German national basketball team

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under German national basketball team (disambiguation) .

Germany Germany
Association	DBB
FIBA member since	1934
FIBA world rankings	29
Technical sponsor	Peak
Trainer	Henrik Rödl (since September 2017)
Record player	Patrick Femerling (221)
World championships
Participation in the finals	4th
Best results	Bronze ( 2002 )
Olympic games
Participation in the finals	5
Best results	7th place ( 1992 )
Continental championships
championship	European Championship
Participation in the finals	20th
Best results	Gold ( 1993 ) Silver ( 2005 )
Homepage	www.basketball-bund.de
(As of September 20, 2016)

The German national basketball team of men is the national coach selection made German basketball player . It represents the German Basketball Federation (DBB) on an international level, for example in friendly games against the selection teams of other national associations, but also at European and World Championships and at the basketball competitions of the Olympic Games .

The first international match with German participation took place on August 7, 1936 as part of the I. Olympic basketball tournament in Berlin against Switzerland . On August 1, 2016, the German national basketball team played their 1000th international match in Helsinki against Finland .

The greatest success to date was winning the European Championship in 1993 in his own country. They also finished third at the 2002 World Cup in the United States and won the silver medal at the 2005 European Championships in Serbia and Montenegro . The so far best Olympic placement was achieved in the XXV. 1992 Summer Games in Barcelona with seventh place.

history

Beginnings (1936 to 1983)

At the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, when basketball was part of the Olympic program for the first time , the German national team first appeared in an international tournament, but lost three group games. The fourth was won without a fight because Spain had not competed. Germany was eliminated in the preliminary round.

The Second World War interrupted all basketball endeavors in Germany. Only in 1951 did the Federal Republic of Germany take part in the 7th European Basketball Championship , but only finished 12th. The only all-German basketball team, consisting of eight West and four East German players, was not very successful two years later and only came in 14th. At the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich you were automatically qualified as a host. In addition to four defeats in the preliminary round, after victories over the Philippine and Senegalese Olympic selections, it was also enough to win over Poland . In the placement games they lost respectable one point to Australia and Spain and ended up in twelfth place.

First athletic Olympic qualification under coach Klein (1983 to 1987)

After finishing eighth at the 1983 European Championship , the German-born Israeli national coach Ralph Klein became the German national coach and was able to lead the national team to an Olympic tournament for the first time after the Olympic boycott of the Warsaw Pact states (with the exception of Romania ) and friendly nations. There it was enough for the team around the US college students and future NBA professionals Detlef Schrempf , Uwe Blab and Christian Welp in five preliminary round games to two victories over, among others, Brazil and to advance to the quarter-finals. There they lost only eleven points to the host USA , whose college selection consisted of three players with Michael Jordan , Patrick Ewing and Chris Mullin , who eight years later became NBA professionals as well as the " Dream Team " at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona should belong. After two defeats in placement games, they finished eighth. At the following European Championship finals in 1985 in your own country you even came fifth as the host. After the quarter-final defeat against Spain, they defeated the then again disappointing Yugoslav national basketball team and France in the placement games . When Germany first took part in a World Cup in 1986, Germany retired without Schrempf and Blab, who were now NBA professionals, in the preliminary round due to the poorer direct comparison in the basket ratio. In 1987 it was enough for sixth place at the European Championship finals in Athens .

European championship triumph under coach Pešić (1987 to 1993)

After the resignation of coach Klein, Svetislav Pešić took over as national coach in 1987, who had previously won the U19 World Championship in the same year as coach of a particularly talented Yugoslav junior team around Toni Kukoč , Vlade Divac and Dino Rađa . In this epoch-making triumph, a selection from the United States was defeated for the first time under the same conditions, since the US men's national team only competed with college players aged no more than 23 years. After a missed participation in the Olympics for the 1988 Games , Pešić only achieved success as a national coach after successfully qualifying for the Olympics four years later. With NBA professional Schrempf and Christian Welp, who returned from the NBA to the German Bundesliga, a seventh place was achieved at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona .

