Yugoslavia women's national basketball team

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 Kingdom of Yugoslavia and Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1943 until 1992 in the international basketball matches, controlled by the Basketball Federation of Yugoslavia (KSJ).[1]

For the men's team, see Yugoslavia national basketball team.

 Yugoslavia
FIBA rankingN/A
FIBA zoneFIBA Europe
National federationBasketball Federation of Yugoslavia
Coach Miodrag Vesković (last)
Olympic Games
Appearances3
Medals Silver: 1988
Bronze: 1980
Women's World Cup
Appearances5
Medals Silver: 1990
EuroBasket Women
Appearances20
Medals Silver: 1968, 1978, 1987, 1991
Bronze: 1970, 1980
Home
Away

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 bronze medal at the 1980 Moscow and silver medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympic games.

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 Soviet Union in the final. Direct successor of SFRJ team is FR Yugoslavian women's national team.

Competition records

Head coaches
Years Name Competition
1954 Strahinja Alagić 5th 1954 EuroBasket
1956 Aleksandar Gec 9th 1956 EuroBasket
1958 Milorad Sokolović 4th 1958 EuroBasket
1959 4th 1959 World Championship
1960 Borivoje Cenić 5th 1960 EuroBasket
1962–1964 Miodrag Stefanović 5th 1962 EuroBasket
7th 1964 EuroBasket
1964 Dragoljub Pljakić 6th 1964 World Championship
1966–1967 Ladislav Demšar 6th 1966 EuroBasket
6th 1967 World Championship
1968 Strahinja Alagić 1968 EuroBasket
1970 Ladislav Demšar 1970 EuroBasket
1972–1976 Borivoje Cenić 8th 1972 EuroBasket
8th 1974 EuroBasket
5th 1976 EuroBasket
1976–1979 Borislav Ćorković 1978 EuroBasket
1980–1989 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 Mihajlo Vuković 1990 World Championship
1991 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 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:

None of these teams is an inheritor of the results the SFR Yugoslavia national basketball team had accomplished.

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