FIBA Basketball World Cup records

FIBA Basketball World Cup records are the records attained throughout the history of the FIBA Basketball World Cup.

General performances[edit]

Performances of host countries[edit]

From 1959 to 1982, the host qualified directly to the final round, thus bypassing the preliminary round (group stages). As a result, the host’s final rank would no worse than the number of teams in the final round (between six and eight); however, from 1986 the host was made to compete in the preliminary round.

However, the success rate of hosts winning the tournament is rather low (14%, 3 of 18), as compared to the FIFA World Cup’s success rate of 22% (6 of 21); furthermore, no host has won the championship since Yugoslavia won in 1970, and only one host since then has won any type of medal (Turkey with a silver medal in 2010).

By top four finishes[edit]

Rank	Nation	Number of appearances	Years in semifinals
1.	United States	14	(1950, 1954, 1959, 1963, 1967, 1974, 1982, 1986, 1990, 1994, 1998, 2006, 2010, 2014)
2.	Yugoslavia /  FR Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro)	10	(1963, 1967, 1970, 1974, 1978, 1982, 1986, 1990, 1998, 2002)
3.	Brazil	8	(1950, 1954, 1959, 1963, 1967, 1970, 1978, 1986)
	Soviet Union	8	(1963, 1967, 1970, 1974, 1978, 1982, 1986, 1990)
5.	Argentina	4	(1950, 2002, 2006, 2019)
6.	France	3	(1954, 2014, 2019)
	Greece	3	(1994, 1998, 2006)
	Spain	3	(1982, 2006, 2019)
9.	Chile	2	(1950, 1959)
	Italy	2	(1970, 1978)
	Lithuania	2	(2010, 2014)
	Russia	2	(1994, 1998)
	Serbia	2	(2010, 2014)
14.	Philippines	1	(1954)
	Formosa	1	(1959)
	Cuba	1	(1974)
	Puerto Rico	1	(1990)
	Croatia	1	(1994)
	Germany	1	(2002)
	New Zealand	1	(2002)
	Turkey	1	(2010)
	Australia	1	(2019)

Most Valuable Players[edit]

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Top scorer by tournament[edit]

Points per game[edit]

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Total points scored[edit]

FIBA Basketball World Cup All-Tournament Team[edit]

All-time top cumulative points scorers[edit]

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All time highest scoring averages[edit]

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• Player must have played at least 5 games to appear in this statistic

Games with most overtimes[edit]

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Age records[edit]

Oldest[edit]

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*describes age on first day of the tournament

Game score records[edit]

Biggest game score[edit]

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Lowest game score[edit]

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Biggest margin[edit]

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Top scorers in a single game[edit]

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Players with the most tournaments and games played[edit]

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Player	Number of World Cups	Games Played	Years played	Ref.
Ubiratan Pereira Maciel (“Bira”)	5	41	1963, 1967, 1970, 1974, 1978	[29][30][31]
Luis Scola			2002, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2019	[32][33]
Marcel De Souza		37	1974, 1978, 1982, 1986, 1990	[34][35][36][37]
Phil Smyth		36	1978, 1982, 1986, 1990, 1994	[38][39]
Jerome Mincy			1986, 1990, 1994, 1998, 2002	[40][41]
Alex Garcia		32	2002, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2019	[42]
Daniel Santiago		30	1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014	[43]
Anderson Varejao		29	2002, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2019	[44]
Leandro Barbosa		27	2002, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2019	[44]
Marcelinho Machado		25	1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014	[45]
Eduardo Mingas		23	2002, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2019	[46][47]
Dražen Dalipagić	4	35	1974, 1978, 1982, 1986	[48]
Alexander Belostenny			1978, 1982, 1986, 1990	[49]
Oscar Schmidt		34	1978, 1982, 1986, 1990	[50]
Rubén Wolkowyski			1994, 1998, 2002, 2006	[51]
Amaury Pasos		33	1954, 1959, 1963, 1967	[52][53]
Andrés Jiménez Fernández			1982, 1986, 1990, 1994	[54][55][56]
José Rafael Ortiz			1990, 1994, 1998, 2002	[57][58]
Juan Carlos Navarro			2002, 2006, 2010, 2014	[59]
Rudy Fernandez			2006, 2010, 2014, 2019	[60]
Marcelo Milanesio		32	1986, 1990, 1994, 1998	[61]
Fabricio Oberto			1998, 2002, 2006, 2010	[62][63]
Marc Gasol			2006, 2010, 2014, 2019	[64][65]
Wlamir Marques		31	1954, 1959, 1963, 1970	[66][67]
Sergei Belov			1967, 1970, 1974, 1978	[68][69]
Ray Borner		29	1982, 1986, 1990, 1994	[70]
Andrew Gaze			1986, 1990, 1994, 1998	[71]
João José Vianna			1986, 1990, 1994, 1998	[72]
Krešimir Ćosić		28	1967, 1970, 1974, 1978	[73][74]
Kirk Penney		27	2002, 2006, 2010, 2014	[75][76]
Tiago Splitter		26	2002, 2006, 2010, 2014	[77][78]
Felipe Reyes		23	2002, 2006, 2010, 2014	[79]