At the following European Championship finals in 1993, again in their own country, the German team achieved their greatest success to date without NBA All-Star Schrempf. It benefited from the breakup of the dominant European basketball nations, the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia , whose national teams had previously won 19 out of 23 European championships since 1947 and were the only European nations to have become basketball world champions. While the “rest” Yugoslav national team from Serbia and Montenegro had been excluded from the tournament because of the Yugoslav wars, the previously leading national teams were divided between the new participating teams Russia , Lithuania , Estonia , Latvia , Croatia , Slovenia and Bosnia and Herzegovina . After three wins and three defeats in the preliminary and intermediate rounds, the German team was able to defeat Spain in the extension of the quarter-finals with 79:76. In the semifinals, Welp secured a 76:73 win against Greece , who had become European champions in their own country in 1987, with a successful long-range throw in the last second . In the final against Russia, which was held in the Olympiahalle Munich , Christian Welp equalized in the last German attack after a pass from Kai Nürnberger first to 70:70, to convert a free throw 3.9 seconds before the time was up to 71:70 . Team captain Hansi Gnad , who later became a record player for a long time, was able to raise a trophy for the national team for the first time at an official final tournament and Welp was awarded the title Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the tournament. The German team was voted “Team of the Year” by German sports journalists. Then Pešić resigned from his position as national coach in favor of a job as a club coach of ALBA Berlin , which he led to the first European cup win of a German club team in 1995 and to five consecutive German championships from 1996.

From a sporting hole to the first World Cup medal (1993 to 2003)

Pešić's Serb compatriot and successor as national coach Vladislav Lučić remained hapless in his time with the national team from 1994 to 1997. His Finnish successor Henrik Dettmann then benefited from the maturation of an exceptional player who was to become the best and most successful German basketball player to date: Dirk Nowitzki , who in 1998 at the age of 19 was one of the few European players with no significant experience in senior or college basketball Milwaukee Bucks drafted into the NBA and then traded to the Dallas Mavericks, should not only develop into the formative and most important player of his NBA club, but also lead the German national team to new successes. Symbolic of the changing of the guard in German basketball, Nowitzki had his first NBA appearance against Detlef Schrempf's team, who had previously made the leap into the highest-endowed professional league as the first player who grew up in Germany. As a “franchise player” for the Mavericks, his successes in the club and national team aroused new enthusiasm for basketball in Germany and the German national team. After the German-born Canadian Mike Jackel , who hunted basketball in the basketball league and also became European champion in his last national team tournament in 1993, was naturalized in the 1980s, the German- born Shawn Bradley was the first to receive an NBA player and Nowitzki's teammate with the Mavericks took German citizenship. In Bradley's only participation in a final with the German national team in 2001, the Germans were only a second away from reaching the final in the semifinals of the EM finals against hosts Turkey when the Turkish team brought the game into overtime with a " buzzer beater ". Turkey won and the demoralized Germans also lost the small final with EM top scorer Nowitzki and landed on the unfortunate fourth place. In 2002 Germany drew attention to itself at the World Cup in Indianapolis . Inspired by Nowitzki's game, the German team was only eliminated in the semi-finals against favorites Argentina , who had previously beaten not only Germany but also the uninspired hosts USA, 80:86 in the preliminary round. In the game for third place, the Germans defeated New Zealand 117: 97 and won the first medal at a world championship with the bronze medal. Dirk Nowitzki was voted MVP of the tournament. A year later at the 2003 European Championship , however, the team suffered a setback and missed qualification for the 2004 Olympic Games by an 84-86 defeat in the second round against Italy .

Completion of the Nowitzki era under coach Bauermann (2003 to 2011)

After missing the Olympic qualification, Dirk Bauermann became the new national coach, who had already led the national team for a short time in 1994. The former Leverkusen master coach and Bamberg club coach brought the team new momentum and a brilliantly laid-out Dirk Nowitzki led the selection as top scorer in the final of the European Championship finals in 2005 , which was clearly lost against Greece with 62:78. Nowitzki was again named MVP as the best thrower and the silver medalist received the title "Best Team of the Year" from the press, as in 1993. At the 2006 World Basketball Championship in Japan , Germany won all group games with the exception of the game against eventual tournament winner Spain. In the knockout phase , the Germans first played in an even game against a surprisingly competitive Nigerian team and in the end won just under 78:77. In the quarter-final game against the top favorite United States, the German team was able to keep up over two quarters and was only one point behind. After that, however, the Americans turned up and the game ended 65:85. In the placement games there were then two defeats against France and Lithuania and you ended up in eighth place.

