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The Group Phase will be organized in Zagreb (Croatia), Montpellier (France), Berlin (Germany) and Riga (Latvia). The Final Phase will be played in the multifunctional Lille Arena, which will have a 27,000 capacity for the purposes of EuroBasket.

Vying but left out were Finland, Israel, Poland and Turkey.

In mid-June the newly elected Board of FIBA Europe decided to relocate EuroBasket 2015 from Ukraine because of the unstable situation in the country and invited bids by its member federations to host the event instead.

16 federations expressed an initial interest to host and eight of them bid officially – Croatia, Finland, France, Germany, Israel, Latvia, Poland and Turkey. These eight applications were the biggest number of applications for a EuroBasket event, since FIBA Europe became a FIBA zone in 2002, reports fibaeurope.com.

The final tournament of EuroBasket 2015 will bring together teams Lithuania, Spain, France, Slovenia, Croatia, Ukraine, Serbia, Finland, Greece, Turkey, Estonia, Israel, the Netherlands, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iceland, Poland, Austria, Belgium, Macedonia, Georgia, Czech Republic, Latvia, Italy and Russia.

EuroBasket 2015 will be played between 5-20 September, next year.