North Macedonia men's national basketball team

Macedonia basketball team at a time out during a match with Latvia.

After qualifying for EuroBasket 1999, the national team was placed in Group A, along with FR Yugoslavia, France and Israel. The first game Macedonia came out firing showing solid competitive play against the French Team, however, eventually lost by a narrow margin of 67–71. Next up, was Group A favorites FR Yugoslavia, showing superior play with their post up offense, Macedonia lost 68–83. With the final game of the group Macedonia played a fairly even match, however, luck was not on their side, losing 82–84. Even though Macedonia lost all 3 of their matches to be eliminated, the team showed heart and talent with their impressive play against France and Israel. Due to their small margin of the losses Macedonia ended the tournament ranked as 13th overall.

EuroBasket 2009 was the first EuroBasket tournament that Macedonia qualified for in a decade. The Macedonian national team was placed in Group A, along with Greece, Croatia and Israel. Macedonia began the tournament with a brutal 54–86 loss to rivals Greece, but rebounded with an 82–79 victory over Israel. Despite dropping their last match against Croatia, the Israel result was enough to secure second round qualification. In the second round, Macedonia was placed in Group E alongside France, Germany and Russia. Macedonia lost to France in the second round opener, but famously defeated Germany in the next game. Against Russia, Macedonia was narrowly defeated by a score of 69–71. This performance was not enough to secure a berth in to the knockout round. Nevertheless, Macedonia considers this as a historic success for the national team, since it was only the country's second appearance at the EuroBasket and the team advanced past the first round. In the final tournament rankings, Macedonia ranked 9th place with a record of 2–4.

Marin Dokuzovski, head coach of the team in 2011.

Through the qualifying round, Macedonia qualified for EuroBasket 2011 and was in Group C along with Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Greece, Montenegro, and Finland in the preliminary phase. The national team lost their first match to Montenegro 65–70 in overtime but won the remaining four against Croatia 78–76, Greece 72–58, Finland 72–70, and Bosnia and Herzegovina 75–63. Macedonia finished first in the group and advanced to the second round.

In the second round, Macedonia was in Group F with Russia, Slovenia, Greece, Georgia, and Finland. Having beaten Greece and Finland in the preliminary round, Macedonia went in to the second round with a 2–0 record. After beating Georgia 65–63, Macedonia qualified for the knockout round. The team then beat Slovenia 68–59, but lost to Russia by 2 points 63–61 after Sergey Monya made a buzzer-beating shot to win the final game of the second round. Macedonia, therefore, finished second in Group F.

For the first time in the national team's history, it reached the knockout stage where it defeated host country Lithuania 67–65 by 2 points in the quarterfinals. Macedonia then lost to the eventual champion Spain 92–80 in the semifinals. They then lost again in the third place game to Russia 68–72 and finished in fourth place.

By finishing in 4th place at EuroBasket 2011, Macedonia qualified for the 2012 FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament. They were drawn into Group D along with Angola and New Zealand. In the first game against Angola, Macedonia came out non-aggressive in the 1st half falling to a 13 pt deficit 40–53 at halftime. During most of the match, the top Macedonian players showed fatigue due to the grueling playoff matches they had played for their club teams. In addition, Macedonia came out with a strong 4th quarter, eventually losing by a margin of 4 points, with the final score being 84–88 Angola. Top scorers for Macedonia against Angola were Pero Antic with 17, and Bo McCalebb with 21. On the next match day, which was the day after with less than 24 hours of rest, Macedonia came out a lot stronger in the 1st quarter with a strong lead that carried over the entire game. Eventually, New Zealand could not recover, and fell to Macedonia with an Final score of 84–62. Leading scorers for the game were Todor Gecevski with 16, Antic with 17, and McCalebb with 23.

The Macedonian players got much needed rest before the quarterfinals, which would begin two days later on 6 July 2012. The team, following the 68–64 victory by New Zealand over Angola, won Group D and its opponent in the quarterfinals was to be the Group C runner-up, Dominican Republic. Macedonia lost the game 86–76, though the team had a 13-point lead at halftime. The lost eliminated the national team from qualifying for the 2012 Olympic Games

By participating at the 2012 FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament, Macedonia qualified for EuroBasket 2013 in Slovenia. In a disappointing campaign, the Macedonian national team didn't manage to repeat the success from the previous Eurobasket, having one victory in five matches in their preliminary Group B against Serbia 89–75, which was good enough only for the last place in the group stage and 21st overall. The first game of the Eurobasket against Montenegro was particularly demoralizing, as the Montenegrins won 81–80 in controversial fashion, after the referees didn't call interference on the basket during Gjorgji Čekovski's last second game winning attempt, despite the fact that one of the Montenegrin players got his hand trapped in the net.[3] Macedonia's best performers were once again McCalebb and Antić, with 17.6 and 13.8 points per game, respectively.[4] After the tournament, several of the Macedonian veteran players, led by captain Pero Antić, announced their retirement from the national team.

