The Bulgaria men's national basketball team ( bg, Български национален отбор по баскетбол, Balgarski natsionalen otbor po basketbol) represents

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in international

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. The governing body is the Bulgarian Basketball Federation. Bulgaria's first appearance at an international tournament came at the

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. They have reached the premier European basketball competition 25 times, with their best results coming in

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as the runners-up on home soil, and their bronze medal finish in

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respectively. Bulgaria has also qualified for the

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, where they finished seventh in their lone appearance in

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. Competing at the

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multiple times, the national team had their top performance in

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. Bulgaria has also competed at smaller events, such as the Balkan Championship, winning gold medals in 1959, 1960, and 1971.

History

EuroBasket 1935

Bulgaria debuted on the international stage at the first

(European Basketball Championship), which was held in

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, in

. The Bulgarian side started the tournament off with a loss to

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in the preliminary round, but bounced back to defeat

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in their next match. Following this, Bulgaria lost their classification matches to

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, and to Italy again. The national team would finishing off their tournament debut in 8th place.

EuroBasket 1947

Twelve years later, the Bulgarian national team reached the tournament once again, for their second appearance overall. At the

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, Bulgaria split their two preliminary round matches against

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, and

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advancing to the upper bracket semifinal groups. There they lost all three of their games, putting them in a 7th/8th place classification match versus

, which they lost. The national team would once again end the tournament reaching the quarterfinals.

EuroBasket 1951

Bulgaria's third appearance was at

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. They won their two contested preliminary games, outscoring opponents 145–70, and gained a third win by Romania's forfeit. In the semifinal round, the national team became enmeshed in a three-way tie for first place in the four-team group after losing to

but winning the other two matches, and ended up finishing in second place in the group. This pitted them against the

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in a semifinal matchup, which the Bulgarians lost. The national team then went on to lose again, in the bronze medal game to France.

EuroBasket 1953

The national team's next appearance was in

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for

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. They found themselves on the unfortunate end of a three-way tiebreaker after finishing 3–1 in their preliminary group, and their 3rd place rank in the group sent them to the classification round, a disappointing turn of events for Bulgaria which had expected to do at least as well as they had two years prior. They won their next five matches to take the highest place available, after the preliminary round. Thus, reaching the quarterfinals in the tournament with an 8–1 record.

EuroBasket 1955

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, the Bulgarian side open up their campaign at the tournament with a 107-33 dismantling of

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. They would go on to only drop one match in their preliminary group to finish with a 2–1 record, which allowed them to advance to the final round along with group leader

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. After losing to the three eventual medalists in the final round, Bulgaria finished the round with a 4–3 record while once again reaching the semifinals.

EuroBasket 1957

Bulgaria hosted the

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, in

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. The national team breezed through their three preliminary round matches, and kept their win streak through the first six of the final round games, including an 82–80 victory over Czechoslovakia. In their final game of the tournament, which by chance was against the similarly undefeated

squad, Bulgaria led by 4 points at halftime, 23–19. Their lead did not last through the second half though, however, as the Soviets powered to a 60–57 final, Bulgaria finished as the runners-up with the

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1959 World Cup

Bulgaria made its debut at the

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. They were placed in Group C, where they went undefeated (3-0) and advanced to the final round. There, they finished with a 2–4 record, but after controversy struck. As they along with the

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refused to play

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, due to political reasons. This mishap caused the national team to be relegated to seventh place at the tournament.

EuroBasket 1961

At the

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, the national team returned to the top European basketball tournament looking to place better than their last trip at the event. In their preliminary round group they finished with a 2–0 record to move on to the second round. There they finished with an impressive 4–1 record to advance to the semifinals with a matchup against the

. The outcome did not turn out in the favour of the Bulgarian side though, as they were manhandled 77–54. The devastating loss sent the Bulgarians to the bronze medal match versus

, where they came away with a victory to end the tournament on a high note.

