Hongcheon Challenger, the only FIBA 3×3 professional circuit competition to be held in Korea in 2026, will kick off.
KXO (Chairman Park Geon-yeon), Hongcheon-gun (Gun Governor Shin Young-jae), Hongcheon-gun Council (Chairman Chung Kwan-kyo), and Hongcheon-gun Sports Council (Chairman Shin Eun-seop) will hold the NH Nonghyup Bank FIBA 3×3 Hongcheon Challenger 2026 (Hongcheon Challenger) and the NH Nonghyup Bank 2025 KXO 3×3 Hongcheon SUPER STOP (Hongcheon SUPER STOP) at the Hongcheon K Convention Center in Hongcheon-gun, Gangwon State from the 18th to the 20th.
The Hongcheon Challenger, which began in 2023, will be held for four consecutive years until this year, and is the only FIBA 3×3 professional circuit competition to be held in Korea in 2026. The FIBA 3×3 Pro Circuit consists of a world tour and a challenger.
Following last year’s Hongcheon Challenger, the Hongcheon SUPER STOP, which will be eligible for the FIBA 3×3 Challenger following the Hongcheon Challenger, will be held immediately on the 20th, leading to fierce competition among participating teams.
The Hongcheon Challenger, which will involve a total of 16 teams, has confirmed the participation of the best teams of all time.
First of all, the current FIBA 3×3 world No. 1 Upp (Serbia) has been confirmed to participate, while Lieberetz (Czech Republic), Vienna (Austria), and Warsaw (Poland), consisting of Czech, Austrian and Polish men’s 3×3 national teams, will also visit Hongcheon.
On top of that, Kluginapoca (Romania) and Shivona (Croatia), who will challenge the Hongcheon Challenger for the first time this year, are also confirmed to show the essence of Europe’s 3×3.
Asian men’s 3×3 powerhouses will also gather together.
Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia), Utsunomiya (Japan), Tsukuba (Japan), and Duching (China), which are composed of men’s 3×3 national teams from Mongolia, Japan and China, which are called the third strongest teams in Asia, will compete with European powerhouses in Hongcheon, while Sansar (Mongolia), which includes Kang Vail from Samsung, will also challenge the Hongcheon Challenger. In particular, Ulaanbaatar is a strong team that won the 3×3 Asia Cup, the 3×3 World Tour, and the Challenger, and is expected to play well in this tournament.
In Korea, Hongcheon, who joined David Leamer, who played in Hamburg, Germany, and Kim Joon-sung, a former U23 3×3 national team, will compete for the only time.
NH Nonghyup Bank FIBA 3×3 Hongcheon Challenger 2026, the beginning of the three-day 3×3 festival, will kick off with a qualifying draw A qualifying match between Hongcheon and Liberets at 11 a.m. on the 18th.
The pre-tournament games will be broadcast live on FIBA 3×3 official YouTube, and the main games will be broadcast on TV on KBS N Sports.
[MIN JUN KU, MK Sports Reporter]
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