At the 2007 European Championship finals , Germany reached the intermediate round in the preliminary group after only one defeat against co-favorites Lithuania. There, after just one victory over Italy, it was just enough to make it to the quarter-finals. In the round of the best eight teams, the Germans had no chance against world champions and hosts Spain and lost 55:83. In the placement games, this time the German team finished fifth after two wins. This enabled the national team to qualify for an elimination tournament for the 2008 Olympic Games . Before the Olympic qualification, the DBB and the organization of the basketball league agreed to separate the national coach and the first division club coach, so that coach Bauermann initially gave up his work as a club coach at the end of the season. In the last elimination game of the 2008 Olympic qualification for third place in the qualifying tournament, the national team was able to qualify as the last team for the summer games after a 96-82 victory over Puerto Rico . Nowitzki and his naturalized NBA colleague Chris Kaman were able to fulfill their dream of participating in the Olympics. At the Games in Beijing , Nowitzki was the first German basketball player to be honored to be the flag bearer of the German athletes at the opening ceremony. In the 2008 Olympic tournament , the national team suffered three defeats against Greece, Spain and hosts China after an opening win over Angola , as well as the highest tournament defeat of all with 57: 106 against defending champions USA. This eliminated after the preliminary round of the Olympics.

After the Olympic Games in 2008, Nowitzki concentrated on fulfilling his Olympic dream on his tasks as a player with the Mavericks and, like Chris Kaman, was not available to the national team at the European Championship finals in 2009 . A significantly younger national team, whose youth problems had been masked by Nowitzki's qualities in recent years, kept up surprisingly well and achieved respectable results in Poland. In the last intermediate round match there was even a chance of reaching the quarter-finals in the 68:70 defeat against Croatia . So it remained with only one win from six games, which in itself was not enough to participate in the following 2010 World Cup. However, the world association FIBA was still able to issue “ wildcards ” and Germany got one of these qualification “byes” to persuade NBA star Nowitzki to participate in the 2010 World Cup in Turkey. However, he canceled the participation and the national team missed qualification for the second round after a surprising extension win at the start over vice European champions Serbia after a disappointing defeat against African champions Angola.

The following European Championship finals in 2011 were now about qualifying for the 2012 Olympic Games . Nowitzki first reached the 2011 NBA championship with the Dallas Mavericks and was named a final MVP. Later he was not only recognized again as basketball player of the year by FIBA Europe after 2005 , but also as Germany's first individual basketball player athlete of the year 2011. Inspired by the success with the Mavericks, he again competed for the national team in order to achieve another Olympic participation . Together with Chris Kaman, however, after the long NBA season, he came up late for the national team's EM preparations. Given the Olympic qualification, other European national teams such as Spain, France, Russia, Turkey and hosts Lithuania were also peppered with several current or previous NBA professionals. After a mixed preliminary round with two defeats in five games, all these national teams except Russia were played in the difficult intermediate group and it was enough for the poorly rehearsed team with a weak Nowitzki to win against Turkey, which meant they were eliminated before the quarterfinals and meant for the Olympic qualification. Nowitzki then indicated his departure from the national team and coach Bauermann, who had previously achieved promotion with the second division team of FC Bayern Munich , resigned from his position as national coach in favor of his post as club coach.

Rebuilding (since 2011)

In the summer of 2012, instead of the Olympic Games, the national team had to try to qualify for the 2013 European Championship . For this task, the DBB won again Svetislav Pešić as national coach, who successfully led the team through the qualification without NBA stars and without defeat. Then he did not extend his contract in the fall, but also replaced his predecessor Bauermann at Bayern Munich, who had previously been dismissed in the preparation for the season, or his interim acting, previous assistant Christopoulos. As the successor to the office of national coach, the DBB hired the long-time youth and junior selection coach Frank Menz . After an unsuccessful European Championship, in which the entry into the intermediate round and thus the qualification for the 2014 World Cup was missed, but the team had to do without some players (including Dirk Nowitzki ), Frank Menz returned to his old position as DBB youth coach . His successor was Emir Mutapčić , who only received a fixed-term contract for the summer of 2014, in which, in addition to test matches, qualification for the 2015 European Championship was due. Here Poland , Austria and Luxembourg were the German opponents. The group finished second behind Poland, which was enough to qualify for the European Championship, since Germany was third-best group runner-up.