Later years

Bulgaria would go on to qualify to the

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16 more times after 1961, but never came away with a top three finish at the event. The Bulgarian side have endured multiple droughts without qualifying as well, e.g. not reaching the tournament for 12 years after

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until

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. As well as not having qualified to the tournament since 2011. They have also attempted to qualify for the

on numerous occasions since 1959, although they have yet to succeed in their bid.

Competitive record

FIBA World Cup

Olympic Games

EuroBasket

Results and fixtures

2021

2022

2023

Team

Current roster

Roster for the EuroBasket 2025 Pre-Qualifiers matches on 10 and 13 November 2022 against

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and

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Depth chart

Head coach position

* Rosen Barchovski – (2004–2007) *

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– (2008–2010) * Rosen Barchovski – (2010–2012) * Konstantin Papazov – (2013) *

Georgi Mladenov Georgi Mladenov (born 11 May 1962 in Sofia) is a Bulgarian professional basketball coach, and a former professional basketball player. During his playing career, at a height of 1.92 m (6'3 ") tall, he played at the shooting guard and small forwa ...

– (2014) * Lubomir Minchev – (2015–2019) * Rosen Barchovski – (2019–present)

Notable players

Atanas Golomeev Atanas Golomeev ( bg, Атанас Голомеев) is a retired Bulgarian professional basketball player and coach. At a height of 2.08 m (6'10") tall, he played at the center position. He is the most decorated Bulgarian basketball player of ...

– Most decorated Bulgarian basketball player of all-time. As he was named one of FIBA's 50 Greatest Players. *

Georgi Glouchkov Georgi Nikolov Glouchkov (alternate spelling: Gueorgui) ( bg, Георги Николов Глушков; born January 10, 1960 in Tryavna) is a Bulgarian former professional basketball player and president of Bulgarian Basketball Federation. ...

– First player from an

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country to compete in the American

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(NBA)

Past rosters

1935 EuroBasket: finished 8th among 10 teams 3 Krum Konstantinov, 4 Pinkas, 5 Etropolski, 6 Rogachev, 7 Tsankov, 8 Kevorkjan, 9 Khaimov (Coach: Krum Konstantinov) ---- 1947 EuroBasket: finished 8th among 14 teams 3 Veselin Temkov, 4 Krhisto Khajtov, 5 Ljudmil Katerinski, 6 Aleksandar Damjanov, 7 Sharkov, 8 Kosanov, 9 Peev, 10 Konstantin Georgiev, 11 Nikola Kolev, 12 Rajkov, 13 Bozhidar Takev, 14 Ilija Asenov, 15 Stefan Bankov (Coach: Georgi Petkov) ---- 1951 EuroBasket: finished 4th among 17 teams 3 Iliya Georgiev, 4 Stefan Bankov, 5 Neycho Neychev, 6 Vladimir Savov, 7 Ilija Asenov, 8 Petar Shishkov, 9 Kiril Semov, 10 Konstantin Totev, 11 Anton Kuzov, 12 Gencho Khristov, 13

Ivan Nikolov Ivan Nikolov may refer to: * Ivan Nikolov (basketball), Bulgarian basketball player * Ivan Nikolov (footballer), Macedonian footballer * Ivan Kostov Nikolov Ivan Kostov Nikolov (Bulgarian: Иван Костов Николов) (December 24, 191 ...

, 14 Dimitar Popov, 15 Metodi Tomovski, 16 Konstantin Georgiev (Coach: Veselin Temkov) ----

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: finished 7th among 23 teams 3 Iliya Georgiev, 4 Kiril Semov, 5 Neycho Neychev, 6 Khristo Donchev, 7

Vasil Manchenko Vasil Pavlov Manchenko ( bg, Васил Павлов Манченко, 5 April 1931 – 17 May 2010) was a Bulgarian basketball player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1952 Summer Olympics, and the 1956 Summer Olympics The ...

