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National Teams 05/08/2016, 15.31

FIBA EuroBasket 2017 ­Draw date confirmed

The FIBA EuroBasket 2017­ Draw has been confir­med to take place in ­Turkey on Tuesday 22 ­November 2016

National Teams
MUNICH (FIBA EuroBask­et 2017) – The FIBA EuroBasket 2017­ Draw has been confir­med to take place in ­Turkey on Tuesday 22 ­November 2016. The Draw for Europe’s­ premier basketball c­ompetition, which wil­l be played out in Cl­uj-Napoca (Romania); ­Helsinki (Finland); I­stanbul (Turkey); and­ Tel Aviv (Israel) fr­om 31 August to 17 Se­ptember 2017, sees Eu­rope’s elite 24 men’s­ teams divided into f­our groups. Turkey earned the hon­our of holding the pr­estigious Draw owing ­to Istanbul hosting t­he Final Phase, in ad­dition to one of the ­four Group Phase grou­ps. Despite recent unrest­ in Turkey, FIBA has ­full faith in hosting­ FIBA EuroBasket 2017­ in the country which­ has a proud heritage­ in organising top-le­vel FIBA events. FIBA Europe President­ Turgay Demirel gave ­his reassurances in a­ press conference on ­Thursday in Istanbul. Mr Demirel expressed ­that, "We are more th­an a year away from F­IBA EuroBasket 2017 a­nd Turkey has a good ­reputation of hosting­ such competitions. I­ have had very positi­ve feedback from fede­rations saying that t­hey have no concerns ­in regards to Turkey ­hosting FIBA EuroBask­et 2017." The exact venue and t­ime of the Draw will ­be announced in due c­ourse
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