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FIBA U16 AfroBasket

{{Short description|Under-16 basketball championship}}

{{For|the girls' competition|FIBA U16 Women's AfroBasket}}

{{Infobox sports league

| title = FIBA U16 AfroBasket

| Formerly = FIBA U16 African Championship

| last_season = 2025 FIBA U16 AfroBasket

| logo =

| sport = Basketball

| founded = {{Start date and age|df=yes|2009}}

| teams =

| organiser = FIBA Africa

| continent = Africa

| champion = {{bku|16|GUI}} (1st title)

| most_champs = {{bku|16|EGY}} (5 titles)

| qualification = FIBA U17 World Cup

| related_comps = FIBA U18 AfroBasket

| website = [https://www.fiba.basketball/en/history/224-fiba-u16-afrobasket fiba.basketball/history]

}}

The FIBA U16 AfroBasket, previously known as the FIBA U16 African Championship, is a biennial international youth basketball competition consisting of under-16 men's national teams organised by FIBA Africa.

The tournament also serves as qualification for the FIBA Under-17 Basketball World Cup, where the top two teams directly qualify.

Summary

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!rowspan=2 width=5%|Year

!rowspan=2 width=10%|Hosts

!width=1% rowspan=11 bgcolor=ffffff|

!colspan=3|Final

!width=1% rowspan=11 bgcolor=ffffff|

!colspan=3|Third place game

bgcolor=#EFEFEF

!width=15%|Champions

!width=9%|Score

!width=15%|Runners-up

!width=15%|Third place

!width=9%|Score

!width=15%|Fourth place

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|2009[https://www.fiba.basketball/en/history/224-fiba-u16-afrobasket/3357 2009 FIBA Africa Under-16 Championship]
Details

|{{Flagicon|MOZ}}
Maputo

|{{bku-big|16|EGY}}

|84–82

|{{bku-big|16|MLI}}

|{{bku-big|16|NGR}}

|65–56

|{{bku-big|16|ALG}}

2011[https://www.fiba.basketball/en/history/224-fiba-u16-afrobasket/4342 2011 FIBA Africa Under-16 Championship]
Details

|{{Flagicon|EGY}}
Alexandria

|{{bku-big|16|EGY}}

|117–67

|{{bku-big|16|TUN}}

|{{bku-big|16|MLI}}

|59–57

|{{bku-big|16|ANG}}

bgcolor=#D0E7FF

|2013[https://www.fiba.basketball/en/history/224-fiba-u16-afrobasket/5325 2013 FIBA Africa Under-16 Championship]
Details

|{{Flagicon|MAD}}
Antananarivo

|{{bku-big|16|ANG}}

|75–66

|{{bku-big|16|EGY}}

|{{bku-big|16|TUN}}

|70–49

|{{bku-big|16|MAD}}

2015[https://www.fiba.basketball/en/history/224-fiba-u16-afrobasket/9405 2015 FIBA Africa Under-16 Championship]
Details

|{{Flagicon|MLI}}
Bamako

|{{bku-big|16|EGY}}

| 64–63

|{{bku-big|16|MLI}}

|{{bku-big|16|ALG}}

| 45–37

|{{bku-big|16|ANG}}

bgcolor=#D0E7FF

|2017[https://www.fiba.basketball/en/history/224-fiba-u16-afrobasket/10772 2017 FIBA U16 African Championship]
Details

|{{Flagicon|MRI}}
Vacoas-Phoenix

|{{bku-big|16|MLI}}

| 76–65

|{{bku-big|16|EGY}}

|{{bku-big|16|ALG}}

| 57–54

|{{bku-big|16|TUN}}

2019[https://www.fiba.basketball/en/history/224-fiba-u16-afrobasket/208130 2019 FIBA U16 African Championship]
Details

| {{Flagicon|CPV}}
Praia

|{{bku-big|16|EGY}}

|66–57

|{{bku-big|16|MLI}}

|{{bku-big|16|NGA}}

|54–53

|{{bku-big|16|GUI}}

bgcolor=#D0E7FF

|2021[https://www.fiba.basketball/en/history/224-fiba-u16-afrobasket/208412 2021 FIBA U16 African Championship]
Details

| {{Flagicon|EGY}}
Cairo

|{{bku-big|16|EGY}}

|63–62

|{{bku-big|16|MLI}}

|{{bku-big|16|ALG}}

|65–50

|{{bku-big|16|CHA}}

2023[https://www.fiba.basketball/en/history/224-fiba-u16-afrobasket/208716 2023 FIBA U16 African Championship]
Details