, 8 Petar Shishkov, 9

Georgi Panov Georgi Marinov Panov ( bg, Георги Маринов Панов, born 14 February 1933) is a Bulgarian former basketball player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1952 Summer Olympics, 1956 Summer Olympics, and the 1960 Summer Olympi ...

, 10 Konstantin Totev, 11 Anton Kuzov, 12 Gencho Khristov, 13

, 14 Veselin Penkov, 15 Konstantin Georgiev, 16 Vladimir Savov (Coach: Veselin Temkov) ---- 1953 EuroBasket: finished 9th among 17 teams 3 Iliya Georgiev, 4 Vladimir Stefanov, 5 Velko Velkov, 6 Khristo Donchev, 7

, 8 Konstantin Georgiev, 9

, 10 Konstantin Totev, 11 Anton Kuzov, 12 Dimitar Popov, 13

Lyubomir Panov Lyubomir Ivanov Panov ( bg, Любомир Иванов Панов, born 16 February 1933) is a Bulgarian former basketball player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1956 Summer Olympics, and the 1960 Summer Olympics The 1960 Summer ...

, 14 Veselin Penkov, 15 Iliya Mirchev, 16 Vladimir Savov (Coach: Veselin Temkov) ---- 1955 EuroBasket: finished 4th among 18 teams 3

, 4 Vladimir Ganchev, 5 Iliya Mirchev, 6 Rajkov, 7 Gencho Khristov, 8 Anton Kuzov, 9

, 10 Konstantin Totev, 11 Cvjatko Barchovski, 12 Metodi Tomovski, 13 Viktor Radev, 14

Emanuil Gyaurov Emanuil Mihaylov Gyaurov ( bg, Емануил Михайлов Гяуров, born 6 November 1934 – 17 June 2015) was a Bulgarian basketball player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1960 Summer Olympics The 1960 Summer Olympics ( ...

(Coach: Bozhidar Takev) ---- 1956 Olympic Games: finished 5th among 15 teams 3 Atanas Atanasov, 4 Vladimir Savov, 5 Iliya Mirchev, 6 Viktor Radev, 7

Georgi Kanev Georgi Stanchev Kanev ( bg, Георги Станчев Кънев, 6 May 1934 – 19 December 2012) was a Bulgarian basketball player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1956 Summer Olympics, and the 1960 Summer Olympics The 1960 Sum ...

, 8

, 9

, 10 Konstantin Totev, 11

Tsvetko Slavov Tsvetko Ruskov Slavov ( bg, Цветко Русков Славов, born 28 March 1934) is a Bulgarian former basketball player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1956 Summer Olympics, and the 1960 Summer Olympics The 1960 Summer Ol ...

, 12

, 13 Nikolay Ilov (Coach: Ljudmil Katerinski) ---- 1957 EuroBasket: finished 2nd among 16 teams 3 Mikhail Semov, 4 Vladimir Ganchev, 5 Iliya Mirchev, 6 Viktor Radev, 7

, 8 Petko Lazarov, 9

, 10 Konstantin Totev, 11

, 12

, 13 Metodi Tomovski, 14 Atanas Atanasov (Coach: Ljudmil Katerinski) ---- 1959 FIBA World Cup: finished 7th among 13 teams 3 Mikhail Semov, 4 Gencho Khristov, 5 Iliya Mirchev, 6 Viktor Radev, 7

, 8 Petko Lazarov, 9

, 10

, 11

, 12

, 13 Metodi Tomovski, 14 Atanas Atanasov (Coach: Ljudmil Katerinski) ---- 1959 EuroBasket: finished 5th among 17 teams 3 Angel Shipkov, 5 Iliya Mirchev, 6 Viktor Radev, 7

, 8 Petko Lazarov, 9

, 10 Khristo Donchev, 12 Mikhail Semov, 13 Nikolay Ilov, 14 Atanas Atanasov, 15

, 16 Gencho Khristov (Coach: Ljudmil Katerinski) ---- 1960 Olympic Games: finished 16th among 16 teams 3 Stefan Stoykov, 5 Iliya Mirchev, 6 Viktor Radev, 7

