The 2016 Davis Cup was the 105th edition of the Davis Cup, a tournament between national teams in men's tennis. It was sponsored by BNP Paribas. From this season's tournament the deciding set of each match would be settled by a tiebreak at 6 games all rather than playing an advantage set until a player or a team were two games clear. Argentina won their first Davis Cup title, after 4 runner-up finishes, defeating Croatia in the final. Federico Delbonis defeated Ivo KarloviÃÂ in the final match to give Argentina its first Davis Cup title, after a comeback from Juan MartÃÂn del Potro against Marin ÃÂiliÃÂ in the fourth match.
Kosovo made its first appearance in the tournament.
Date: 16âÂÂ18 September
The eight losing teams in the World Group first round ties and eight winners of the Zonal Group I final round ties competed in the World Group play-offs for spots in the 2017 World Group.
Seeded teams
Unseeded teams
Seeds: All seeds received a bye into the second round.
Remaining nations:
Seeds:
Remaining nations:
Date: 11âÂÂ16 July
Location: La Paz, Bolivia (clay)
Confirmed teams:
Inactive teams:
Format: Round-robin basis. Two pools of four and five teams, respectively (Pools A and B). The winner of each pool plays off against the runner-up of the other pool to determine which two nations are promoted to Americas Zone Group II in 2017.
Seeding: The seeding was based on the Davis Cup Rankings of 7 March 2016 (shown in parentheses below).
Group A
Group B
Play-offs
and promoted to Group II in 2017.
Seeds: All seeds received a bye into the second round.
Remaining nations:
Seeds:
Remaining nations:
Date: 11âÂÂ16 July
Confirmed teams:
Format: Round-robin basis. Two pools of four and five teams, respectively (Pools A and B). The winner of each pool plays off against the runner-up of the other pool to determine which two nations are promoted to Asia/Oceania Zone Group II in 2017.
Seeding: The seeding was based on the Davis Cup Rankings of 7 March 2016 (shown in parentheses below).
Group A
Group B
Play-offs
and promoted to Group II in 2017.
' and ' relegated to Group IV in 2017.
Date: 13âÂÂ16 July
Location: Amman, Jordan (clay)
Confirmed teams:
Inactive teams:
Format: Round-robin basis. Two pools of four and five teams, respectively (Pools A and B). The winner of each pool plays off against the runner-up of the other pool to determine which two nations are promoted to Asia/Oceania Zone Group III in 2017.
Seeding: The seeding was based on the Davis Cup Rankings of 7 March 2016 (shown in parentheses below).
Group A
Group B
Play-offs
and promoted to Group III in 2017.
Seeds:
Remaining nations:
Seeds:
Remaining nations:
Date: 2âÂÂ5 March
Location: Tallinn, Estonia (indoor hard)
Format: Round-robin basis. Four pools of four teams (Pools A, B, C and D). The winners of each pool play-off against each other to determine which two nations are promoted to Europe/Africa Zone Group II in 2017.
Seeding: The seeding was based on the Davis Cup Rankings of 30 November 2015 (shown in parentheses below).
Groups:
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Play-offs
and promoted to Group II in 2017.
Date: 11âÂÂ16 July
Location: Antananarivo, Madagascar (clay)
Confirmed teams:
Inactive teams:
Format: Round-robin basis. Two pools of five teams (Pools A and B). The winner of each pool plays off against the runner-up of the other pool to determine which two nations are promoted to Europe/Africa Zone Group II in 2017.
Seeding: The seeding was based on the Davis Cup Rankings of 7 March 2016 (shown in parentheses below).
Group A
Group B
Play-offs
and promoted to Group II in 2017.