaunas and Belgrade have been awarded the hosting rights of the four tournaments. They were originally scheduled to take place from 23 to 28 June 2020 but were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, to 22 June to 4 July 2021, with the exact dates to be announced.
FIBA AfricaFIBA AmericasFIBA EuropeFIBA Asia and FIBA Oceania

The FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournaments will include the 16 best-placed non-qualified teams from the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup and two highest-ranked countries per region in the FIBA World Ranking. On 19 September 2019, FIBA announced those teams, which are Angola and Senegal, Mexico and Uruguay, China and Korea, and Croatia and Slovenia.

Draw

In 2020 four qualifying tournaments, each producing a team which will be qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics. The format consisted of 24 national teams divided into four tournaments of six teams each, with the winning team from each event qualifying for the Olympics. The draw took place on 27 November 2019.