, 8 Petko Lazarov, 9

, 10

, 11

, 12

, 13 Nikolay Ilov, 14 Atanas Atanasov, 15 Khristo Tsvetkov (Coach: Nikola Kolev) ---- 1961 EuroBasket: finished 3rd among 19 teams 4 Mincho Dimov, 5 Iliya Mirchev, 6 Viktor Radev, 7 Stefan Stoykov, 8 Petko Lazarov, 9

, 10 Khristo Donchev, 11

, 12

, 13 Khristo Tsvetkov, 14 Atanas Atanasov, 15 Radko Zlatev (Coach: Veselin Temkov) ---- 1963 EuroBasket: finished 5th among 16 teams 4 Stefan Filipov, 5 Iliya Mirchev, 6 Viktor Radev, 7

, 8 Mincho Dimov, 9

, 10 Dimitar Donev, 11

, 12

, 13 Nikola Atanasov, 14 Atanas Atanasov, 15 Kliment Kamenarov (Coach: Kiril Khajtov) ---- 1965 EuroBasket: finished 5th among 16 teams 4 Mincho Dimov, 6 Pando Pandov, 7 Georgi Barzakov, 8 Emil Mikhaylov, 9 Valentin Spasov, 10 Kamen Ilchev, 11 Stefan Filipov, 12 Borislav Kolev, 13 Slavey Raychev, 14 Atanas Atanasov, 15 Radko Zlatev, 16 Boto Paspalanov (Coach: Kiril Semov) ---- 1967 EuroBasket: finished 4th among 16 teams 4 Emil Mikhaylov, 5 Slavey Raychev, 6 Pando Pandov, 7 Khristo Doychinov, 8 Georgi Guenev, 9 Boris Krastev, 10 Mincho Dimov, 11 Cvjatko Barchovski, 12 Ivan Vodenicharski, 13 Boycho Branzov, 14 Temelaki Dimitrov, 15 Georgi Khristov (Coach: Kiril Khajtov) ---- 1968 Olympic Games: finished 10th among 16 teams 4 Emil Mikhaylov, 5 Stanislav Boyadzhiev, 6 Pando Pandov, 7 Khristo Doychinov, 8 Valentin Spasov, 9 Stefan Filipov, 10 Mincho Dimov, 11 Ivaylo Kirov, 12 Dimitar Sakhanikov, 13 Boycho Branzov, 14 Slavey Raychev, 15 Georgi Khristov (Coach: Kiril Khajtov) ---- 1969 EuroBasket: finished 7th among 12 teams 4 Khristo Doychinov, 5 Rumen Pejchev, 6

, 7 Dimitar Galabov, 8 Ivan Rusinov, 9 Georgi Barzakov, 10 Mincho Dimov, 11 Bogomil Chanev, 12 Stancho Kostov, 13 Boycho Branzov, 14 Temelaki Dimitrov, 15 Georgi Khristov (Coach: Dimitar Mitev) ---- 1971 EuroBasket: finished 6th among 12 teams 4 Rumen Pejchev, 5 Stefan Filipov, 6 Pando Pandov, 7 Khristo Doychinov, 9 llija Yankov, 10 Boto Paspalanov, 11

, 12 Docho Petrov, 13 Ivaylo Kirov, 14 Slavey Raychev, 15 Georgi Khristov, 16 Bogomil Chanev (Coach: Dimitar Mitev) ---- 1973 EuroBasket: finished 6th among 12 teams 4 Khristo Doychinov, 5 Georgi Stojanov, 6 Pando Pandov, 7 Rumen Pejchev, 8 Ivaylo Kirov, 9 Khristo Borisov, 10 Marin Romanski, 11

