Montenegro women's national basketball team

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.

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.

Roster for the FIBA Women's EuroBasket 2019.[2][3]

Montenegro women's national basketball team roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. No. Name Age – Date of birth Height Club Ctr. F 5 Pašić, Jovana 27 – (1992-05-12)12 May 1992 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) ACS Sepsi SIC SG 6 Vučetić, Jelena 25 – (1993-09-14)14 September 1993 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) ŽKK Budućnost Podgorica C 7 Popović, Nataša 37 – (1982-04-14)14 April 1982 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) SIG Basket SG 8 Živković, Dragana 18 – (2001-01-23)23 January 2001 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) ŽKK Budućnost Podgorica PG 9 Aleksić, Snežana 30 – (1989-01-14)14 January 1989 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) BC Beroe PG 11 Mujović, Božica 23 – (1996-01-07)7 January 1996 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) CB Al-Qázeres G 12 Jakšić, Milena 20 – (1998-12-27)27 December 1998 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) ŽKK Budućnost Podgorica PF 13 Kovačević, Bojana 22 – (1996-10-16)16 October 1996 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) CBF Sant Adrià F 14 Jovanović, Milica 29 – (1989-08-14)14 August 1989 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in) CBF Sant Adrià C 19 Lazarević, Violeta 22 – (1997-06-13)13 June 1997 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) ŽKK Budućnost Podgorica PF 23 Matović, Irena 31 – (1988-05-23)23 May 1988 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) CDB Clarinos F 25 Johnson, Glory 28 – (1990-07-27)27 July 1990 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) Hatay BB	Head coach Jelena Škerović Assistant coach(es) Rajko Krivokapić Boško Radović Legend Club – describes last club before the tournament Age – describes age on 27 June 2019

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	6–3	GSS 2019 (1st); EuroBasket 2019 (12)

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.

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
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	1	1	0	+41
Estonia	2	2	0	+52
Finland	4	4	0	+90
France	3	1	2	-42
Germany	3	3	0	+35
Great Britain	3	1	2	-17
Greece	1	0	1	-13
Hungary	2	2	0	+13
Iceland	5	5	0	+87
Ireland	2	2	0	+15
Italy	3	1	2	+2
Latvia	2	1	1	-17
Lithuania	2	2	0	+21
Luxembourg	1	1	0	+19
Malta	1	1	0	+46
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	2	1	1	+1
Slovakia	3	2	1	+27
Slovenia	2	2	0	+29
Spain	3	1	2	-8
Sweden	2	0	2	-27
Switzerland	4	4	0	+85
Turkey	5	1	4	-30
Ukraine	4	3	1	+27
OVERALL	83	57	26	+605

Last update: 22 September 2019.

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