Top medalists[edit]

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Player	Gold Medals	Silver Medals	Bronze Medals	Total Medals
Wlamir Marques	2 (1959, 1963)	2 (1954, 1970)	0	4
Krešimir Ćosić	2 (1970, 1978)	2 (1967, 1974)	0	4
Amaury Pasos	2 (1959, 1963)	1 (1954)	1 (1967)	4
Sergei Belov	2 (1967, 1974)	1 (1978)	1 (1970)	4
Carmo De Souza	2 (1959, 1963)	1 (1970)	0	3
Jatyr Eduardo Schall	2 (1959, 1963)	0	1 (1967)	3
Modestas Paulauskas	2 (1967, 1974)	0	1 (1970)	3
Priit Tomson	2 (1967, 1974)	0	1 (1970)	3
/ Vlade Divac	2 (1990, 2002)	0	1 (1986)	3
Dejan Bodiroga	2 (1998, 2002)	0	0	2
Predrag Drobnjak	2 (1998, 2002)	0	0	2
Dejan Tomašević	2 (1998, 2002)	0	0	2
Rudy Fernández	2 (2006, 2019)	0	0	2
Marc Gasol	2 (2006, 2019)	0	0	2
Stephen Curry	2 (2010, 2014)	0	0	2
Rudy Gay	2 (2010, 2014)	0	0	2
Derrick Rose	2 (2010, 2014)	0	0	2

Players with the most total medals won[edit]

Player	Gold Medals	Silver Medals	Bronze Medals	Total Medals
Wlamir Marques	2 (1959, 1963)	2 (1954, 1970)	0	4
Krešimir Ćosić	2 (1970, 1978)	2 (1967, 1974)	0	4
Amaury Pasos	2 (1959, 1963)	1 (1954)	1 (1967)	4
Sergei Belov	2 (1967, 1974)	1 (1978)	1 (1970)	4
Alexander Belostenny	1 (1982)	3 (1978, 1986, 1990)	0	4
Ubiratan Pereira Maciel (“Bira”)	1 (1963)	1 (1970)	2 (1967, 1978)	4
Dražen Dalipagić	1 (1978)	1 (1974)	2 (1982, 1986)	4

All-time team records[edit]