, 12 Boris Krastev, 13 Boycho Branzov, 14 Bogomil Chanev, 15 Georgi Khristov (Coach: Nejcho Nejchev) ---- 1975 EuroBasket: finished 5th among 12 teams 4 Khristo Doychinov, 5 Valentin Petkov, 6 Atanas Stojanov, 7 Docho Petrov, 8 Mikhail Mikhajlov, 9 Valentin Sharkov, 10 Marin Romanski, 11

, 12 Mikhail Dukov, 13 Boycho Branzov, 14 Temelaki Dimitrov, 15 Georgi Khristov (Coach: Ivan Kolev) ---- 1977 EuroBasket: finished 6th among 12 teams 4 Milko Arabadzhijski, 5 Linben Yosifov, 6

Petko Marinov Petko Marinov (Bulgarian Cyrillic The Bulgarian Cyrillic alphabet is used to write the Bulgarian language. The Cyrillic alphabet was originally developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 9th – 10th century AD at the Preslav Literary Sc ...

, 7 Stojan Shantov, 8 Ilija Evtimov, 9 Mikail Smochevski, 10 Valentin Sharkov, 11

, 12 Plamen Takev, 13 Atanas Kolev, 14 Todor Bogdanov, 15 Rumen Pejchev (Coach: Nejcho Nejchev) ---- 1979 EuroBasket: finished 11th among 12 teams 4

, 5 Atanas Kolev, 6 Dimitar Donov, 7 Mikhail Manolov, 8 Ilija Evtimov, 9 Hristo Borissov, 10 Valentin Sharkov, 11 Rumen Pejchev, 12 Ognjan Rusev, 13 Milko Arabadzhijski, 14 Todor Bogdanov, 15 Dimitar Marchin (Coach: Ivan Todorov) ---- 1985 EuroBasket: finished 8th among 12 teams 4 Kojo Koev, 5 Atanas Kolev, 6 Jordan Kolev, 7 Rosen Barchovski, 8 Ilija Evtimov, 9 Saško Vezenkov, 10 Ivan Cenov, 11

, 12 Cvetan Antov, 13 Emil Jonov, 14

, 15 Ljubomir Amiorkov (Coach: Cvjatko Barchovski) ---- 1989 EuroBasket: finished 7th among 8 teams 4 Kojo Koev, 5 Eduard Vălčev, 6 Jordan Kolev, 7 Robert Gergov, 8

, 9 Ventsislav Slavov, 10 Ivan Cenov, 11 Saško Vezenkov, 12

, 13 Emil Jonov, 14 Cvetan Antov, 15 Ljubomir Amiorkov (Coach: Kiril Semov) ---- 1991 EuroBasket: finished 8th among 8 teams 4 Ivajlo Ravucov, 5 Cvetan Nedelčev, 6 Jordan Kolev, 7 Robert Gergov, 8 Spas Natov, 9 Plamen Petrov, 10 Ivan Cenov, 11 Saško Vezenkov, 12

, 13 Daniel Dimitrov, 14

, 15 Lubomir Amiorkov (Coach: Saško Vezenkov) ----

1993 EuroBasket The 1993 FIBA European Championship, commonly called FIBA EuroBasket 1993, was the 28th FIBA EuroBasket regional basketball championship, held by FIBA Europe. It was held in Germany between 22 June and 4 July 1993. Sixteen national teams entere ...

: finished 16th among 16 teams 4 Stanislav Stankov, 5 Anton Kharalanov, 6 Dimo Kostov, 7 Ivajlo Ravutsov, 8 Spas Natov, 9 Ventsislav Slavov, 10 Daniel Dimitrov, 11 Vladimir Dimitrov, 12

, 13 Vasil Stojanov, 14 Robert Gergov, 15 Lubomir Amiorkov (Coach: Saško Vezenkov) ----

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: finished 13th among 16 teams 4 Dejan Ivanov, 5 Kaloyan Ivanov, 6 Tenčo Banev, 7 Yulian Radionov, 8 Filip Videnov, 9 Yordan Bozov, 10 Georgi Davidov, 11 Dimitar Angelov, 12 Stefan Georgiev, 13 Boyko Mladenov, 14 Hrisimir Dimitrov, 15

Todor Stoykov Todor Stoykov (born 3 March 1977 in Varna) is a Bulgarian retired professional basketball player, who played for Cherno More, Cordivari Roseto, Scafati Basket, Valencia BC and Lukoil Academic. At 1.98 m, his position was shooting guard/sma ...

