The Ivory Coast men's national basketball team is the men's

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side that represents

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in international competition. The team competes regularly in the African Championship and is administered by the Fédération Ivoirienne de Basket-Ball. With two

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titles and six overall finals appearances, the country is traditionally home to one of the continent's finest basketball national teams. The Elephants have played at the

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four times and also played in the 2023 edition.

History

Ivory Coast reached the final of the

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for the first time in 1978, but they were defeated by

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in the final. They reached the final again in the following tournament, in 1980, but again had to settle for silver, as Senegal took the gold. Another run the following year, in 1981, saw Côte d'Ivoire finally break through and win their first title, as they defeated

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for the championship. Four years later, Côte d'Ivoire won their second championship, as they hosted the tournament in 1985, and beat

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, to win the championship. Côte d'Ivoire finished second at the

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, for their first podium finish since their victory in 1985. They participated in the

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, which was their first

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appearance since

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. The team went 1–4 at the tournament, finishing last in Group C. On 2 September 2010, In their final group game, the Ivorians defeated

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88–76, for their first ever FIBA World Cup win, but they came up just short in the tiebreaker to see which team would advance to the knockout stage. Ivory Coast qualified for the 2019 FIBA World Championship in dramatic and extraordinary circumstances. After only narrowly avoiding elimination in the first qualifying round (they finished 3rd in their group and only qualified because they held the tiebreaker to

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), they needed to win their last three games in the final group by a combined margin of 66 points in order to qualify as the best-ranked third-placed team. They remarkably did so (actually, they won by a combined 73 points), dispatching even African powerhouses and already-qualified

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by a score of 72–46 in the process. Combined with a loss for the

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against Nigeria, Ivory Coast finished third in the group and qualified for the World Championship by virtue of a better total points difference than Cameroon.

Competitive record

FIBA World Cup

FIBA Africa Championship

Champions Runners-up Third place Fourth place

FIBA AfroCan

Runners-up

African Games

*1978 – *1987 – *2003 – 4th *2007 – 6th *2011 – 8th *2015 – 7th

Team

Current roster

Roster for the

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Notable players

Other current notable players from Ivory Coast:

Past rosters

Team for the

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Head coaches

* Vladislav Lučić: (1981–1983) * Jacques Monclar: (2007) * Randoald Dessarzin: (2009, 2010) * Christophe Denis: (2012) * Natxo Lezkano: (2011, 2013, 2015, 2024) * Dejan Prokic (a.i.): (August 2022)

Kit

Manufacturer

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2015 FIBA Africa Championship – Cote d'Ivoire
FIBA.com. Retrieved 23 June 2016.

References

External links

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FIBA profile
at FIBA Archive

Videos

ANG – CIV , Basketball Highlights – #FIBAWC 2023 Qualifiers
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