EuroBasket 2022 qualification  The EuroBasket 2022 qualifiers started in November 2017 and will end in February 2021. 20 teams will qualify joining Czech Republic, Georgia, Germany and Italy who automatically qualified as co-hosts. The EuroBasket 2022 Pre-Qualifiers were played by 17 teams over three rounds. The best eight teams advanced to the EuroBasket 2022 Qualifiers. The pre-qualifiers first round was played by nine teams: Five eliminated in the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup qualification pre-qualifiers, and four teams which did not apply in those qualifiers. The winner of each group and the best runner-up team qualified for the second round, that gives the option to qualify directly to the EuroBasket qualifiers. The other five teams were dropped to the third round, joining the teams that did not advance to the EuroBasket qualifiers from the second round. The second round was played between 12 teams: the four teams qualified from the first round, and the eight teams eliminated from the first round of the 2019 World Cup qualification. The teams were divided into four groups of three teams. The groups were set on 16 January 2018 in Freising, Germany. Each group was formed by one team advanced from the previous round and two teams eliminated from the first round of the 2019 World Cup qualification. The four group winners from this stage qualified to the EuroBasket qualifiers while eight remaining teams were transferred to the third round of pre-qualifiers. Cyprus replaced Armenia, who withdrew, citing financial concerns. The third round was played in the August 2019. It was joined by the four teams eliminated in the first round and the eight teams that played the second round and did not advance to the EuroBasket qualifiers. Those twelve teams were placed into four groups with three teams each. Every single group was formed by one team eliminated in the first round, one runner-up from the second round and one third-placed finisher from the second round. The group winners from this round advanced to the EuroBasket qualifiers, while the eight remaining teams transferred to the 2023 World Cup pre-qualifiers. The draw was held on 22 July 2019 in Munich, Germany. The four group winners from the second round of the pre-qualifiers; plus the four group winners from the third round of the pre-qualifiers and also the 24 teams who participated in the second round of the FIBA Basketball World Cup qualification will all participate in this stage. These matches will be played in three windows from 17 to 25 February 2020; from 23 November to 1 December 2020 and from 15 to 23 February 2021 with two games played by each team in every window.