  FIBA Africa,   FIBA Americas,   FIBA Asia,   FIBA Europe,   FIBA Oceania

Team	Games played	Wins	Losses	Winning percentage	Points for	Points against	Point differential	Goal average	Margin/game	Best finish
United States	158	129	29	.816	13,928	11,354	+2,574	1.227	+16.3	5 ${displaystyle times }$ winners
Brazil	140	84	56	.600	11.313	10,520	+793	1.075	+5.6	2 ${displaystyle times }$ winners
Yugoslavia*	78	58	20	.744	6,591	5,847	+744	1.127	+9.5	5 ${displaystyle times }$ winners
Argentina	112	65	47	.580	8,998	8,537	+461	1.054	+4.12	1 ${displaystyle times }$ winners
Soviet Union*	80	66	14	.825	7,141	5,652	+1,489	1.263	+18.6	3 ${displaystyle times }$ winners
Spain	100	71	29	.710	8,519	7,499	+1,020	1.136	+10.2	2 ${displaystyle times }$ winners
Canada	107	39	68	.364	8,340	8,551	−211	0.975	−2.0	Final round
Puerto Rico	98	40	58	.444	7,668	7,933	−265	0.959	−2.9	Final round
Italy	74	43	31	.581	5,973	5,661	+312	1.055	+4.2	Final round
Australia	88	41	47	.466	7,072	7,231	−159	0.978	−1.8	Fourth place
Greece	61	36	25	.590	4,842	4,683	+159	1.034	+2.6	Runners-up
China	65	17	48	.261	5,354	6,205	−851	0.863	−13.1	Round of 16
Uruguay	50	17	33	.340	3,309	3,690	−381	0.897	−7.6	Final round
France	63	34	29	.540	4,215	4,224	−9	0.998	−0.1	Third place
Russia	39	25	14	.641	3,083	2,943	+140	1.048	+3.6	Runners-up
Cuba	35	18	17	.514	2,772	2,751	+21	1.007	+0.6	Final round
Angola	51	15	36	.294	3,798	4,270	−472	0.899	−9.2	Round of 16
South Korea	51	10	41	.196	4,016	4,902	−886	0.819	−17.4	Preliminary round
Germany	36	21	15	.583	2,921	2,793	+128	1.046	+3.6	Third place
Czechoslovakia*	30	17	13	.567	2,713	2,618	+95	1.036	+3.2	Final round
Lithuania	41	27	14	.658	3,262	2,993	+269	1.090	+6.6	Third place
Philippines	40	13	27	.325	2,953	3,495	−542	0.845	−13.5	Third place
Egypt	42	6	36	.143	2,691	3,456	−765	0.779	−18.2	Final round
Serbia	50	34	16	.680	4,284	3,689	+595	1.161	+11.9	Runners-up
Mexico	35	17	18	.486	2,578	2,618	−40	0.985	−1.1	Final round
Turkey	38	24	14	.632	3,005	2,883	+122	1.042	+3.2	Runners-up
New Zealand	37	15	22	.405	2,894	3,177	−283	0.908	−7.6	Fourth place
Peru	27	10	17	.370	1,585	1,671	−106	0.948	−3.9	Final round
Panama	25	9	16	.360	2,089	2,232	−143	0.896	−5.7	Preliminary round
Japan	31	5	26	.161	2,024	2,488	−464	0.813	−15.0	Preliminary round
Chile	19	9	10	.474	1,025	1,069	−44	0.959	−2.3	Third place
Israel	19	7	12	.368	1,262	1,440	−178	0.876	−9.4	Final round
Chinese Taipei	18	7	11	.389	982	1,077	−95	0.912	−5.3	Fourth place
Croatia	20	12	8	.600	1,637	1,449	+188	1.130	+9.4	Third place
Slovenia	22	12	10	.545	1,796	1,786	+10	1.006	+0.5	Quarter-finals
Venezuela	23	8	15	.348	1,851	2,040	−189	0.907	−8.2	Preliminary round
Senegal	28	4	24	.143	1,919	2,330	−411	0.824	−14.7	Round of 16
Ivory Coast	22	1	21	.045	1,537	1,986	−449	0.774	−20.4	Preliminary round
Lebanon	15	3	12	.200	1,063	1,390	−327	0.765	−21.8	Preliminary round
Nigeria	16	7	9	.438	1,225	1,195	+30	1.025	+1.9	Round of 16
Paraguay	13	3	10	.231	733	953	−220	0.769	−16.9	Preliminary round
Bulgaria	9	5	4	.556	532	512	+20	1.039	+2.2	Final round
Poland	17	8	9	.471	1,285	1,320	−35	0.973	−2.1	Final round
Dominican Republic	18	6	12	.300	1,357	1,510	−153	0.899	−8.5	Round of 16
Netherlands	5	2	3	.400	422	405	+17	1.042	+3.4	Preliminary round
Ecuador	5	2	3	.400	222	232	−10	0.957	−2.0	Preliminary round
West Germany*	5	2	3	.400	382	397	−15	0.962	−3.0	Preliminary round
Central African Republic	7	0	7	.000	477	757	−280	0.630	−40.0	Preliminary round
Iran	15	4	11	.267	1,024	1,145	−121	0.894	-8.07	Preliminary round
Ukraine	5	2	3	.400	344	369	−25	0.932	−5.0	Preliminary round
Finland	5	1	4	.200	342	408	−66	0.838	−13.2	Preliminary round
Jordan	10	1	9	.100	713	928	−215	0.768	−21.5	Preliminary round
Tunisia	10	3	7	.300	677	793	−116	0.854	−11.6	Preliminary round
Qatar	5	0	5	.000	310	456	−146	0.680	−29.2	Preliminary round
Colombia	5	0	5	.000	473	656	−183	0.721	−36.6	Preliminary round
Malaysia	5	0	5	.000	313	539	−226	0.581	−45.2	Preliminary round
Algeria	5	1	4	.200	395	476	−81	0.830	−16.2	Preliminary round
Indonesia	0	0	0	.000	0	0	0	0.0	0	TBD
Czech Republic	8	4	4	.500	662	651	+11	1.017	+1.4	Sixth place
Montenegro	5	1	4	.200	370	406	-36	0.911	+7.2	Preliminary round
Total	1,121 games				175,241 points

*Defunct country

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