FIBA Africa Championship 1983
# FIBA Africa Championship 1983

The FIBA Africa Championship 1983 was hosted by Egypt from December 19 to December 28, 1983. The games were played in Alexandria. Egypt won the tournament, its fifth African Championship, to qualify for the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

## Competing Nations

The following national teams competed:

| Group A | Group B |
| - | - |
| Algeria  Angola  Central African Republic  Egypt  Liberia | Ivory Coast  Guinea  Mozambique  Senegal  Somalia |

## Preliminary rounds

### Group A

| Team | Pts | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | Diff |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Egypt | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 341 | 275 | +66 |
| Angola | 6 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 314 | 288 | +26 |
| Algeria | 6 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 275 | 284 | -9 |
| Central African Republic | 6 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 313 | 297 | +16 |
| Liberia | 4 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 269 | 368 | -99 |

Day 1

| Egypt | 85–64 | Algeria |
| - | - | - |
| Central African Republic | 97–74 | Liberia |

Day 2

| Central African Republic | 66–74 | Algeria |
| - | - | - |
| Angola | 72–79 | Egypt |

Day 3

| Liberia | 69–106 | Egypt |
| - | - | - |
| Angola | 71–65 | Algeria |

Day 4

| Angola | 93–64 | Liberia |
| - | - | - |
| Central African Republic | 70–71 | Egypt |

Day 5

| Algeria | 72–62 | Liberia |
| - | - | - |
| Central African Republic | 80–78 | Angola |

### Group B

| Team | Pts | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | Diff |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Senegal | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 318 | 225 | +93 |
| Ivory Coast | 7 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 335 | 247 | +88 |
| Mozambique | 6 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 304 | 227 | +77 |
| Somalia | 5 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 257 | 346 | -89 |
| Guinea | 4 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 232 | 401 | -169 |

Day 1

| Mozambique | 106–38 | Guinea |
| - | - | - |
| Senegal | 70–66 | Ivory Coast |

Day 2

| Somalia | 94–73 | Guinea |
| - | - | - |
| Ivory Coast | 80–66 | Mozambique |

Day 3

| Senegal | 54–41 | Mozambique |
| - | - | - |
| Ivory Coast | 90–56 | Somalia |

Day 4

| Ivory Coast | 99–55 | Guinea |
| - | - | - |
| Senegal | 92–52 | Somalia |

Day 5

| Mozambique | 91–55 | Somalia |
| - | - | - |
| Senegal | 102–66 | Guinea |

## Knockout stage

| Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Final | Final |
| - | - | - | - |
| December 27, 1983 | December 27, 1983 |
| Egypt | 84 |
| Egypt | 84 | December 28, 1983 | December 28, 1983 |
| Ivory Coast | 68 | December 28, 1983 | December 28, 1983 |
| Ivory Coast | 68 | Egypt | 94 |
| December 27, 1983 | December 27, 1983 | | Egypt | 94 |
| December 27, 1983 | December 27, 1983 | Angola | 68 |
| Senegal | 61 | Angola | 68 |
| Angola | 68 | | |
| Angola | 68 | Third place | Third place |
| | | December 28, 1983 | December 28, 1983 |
| | | Ivory Coast | 71 |
| | | Senegal | 78 |

## Classification Stage

| Liberia | 93–92 | Guinea |
| - | - | - |
| Somalia | 64–93 | Central African Republic |
| Algeria | 62–68 | Mozambique |

## Final standings

| Rank | Team | Record |
| - | - | - |
| 1 | Egypt | 6-0 |
| 2 | Angola | 3-3 |
| 3 | Senegal | 5-1 |
| 4 | Ivory Coast | 3-3 |
| 5 | Mozambique | 3-2 |
| 6 | Algeria | 2-3 |
| 7 | Central African Republic | 3-2 |
| 8 | Somalia | 1-4 |
| 9 | Liberia | 1-4 |
| 10 | Guinea | 0-5 |

Egypt qualified for the 1984 Summer Olympics.

