The Ukrainian national basketball team will face the Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in their group at the men's European Basketball Championship in 2015.
The groups at the tournament were determined at a draw held at Disneyland Paris on Dec. 8. Group D matches will be played in Riga, Latvia, one of the tournament’s co-hosts.
As reported, EuroBasket 2015 was moved from Ukraine, and will be hosted by France, Germany, Croatia and Latvia. The final match will be held in Lille, France. The championship is to be held through Sep. 5-20, 2015.
As reported, on June 13, the FIBA Europe Board decided to relocate EuroBasket from Ukraine to another country or countries. The decision was made after a careful consideration of the political situation in Ukraine, taking into account security issues.
At the same meeting, Ukraine was granted the right to host EuroBasket 2017, if it still wanted to, conditional on Ukraine meeting necessary requirements.
Ukraine won the right to host EuroBasket 2015 finals on Dec. 18, 2011. Applications for hosting tournament matches were filed by Kyiv, Odesa, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Kharkiv and Lviv.
