The wolf gang will once again be able to play the European Championships in front of their home crowd. In addition to Finland, initial blocks were granted to Latvia and Cyprus.
29.3. 13:49 • Updated March 29. 13:58
The Finnish men’s basketball team will be able to play the 2025 European Championships in front of the home crowd. The Basketball Association tells about it.
The International Basketball Federation FIBA announced the host countries of the 2025 European Championships and Finland is one of the four starting blocks of the competition.
In addition to Finland, the first blocks of the 2025 European Championships were awarded to Latvia and Cyprus. The playoffs were played in Latvia. The Games will be played in August-September 2025.
The games of the European Championship Group played in Helsinki in 2017 were watched on the spot by 88,000 spectators.
– We are very happy to have the opportunity to offer the Finnish audience the European Championships again. There is a strong boom in basketball, comments the CEO of the Basketball Association, who served as the general secretary of the 2017 home games. Ari Tammivaara in the bulletin.
The Finnish Basketball Association searched the European Championships using Helsinki as the future competition city.
The venue is still a question mark, because the fate of the arena in Helsinki’s Ilmala is open. Arena partners and event organizers withdrew from the hall because of Russian owners.
Ukraine was also one of the countries applying for hostage. At its meeting, FIBA decided to continue discussions with Ukraine on the organization of the fourth round of the European Championships in 2025.
The 2022 European Championships will be held in Georgia, Italy, Germany and the Czech Republic. Susijengi, who made his way to the competition through the qualifiers, will play his starting block in Prague, Czech Republic from 2 to 8 September 2022.