EuroBasket 1985 explained

Tourney Name:	EuroBasket 1985
Other Titles:	Basketball-Europameisterschaft 1985
Country:	West Germany
Dates:	5–16 June
Num Teams:	12
Venues:	3
Cities:	3
Champion:	Soviet Union
Count:	14
Second:	Czechoslovakia
Third:	Italy
Fourth:	Spain
Games:	46
Mvp:	Arvydas Sabonis
Top Scorer:	Doron Jamchy (28.1 points per game)
Prevseason:	1983
Nextseason:	1987

The 1985 FIBA European Championship, commonly called FIBA EuroBasket 1985, was the 24th FIBA EuroBasket regional basketball championship, held by FIBA Europe. It took place from 5 to 16 June 1985 in West Germany. The Soviet Union defeated Czechoslovakia in the final to win their fourteenth and final title.

Venues

Qualification

A total of twelve teams qualified for the tournament. To the top eight teams from the previous tournament, four more teams were granted berths via a qualifying tournament.

• Top eight teams from Eurobasket 1983:
  • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Top four teams from the qualifying stage:

Squads

See main article: EuroBasket 1985 squads.

Format

• The teams were split in two groups of six teams each. The top four teams from each group advance to the quarterfinals. The winners in the knockout semifinals advance to the Final, and the losers figure in a third-place playoff.
• The losers from the quarterfinals stage compete in a separate bracket to define places 5th through 8th in the final standings.
• The fifth and sixth teams from each group competed in another bracket to define places 9th through 12th in the final standings.

Preliminary round

Group A

Times given below are in Central European Time (UTC+1).

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Group B

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Knockout stage

Championship bracket

Final

9th to 12th place

Awards

All-Tournament Team
Dražen Petrović
Detlef Schrempf
Fernando Martín
Arvydas Sabonis (MVP)

Final standings

External links

• 1985 European Championship for Men archive.FIBA.com.