FIBA Africa Championship 1989

The basketball Africa Cup of 1989, the fifteenth basketball Africa Championship, took place between the 16 th and December 27, 1989 held in Luanda, Angola, which hosted the championship for the first time. Winner was the host Angolan national basketball team that could win the title for the first time. In the final, was the Egyptian national team, which failed for the second time in a row in the finals, beaten. For the first time took a team from Zambia in the tournament.

Participating teams

Mode

In the Preliminary Round ( Group A and B) was played to five (group A ) or six (group B) teams into two groups. Each team played against each other exactly once, so that each team exactly four (Group A) or five games ( group B, with the exception of Kenya ( four games) and Ivory Coast ( six games) ) ( total of 25 games have been completed ) completed. Pro victory, there were two points for a defeat at least one point. The two highest point totals moved into the semi-finals. In case of equality of the Direct Comparison decided. Since the second - to fourth-placed teams were equal on points in Group A and won against Algeria Algeria against the Central African Republic, Central African Republic against Mali and Mali, the relative goal average decided from these three games. Since Mali had with 16 the better goal average in comparison to Algeria ( 3) and the Central African Republic ( -19), took the team a second group the semi-finals. There Senegal played against Egypt and Angola against Mali to the finals. The third-placed teams playing for fifth place and fourth place to seventh and fifth place to ninth. Kenya ended up as bottom of Group B on overall eleven and became the last of the tournament.