After the 2015 European Championship was withdrawn from the originally planned host, Ukraine , because of the unrest there , Germany applied to host a preliminary group that was to take place in the Mercedes-Benz Arena in Berlin . It was hoped that this would increase the chances of Dirk Nowitzki's return, who had always kept one open in view of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . In November 2014, the previous Bamberg coach Chris Fleming was introduced as the new national coach, who received a contract until 2016 with a view to a possible qualification for the Olympic Games. In June 2015 it was announced that Dirk Nowitzki will make his comeback in the national team for the European Championship. With Nowitzki, Dennis Schröder and Tibor Pleiß there were three NBA pros in the national team. At the European Championship , which took place in different countries, the German team played the preliminary round in Berlin and retired after four, sometimes narrow defeats and only one victory.

Two years later, the team entered the 2017 European Championship as the youngest team in the tournament and made a positive impression. Behind Lithuania they took second place in the preliminary round group B held in Tel Aviv . Led by Dennis Schröder, who scored an average of 23.7 points per game in the tournament, they beat France in the round of 16 with 84:81. Only in the quarterfinals did the Germans fail against Spain.

Extended squad

Squad of the German national basketball team

player No. Surname birth size info Calls society Guards ( PG , SG ) - Andreas Obst 07/13/1996 1.91 m 16 Ratiopharm Ulm - Dennis Schröder 09/15/1993 1.86 m 44 Oklahoma City Thunder - Isaac Bonga 11/08/1999 2.03 m 2 Washington Wizards - Ismet Akpinar 05/22/1995 1.90 m 36 Besiktas Istanbul - Maodo Lô December 31, 1992 1.91 m 54 FC Bayern Munich Forwards ( SF , PF ) - Niels Giffey 06/08/1991 2.00 m 68 Alba Berlin - Moritz Wagner 04/26/1997 2.11 m 0 Washington Wizards - Robin Benzing 01/25/1989 2.08 m 139 Basket Saragossa 2002 - Daniel Theis 04/04/1992 2.04 m 39 Boston Celtics - Maximilian Kleber 01/29/1992 2.07 m 25th Dallas Mavericks - Paul Zipser 02/18/1994 2.03 m 38 FC Bayern Munich - Danilo Barthel 11/24/1991 2.08 m 47 FC Bayern Munich Center ( C ) - Johannes Voigtmann 09/20/1992 2.11 m 61 CSKA Moscow - Johannes Thiemann 02/09/1994 2.05 m 40 Alba Berlin

Trainer Nat. Surname position Henrik Rödl Head coach Alan Ibrahimagic Assistant coach Fabian Villmeter Assistant coach Patrick Femerling Assistant coach Ralph hero Sports director Legend Abbr. meaning Team captain swell Team homepage As of July 3, 2019

German A2 national team 2019

Squad German A2 national team

player No. Surname birth size info Calls society Guards ( PG , SG ) Haris Hujic 04/30/1997 1.93 m Rostock Seawolves Bennet Hundt 08/20/1998 1.80 m Alba Berlin David Chandler 01/14/1997 1.99 m Ratiopharm Ulm Kenneth Ogbe 11/16/1994 1.98 m Alba Berlin Lukas Wank 01/19/1997 1.98 m BV Chemnitz 99 Ferdinand Zylka 04/11/1998 1.90 m Central German BC Jonas Grof 05/03/1996 2.01 m Phoenix Hagen Tim Hasbargen 05.03.1996 1.93 m Ehingen / Urspring Forwards ( SF , PF ) Oscar da Silva 09/21/1998 2.06 m Stanford University Richard Freudenberg 08/31/1998 2.02 m Skyliners Frankfurt Louis Olinde 03/19/1998 2.05 m Brose Bamberg Tim Schneider 09/01/1997 2.05 m Alba Berlin Karim Jallow 04/13/1997 1.98 m MHP giant Ludwigsburg Jonas Richter 07/02/1997 2.05 m BV Chemnitz 99 Jan Niklas Wimberg 02/11/1996 2.07 m BV Chemnitz 99 Christian Sengfelder 02/28/1995 2.00 m Basketball Löwen Braunschweig Center ( C ) Leon scratches 02/04/1997 2.12 m  Fraport Skyliners Lars Lagerpusch 03/28/1998 2.05 m Basketball Löwen Braunschweig Moritz Sanders 05/09/1998 2.10 m Nuremberg Falcons BC

