The 1983 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship (known at that time as 1983 European Championship for Cadets) was the 7th edition of the

FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship The FIBA U16 European Championship, previously known as the FIBA Europe Championship for Cadets, is a youth basketball competition that was inaugurated with the 1971 edition. Through the 2003 edition, it was held every second year, but since th ...

. The cities of

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and

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, in

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, hosted the tournament.

Yugoslavia Yugoslavia (; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Jugoslavija, Југославија ; sl, Jugoslavija ; mk, Југославија ;; rup, Iugoslavia; hu, Jugoszlávia; rue, label=Pannonian Rusyn, Югославия, translit=Juhoslavija ...

won the trophy for the third time and tied with the

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as the most winning countries in the tournament.

Teams

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Preliminary round

The twelve teams were allocated in two groups of six teams each.

Group A

Group B

Knockout stage

9th–12th playoffs

5th–8th playoffs

Championship

Final standings

;Team Roster Zoran Livljanić, Bane Prelević, Zoran Jevtić,

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, Miroslav Pecarski,

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, and

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. Head Coach: Rusmir Halilović.

References

FIBA Archive
{{DEFAULTSORT:Fiba FIBA U16 European Championship 1983–84 in European basketball 1983 in West German sport International youth basketball competitions hosted by Germany