BASKETBALL – THE final preparations have begun for the highly anticipated Manama Masters, the kingdom’s stop on this year’s Fiba 3x3 World Tour.
Set-up work has gotten underway at the tournament’s location at The Avenues-Bahrain, where it will be held for the first time this coming Friday and Saturday.
Promotional billboards and banners have come up all across the island as the days count down to the mega street basketball event.
The Manama Masters is set to feature 16 of the world’s leading 3x3 basketball teams. Ten are already in the preliminary phase, while six others will be vying for two remaining places via the qualifying draw.
The squads already in the tournament proper are Serbian powerhouses Ub, who are in Pool A alongside Toronto from Canada and London from Britain.
The kingdom will be represented by Seef, who are in Pool B with Amsterdam Rabobank from the Netherlands and Cibona Ph.Classic from Croatia.
Pool C features Liman, also from Serbia, and Shanghai from China along with the team that will emerge from qualifying draw A, while Pool D is composed of Baskets Bonn and Skyliners from Germany and the winners from qualifying draw B.
Qualifying draw A comprises Barcelona from Spain, Kandava Turiba from Latvia, and Singapore from Singapore, while qualifying draw B sees Shibuya from Japan, Lausanne from Switzerland, and Santiago from Chile.
This year’s Manama Masters marks its third edition, with previous tournaments being held in 2023 and 2024. In 2025, the Manama Final took place, which was the first time Bahrain hosted the curtain-closing round of the Fiba 3x3 World Tour.
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