Great Britain’s Senior Men will face a tough group in order to qualify for EuroBasket 2021 – but first they must overcome Kosovo and Luxembourg in August.
The winner of that pre-qualifiers group has been placed in Group G with France, Germany and Montenegro with only the team that finishes bottom missing out on the Final Round.
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Germany are assured of their place at EuroBasket 2021 as one of the four co-hosts, while France are currently ranked third in the world.
After missing out in the second round of pre-qualifiers to Austria on head-to-head, GB dropped into the third round where they have to win their group in order to progress to the main round of qualifiers.
GB’s summer schedule (both home games in Manchester):
v Kosovo (A) – 7th August, 2019
v Luxembourg (H) – 10th August, 2019
v Kosovo (H) – 17th August, 2019
v Luxembourg (A) – 21st August, 2019
Initial Qualifiers schedule (venues TBC):
v Montenegro (A) – 21st February, 2020
v Germany (H) – 24th February, 2020
v France (H) – 26th November, 2020
v Montenegro (H) – 29th November, 2020
v Germany (A) – 19th February, 2021
v France (A) – 22nd February, 2021
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