The Saudi Arabia national basketball team is the national basketball team representing the Kingdom of

Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in Western Asia. It covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and has a land area of about , making it the fifth-largest country in Asia, the second-largest in the A ...

. It is administrated by the

Saudi Arabian Basketball Federation The Saudi Arabian Basketball Federation ( ar, الاتحاد العربي السعودي لكرة السلة) is the governing body of basketball in Saudi Arabia. The federation founded in 1964, represents basketball with public authorities as ...

. ( ar, اتحاد المملكة العربية السعودية لكرة السلة) Its biggest success has been the Bronze medal at the 1999 Asian Championship. The team last qualified for the

2022 FIBA Asia Cup The 2022 FIBA Asia Cup (formerly known as the FIBA Asia Championship) will be the 30th continental basketball championship in Asia. The tournament is organised by FIBA Asia. Originally intended to be the 2021 edition, the tournament was initiall ...

Competition records

Summer Olympics

''yet to qualify''

FIBA World championships

''yet to qualify''

FIBA Asia Cup

Asian Games

*1951-74 : ''Did Not Qualify'' *1978 : 12th *1982-86 : ''Did Not Qualify'' *1990 : 9th *1994 : 7th *1998-2010 : ''Did Not Qualify'' *2014 : 13th *2018 : ''Did Not Qualify'' *2022 : ''To Be Determined''

Islamic Solidarity Games

*2005 : 6th *2013 : 5th ''Beginning with the 2017 event, regular basketball was replaced by

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Arab Nations Championship

*1974-1975 : ? *1978 : *1981-1994 : ? *1997 : *1999-2005 : ? *2007 : *2008 : 5th *2009 : 7th *2010-2011 : ? *2015 : 4th *2017 : 4th *2018 : *2020 : ''To Be Determined''

Pan Arab Games

*1953-1992 : ? *1997 : *1999-2004 : ? *

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: 8th *

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: 11th *2021 : ''To Be Determined''

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:

Al-Gharafa Sports Club Multi-Purpose Hall Al-Gharafa Sports Club ( ar, نادي الغرافة الرياضي) is a Qatari multisports club based in the Al Gharrafa district of Al Rayyan. It is best known for its football team, although it also has teams for other sports. It was estab ...

Doha Doha ( ar, الدوحة, ad-Dawḥa or ''ad-Dōḥa'') is the capital city and main financial hub of Qatar. Located on the Persian Gulf coast in the east of the country, north of Al Wakrah and south of Al Khor, it is home to most of the coun ...

Opposition:

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

(28 November)
Opposition:

Qatar Qatar (, ; ar, قطر, Qaṭar ; local vernacular pronunciation: ), officially the State of Qatar,) is a country in Western Asia. It occupies the Qatar Peninsula on the northeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula in the Middle East; it sh ...

(30 November)

Depth chart

Past rosters

2021 FIBA Asia Cup qualification
Opposition:

(20 February)
Venue:

King Abdullah Sports City King Abdullah Sports City (Arabic: مدينة الملك عبدالله الرياضية), also nicknamed The Shining Jewel, in Arabic (al-Jawharaa Al-Moshe'ah) (Arabic: الجوهرة المشعة) or simply The Jewel, in Arabic (al-Jawhara) (A ...

Jeddah Jeddah ( ), also spelled Jedda, Jiddah or Jidda ( ; ar, , Jidda, ), is a city in the Hejaz region of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) and the country's commercial center. Established in the 6th century BC as a fishing village, Jeddah's pro ...

Opposition:

Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...

(23 February)
Venue:

In February 2020, at the 2021 FIBA Asia Cup qualification games,

Khalid Abdel-Gabar Khalid (variants include Khaled and Kalid; Arabic: خالد) is a popular Arabic male given name meaning "eternal, everlasting, immortal", and it also appears as a surname.

averaged most minutes, points and assists for Saudi Arabia. 2018 FIBA Asia Cup Pre-qualifiers Squad: 2017

Arab Nations Basketball Championship The Arab Basketball Championship for Men ( ar, البطولة العربية لكرة السلة للرجال) or simply ABC is a regional basketball tournament which takes place every two years between men's national teams of the members of the ...

Squad: 2012 Squad:

2014 Asian Games The 2014 Asian Games ( ko, 2014년 아시아 경기대회/2014년 아시안 게임, Icheon sip-sa nyeon Asia gyeonggi daehoe/Icheon sip-sa nyeon Asian Geim), officially known as the 17th Asian Games ( ko, 제17회 아시아 경기대회/제17회 ...

Squad:

Head coach position

* Lofti Chikhaoui – 2011 * Nenad Krdzic – 2013 * Abdulrahim Akhtar – 2014 * Mensur Bajramovic – 2017 * Ali Alsanhani – 2018 السعودية تقلب الطاولة على فلسطين وتحقق انتصارًا ثمينًا
alayam.com, 13 September 2018. Accessed 29 May 2020. *

Johan Roijakkers Johan Roijakkers (born September 15, 1980) is a Dutch basketball coach, who is the head coach of the Saudi Arabia men's national team. He coached 8 years in the German EasyCredit BBL with BG Göttingen and Brose Bamberg and in Italy in the Lega ...

– 2022

References

External links

Saudi Arabia Basketball Records at FIBA ArchiveAsia-basket - Saudi Arabia Men National TeamSaudi Basketball Federation
on Instagram

Videos

#FIBAAsia - Day 1: Saudi Arabia v Philippines (highlights)
Youtube.com video {{DEFAULTSORT:Saudi Arabia National Basketball Team Basketball teams established in 1964 1964 establishments in Saudi Arabia