Yugoslavia men's national basketball team

This article is about Yugoslavia men's national basketball team. For the women's team, see Yugoslavia women's national basketball team. For the national team that played under the flag of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, see FR Yugoslavia national basketball team.

Yugoslavia
FIBA rankingDefunct
Joined FIBA1936
FIBA zoneFIBA Europe
National federationBasketball Federation of Yugoslavia
Nickname(s)Plavi (The Blues)
Olympic Games
Appearances8
MedalsGold Gold: (1980)
Silver Silver: (1968, 1976, 1988)
Bronze Bronze: (1984)
FIBA World Cup
Appearances10
MedalsGold Gold: (1970, 1978, 1990)
Silver Silver: (1963, 1967, 1974)
Bronze Bronze: (1982, 1986)
FIBA EuroBasket
Appearances21
MedalsGold Gold: (1973, 1975, 1977, 1989, 1991)
Silver Silver: (1961, 1965, 1969, 1971, 1981)
Bronze Bronze: (1963, 1979, 1987)
Medal record
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 1980 Moscow
Silver medal – second place 1968 Mexico City
Silver medal – second place 1976 Montreal
Silver medal – second place 1988 Seoul
Bronze medal – third place 1984 Los Angeles
FIBA World Cup
Gold medal – first place 1970 Yugoslavia
Gold medal – first place 1978 Philippines
Gold medal – first place 1990 Argentina
Silver medal – second place 1963 Brazil
Silver medal – second place 1967 Uruguay
Silver medal – second place 1974 Puerto Rico
Bronze medal – third place 1982 Colombia
Bronze medal – third place 1986 Spain
FIBA EuroBasket
Gold medal – first place 1973 Spain
Gold medal – first place 1975 Yugoslavia
Gold medal – first place 1977 Belgium
Gold medal – first place 1989 Yugoslavia
Gold medal – first place 1991 Italy
Silver medal – second place 1961 Yugoslavia
Silver medal – second place 1965 Soviet Union
Silver medal – second place 1969 Italy
Silver medal – second place 1971 West Germany
Silver medal – second place 1981 Czechoslovakia
Bronze medal – third place 1963 Poland
Bronze medal – third place 1979 Italy
Bronze medal – third place 1987 Greece
Mediterranean Games
Gold medal – first place 1959 Beirut
Gold medal – first place 1967 Tunis
Gold medal – first place 1971 Izmir
Gold medal – first place 1975 Algiers
Gold medal – first place 1983 Casablanca
Silver medal – second place 1979 Split
Bronze medal – third place 1963 Naples
Summer Universiade
Gold medal – first place 1987 Zagreb
Silver medal – second place 1979 Mexico City
Silver medal – second place 1983 Edmonton
Bronze medal – third place 1981 București

The Yugoslavia men's national basketball team (Serbo-Croatian: Košarkaška reprezentacija Jugoslavije / Кошаркашка репрезентација Југославије; Slovene: Jugoslovanska košarkarska reprezentanca; Macedonian: Кошаркарска репрезентација на Југославија) represented the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1943 until 1992 in international basketball, and was controlled by the Basketball Federation of Yugoslavia.

After World War II, the team steadily improved their rankings and came to be one of the dominant forces of world basketball in the 1970s and the 1980s, along with the United States and Soviet Union, capturing five Olympic medals and eight World Cups, thirteen medals in total, along with another thirteen on the continental level at EuroBasket.

Twelve FIBA Hall of Fame members emerged from the Yugoslav national team: Krešimir Ćosić, Dražen Dalipagić, Ivo Daneu, Mirza Delibašić, Vlade Divac, Dragan Kićanović, Radivoj Korać, Toni Kukoč, Dražen Petrović, Zoran Slavnić, Jure Zdovc and Dino Rađa.