Yugoslav national basketball team

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Nickname
Association
Trainer
FIBA member since:
1936
FIBA world rankings
no longer active
World championships
Participation in the finals : 10 (first: 1950 )
Best result : World Champion 1970 , 1978 , 1990
Olympic games
Participation in the finals : 8 (first: 1960 )
Best result : 1980 Olympic champion
European championships
Participation in the final round : 20 (first: 1947 )
Best result : European champion 1973 , 1975 , 1977 , 1989 ,
1991

The Yugoslav national basketball team was with three titles up to its dissolution in 1992 together with the Soviet Union the most successful basketball team at world championships and at the same time the second most successful basketball team, behind the Soviet Union with five titles, at European championships . It is not to be confused with the 1992 newly founded national basketball team of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia .

FIBA basketball world championships

  • 1950 - 10th place
  • 1954 - 11th place
  • 1959 - Did not qualify
  • 1963 - 2nd place
  • 1967 - 2nd place
  • 1970 - 1st place
  • 1974 - 2nd place
  • 1978 - 1st place
  • 1982 - 3rd place
  • 1986 - 3rd place
  • 1990 - 1st place

Olympic games

European basketball championships

  • 1947 - 13th place
  • 1949 - Not qualified
  • 1951 - Did not qualify
  • 1953 - 6th place
  • 1955 - 8th place
  • 1957 - 6th place
  • 1959 - 9th place
  • 1961 - 2nd place
  • 1963 - 3rd place
  • 1969 - 2nd place
  • 1971 - 2nd place
  • 1973 - 1st place
  • 1975 - 1st place
  • 1977 - 1st place
  • 1979 - 3rd place
  • 1981 - 2nd place
  • 1983 - 7th place
  • 1985 - 7th place
  • 1987 - 3rd place
  • 1989 - 1st place
  • 1991 - 1st place

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.fiba.com/pages/eng/fc/FIBA/fibaHist/p/openNodeIDs/5683/selNodeID/5683/fibaHist.html

Web links

History of Yugoslavian basketball on the official website of the 2005 European Championships (English)