Yugoslavia women's national basketball team

Women's national basketball team representing Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia
FIBA rankingN/A
FIBA zoneFIBA Europe
National federationBasketball Federation of Yugoslavia
CoachMiodrag Vesković (last)
Olympic Games
Appearances3
Medals Silver: (1988)
Bronze: (1980)
World Cup
Appearances5
Medals Silver: (1990)
EuroBasket Women
Appearances20
Medals Silver: (1968, 1978, 1987, 1991)
Bronze: (1970, 1980)
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Away jersey
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The Yugoslavia women's national basketball team (Serbo-Croatian: Ženska košarkaška reprezentacija Jugoslavije / Женска кошаркашка репрезентација Југославије) was the women's basketball side that represented the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1943 until 1992 in international competition, and were controlled by the Basketball Federation of Yugoslavia (KSJ).[1]

The team's first major tournament appearance was at the 1954 European Championship, hosted by Yugoslavia, in which it finished fourth. The team's biggest success in the following decades were a bronze medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, and a silver medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.

The team disappeared during the breakup of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, and its last major tournament appearance was at the 1991 European Championship in Israel, where they finished as runners-up losing to the Soviet Union in the final.

Competitive record

Olympic Games
Olympic Games
Year Round Position Pld W L
Canada 1976 Did not qualify
Soviet Union 1980 Final round 6 4 2
United States 1984 Final round 6th 5 1 4
South Korea 1988 Runners-up 5 3 2
Total 0 Titles 16 8 8
FIBA World Championship for Women
FIBA World Championship
Year Round Position Pld W L
Chile 1953 Did not participate
Brazil 1957
Soviet Union 1959 Final round 4th 7 3 4
Peru 1964 Final round 6th 9 3 6
Czechoslovakia 1967 Final round 6th 7 2 5
Brazil 1971 Did not qualify
Colombia 1975
South Korea 1979
Brazil 1983 Second round 8th 9 3 6
Soviet Union 1986 Did not qualify
Malaysia 1990 Runners-up 8 7 1
Total 0 Titles 40 18 22


EuroBasket Women
EuroBasket Women
Year Round Position Pld W L
Italy 1938 Did not participate
Hungary 1950
Soviet Union 1952
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 1954 Final round 5th 5 1 4
Czechoslovakia 1956 Preliminary round 9th 8 6 2
Poland 1958 Final round 4th 8 4 4
Bulgaria 1960 Final round 5th 7 3 4
France 1962 Preliminary round 5th 5 3 2
Hungary 1964 Preliminary round 7th 6 3 3
Romania 1966 Preliminary round 6th 7 3 4
Italy 1968 Runners-up 9 7 2
Netherlands 1970 Semi-finals 7 5 2
Bulgaria 1972 Preliminary round 8th 8 4 4
Italy 1974 Preliminary round 8th 7 5 2
France 1976 Final round 5th 8 4 4
Poland 1978 Runners-up 8 6 2
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 1980 Semi-finals 5 3 2
Italy 1981 Semi-finals 4th 7 3 4
Hungary 1983 Semi-finals 4th 7 5 2
Italy 1985 Preliminary round 5th 7 5 2
Spain 1987 Runners-up 7 6 1
Bulgaria 1989 Semi-finals 4th 5 3 2
Israel 1991 Runners-up 5 4 1
Total 0 Titles 136 83 53

Head coaches

Years Name Competition
1954 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Strahinja Alagić 5th 1954 EuroBasket
1956 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Aleksandar Gec 9th 1956 EuroBasket
1958 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Milorad Sokolović 4th 1958 EuroBasket
1959 4th 1959 World Championship
1960 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Borivoje Cenić 5th 1960 EuroBasket
1962–1964 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Miodrag Stefanović 5th 1962 EuroBasket
7th 1964 EuroBasket
1964 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Dragoljub Pljakić 6th 1964 World Championship
1966–1967 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Ladislav Demšar 6th 1966 EuroBasket
6th 1967 World Championship
1968 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Strahinja Alagić 1968 EuroBasket
1970 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Ladislav Demšar 1970 EuroBasket
1972–1976 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Borivoje Cenić 8th 1972 EuroBasket
8th 1974 EuroBasket
5th 1976 EuroBasket
1976–1979 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Borislav Ćorković 1978 EuroBasket
1980–1989 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Milan Vasojević 1980 EuroBasket
1980 Summer Olympics
4th 1981 EuroBasket
4th 1983 EuroBasket
8th 1983 World Championship
6th 1984 Summer Olympics
5th 1985 EuroBasket
1987 EuroBasket
1988 Summer Olympics
4th 1989 EuroBasket
1990 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Mihajlo Vuković 1990 World Championship
1991 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Miodrag Vesković 1991 EuroBasket

New national teams

After the dissolution of SFR Yugoslavia in 1991, five new countries were created: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, FYR Macedonia, FR Yugoslavia (in 2003, renamed to Serbia and Montenegro) and Slovenia. In 2006, Montenegro became an independent nation and Serbia became the legal successor of Serbia and Montenegro. In 2008, Kosovo unilaterally declared independence from Serbia and became a FIBA member in 2015.

Here is a list of women's national teams on the SFR Yugoslavia area:

References

  1. ^ "History of women's basketball".
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