Medal record | ||
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Men's Basketball | ||
Representing Yugoslavia | ||
European Championship for Juniors | ||
1972 Zadar | ||
1974 Orléans | ||
1976 Santiago | ||
1986 Vöcklabruck, Gmunden | ||
1988 Titov Vrbas, Srbobran | ||
1966 Porto San Giorgio | ||
1968 Vigo | ||
1980 Celje | ||
1982 Dimitrovgrad, Haskovo | ||
1978 Rosetto, Teramo | ||
1984 Huskvarna, Katrineholm |
The Yugoslavia men's national under-18 basketball team (Serbo-Croatian: Juniorska košarkaška reprezentacija Jugoslavije) was the boys' basketball team, administered by Basketball Federation of Yugoslavia, that represented SFR Yugoslavia in international under-18 (under age 18) men's basketball competitions, consisted mainly of the European Championship for Juniors, nowadays known as the FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship.
After the dissolution of SFR Yugoslavia in 1991, the successor countries all set up their own national under-18 teams. Serbia and Croatia teams won the Championship for three times each, as of 2017.
Several team members have been inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame, including players Krešimir Ćosić, Mirza Delibašić, Zoran Slavnić, Dragan Kićanović, Vlade Divac, Jure Zdovc, Toni Kukoč, Dražen Petrović, and coaches Ranko Žeravica, Bogdan Tanjević, Mirko Novosel, Dušan Ivković, and Svetislav Pešić. Also, Dino Rađa, Divac, Petrović, Kukoč, and Novosel are members of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
Bogdan Tanjević is the only individual who respresented the team both as a player (1964) and a head coach (1974).