| {{Flagicon|TUN}}
Monastir

|{{bku-big|16|GIN}}

|84–76

|{{bku-big|16|EGY}}

|{{bku-big|16|MLI}}

|63–56

|{{bku-big|16|ANG}}

bgcolor=#D0E7FF

|2025
Details

| {{Flagicon|RWA}}
Kigali

|

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Medal table

{{Medals table

| caption =

| host =

| flag_template = bku2

| event = 16

| team =

| gold_EGY = 5 | silver_EGY = 3 | bronze_EGY = 0

| gold_MLI = 1 | silver_MLI = 4 | bronze_MLI = 2

| gold_ANG = 1 | silver_ANG = 0 | bronze_ANG = 0

| gold_GUI = 1 | silver_GUI = 0 | bronze_GUI = 0

| gold_TUN = 0 | silver_TUN = 1 | bronze_TUN = 1

| gold_ALG = 0 | silver_ALG = 0 | bronze_ALG = 3

| gold_NGR = 0 | silver_NGR = 0 | bronze_NGR = 2

}}

MVP Awards

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!Year

!MVP Award Winner

2009

|{{flagicon|EGY}} Ahmed Mostafa

2011

|{{flagicon|EGY}} Ehab Amin

2013

|{{flagicon|EGY}} Mohamed Abdelrahman

2015

|{{flagicon|EGY}} Ahmed Khalaf

2017

|{{flagicon|MLI}} Siriman Kanouté

2019

|{{flagicon|EGY}} Moamen Abouzeid

2021

|{{flagicon|EGY}} Adam El Halawany

2023

|{{flagicon|GUI}} Nour Gassim Toure

Participating nations

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scope="col" rowspan="3" |Nation

!{{flagicon|MOZ}}

!{{flagicon|EGY}}

!{{flagicon|MAD}}

!{{flagicon|MLI}}

!{{flagicon|MRI}}

!{{flagicon|CPV}}

!{{flagicon|EGY}}

!{{flagicon|TUN}}

!{{Flagicon|RWA}}

!scope="col" rowspan="2"| Total

2009

!2011

!2013

!2015

!2017

!2019

!2021

!2023

!2025

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!

align=left|{{bku|16|ALG}}

| 4th

5thdata-sort-value="99"|data-sort-value="3"|{{Afr3}}data-sort-value="3"|{{Afr3}}10thdata-sort-value="3"|{{Afr3}}data-sort-value="99"|! 6
align=left|{{bku|16|ANG}}

| 6th

4thdata-sort-value="1"|{{Afr1}}4thdata-sort-value="99"|7thdata-sort-value="99"|4th! 6
align=left|{{bku|16|CPV}}

| data-sort-value="99"|

data-sort-value="99"|data-sort-value="99"|data-sort-value="99"|data-sort-value="99"|data-sort-value="2019"| 8thdata-sort-value="99"|data-sort-value="99"|! 1
align=left|{{bku|16|CAF}}

| 7th

data-sort-value="99"|data-sort-value="99"|data-sort-value="99"|data-sort-value="99"|data-sort-value="99"|data-sort-value="99"|data-sort-value="99"|! 1
align=left|{{bku|16|CHA}}

| data-sort-value="99"|

data-sort-value="99"|data-sort-value="99"|data-sort-value="99"|data-sort-value="99"|data-sort-value="99"|4th7th! 2
align=left|{{bku|16|COM}}

| data-sort-value="99"|

data-sort-value="99"|9thdata-sort-value="99"|data-sort-value="99"|data-sort-value="99"|data-sort-value="99"|data-sort-value="99"|! 1
align=left|{{bku|16|CGO}}

| data-sort-value="99"|

7thdata-sort-value="99"|data-sort-value="99"|data-sort-value="99"|data-sort-value="99"|data-sort-value="99"|data-sort-value="99"|! 1
align=left|{{bku|16|COD}}

| data-sort-value="99"|

data-sort-value="99"|5thdata-sort-value="99"|data-sort-value="99"|data-sort-value="99"|data-sort-value="99"|data-sort-value="99"|! 1
align=left|{{bku|16|EGY}}

| data-sort-value="1"|{{Afr1}}

data-sort-value="1"|{{Afr1}}data-sort-value="2"|{{Afr2}}data-sort-value="1"|{{Afr1}}data-sort-value="2"|{{Afr2}}data-sort-value="1"|{{Afr1}}data-sort-value="1"|{{Afr1}}data-sort-value="2"|{{Afr2}}! 8
align=left|{{bku|16|EQG}}

