Fédération Internationale de Basketball

The Fédération Internationale de Basketball (FIBA), formerly known as the Fédération Internationale de Basket-ball Amateur from its foundation until 1989, was founded on 18 June 1932 in Génève, Switzerland, with eight founding members: Argentina, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Portugal, Romania, and Switzerland.

FIBA governs the Olympic disciplines of basketball and 3x3 basketball. A demonstration event was played at St. Louis 1904, but men would only have their first true Olympic basketball tournament at Berlin 1936. Women would début at the Olympics only at Montreal 1976. FIBA organized its first men’s Basketball World Cup at Buenos Aires 1950, and the first Women’s Basketball World Cup would come three years later, in 1953, in Chile.

3x3 basketball entered the Olympic world through the first edition of the Youth Olympics, at Singapore 2010, with tournaments for boys and girls. The début at the Olympic Games would happen a decade late for both men and women, at Tokyo 2020, although FIBA had already organized the discipline’s first World Cup (for both genders) at Athinai 2012.

As a measure of its popularity, FIBA currently has 212 national basketball federations as members as of January 2026. The federation’s headquarters is located in Mies, Switzerland, and its current president is Sheikh Saud Al-Thani of Qatar.

eFIBA, a subsidiary of FIBA, is the official organizer of NBA 2K competitions for national teams. The eSports organization has staged world competitions since 2023.