At the EuroBasket 2015 there were not high expectations for Macedonia, due to their poor performance at their last EuroBasket appearance in 2013. In their first match against Greece they were thoroughly manhandled throughout as they were defeated 65-85. Looking for their first victory heading in to their second match of the tournament they went up against the Netherlands. The outcome was different this time, as the national team played with more energy and heart and pulled out an 78-71 win. Unfortunately, that would wind up being the only win for Macedonia, as they finished with an 1-4 record and a lousy 19th place at the event.

Macedonia was renamed North Macedonia after the Prespa agreement that came into effect on 12 February 2019. North Macedonia took part in the 2019 World Cup Pre-Qualifiers, but were eliminated after posting an 1-3 record in their group. They will now go through EuroBasket 2021 qualifiers for the chance to qualify to the next EuroBasket.

Preliminary roster for the EuroBasket 2021 qualifiers against Italy, Estonia and Russia in February 2021.

North Macedonia national basketball team roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. No. Name Age – Date of birth Height Club Ctr. C 0 Bojan Krstevski 31 – (1989-06-04)4 June 1989 2.08 m (6 ft 10 in) MZT Skopje F/C 0 Jacob Wiley 26 – (1994-09-04)4 September 1994 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) Gran Canaria PF 1 Filip Bakoč 24 – (1996-05-02)2 May 1996 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) MZT Skopje PG 4 Boban Stajić 27 – (1993-10-06)6 October 1993 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) Pelister G 5 Kristijan Nikolov 24 – (1996-10-15)15 October 1996 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) MZT Skopje PG 7 Nenad Dimitrijević 22 – (1998-02-23)23 February 1998 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) Joventut SG 8 Vojdan Stojanovski (C) 32 – (1987-12-09)9 December 1987 1.97 m (6 ft 6 in) BCM Gravelines PG 9 Andrej Magdevski 24 – (1996-01-14)14 January 1996 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in) MZT Skopje SG 10 Marko Simonovski 31 – (1989-06-28)28 June 1989 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) Kožuv F 11 Stojan Gjuroski 29 – (1991-11-06)6 November 1991 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) HLA Alicante C 11 Leonid Todorovski 22 – (1998-11-05)5 November 1998 2.07 m (6 ft 9 in) MZT Skopje Uni Banka PF 12 Bojan Trajkovski 34 – (1986-09-11)11 September 1986 2.08 m (6 ft 10 in) Pelister C 13 Ljubomir Mladenovski 25 – (1995-05-02)2 May 1995 2.10 m (6 ft 11 in) Rabotnički SF 19 Damjan Stojanovski 32 – (1987-12-09)9 December 1987 1.97 m (6 ft 6 in) MZT Skopje PG 21 Luka Savićević 18 – (2002-02-19)19 February 2002 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) MZT Skopje Uni Banka SF 23 Andrej Jakimovski 19 – (2001-03-18)18 March 2001 2.02 m (6 ft 8 in) Washington State SG 25 Viktor Efremovski 22 – (1998-10-21)21 October 1998 1.94 m (6 ft 4 in) Rabotnički C 32 Shayne Whittington 29 – (1991-03-27)27 March 1991 2.11 m (6 ft 11 in) SeaHorses Mikawa SG 34 Marko Milovanović 18 – (2002-01-18)18 January 2002 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) Juvi Cremona PG Marjan Mladenović 33 – (1987-08-27)27 August 1987 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) Rabotnički SG Gorjan Markovski 28 – (1992-06-19)19 June 1992 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) Kumanovo SF Damjan Robev 23 – (1997-04-10)10 April 1997 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) Kumanovo G Andrej Mitrevski 17 – (2003-09-17)17 September 2003 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) TFT C Teodor Simić 16 – (2004-02-04)4 February 2004 2.14 m (7 ft 0 in) Barcelona U18	Head Coach Aleksandar Todorov Assistant Coaches Gjorgji Kočov Goran Samardziev Nikola Vasilev Legend Club – describes last team before the competition Age – describes age on 28 November 2020

Following list is of active players who have been called up by the national team in the last 3 years