| data-sort-value="99"|

data-sort-value="99"|data-sort-value="99"|10thdata-sort-value="99"|data-sort-value="99"|data-sort-value="99"|data-sort-value="99"|! 1
align=left|{{bku|16|ETH}}

| data-sort-value="99"|

data-sort-value="99"|data-sort-value="99"|11thdata-sort-value="99"|data-sort-value="99"|data-sort-value="99"|data-sort-value="99"|! 1
align=left|{{bku|16|GAB}}

| data-sort-value="99"|

data-sort-value="99"|7thdata-sort-value="99"|data-sort-value="99"|data-sort-value="99"|7thdata-sort-value="99"|! 2
align=left|{{bku|16|GUI}}

| 9th

data-sort-value="99"|data-sort-value="99"|data-sort-value="99"|data-sort-value="99"|4thdata-sort-value="99"|data-sort-value="1"|{{Afr1}}! 3
align=left|{{bku|16|CIV}}

| data-sort-value="99"|

data-sort-value="99"|8thdata-sort-value="99"|data-sort-value="99"|9th5th6th! 4
align=left|{{bku|16|MAD}}

| data-sort-value="99"|

data-sort-value="99"|4thdata-sort-value="99"|5thdata-sort-value="99"|data-sort-value="99"|data-sort-value="99"|! 2
align=left|{{bku|16|MLI}}

| data-sort-value="2"|{{Afr2}}

data-sort-value="3"|{{Afr3}}data-sort-value="99"|data-sort-value="2"|{{Afr2}}{{Afr1}}data-sort-value="2"|{{Afr2}}data-sort-value="2"|{{Afr2}}data-sort-value="3"|{{Afr3}}! 7
align=left|{{bku|16|MRI}}

| data-sort-value="99"|

data-sort-value="99"|data-sort-value="99"|data-sort-value="99"|8thdata-sort-value="99"|data-sort-value="99"|data-sort-value="99"|! 1
align=left|{{bku|16|MAR}}

| data-sort-value="99"|

data-sort-value="99"|data-sort-value="99"|6thdata-sort-value="99"|data-sort-value="99"|data-sort-value="99"|8th! 2
align=left|{{bku|16|MOZ}}

| 5th

6th6thdata-sort-value="99"|7thdata-sort-value="99"|data-sort-value="99"|data-sort-value="99"|! 4
align=left|{{bku|16|NGR}}

| data-sort-value="3"|{{Afr3}}

data-sort-value="99"|data-sort-value="99"|5thdata-sort-value="99"|data-sort-value="3"|{{Afr3}}data-sort-value="99"|data-sort-value="99"|! 3
align=left|{{bku|16|RWA}}

| data-sort-value="99"|

data-sort-value="99"|data-sort-value="99"|9th6th5thdata-sort-value="99"|5thQ

! 4

align=left|{{bku|16|RSA}}

| 8th

8thdata-sort-value="99"|8thdata-sort-value="99"|data-sort-value="99"|data-sort-value="99"|data-sort-value="99"|! 3
align=left|{{bku|16|TUN}}

| data-sort-value="99"|

data-sort-value="2"|{{Afr2}}data-sort-value="3"|{{Afr3}}7th4th6thdata-sort-value="99"|9th! 6
align=left|{{bku|16|UGA}}

| data-sort-value="99"|

data-sort-value="99"|data-sort-value="99"|data-sort-value="99"|data-sort-value="99"|data-sort-value="99"|6th10th! 2
Number of teams

! 9 || 8 || 9 || 11 || 8 || 10 || 7 || 10 || 10 ||

Under-17 World Cup record

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bgcolor=

!Team

!{{flagicon|Germany}}
2010

!{{flagicon|Lithuania}}
2012

!{{flagicon|United Arab Emirates}}
2014

!{{flagicon|Spain}}
2016

!{{flagicon|Argentina}}
2018

!{{flagicon|Spain}}
2022

!{{flagicon|Turkey}}
2024

!{{flagicon|Turkey}}
2026

!{{flagicon|Greece}}
2028

!Total

align=left|{{Bku|16|ANG}}111
align=left|{{Bku|16|EGY}}111213161610127
align=left|{{Bku|16|GUI}}141
align=left|{{Bku|16|MLI}}1512153
align=left|Total || 1 || 1 || 2 || 2 || 2 || 2 || 2 || 2 || 2 || 16

See also

References

{{Reflist}}

External links

  • [https://www.afrobasket.com/African-Championships-U16/basketball.aspx FIBA U16 AfroBasket], www.afrobasket.com
  • [https://www.fiba.basketball/en Official website of FIBA]

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{{African Basketball Competitions}}

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