Montenegro women's national basketball team

Montenegro

FIBA ranking	22 2 (15 February 2024)[1]
Joined FIBA	2006
FIBA zone	FIBA Europe
National federation	KSCG
Coach	Jelena Škerović
EuroBasket
Appearances	7
Home Away

The Montenegro women's national basketball team represents Montenegro in international women's basketball tournaments. The supervising body is the Basketball Federation of Montenegro.
The Montenegrin women's national team entered international competition in 2008, playing their first official match on 27 August, against Republic of Ireland in Bijelo Polje (68–56).
The Montenegrin women's team participated at the EuroBasket Women four times – 2011, 2013, 2015, and 2017 reaching the quarterfinals twice.

History

Period 2006–2015

At 2006, soon after Montenegrin independence, Basketball Association of Montenegro became a member of FIBA. Federation founded its national teams, and among them was Montenegro women's basketball selection, which started to play in FIBA competitions during the 2008.
Montenegro started with the record of 17 consecutive wins in official games.
At summer 2008 and 2009, Montenegrin team played in FIBA Division B with the final score of 12 victories without any lose. That means fast promotion to FIBA Division A and participation in EuroBasket Women 2011 qualification.
In their first qualifiers, Montenegro qualified for EuroBasket Women 2011 as a first-placed team in the group. On EuroBasket, the team made successful result and played in quarterfinals. At the end, Montenegro finished as a sixth-placed team, which is the best placement in history of Montenegrin women's basketball.
After new successful qualifiers, Montenegro played on EuroBasket Women 2013, but finished competition in the second phase, with final placement on 10th position.
For the third time, Montenegro played on EuroBasket at 2015. Like 2011, Montenegro played in the quarterfinals but lost against Spain with one point difference. Montenegro finished EuroBasket 2015 as seventh-placed team.

Period 2016–

Montenegro made another successful result in qualifiers for EuroBasket Women 2017. With score 4–2, the team qualified for European Championship, fourth in their history. At the championship finals, Montenegrin team disappointed with 3 losses and elimination on early stage of tournament.
Just like in previous campaigns, Montenegrin national team won the Group A in EuroBasket Women 2019 qualifiers and gained their fifth performance on European Championship.

Competitive record

Montenegro was part of Yugoslavia until 2006.

Team

Current roster

Roster for the EuroBasket Women 2023.^[2][3]

Montenegro women's national basketball team roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. No. Name Age – Date of birth Height Club Ctr. C 2 Natasha Mack 25 – (1997-11-03)3 November 1997 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) AZS UMCS Lublin PF 3 Bojana Kovačević 26 – (1996-10-16)16 October 1996 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) AE Sedis Bàsquet PG 4 Sofija Živaljević 25 – (1997-12-24)24 December 1997 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) Arka Gdynia F 5 Jovana Pašić 31 – (1992-05-12)12 May 1992 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) ASA Jerusalem SG 7 Zorana Radonjić 21 – (2002-06-13)13 June 2002 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) ŽKK Budućnost Podgorica SG 8 Dragana Živković 22 – (2001-01-23)23 January 2001 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) ŽKK Budućnost Podgorica PG 11 Božica Mujović 27 – (1996-01-07)7 January 1996 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) Slávia Banská Bystrica C 21 Maja Bigović 20 – (2002-09-24)24 September 2002 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) ŽKK Budućnost Podgorica SG 23 Jelena Vučetić 29 – (1993-09-14)14 September 1993 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) BC Castors Braine PF 24 Ksenija Šćepanović 20 – (2002-12-21)21 December 2002 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) ŽKK Budućnost Podgorica PG 25 Marija Leković 19 – (2003-07-21)21 July 2003 1.66 m (5 ft 5 in) ŽKK Budućnost Podgorica F 35 Milica Jovanović (C) 33 – (1989-08-14)14 August 1989 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in) Diósgyőri VTK	Head coach Jelena Škerović Assistant coach(es) Arkadiusz Rusin Miroslav Škara Legend (C) Team captain Club – describes last club before the tournament Age – describes age on 15 June 2023

Head coaches

Since its foundation, Montenegro women's national basketball team had four head coaches.
In the period 2008–2013, head coach of Montenegro was Miodrag Baletić. From 2014, Montenegrin team was led by Momir Milatović, who was head coach during three years. In 2017, first foreigner was promoted as head coach of Montenegrin team. That was Roberto Íñiguez, whose mandate lasted until the beginning of 2019.
In January 2019, Basketball Association of Montenegro stated that new head coach of national team is former player and captain Jelena Škerović. She became a first woman to be a head coach of any Montenegrin national A team.

Years	Name	Score	Competition
2008–2013	Miodrag Baletić	33–10	EuroBasket 2011 (6th); EuroBasket 2013 (10th)
2014–2017	Momir Milatović	14–8	EuroBasket 2015 (7th)
2017–2019	Roberto Íñiguez	4–5	EuroBasket 2017 (16th)
2019–present	Jelena Škerović	16–8	GSS 2019 (1st); EuroBasket 2019 (12); EuroBasket 2021 (12); GSS 2019 (1st); EuroBasket 2023 (8)

Statistics and games

List of official matches

Montenengro played its first official match in August 2008. There is a List of official matches of the Montenegro women's national basketball team played since independence.

Opponents

Below is the list of performances of Montenegro national basketball team against every single opponent.

Opponents' country	G	W	L	PD
Albania	2	2	0	+118
Austria	2	2	0	+27
Belarus	1	1	0	+5
Belgium	1	0	1	-2
Bosnia and Herzegovina	2	1	1	+6
Bulgaria	2	1	1	-30
Croatia	2	1	1	+7
Czech Republic	2	2	0	+32
Cyprus	3	2	1	+71
Denmark	2	1	1	+4
Estonia	2	2	0	+52
Finland	4	4	0	+90
France	4	1	3	-85
Germany	3	3	0	+35
Great Britain	3	1	2	-17
Greece	3	2	1	+7
Hungary	2	2	0	+13
Iceland	5	5	0	+87
Ireland	2	2	0	+15
Israel	2	2	0	+33
Italy	5	2	3	0
Latvia	3	2	1	-14
Lithuania	2	2	0	+21
Luxembourg	3	3	0	+44
Malta	2	2	0	+63
Monaco	1	1	0	+10
Netherlands	2	2	0	+11
Poland	3	2	1	+23
Portugal	2	2	0	+13
Romania	1	1	0	+18
Russia	2	0	2	-32
Serbia	4	1	3	-16
Slovakia	3	2	1	+27
Slovenia	2	2	0	+29
Spain	5	1	4	-56
Sweden	4	1	3	-36
Switzerland	4	4	0	+85
Turkey	5	1	4	-30
Ukraine	4	3	1	+27
OVERALL	106	71	35	+653

Last update: September 22, 2023.

Kit

Manufacturer

• 2008–2011: Kappa
• 2011–present: Peak

Sponsor

• 2008–2011: VOLI
• 2012–2014: diva
• 2014–2015: EPCG
• 2015–present: m:tel

See also

• List of official matches of the Montenegro women's national basketball team
• Sport in Montenegro
• First А Women's Basketball League of Montenegro
• Montenegro national basketball team

References

External links

Sportsperson of The YearYoung Male Athlete of The YearYoung Female Athlete of The YearMen's Team of The YearWomen's Team of The Year