Trainer Nat. Surname position Henrik Rödl Head coach Ralph hero Sports director Legend Abbr. meaning Team captain swell Team homepage As of June 6, 2019

German U20 national basketball team

Squad German U20 national basketball team

player No. Surname birth size info Calls society Guards ( PG , SG ) Kilian Binapfl 01/01/2000 1.95 m Telekom Baskets Bonn Badu Buck 04/05/1999 1.96 m s.Oliver Würzburg Quirin Emanga 10/03/2000 1.93 m Northeastern University (Boston) Nils Haßfurther 05/18/1999 1.84 m Nuremberg Falcons BC Bjarne Kraushaar 06/12/1999 1.91 m Casting 46ers Jonas Mattisseck January 16, 2000 1.94 m Alba Berlin Joshua Obiesie May 23, 2000 1.98 m s.Oliver Würzburg Bruno Vrcic 11/24/2000 1.96 m FC Bayern Munich Nelson Weidemann 03/22/1999 1.90 m FC Bayern Munich Forwards ( SF , PF ) Lorenz Brenneke 02/01/2000 2.04 m Alba Berlin Philipp Herkenhoff 06/29/1999 2.06 m Rasta Vechta Isaiah you 10/15/2000 2.06 m University of Minnesota Vladimir Pinchuk 04/01/1999 2.00 m New Mexico University Mateo Seric 03/21/1999 2.04 m 1. FC Baunach Samuel Griesel ??. ??. ???? ?, ?? m North Dakota State Center ( C ) Nicolas Bretzel 05/29/1999 2.12 m  Ratiopharm Ulm Fynn Fischer 07/20/1999 2.08 m S.Oliver Würzburg Lars Thiemann 05/22/2000 2.11 m Bayer Giants Leverkusen

Trainer Nat. Surname position Alan Ibrahimagic Head coach Ralph hero Sports director Legend Abbr. meaning Team captain swell Team homepage As of June 10, 2019

Record international player

→ See also: List of German national basketball players

Most missions

The following players have played at least 100 international A matches:

