Austrian national basketball team

World championships
Austria Austria

Association	Austrian basketball association
FIBA member since	1934
FIBA world rankings	83
Trainer	Lithuania Kęstutis Kemzūra
Record player	Bernd Volcic
Participation in the finals	no
Best results	-
Olympic games
Participation in the finals	no
Best results	-
Continental championships
championship	European Championship
Participation in the finals	6x (first: 1947 / last: 1977 )
Best results	11th place ( 1951 )
Homepage	basketballaustria.at
(As of September 11, 2017)

The Austrian national basketball team represents Austria in international basketball tournaments. The team plays in Division B of FIBA Europe .

history

The first international tournament for the Austrian national team was the 1947 European Championship in Prague . The team finished the tournament as 12 of 14 teams. Also in the following European Championship tournaments, the team finished between 11 and 16. After the European Championship in 1959 , Austria did not take part in any more European Championships until 1977 .

For the Olympic tournament in 1960 a qualification was necessary for the first time, for which the Austrian team was registered. The team finished 12th out of 18 and was therefore not qualified. Austria also failed to qualify at the Olympic tournaments that followed in 1964 , 1968 , 1972 , 1980 and 1984 .

In 1977 Austria took part in an EM again after a long break. The team could not win any of the seven games and finished 12th and last place. The next participation in a European Championship qualification took place in 1995 , when again the qualification was not reached, just like in 1997 and 1999 . At the European Championships in 2001 you got into the qualifying finals, the promotion to the finals of the EM did not succeed. Since the European Championship in 2005 Austria has played in Division B of the European Championship. Also in 2005 they made it into the qualifying games, which were lost to Macedonia. In the following tournaments, the Austrian national team regularly achieved placements in the midfield of Division B.

Performing in international tournaments

Olympic Summer Games

1960 qualification - 12th place (1W / 4L)
1964 qualification - 6th place (2W / 6L)
1968 qualification - 7th place (4W4L)
1972 qualification - 4th place Gr.C (1W / 3L)
1980 qualification - 4th place Gr.A (1W / 3L)
1984 qualification - 4th place group C (0W / 3L)

World championships

not yet participated

European championships

1947 - 12th place (1W / 4L)
1951 - 11th place (5W / 4L)
1955 - 13th place (4W / 6L)
1957 - 14th place (2W / 8L)
1959 - 16th place (1W / 6L)
1977 - 12th place (0W / 7L)
1995 qualification - 5th place Gr.A (1W / 4L)
1997 qualification - 6th place Gr.C (1W / 5L)
1999 qualification - 3rd place Gr.A (1W / 2L)
2001 Qualification - Semi-Final Round (5W / 11L)
2003 qualification - 3rd place Gr.A (3W / 3L)
2005 Qualification - Final (5W / 3L)
2007 qualification - 4th place group C (3W / 5L)
2009 qualification - 3rd place group A (4W / 4L)
2011 qualification - 3rd place Gr.A (4W / 2L)
2013 qualification - 3rd place group C (3W / 5L)
2015 qualification - 3rd place group C (3W / 3L)
2017 qualification - 3rd place group B (2W / 4L)

The numbers in brackets indicate the number of games (won / lost).

Current squad

The players of the Austrian national basketball team with coach Neno Ašćerić playing the anthem before the European Championship qualifier against Croatia (August 2012)

No.	player	position	size	Date of birth	society
31	Benedikt Danek	Guard	176 cm	08/24/1986	Austria Arkadia Traiskirchen Lions
52	Bryce Douvier	Forward	201 cm	December 01, 1991	Italy Basket 1971 Treviglio
51	Benedikt Güttl	Guard	190 cm	02/18/1994	Austria Arkadia Traiskirchen Lions
42	Thomas Klepeisz	Guard	185 cm	08/04/1991	Germany Basketball Löwen Braunschweig
44	Filip Chandler	Forward	202 cm	06/08/1992	Austria Kapfenberg Bulls
34	Moritz Lanegger	Guard	190 cm	March 29, 1990	Denmark Team FOG Næstved
7th	Before that, Lamesic	Forward	206 cm	October 24, 1983	Austria WBC Raiffeisen Wels
24	Rasid Mahalbasic	center	210 cm	07/11/1990	Germany EWE Baskets Oldenburg
13	Marvin Ogunsipe	Forward	203 cm	02/26/1996	Germany Bayern Munich
12	Jakob Pöltl	center	213 cm	10/15/1995	United States San Antonio Spurs
14th	Jozo Rados	center	206 cm	08/05/1993	Austria Xion Dukes Klosterneuburg
5	Thomas Schreiner	Guard	196 cm	02/03/1987	Spain BC River Andorra
Status: 08/19/2017

Individual evidence

↑ Since Austria did not take part in any continental championships, world championships or Olympic basketball competitions in the period relevant for the ranking, and ranking points are only awarded at these tournaments, the team is not officially listed.

Web links

Commons : Austrian national basketball team - collection of images, videos and audio files

[1] Since Austria did not take part in any continental championships, world championships or Olympic basketball competitions in the period relevant for the ranking, and ranking points are only awarded at these tournaments, the team is not officially listed.