Beginning from 2017, the continental championships take place every four years with a similar system of qualification as for the FIBA Basketball World Cup.

[13] On 5 November 2015, FIBA Europe announced that five national federations have applied to organise the EuroBasket 2017: Finland, Israel, Poland, Romania and Turkey.

[21] According to the FIBA Europe regulations the participating nations, the 9 participants of the 2016 Summer Olympics and Olympic Qualifying Tournaments would be seeded first, based on their respective records in EuroBasket 2015, with the remaining teams seeded based on their qualification records.

[21] As in the EuroBasket 2015, each of the four hosts was granted the right to select a partner federation for commercial and marketing criteria.

Spain Lithuania b France Serbia Greece Italy Czech Republic Latvia Croatia e Israel b Turkey d Finland a Russia d Slovenia Hungary c Georgia Germany Belgium Poland Montenegro Iceland a Great Britain Ukraine Romania c Similar to EuroBasket 2015 the preliminary round is being played in four different venues in different countries.