FIBA U18 AfroBasket

FIBA U18 AfroBasket
Current season, competition or edition:
Current sports event 2026 FIBA U18 AfroBasket
FormerlyFIBA U18 African Championship
SportBasketball
Founded1975 (1975)
Organising bodyFIBA Africa
ContinentAfrica
Most recent
champion
 Ivory Coast (1st title)
Most titles Egypt,  Nigeria
(6 titles each)
QualificationFIBA U19 World Cup
Related
competitions
FIBA U16 AfroBasket
Websitefiba.basketball/history

The FIBA U18 AfroBasket, previously known as the FIBA U18 African Championship, is a biennial international youth basketball competition consisting of under-18 men's national teams organised by FIBA Africa.

The tournament also serves as qualification for the FIBA Under-19 Basketball World Cup, where the top two teams directly qualify.

Summary

Year Hosts Final Third place match
Champions Score Runners-up Third place Score Fourth place
1977
Details
Egypt
Cairo

Egypt
round robin
Central African Empire

Tunisia
round robin ?
1980
Details
Angola
Luanda

Angola
90−81
Central African Republic

Nigeria
95−90
Mozambique
1982
Details
Mozambique
Maputo

Angola
round robin
Mozambique

Senegal
round robin ?
1984
Details
Egypt
Cairo

Egypt
round robin
Angola

Mozambique
round robin
Nigeria
1987
Details
Nigeria
Abuja

Nigeria
65−62
Angola

Guinea
round robin
Algeria
1988
Details
Mozambique
Maputo

Angola
round robin
Mozambique

Nigeria
1990
Details
Angola
Luanda

Nigeria
round robin
Angola

Cameroon
1994
Details[1]
Cameroon
Yaounde

Nigeria
round robin
Angola

Guinea
round robin
Cameroon
1998
Details[2]
Egypt
Alexandria

Nigeria
round robin
Egypt

Angola
round robin
South Africa
2000
Details[3]
Guinea
Conakry

Guinea
round robin
Angola

Mali
round robin
Senegal
2002
Details
Egypt
Cairo

Nigeria
80−60
Angola

Mali
−
Algeria
2006
Details[4]
South Africa
Durban

Nigeria
69−41
Mali

Angola
74−70
Congo
2008
Details[5]
Egypt
Alexandria

Egypt
85−84
Angola

Nigeria
79−77
Senegal
2010
Details[6]
Rwanda
Kigali

Egypt
67−54
Tunisia

Mali
72−56
Mozambique
2012
Details[7]
Mozambique
Maputo

Senegal
2012 title
71−62
Ivory Coast

Egypt
78–54
Mali
2014
Details[8]
Madagascar
Antananarivo

Egypt
80−69
Tunisia

Mali
75−65
Angola
2016
Details[9]
Rwanda
Kigali

Angola
86−82
Egypt

Mali
59–52
Tunisia
2018
Details[10]
Mali
Bamako

Mali
78−76
Senegal

Egypt
89−78
Angola
2020
Details[11]
Egypt
Cairo

Mali
82−80
Senegal

Egypt
72−55
Guinea
2022
Details[12]
Madagascar
Antananarivo

Egypt
81−54
Madagascar

Mali
79−54
Angola
2024
Details[13]
South Africa
Pretoria

Mali
60−51
Cameroon

Senegal
72−71
Morocco
2026
Details
Ivory Coast
Abidjan

Ivory Coast
73–51
Senegal

Cameroon
73–69
Mali
2028
Details
TBD
TBD
− −
^2012 title The Senegalese Basketball Federation relinquished the 2012 title due to age fraud by some of its players[14]

Medal table

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Egypt62311
2 Nigeria6039
3 Angola47213
4 Mali31610
5 Ivory Coast1102
6 Guinea1023
7 Senegal0325
8 Mozambique0213
 Tunisia0213
10 Central African Republic0202
11 Cameroon0123
12 Madagascar0101
Totals (12 entries)21222265

MVP Awards

Year MVP Award Winner
1998 Ivory Coast Michel Lasme
2006 Mali Waly Coulibaly
2008 Egypt Amr Gendy
2010 Egypt Aly Mohamed Ahmed
2012 Egypt Ehab Amin
2014 Angola Gerson Domingos
2016 Angola Sílvio Sousa
2018 Mali Siriman Kanouté
2020 Mali Bourama Coulibaly
2022 Madagascar Mathias M'Madi
2024 Mali Youssouf Traore
2026 Ivory Coast Nathan Djoko

