The Iraq national basketball team ( ar, منتخب العراق لكرة السلة) represents Iraq in international

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competitions. It is one out of only two Arab nations to ever qualify for the Men's Basketball Tournament at the Summer Olympics. (the other nation being

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)

Competitive record

Olympic Games

The Iraqi Basketball team at the 1948 Olympic Games in London: Ahmed Hamed, Emile Yousef, George Hanna, Hashim Abdul-Jalil, Irfan Abdul-Kadir, Kanan Aoni, Salih Faraj, Salman Mahdi Deheh, Salman Ali Daleh, Wadud Khalil Jumaa Iraq Olympic basketball team uniforms

FIBA Asia Cup

Asian Games

West Asian Championship

Pan Arab Games

Team

Current roster

2021 FIBA Asia Cup qualification

Due to the

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, the FIBA Executive Committee decided that for the 2020 November window games will be held at a single venue under a bubble format. Venue:

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Manama Manama ( ar, المنامة ', Bahrani Arabic, Bahrani pronunciation: ) is the capital and largest city of Bahrain, with an approximate population of 200,000 people as of 2020. Long an important trading center in the Persian Gulf, Manama is h ...

Opposition:

Bahrain Bahrain ( ; ; ar, البحرين, al-Bahrayn, locally ), officially the Kingdom of Bahrain, ' is an island country in Western Asia. It is situated on the Persian Gulf, and comprises a small archipelago made up of 50 natural islands and an ...

(November 28)
Opposition:

Lebanon Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially the Republic of Lebanon () or the Lebanese Republic, is a country in Western Asia. It is located between Syria to the north and east and Israel to the south, while Cyprus li ...

(November 30)

Past roster

2021 FIBA Asia Cup qualification
Opposition:

(February 21)
Venue: Nouhad Nawfal Sports Complex,

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(February 24)
Venue: Al Shaab Hall,

Baghdad Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon ...

Roster for the

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Head coach position

* Fikrat Toma – 2002–2004, 2010–2013 * Manuel Povea – 2014–2015 * Srđan Antić – 2016 * Atila Abdulaziz – 2017 * Mustafa Derin – 2017 * Khalid Deroish – 2020 */ Aziz Bekir – 2020–present

References

External links

FIBA profile

Videos

Iraq v China - Quarter Final Highlights - FIBA Asia Challenge 2016
- youtube.com video {{FIBA Asia 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 Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appr ...

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