= active player in the national team

space	Games	Surname	First international match (date / opponent)	Last international match (date / opponent)
01	221	Patrick Femerling	June 14, 1996 ( Cuba )	Sep 15 2009 ( Croatia )
02	181	Hansi grace	May 23, 1986 ( Switzerland )	Nov 28, 1998 ( Slovenia )
03	178	Henrik Rödl	Oct 31, 1987 ( Sweden )	08 Sep 2002 ( New Zealand )
04th	172	Ademola Okulaja	May 19, 1995 ( Netherlands )	16 Sep 2007 ( Croatia )
05	169	Michael Pappert	0Jan 4, 1977 ( Sudan )	May 15, 1988 ( Brazil )
	169	Henning Harnisch	Apr 25, 1987 ( England )	03 Dec 1997 ( Belgium )
07th	166	Stephen Arigbabu	0Dec 5, 1990 ( England )	16 Sep 2007 ( Croatia )
08th	153	Dirk Nowitzki	Feb 26, 1997 ( Portugal )	Sep 10 2015 ( Spain )
09	150	Norbert Thimm	0May 7, 1969 ( Central African Republic )	May 20, 1979 ( Romania )
10	146	Armin Andres	Dec 29, 1979 ( Sweden )	Nov 18, 1992 ( Portugal )
	146	Gunther Behnke	Apr 20, 1983 ( Soviet Union )	June 11, 1995 ( France )
12	144	Robin Benzing	0Aug 7, 2009 ( Netherlands )	still active
13	142	Klaus Zander	30th Mar 1975 ( Netherlands )	0Nov 5, 1987 ( Bulgaria )
14th	141	Jan-Hendrik Jagla	0Aug 6, 2003 ( Estonia )	Sep 11 2012 ( Azerbaijan )
15th	140	Michael Koch	Feb 14, 1985 ( Italy )	Feb 25, 1998 ( Greece )
16	136	Kai Nürnberger	May 19, 1985 ( Italy )	0July 3, 1999 ( Turkey )
17th	133	Stephan Baeck	Nov 19, 1984 ( Hungary )	Feb 26, 1997 ( Portugal )
18th	131	Steffen Hamann	Jan 22, 2003 ( Macedonia )	Sep 11 2011 ( Lithuania )
19th	130	Armin Sowa	Dec 29, 1979 ( Finland )	July 10, 1986 ( China )
20th	123	Denis Usurer	0Nov 5, 1994 ( Lithuania )	25 Sep 2005 ( Greece )
21st	122	Pascal Roller	May 28, 1999 ( Russia )	Aug 18, 2008 ( United States )
22nd	121	Sven Schultze	Feb 20, 2000 ( Belgium )	Sep 11 2011 ( Lithuania )
23	118	Lutz Wadehn	0Apr 3, 1981 ( Czechoslovakia )	Nov 27, 1988 ( Yugoslavia )
	118	Robert Garrett	Nov 24, 1999 ( Italy )	Aug 18, 2008 ( United States )
25th	116	Matthias Strauss	Dec 18, 1975 ( Hungary )	0June 3, 1983 ( Yugoslavia )
26th	115	Heiko Schaffartzik	0Aug 7, 2009 ( Netherlands )	still active
	115	Lucca Staiger	0Aug 7, 2009 ( Netherlands )	still active
28	114	Demond Greene	July 25, 2001 ( Finland )	0Sep 2 2010 ( Jordan )
29	113	Jörg Heidrich	Aug 12, 1975 ( Algeria )	May 30, 1982 ( Greece )
	113	Michael Jackel	Nov 19, 1984 ( Hungary )	0July 4, 1993 ( Russia )
31	110	Ulrich Peters	Apr 10, 1980 ( Czechoslovakia )	June 15, 1985 ( France )
32	106	Chris Welp	Apr. 27, 1984 ( Czechoslovakia )	03 Dec 1997 ( Belgium )
33	105	Uwe Blab	0May 5, 1982 ( Poland )	Nov 18, 1992 ( Portugal )
34	100	Mithat Demirel	May 28, 1999 ( Russia )	16 Sep 2009 ( Croatia )

Most of the points

The following players have scored the most hoops for the German national basketball team:

= active player in the national team

space	Surname	Points	cut	Highest Score
01	Dirk Nowitzki	3045	19.9	47
02	Michael Jackel	2167	19.2	42
03	Hansi grace	2123	11.7	30th
04th	Henning Harnisch	2079	12.3	28
05	Ademola Okulaja	1794	10.4	25th
06th	Patrick Femerling	1762	08.0	20th
07th	Henrik Rödl	1749	09.8	31
08th	Michael Koch	1630	11.6	28
9	Robin Benzing	1401	09.73	27
010	Detlef Schrempf	1358	19.1	39
11	Stephan Baeck	1210	09.1	36
12	Michael Pappert	1162	06.9	34
13	Chris Welp	1144	10.8	28
14th	Heiko Schaffartzik	1004	08.7	23
15th	Kai Nürnberger	909	06.7	27
16	Uwe Blab	904	08.6	25th
17th	Jan Jagla	884	06.3	25th
18th	Denis Usurer	856	07.0	22nd
19th	Stephen Arigbabu	834	05.0	22nd
20th	Tibor Pleiß	804	07.97	23

