The FIBA Basketball World Cup, known as the FIBA World Championship from 1950 through 2010, is a world basketball tournament for men's national teams held once every four years by the International Basketball Federation (FIBA). After the 2014 FIBA World Cup, the tournament will move to a new four-year cycle to avoid conflict with the FIFA World Cup. To that end, no tournament will be held in 2018; the FIBA World Cup will resume in 2019.

The current champions are Spain. They defeated Argentina 95-75 in the 2019 tournament at the Cadillac Center in Beijing, China.

Year	Hosts		Gold Medal Game				Bronze Medal Game				Number of Teams
			Gold	Score	Silver		Bronze	Score	Fourth Place
1950	Argentina		Argentina	No playoffs[a]	United States		Chile	No playoffs[a]	Brazil		10
1954	Brazil		United States	No playoffs[a]	Brazil		Philippines	No playoffs[a]	France		12
1959	Chile		Brazil	No playoffs[a]	United States		Chile	No playoffs[a]	Formosa		13
1963	Brazil		Brazil	No playoffs[a]	Yugoslavia		Soviet Union	No playoffs[a]	United States		13
1967	Uruguay		Soviet Union	No playoffs[a]	Yugoslavia		Brazil	No playoffs[a]	United States		13
1970	Yugoslavia		Yugoslavia	No playoffs[a]	Brazil		Soviet Union	No playoffs[a]	Italy		13
1974	Puerto Rico		Soviet Union	No playoffs[a]	Yugoslavia		United States	No playoffs[a]	Cuba		14
1978	Philippines		Yugoslavia	82–81 OT	Soviet Union		Brazil	86–85	Italy		14
1982	Colombia		Soviet Union	95–94	United States		Yugoslavia	119–117	Spain		13
1986	Spain		United States	87–85	Soviet Union		Yugoslavia	117–91	Brazil		24
1990	Argentina		Yugoslavia	92–75	Soviet Union		United States	107–105 OT	Puerto Rico		16
1994	Canada		United States	137–91	Russia		Croatia	78–60	Greece		16
1998	Greece		Yugoslavia	64–62	Russia		United States	84–61	Greece		16
2002	United States		Yugoslavia	84–77 OT	Argentina		Germany	117–94	New Zealand		16
2006	Japan		Spain	70–47	Greece		United States	96–81	Argentina		24
2010	Turkey		United States	81–64	Turkey		Lithuania	99–88	Serbia		24
2014	Spain		United States	129–92	Serbia		France	95–93	Lithuania		24
2019	China		Future event				Future event				32
2023	Philippines  Japan  Indonesia		Future event				Future event				32 (expected)

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