Eurolease

FIBA Europe is also responsible for the appointment of international referees for basketball games. This year, in 2009, FIBA has organized a list of events of basketball that will be in Europe. These games are men's basketball competitions, women's competitions and youth competitions, including the results for under 20, under 19, under 18 and under 16 championships for men and women.

January 2009 is marked with additional qualifying and relegation round for the EuroBasket Women Division who were scheduled for 4, 7, 10, 13, 16 and 19 January 2009. The qualification round for the EuroBasket 2009 Women has already held from August 13, 2008 to September 13. 9 teams have qualified for the EuroBasket Women 2009 Round including Israel, Lithuania, Turkey, Poland, France, Slovak Republic, Hungary, Greece and Serbia. 6 teams will play in Additional Qualifying Round and in particular Ukraine, Germany, Italy, Croatia, Belgium and Bulgaria. Great Britain, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Finland and Romania will play in the relegation round.

Euroleague Women 2009, starting every game in 2009 will be held in Paris, France March 8, 2009. The first round of the FIBA Europe Euroleague results 2008-2009 are female 79-80 Nadezhda TS Wisla Krakow, Bourges Basket 79-49 Besiktas Cola Turka, MiZo Pedcs 2010 Halcon Avenida 82-65, 68-77 Umana Reyer Gambrinus, TTT Riga 71 to 86 Euroleasing MKB, 96-44 CSKA Moscow ESB Lille Metropole (Villeneuve d'Ascq), Jolly JBS Sibenik 62-92 UMMC Ekaterinburg, Union Hainaut Basket ZVVZ USK Prague 78-62, 93-51 Ros Casares LOTOS PKO BP, Fenerbahce 76 to 68 TEO Vilnius, Lattes Montpellier 65-67 Broker Kosice region and Spartak Moscow 88-63 Famila Schio.

The next major events in basketball FIBA Europe will take place in April 2009 are female Euroleague 2009 Final Four April 3 to April 5, 2009, 2009 Women's European Cup Final on April 2 to April 9, 2009 and EuroCollege 2009 Final Four championship from April 24 to April 26, 2009.

One of the biggest events of the FIBA Europe Women EuroBasket 2009 competition to be held in Latvia from June 7 to June 20, 2009. 14 nations playing in this great event with the 2 winners of the additional qualifying round (ADR), which were divided into 4 groups, consisting of 4 teams each. These groups will play the preliminary round games to be held in Liepaja and Valmiera. Group A includes the first qualification of the ADR and the Czech Republic, Spain and the Slovak Republic. Group B consists of Greece, Latvia, Poland and Hungary, with the group C of Lithuania, Russia, Turkey and Serbia. The 4 candidates for the final Group D are Belarus, France and Israel and the second qualifier from the ADR. ADR will be held between Bosnia, Finland, Great Britain and Romans and will be held between 4 and 19 January 2009.

FIBA Europe will also hold a number of other events in July 2009, which comprise less than 19 World Championship Men's U18 European Championship Women Division A, which will be held from July 2 to July 12 2009 Sweden U18 European Championship Women Division B held to 2-12 in July 2009 in Eilat, Israel, U20 European Championship Women Division A 9-19 July 2009 to Gdansk, Poland U20 European Championship Women Division B 7-15 July 2009 in Ohrid, FYROM and U18 European Championship Women Division C 13-19 July 2009 in Malta, Malta.

2009 also includes devices U20 European Championship Men Division A 16-26 July 2009 in Rhodes, Greece, U20 European Championship Men Division B 16-26 July 2009 in Skopje.