The national team at the Summer Olympics

year	venue	Host country	Participation until ...	opponent	Result	Comments and special features
1936	Berlin	Germany	Second consolation round	Czechoslovakia	15th place	First consolation round won against Spain without a fight
1948	London	United Kingdom	no participation	-	-
1952	Helsinki	Finland	no participation	-	-
1956	Melbourne	Australia	no participation	-	-
1960	Rome	Italy	not qualified	-	-
1964	Tokyo	Japan	not qualified	-	-
1968	Mexico city	Mexico	not qualified	-	-
1972	Munich	Germany	Game for 11th place	Spain	12th place
1976	Montréal	Canada	not qualified	-	-
1980	Moscow	Soviet Union	no participation	-	-
1984	los Angeles	United States	Game for 7th place	Australia	08th place	In the quarterfinals against the USA 68-111 lost
1988	Seoul	South Korea	not qualified	-	-
1992	Barcelona	Spain	Game for 7th place	Puerto Rico	07th place	Failed in the quarter-finals against the United Team (76:83)
1996	Atlanta	United States	not qualified	-	-
2000	Sydney	Australia	not qualified	-	-
2004	Athens	Greece	not qualified	-	-
2008	Beijing	China	Preliminary round	Angola, Greece, Spain, China, USA	10th place
2012	London	United Kingdom	not qualified	-	-
2016	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	not qualified	-	-

The national team at world championships

year	Venue / country	Participation until ...	opponent	Result	Comments and special features
1950	Buenos Aires, Argentina	no participation	-	-
1954	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	no participation	-	-
1959	Santiago de Chile, Chile	no participation	-	-
1963	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	no participation	-	-
1967	Montevideo, Uruguay	no participation	-	-
1970	Ljubljana, Yugoslavia	no participation	-	-
1974	San Juan, Puerto Rico	no participation	-	-
1978	Manila, Philippines	no participation	-	-
1982	Cali, Colombia	no participation	-	-
1986	Madrid, Spain	Preliminary round	China, Ivory Coast, Puerto Rico, Italy, USA	-	Out because of poor basket ratio
1990	Buenos Aires, Argentina	no participation	-	-
1994	Toronto, Canada	Game for 11th place	Brazil	12th place
1998	Athens, Greece	no participation	-	-
2002	Indianapolis, United States	3rd place match	New Zealand	03rd place	lost in the semi-finals to Argentina (80:86); Dirk Nowitzki is elected MVP of the tournament
2006	Japan	Game for 7th place	Lithuania	08th place	lost in the quarterfinals against the USA (65:85)
2010	Turkey	Preliminary round	Angola, Argentina, Australia, Serbia, Jordan	17th place	Same score as Angola, more baskets, fewer goals against, but lost head-to-head
2014	Spain	not qualified	-	-
2019	China	Preliminary round	France, Dominican Republic, Jordan	18th place