(Coach: Rosen Barchovski) ---- 2009 EuroBasket: finished 16th among 16 teams 4

Deyan Ivanov Deyan Ivanov ( bg, Деян Иванов; born 12 April 1996) is a Bulgarian footballer who most recently played as a centre back for Bulgarian Second League club Sportist Svoge. Career Ivanov made his league debut for Levski against Marek Du ...

, 5 Kaloyan Ivanov, 6 Chavdar Kostov, 7 Earl Rowland, 8 Filip Videnov, 9 Stanislav Slaveykov, 10 Stefan Georgiev, 11 Dimitar Angelov, 12

Vassil Evtimov Vassil Iliev "Vasco" Evtimov ( bg, Васил Илиев "Васко" Евтимов) (born 30 May 1977) is a French-Bulgarian former professional basketball player and head coach of BC Chernomorets in National Basketball League (Bulgaria), Nati ...

, 13 Boyko Mladenov, 14 Bozhidar Avramov, 15

(Coach:

) ---- 2011 EuroBasket: finished 13th among 24 teams 4 Dejan Ivanov, 5 Kaloyan Ivanov, 6 Earl Rowland, 7 Chavdar Kostov, 8 Filip Videnov, 9 Pavel Marinov, 10 Bozhidar Avramov, 11 Zlatin Georgiev, 12

Aleksandar Yanev Aleksandar Yanev (born December 6, 1990) is a Bulgarian professional basketball player. He currently plays for BC Beroe, Beroe. He is also a member of the Bulgaria national basketball team, Bulgarian national team. Career Yanev began his pro care ...

, 13

Asen Velikov Asen Velikov ( bg, Асен Великов) (born January 11, 1986) is a Bulgarian professional basketball player, who is currently playing for Levski Sofia in the Bulgarian League, as a point guard. Velikov was born in Pleven Pleven ( bg, ...

, 14 Tencho Banev, 15 Nikolay Varbanov (Coach: Rosen Barchovski) ---- 2022 EuroBasket: finished 20th among 24 teams 0 Ivan Alipiev, 1 Dee Bost, 2 Deyan Karamfilov, 9 Chavdar Kostov (C), 12

, 17 Emil Stoilov, 22 Pavlin Ivanov,
23

Stanimir Marinov Stanimir Marinov ( bg, Станимир Маринов; born 7 September 1991) is a Bulgarian professional basketball player. He currently plays for Spartak of the Bulgarian National Basketball League. Bulgarian national team Marinov is a mem ...

, 24 Andrey Ivanov, 34 Dimitar Dimitrov, 41 Aleksandar Vezenkov, 99 Alex Simeonov (Coach: Rosen Barchovski)

References

External links

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Bulgaria FIBA profileBulgarian National Team – Men
at Eurobasket.com

at FIBA Archive {{DEFAULTSORT:Bulgaria National Basketball Team Men's national basketball teams

Basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...

1935 establishments in Bulgaria

History

EuroBasket 1935

EuroBasket 1947

EuroBasket 1951

EuroBasket 1953

EuroBasket 1955

EuroBasket 1957

1959 World Cup

EuroBasket 1961

Later years

Competitive record

FIBA World Cup

Olympic Games

EuroBasket

Results and fixtures

2021

2022

2023

Team

Current roster

Depth chart

Head coach position

Notable players

Past rosters

See also

References

External links