In order to qualify for the tournament, teams would have to go through regional qualifier competitions. At the main tournament, three nations qualified for the world championships includingChina,Lebanon and the host country,Qatar. China defeated Lebanon in the championship game, 77–61; and Qatar defeatedKorea, 89–77.
According to the FIBA Asia rules, each zone had two places, and the hosts (Qatar) and Stanković Cup champion (Korea as runner-up) were automatically qualified. The other four places are allocated to the zones according to performance in the2004 FIBA Asia Stanković Cup.