The national team at European championships

year	Venue / country	Participation until ...	opponent	Result	Comments and special features
1935	Geneva, Switzerland	no participation	-	-
1937	Riga, Latvia	no participation	-	-
1939	Kaunas, Lithuania	no participation	-	-
1946	Geneva, Switzerland	no participation	-	-
1947	Prague, Czechoslovakia	no participation	-	-
1949	Cairo, Egypt	no participation	-	-
1951	Paris, France	Classification Round II	Finland, Austria	12th place
1953	Moscow, Russia	Classification Round II	Lebanon, Romania	14th place
1955	Budapest, Hungary	Classification Round II	Denmark	17th place
1957	Sofia, Bulgaria	no participation	-	-
1959	Istanbul, Turkey	no participation	-	-
1961	Belgrade, Yugoslavia	Classification Round II	Spain, Netherlands	16th place
1963	Wroclaw, Poland	not qualified	-	-
1965	Moscow and Tbilisi, Soviet Union	Game for 13th place	Romania	14th place
1967	Helsinki and Tampere, Finland	not qualified	-	-
1969	Naples, Italy	not qualified	-	-
1971	Essen and Boeblingen, Germany	Play for 9th place	France	09th place
1973	Barcelona, ​​Spain	not qualified	-	-
1975	Belgrade, Yugoslavia	not qualified	-	-
1977	Liege, Belgium	not qualified	-	-
1979	Gorizia, Italy	not qualified	-	-
1981	Bratislava, Havírov and Prague, Czechoslovakia	Classification Round	England, France, Greece	10th place
1983	Limoges, Caen and Nantes, France	Game for 7th place	Yugoslavia	08th place
1985	Karlsruhe, Leverkusen and Stuttgart, Germany	Play for 5th place	France	05th place
1987	Athens, Greece	Play for 5th place	Italy	06th place
1989	Zagreb, Yugoslavia	not qualified	-	-
1991	Rome, Italy	not qualified	-	-
1993	Karlsruhe, Berlin and Munich, Germany	final	Russia	01st place	Christian Welp is elected MVP of the tournament
1995	Athens, Greece	Preliminary round	Lithuania, Italy, Sweden, Israel, Greece, Yugoslavia	10th place
1997	Badalona and Barcelona, ​​Spain	Preliminary round	Spain, Croatia, Ukraine	12th place
1999	France	Game for 7th place	Turkey	07th place
2001	Ankara, Antalya and Istanbul, Turkey	3rd place match	Spain	04th Place
2003	Sweden	Elimination Round	Italy	09th place
2005	Serbia and Montenegro	final	Greece	02nd place	Dirk Nowitzki is elected MVP of the tournament
2007	Spain	Play for 5th place	Croatia	05th place
2009	Poland	Intermediate round	France, Russia, Greece, Croatia, Macedonia	11th place
2011	Lithuania	Intermediate round	Spain, France, Lithuania, Serbia, Turkey	09th place
2013	Slovenia	Preliminary round	France, Ukraine, Belgium, Great Britain, Israel	17th place
2015	Final round: France, preliminary round: various	Preliminary round	Iceland, Serbia, Turkey, Italy, Spain	18th place	Preliminary round in Berlin
2017	Finals: Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Helsinki, Finland, Tel Aviv, Israel, and Istanbul, Turkey. Preliminary round: Istanbul	Quarter finals	Spain	06th place

Individual evidence

1. ^ Statistics of the German national basketball team
2. ↑ THIRD FIBA ​​Men's Junior World Championship - 1987. USA basketball , archived from the original on May 8, 2013 ; accessed on May 10, 2013 (English, tournament summary). 
3. ^ SID : basketball players for Olympic qualification in Athens. Focus , October 12, 2007, accessed May 10, 2013 . 
4. ↑ Bamberg or DBB? MSN Sports, March 6, 2008, accessed May 10, 2013 . 
5. ^ Christian Gödecke: Olympic flag bearer Nowitzki: A star for the games. Spiegel Online , August 6, 2008, accessed May 10, 2013 . 
6. ↑ Joachim Mölter: Fiba wants Nowitzki. Süddeutsche Zeitung , May 17, 2010, accessed on May 10, 2013 . 
7. ↑ Basketball World Cup 2010: Nowitzki cancels participation. Spiegel Online, July 20, 2010, accessed on May 10, 2013 (article based on a report by SID ). 
8. ↑ Mutapčić new national coach. At: basketball-bund.de.
9. ↑ The European Basketball Championship does not take place in Ukraine. At: Spiegel.de.
10. ↑ Germany is applying to host. At: Spiegel.de.
11. ↑ Chris Fleming is the new national coach. At: Spiegel.de. Retrieved January 27, 2015.
12. ↑ DBB-TV: Dirk Nowitzki plays the Eurobasket! At: basketball-bund.de. Retrieved July 28, 2015.
13. ↑ Balance: national players (as of July 2, 2018); the data only go back to 1969.
14. ↑ Ibid., As of February 26, 2018.
15. ↑ DBB is aiming for a wildcard for the 2014 World Cup - “Don't make a stick mistake”. ( Memento from April 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). At: t-online.de. September 9, 2013, accessed April 12, 2015.

See also

• German national basketball team of women
• German national basketball team (U16 juniors)
• German national basketball team (U18 juniors)
• National basketball team of the GDR
• List of NBA players from German-speaking nations

Web links

• Former national coaches men - List of coaches of the senior national team for men on the DBB website
• Statistics of the national basketball teams - men - National team statistics on a private website linked by DBB
• German national basketball team 1968 to 1972 - preparation for the 1972 Summer Olympics - detailed presentation of the national team's history in preparation for the 1972 Olympics at vereins.wikia.com