Participating nations

Nation Egypt Angola Mozambique Egypt Nigeria Mozambique Angola Cameroon Egypt Guinea Egypt South Africa Egypt Rwanda Mozambique Madagascar Rwanda Mali Egypt Madagascar South Africa Ivory Coast Total
1977 1980 1982 1984 1987 1988 1990 1994 1998 2000 2002 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 2028
 Algeria 4th7th8th7th11th7th 6
 Angola 1st place, gold medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)3rd place, bronze medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)3rd place, bronze medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)7th5th4th1st place, gold medalist(s)4th4th6th 19
 Benin 8th11th8th 3
 Cameroon 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)4th2nd place, silver medalist(s)3rd place, bronze medalist(s)Q 5
 Central African Republic 2nd place, silver medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)5th9th 4
 Chad 8th 1
 Congo 4th11th 2
 DR Congo 10th6th5th 3
 Egypt 1st place, gold medalist(s)5th1st place, gold medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)3rd place, bronze medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)3rd place, bronze medalist(s)3rd place, bronze medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)5th6th 14
 Equatorial Guinea 8th 1
 Gabon 6th5th10th9th10th12th 6
 Ghana 8th 1
 Guinea 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)3rd place, bronze medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)5th9th4th6th 7
 Ivory Coast 7th6th11th2nd place, silver medalist(s)6th8th9th1st place, gold medalist(s)Q 9
 Kenya 9th12th 2
 Libya 6th8th 2
 Madagascar 5th2nd place, silver medalist(s)7th 3
 Mali 7th3rd place, bronze medalist(s)3rd place, bronze medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)5th3rd place, bronze medalist(s)4th3rd place, bronze medalist(s)3rd place, bronze medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)3rd place, bronze medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)4thQ 12
 Morocco 6th8th9th4th11th 5
 Mozambique 4th2nd place, silver medalist(s)3rd place, bronze medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)8th10th4th7th7th 9
 Nigeria 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)3rd place, bronze medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)3rd place, bronze medalist(s)9th7th9th 12
 Rwanda 6th11th5th6th9th8th10th 7
 Senegal 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)4th4th1st place, gold medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)5th3rd place, bronze medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)Q 10
 South Africa 4th6th10th 3
 Togo 7th 1
 Tunisia 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)5th2nd place, silver medalist(s)6th2nd place, silver medalist(s)4th7th5th 8
 Uganda 9th10th12th 3
 Zambia 11th 1
Number of teams ?8?????7649912111191111491212TBD

Under-19 World Cup record

Team Brazil
1979
Spain
1983
Italy
1987
Canada
1991
Greece
1995
Portugal
1999
Greece
2003
Serbia
2007
New Zealand
2009
Latvia
2011
Czech Republic
2013
Greece
2015
Egypt
2017
Greece
2019
Latvia
2021
Hungary
2023
Switzerland
2025
Czech Republic
2027
Indonesia
2029
App.
 Angola 13th13th14th13th14th13th6
 Cameroon 14th1
 Egypt 12th13th11th12th11th12th13th7
 Ivory Coast 15thQ2
 Madagascar 14th1
 Mali 15th16th2nd place, silver medalist(s)13th11th5
 Nigeria 12th15th11th11th11th13th6
 Senegal 16th15th7thQ4
 Tunisia 16th16th2
Total1112222222223222222

Top Ten FIBA Africa teams

Updated as of 13 December 2025[15]

RankChangeTeamPoints
17Increase 1 MaliC552.2
23Increase 27 Ivory Coast503.6
25Steady 0 Egypt494.3
26Decrease 5 Guinea488.7
27Increase 7 Cameroon481.9
34Increase 3 Angola383.9
35Decrease 5 Madagascar382.8
36Decrease 16 Senegal379
48Steady 0 Morocco307

C Current Africa champion

See also

References

  1. ↑ "1994 FIBA African Championship for Junior Men". archive.fiba.com. Archived from the original on 7 December 2013.
  2. ↑ "1998 FIBA African Championship for Junior Men". www.fiba.basketball.
  3. ↑ "2000 FIBA African Championship for Junior Men". www.fiba.basketball.
  4. ↑ "2006 FIBA Africa Under-18 Championship". www.fiba.basketball.
  5. ↑ "2008 FIBA Africa Under-18 Championship". www.fiba.basketball.
  6. ↑ "2010 FIBA Africa Under-18 Championship". www.fiba.basketball.
  7. ↑ "2012 FIBA Africa Under-18 Championship". www.fiba.basketball.
  8. ↑ "2014 FIBA Africa Under-18 Championship". www.fiba.basketball.
  9. ↑ "2016 FIBA Africa Under-18 Championship". www.fiba.basketball.
  10. ↑ "2018 FIBA U18 African Championship". www.fiba.basketball.
  11. ↑ "2020 FIBA U18 African Championship". www.fiba.basketball.
  12. ↑ "2022 FIBA U18 African Championship". www.fiba.basketball.
  13. ↑ "2024 FIBA U18 AfroBasket". www.fiba.basketball.
  14. ↑ Matthew, Tamba-Jean (5 December 2013). "Senegal dissolves basketball association after cheating scandal". Africa Review. Archived from the original on 19 February 2014. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
  15. ↑ "FIBA World Ranking". FIBA.basketball. Retrieved 6 July 2026.