BASKETBALL – BAHRAINI basketball team Seef are set to compete this weekend in the Debrecen Masters in Hungary, part of the 2025 Fiba 3x3 World Tour.
The event, featuring 12 teams from around the world in the main draw, is the latest top-tier competition on the premier street basketball series under the International Basketball Federation (Fiba).
Seef made their historic debut on the Fiba 3x3 World Tour just last month, competing in a lower-tier Challenger tournament in France before playing a Masters event in Hong Kong. They are now set for their next challenge in the Hungarian city of Debrecen.
Seef will be taking to the half-court with the quartet of Bahrainis Sayed Mohammed Hameed, Sadeq Shukrallah, and Nasser Al Mosawi, along with Serbian Bogdan Dragovic. They are to be guided by Bahraini coach Murtadha Mohammed.
Seef are in Pool A for the competition’s preliminary round alongside Amsterdam Rabobank of the Netherlands and Lausanne of Switzerland. Pool B is composed of Liman of Serbia, Syliners of Germany, and hosts Debrecen of Hungary. Pool C features Raudondvaris Hoptrans of Lithuania, Partizan of Serbia, and one of two teams from the qualifying draw; while Pool D includes Vienna of Austria, London from the US, and the second qualifying outfit.
There are six sides in qualification. In draw A are Valencia of Spain, Bologna Campas of Italy, and Warsaw Lotto of Poland; while in draw B are Marbella of Spain, Rome of Italy, and Constanta CSU Neptun of Romania.
The qualifiers are to be held tomorrow, while the preliminary stage takes place on Saturday. Seef begin their campaign against Amsterdam Rabobank at 2.45pm, before they play Lausanne at 6.25pm. Both times are Bahrain.
The quarter-finals, semis and final are then scheduled for Sunday.
Bahrain’s other representatives on the Fiba 3x3 World Tour, Riffa, are not competing in Debrecen Masters, which marks the 10th of 16 Masters events on this season’s calendar of the Fiba 3x3 World Tour.
Other Masters tournaments have already taken place in Japan, China, the Netherlands, France, Austria, Mongolia, Hong Kong, Canada and Switzerland, with others still to be held in China, Macau, the UAE, and Romania before heading to Bahrain for the Fiba 3x3 World Tour 2025 finale on November 21 and 22.
There are also 20 lower-tier Challenger tournaments being held throughout the season.
This year will be the first time ever that Bahrain will be staging the curtain-closer, which will crown this year’s Fiba 3x3 World Tour champions. The past two editions in the kingdom were the Manama Masters in 2023 and last year.
On both occasions, play was held at a specially built venue at Bahrain Financial Harbour, offering a stunning backdrop to the exciting basketball action, which also included a women’s tournament, a slam dunk contest, and a three-point shootout.
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