Yugoslav national basketball team
Nickname | |
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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no longer active | |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 |
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Olympic games | |
Participation in the finals : 8 (first: 1960 ) Best result : 1980 Olympic champion |
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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
- 1960 Summer Olympics - 6th place
- 1964 Summer Olympics - 7th place
- 1968 Summer Olympics - silver
- 1972 Summer Olympics - 5th place
- 1976 Summer Olympics - silver
- 1980 Summer Olympics - Gold
- 1984 Summer Olympics - bronze
- 1988 Summer Olympics - silver
- 1992 Summer Olympics - Did not take part
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
Web links
History of Yugoslavian basketball on the official website of the 2005 European Championships (English)