FIBA (International Basketball Federation) yakaumbwa muna 1932 nenyika sere dzakatanga: Argentina, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Portugal, Romania neSwitzerland. Panguva iyi, sangano iri raingotarisa vatambi veamateur. Chidimbu charo, chakatorwa kubva kuFrench Fédération Internationale de Basket-ball Amateur, saka chainzi "FIBA". Basketball yevarume yakatanga kuverengerwa kuBerlin 1936 Summer Olympics, kunyangwe mutambo wekuratidzira wakaitwa muna 1904. United States yakakunda Canada mumutambo wekutanga, wakatambwa panze. Makwikwi aya anga achinyanya kutongwa neUnited States, ine timu yakakunda zvese asi mazita matatu. Yekutanga yeiyi yakauya mumutambo wekupedzisira unokakavara muMunich muna 1972 uchirwisa Soviet Union, umo kupera kwemutambo kwakadzokororwa katatu.
Argentina, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Portugal, Romania uye Switzerland