The Slovakia men's national basketball team ( sk, Slovenské národné basketbalové mužstvo) represents Slovakia in international basketball competition. The supervising body is the Slovak Basketball Association (SBA). Slovakia is one of the newest national basketball teams in the world, having split from Czechoslovakia following the dissolution of the unified state in 1993. They joined FIBA later that year, and played in their first international match against Bosnia and Herzegovina. Slovakia to date does not have much history on the international level. Although they have attempted to qualify for major tournaments such as

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and the

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, but have yet to reach qualification.

History

The Czechoslovak era

Until 1993, Slovakia was a part of Czechoslovakia, with Slovak born players taking part on the Czechoslovakia national team. One of the most notable players who was born in Slovakia, and played for the Czechoslovakia national team to achieve success at the international level was

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. He helped lead Czechoslovakia to three medal finishes at the

, in

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, and

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After independence

After gaining independence from Czechoslovakia, the Slovak national team on numerous attempts during their early years strived to qualify for EuroBasket, but ultimately came up short. In qualification to reach EuroBasket 2017, Slovakia was slotted into

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to begin the qualifiers. Slovakia, however, would go on to struggle to a (1–5) record and missing their chance to qualify. For qualification to the

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, Slovakia took part in European Pre-Qualifiers, but were eventually eliminated after amassing a (1–5) record in their group. Slovakia later went through EuroBasket 2022 Pre-Qualifiers but were once again denied of making it to the continental stage, after finishing with a (3–5) record during pre-qualifying.

Competitive record

FIBA World Cup

Olympic Games

EuroBasket

Team

Current roster

Roster for the EuroBasket 2025 Pre-Qualifiers matches in July/August 2023 against Romania and Albania.

Depth chart

Head coach position

* Milan Cernicky – (2004–2010) * Peter Balint – (2011–2012) * Miroslav Grznár – (2012–2013) * Milan Cernicky – (2014–2015) *

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– (2016–2018) * Žan Tabak – (2019–2021) *

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– (2021–2022) * Aramis Naglić – (2022–present)

Results and fixtures

2022

2023

References

External links

Official website

Slovakia FIBA profileSlovakia National Team – Men
at Eurobasket.com

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