The Ministry of Youth and Sports announced the hosting of the African Basketball Championship, the world's largest futsal event, for the second year, under the auspices of the US National Basketball Association (NBA).
The tournament will be held from 26 April to 5 May at Dr. Hassan Mustafa Hall in Sixth of October City.
12 African teams will participate in the tournament, divided into two groups, and Egypt will be represented by Al-Ahly Club.
Dr. Ashraf Sobhy, Minister of Youth and Sports, confirmed that Egypt will host all NBA tournaments next year, as well as hosting the NBA Academy for 10 months in Egypt.
Al-Ahly came at the head of the Nile Group BAL with South African teams Cape Town, Uganda's City Olliers, Mozambique's Ferroviário da Beira, Angola's Petro de Luanda and Guinea's Slack.
The teams of the tournament are divided into two groups, the Nile Group and the Desert Group, and each group includes 6 teams, of which 4 teams advance to the quarter-finals, and the tournament is held from the beginning of the quarter-finals in "Kigali, Rwanda", while the meetings of the round of 8 are played in a knockout system
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