Tbilisi will be in the centre of the world’s attention during the festive days of basketball, while co-hosting the European continent’s major basketball event FIBA EuroBasket 2022 for the first time in history, along with Czech Republic, Italy and Germany.

The Competition for Division A games will run between September 1-7, where the national teams of Georgia, Spain, Türkiye, Belgium, Bulgaria and Montenegro will hold matches at the newly completed Sports Palace in Tbilisi.

Georgia’s co-hosting of EuroBasket is also coinciding with the centenary anniversary of the founding of the Georgian professional basketball. The date is marked after a symbolic event in 1922, when Alexandre Chelidze, a Georgian athlete who had discovered the sport while attending a competition in Moscow that year, set up the first basketball court in Georgia.