Current season, competition or edition: 2025 FIBA U16 AfroBasket | |
| Formerly | FIBA U16 African Championship |
|---|---|
| Sport | Basketball |
| Founded | 2009; 16 years ago (2009) |
| Organising body | FIBA Africa |
| Continent | Africa |
| Most recent champion |  Ivory Coast (1st title) |
| Most titles |  Egypt (5 titles) |
| Qualification | FIBA U17 World Cup |
| Related competitions | FIBA U18 AfroBasket |
| Official website | fiba.basketball/history |
TheFIBA U16 AfroBasket, previously known as theFIBA U16 African Championship, is a biennial international youthbasketball competition consisting of under-16 men's national teams organized byFIBA Africa.
The tournament also serves as a qualification for theFIBA Under-17 Basketball World Cup, where the top two teams directly qualify.
| Year | Hosts | Final | Third place game | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Champions | Score | Runners-up | Third place | Score | Fourth place | ||||
| 2009[1] Details |  Maputo | Egypt | 84–82 |  Mali |  Nigeria | 65–56 |  Algeria | ||
| 2011[2] Details | Alexandria | Egypt | 117–67 |  Tunisia | Mali | 59–57 |  Angola | ||
| 2013[3] Details |  Antananarivo | Angola | 75–66 | Egypt | Tunisia | 70–49 | Madagascar | ||
| 2015[4] Details | Bamako | Egypt | 64–63 | Mali | Algeria | 45–37 | Angola | ||
| 2017[5] Details |  Vacoas-Phoenix | Mali | 76–65 | Egypt | Algeria | 57–54 | Tunisia | ||
| 2019[6] Details |  Praia | Egypt | 66–57 | Mali | Nigeria | 54–53 |  Guinea | ||
| 2021[7] Details | Cairo | Egypt | 63–62 | Mali | Algeria | 65–50 |  Chad | ||
| 2023[8] Details | Monastir | Guinea | 84–76 | Egypt | Mali | 63–56 | Angola | ||
| 2025[9] Details |  Kigali | Ivory Coast | 62–49 |  Cameroon | Mali | 58–51 | Egypt | ||
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Egypt | 5 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 2 | Mali | 1 | 4 | 3 | 8 |
| 3 | Angola | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Guinea | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 6 | Tunisia | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 7 | Cameroon | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | Algeria | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 9 | Nigeria | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Totals (9 entries) | 9 | 9 | 9 | 27 | |
| Year | MVP Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2009 | Ahmed Mostafa |
| 2011 | Ehab Amin |
| 2013 | Mohamed Abdelrahman |
| 2015 | Ahmed Khalaf |
| 2017 | Siriman Kanouté |
| 2019 | Moamen Abouzeid |
| 2021 | Adam El Halawany |
| 2023 | Nour Gassim Toure |
| 2025 | Jean-Philippe Oka |
| Nation | | | | | | | | | | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 2011 | 2013 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 2021 | 2023 | 2025 | ||
| Algeria | 4th | 5th |  | | 10th | | 6 | |||
| Angola | 6th | 4th |  | 4th | 7th | 4th | 7th | 7 | ||
| Cameroon |  | 1 | ||||||||
| Cape Verde | 8th | 1 | ||||||||
 Central African Republic | 7th | 1 | ||||||||
| Chad | 4th | 7th | 2 | |||||||
 Comoros | 9th | 1 | ||||||||
 Congo | 7th | 1 | ||||||||
 DR Congo | 5th | 1 | ||||||||
| Egypt | | | | | | | | | 4th | 9 |
 Equatorial Guinea | 10th | 1 | ||||||||
 Ethiopia | 11th | 1 | ||||||||
 Gabon | 7th | 7th | 2 | |||||||
| Guinea | 9th | 4th | | 11th | 4 | |||||
 Liberia | 10th | 1 | ||||||||
| Ivory Coast | 8th | 9th | 5th | 6th | | 5 | ||||
| Madagascar | 4th | 5th | 2 | |||||||
| Mali | | | | | | | | | 8 | |
| Mauritius | 8th | 1 | ||||||||
 Morocco | 6th | 8th | 9th | 3 | ||||||
| Mozambique | 5th | 6th | 6th | 7th | 4 | |||||
| Nigeria | | 5th | | 3 | ||||||
| Rwanda | 9th | 6th | 5th | 5th | 8th | 5 | ||||
 Sierra Leone | 12th | 1 | ||||||||
 South Africa | 8th | 8th | 8th | 3 | ||||||
| Tunisia | | | 7th | 4th | 6th | 9th | 6th | 7 | ||
 Uganda | 6th | 10th | 5th | 3 | ||||||
| Number of teams | 9 | 8 | 9 | 11 | 8 | 10 | 7 | 10 | 12 |
| Team |  2010 |  2012 |  2014 |  2016 |  2018 | 2022 |  2024 | 2026 |  2028 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Angola | 11 | 1 | ||||||||
| Cameroon | Q | 1 | ||||||||
| Egypt | 11 | 12 | 13 | 16 | 16 | 10 | 12 | 7 | ||
| Guinea | 14 | 1 | ||||||||
| Ivory Coast | Q | 1 | ||||||||
| Mali | 15 | 12 | 15 | 3 | ||||||
| Total | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 16 |
