EuroBasket 2025: Final Games Preview & Analysis

Germany is in the European Championship final 2025. The DBB team showed a strong performance against Finland in the semifinals and fights for the title on Sunday. The EM schedule at a glance.

Since August 27, the Basketball-EM 2025. Germany went into the preliminary round games in Finnish Tampere as reigning world champion and showed a perfect performance with five wins in five games. After two difficult co-games against Portugal and Slovenia, the German team deservedly earned into the European Championship final. The EM schedule at a glance.

Game plan of the 2025 basketball European Championship

Eurobasket 2025: The games of the DBB team

The German national team started in the Group B confidently in the tournament and clearly won all five group games. In the Round of 16 the DBB team showed primarily from the three-point line nerves and was only able to clear away from the Portuguese in the final quarter. In the Quarterfinals The German team was a long time ago against Slovenia with a again outstanding Luka Dončić (39 points, 10 rebounds) and only came to the winning road in the final quarter. In the Semi -finals Against Finland, the national team only had problems at the beginning, increased after the first quarter and in the end moved into the end Finale a.

  • Mi, 27.08.: Deutschland – Montenegro 106:76
  • Fr, 29.08.: Deutschland – Sweden 105: 83
  • Said, 30.08.: Lithuania – Deutschland 88:107
  • Mo, 01.09.: Deutschland – Great Britain 120: 57
  • Wed, 03.09.: Finland – Deutschland 61:91
  • SA, 06.09.: Deutschland – Portugal 85:58
  • Mi, 10.09.: Deutschland – Slovenia 99:91
  • Fr, 12.09.: Deutschland – Finland 98:86
  • Sun, September 14th, 8 p.m.: Deutschland – Greece/Türkiye (RTL and MagentaTV)

Groups and mode of the 2025 basketball European Championship

24 Teams take part in the basketball chamber, divided into four preliminary round groups six nations. Each group plays according to the “everyone against every” principle. The team receives two points per victory, and one point in a defeat. In this way, the table situation usually remains exciting until the end. The best four teams of each group qualify for the round of 16 from which the teams in KO mode Play in Riga until the final.

  • Group A (Riga): Latvia, Portugal, Estonia, Türkiye, Serbia, Czech Republic
  • Group B (Tampere): DeutschlandFinland, Great Britain, Lithuania, Sweden, Montenegro
  • Group C (Limassol): Cyprus, Italy, Georgia, Spain, Greece, Bosnia-Herzegovina
  • Group D (Katowice): Iceland, France, Slovenia, Poland, Belgium, Israel

When and where does the 2025 basketball European Championship take place?

The 42nd European Casketball Championship of the men is from August 27 to September 14, 2025 held. As in 2022, the tournament takes place in four countries: Latvia (Riga), Finland (Tampere), Cyprus (Limassol) und Pole (Katowice).

While the final round in Riga continues in Tampere, Limassol and Katowice after the preliminary round. The final finally takes place in the 14,500 spectator.

Who broadcasts the European Casketball European Championship and Livestream?

RTL shows all games of the German team and selected co-games as well as the final live im Free-TV. The commentators also includes basketball enthusiasts Frank Buschmann.

MagentaTV/MagentaSport Translated all tournament games in the live stream, including all games with German participation for free and without registration.

All European basketball champions since 2010

  • 2011: Spain
  • 2013: France
  • 2015: Spain
  • 2017: Slovenia
  • 2022: Spain

A notice: The EM 2021 was postponed to 2022 due to the Corona pandemic, and the Eurobasket usually takes place every four years.

Aiko Tanaka

Aiko Tanaka is a combat sports journalist and general sports reporter at Archysport. A former competitive judoka who represented Japan at the Asian Games, Aiko brings firsthand athletic experience to her coverage of judo, martial arts, and Olympic sports. Beyond combat sports, Aiko covers breaking sports news, major international events, and the stories that cut across disciplines — from doping scandals to governance issues to the business side of global sport. She is passionate about elevating the profile of underrepresented sports and athletes.

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