The Kyrgyzstan national basketball team is the national Basketball team of Kyrgyzstan, Asia. Their last match was in the

2015 FIBA Asia Championship qualification Qualification for the 2015 FIBA Asia Championship was held to determine the participants in the 2015 FIBA Asia Championship. secured qualification by being named as hosts. The other fifteen berths were disputed per FIBA Asia zone, and via the 2014 ...

Central Asia playoff, a rout loss to Kazakhstan in Astana. The majority of their best players play in Kazakhstan, including rebounding expert center Sergei Kazantcev and

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-born player Andrey Kislitsin. The team had its best year in 1995. Then, at the official

1995 Asian Basketball Championship The 1995 Asian Basketball Confederation Championship for Men were held in Seoul, South Korea. Preliminary round Group A Group B Group C Group D Quarterfinal round Group I Group II ...

, the team surprisingly finished ahead of favorites such as Iran, Philippines and Jordan. A prominent player of Kyrgyzstani descent is also

Kyranbek Makan Kyranbek Makhan (born September 27, 1992) is a Chinese basketball player of Kyrgyz origin who plays in the small forward position for China and the Shandong Hi-Speed Kirin of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA). He is an elite three point ...

who plays for

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because he was born and raised there.

Liga Forward

The only league in Kyrgyzstan is Liga Forward which consists of mostly Kyrgyzstan players but also features ex-Kazakhstan internationals and ex-Uzbekistan internationals. Most Kyrgyzstan players start off in Liga Forward but they usually move elsewhere like the National Basketball League (Kazakhstan) or the Division 1 of Uzbekistan.

Kyrgyzstan National Basketball Team

Roster

Head coach: Iliya Isakov Artem Borodenko , pos = , m = , kg = , team = Dank Aleksandr Adeykin , pos = F , m = , kg = 94 , team = Bishkek Dynamo , pos = C , m = 2.23 , kg = , team = Barsy Atyrau,

Depth chart

Former players

* Dmitriy Danishin (2003–2010) * Vladimir Gellert (2007–2012) * Baish Adiyev (2008–2011)

Non-national team players

* Andrey Kislitsin * Denis Polokhin * Anton Dorosev * Erns Uulu Zhanysh

Coaches

Current staff

Results

FIBA Asia Cup

Novruz Cup

Footnotes

*Was Assistant Coach but the Liga Forward had to make a quick decision to put him as an Interim Coach. He only took charge for 2 matches in which Kyrinakov lost both and therefore was fired. However, it is unknown who was coach after that and it is also unknown that they played any games.

References

External links

Official website
{{National sports teams of Kyrgyzstan 1992 establishments in Kyrgyzstan Men's national basketball teams National sports teams of Kyrgyzstan Sport in Kyrgyzstan