Players previously called up roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. No. Name Age – Date of birth Height Club Ctr. SF 10 Dime Tasovski 40 – (1980-11-02)2 November 1980 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) Gostivar G 25 Dimitar Karadžovski 36 – (1984-10-07)7 October 1984 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) Kožuv G 6 Darko Sokolov 34 – (1986-05-08)8 May 1986 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) EuroNickel 2005 C 5 Aleksandar Šterjov 34 – (1986-05-15)15 May 1986 2.08 m (6 ft 10 in) Gostivar PF 1 Richard Hendrix 34 – (1986-11-15)15 November 1986 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) Niigata Albirex BB SG Nikola Karakolev 33 – (1987-08-24)24 August 1987 1.97 m (6 ft 6 in) EuroNickel 2005 PG 7 Aleksandar Kostoski 32 – (1988-03-05)5 March 1988 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) Gostivar C 1 Kiril Nikolovski 32 – (1988-06-09)9 June 1988 2.10 m (6 ft 11 in) Rabotnički SG Renato Dimitrievski 29 – (1991-10-17)17 October 1991 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) Gostivar SG Predrag Pajić 27 – (1993-01-20)20 January 1993 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) Kožuv SG 6 Adem Mekić 24 – (1995-12-28)28 December 1995 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) MZT Skopje SF Jetmir Zekiri 24 – (1996-08-18)18 August 1996 2.00 m (6 ft 7 in) Pelister PF 22 Andrej Maslinko 23 – (1997-05-20)20 May 1997 2.08 m (6 ft 10 in) MZT Skopje PF Andrej Andonoski 18 – (2002-04-02)2 April 2002 2.04 m (6 ft 8 in) MZT Skopje Uni Banka

• Petar Naumoski - (1995 – 2002)
• Vrbica Stefanov - (1995 – 2009)
• Pero Blaževski - (1995 – 2009)
• Todor Gecevski - (1996 – 2013)
• Pero Antić - (2002 – 2013)
• Bo McCalebb - (2010 – 2013)
• Vlado Ilievski - (1998 – 2015)
• Predrag Samardžiski - (2005 – 2015)
• Gjorgji Čekovski - (1999 – 2017)

1999 EuroBasket: finished 13th among 16 teams

4 Vrbica Stefanov, 5 Vlado Ilievski, 6 Gjorgji Čekovski, 7 Mirza Kurtović, 8 Marjan Srbinovski, 9 Igor Mihajlovski, 10 Petar Naumoski, 11 Todor Gečevski, 12 Dejan Jovanovski, 13 Srdjan Stanković, 14 Pero Blaževski, 15 Dušan Bocevski (Coach: Zare Markovski)

2009 EuroBasket: finished 9th among 16 teams

4 Vrbica Stefanov, 5 Dimitar Mirakovski, 6 Darko Sokolov, 7 Riste Stefanov, 8 Vojdan Stojanovski, 9 Pero Blaževski, 10 Dime Tasovski, 11 Todor Gečevski, 12 Pero Antić, 13 Damjan Stojanovski, 14 Jeremiah Massey, 15 Predrag Samardžiski (Coach: Jovica Arsić)

2011 EuroBasket: finished 4th among 24 teams

4 Dimitar Mirakovski, 5 Vlado Ilievski, 6 Darko Sokolov, 7 Bo McCalebb, 8 Vojdan Stojanovski, 9 Damjan Stojanovski, 10 Marko Simonovski, 11 Todor Gečevski, 12 Pero Antic, 13 Ivica Dimcevski, 14 Gjorgji Čekovski, 15 Predrag Samardžiski (Coach: Marin Dokuzovski)

2012 Olympic Qualifying Tournament

4 Aleksandar Kostoski, 5 Vlado Ilievski. 6 Darko Sokolov, 7 Bo McCalebb, 8 Vojdan Stojanovski, 9 Damjan Stojanovski, 10 Marko Simonovski, 11 Todor Gečevski, 12 Pero Antić, 13 Kiril Nikolovski, 14 Gjorgji Čekovski, 15 Predrag Samardžiski (Coach: Marjan Lazovski)

2013 EuroBasket: finished 21st among 24 teams

4 Aleksandar Kostoski, 5 Vlado Ilievski. 6 Darko Sokolov, 7 Bo McCalebb, 8 Vojdan Stojanovski, 9 Damjan Stojanovski, 10 Vladimir Brčkov, 11 Todor Gečevski, 12 Pero Antić, 13 Stojan Gjuroski, 14 Gjorgji Čekovski, 15 Predrag Samardžiski (Coach: Aleš Pipan)

2015 EuroBasket: finished 19th among 24 teams

4 Vladimir Brčkov, 5 Vlado Ilievski. 6 Darko Sokolov, 7 Aleksandar Kostoski, 8 Vojdan Stojanovski, 9 Damjan Stojanovski, 10 Marko Simonovski, 11 Ljubomir Mladenovski, 12 Bojan Trajkovski, 13 Stojan Gjuroski, 14 Richard Hendrix, 15 Predrag Samardžiski (Coach: Marjan Srbinovski)

• * Active NT players are listed in bold
• * Official FIBA games excluding Friendly games

• Only played 2005 season in Division B (won promotion)