The Montenegro women's national basketball team represents

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in international

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tournaments. The supervising body is the

Basketball Federation of Montenegro The Basketball Federation of Montenegro (Montenegrin language, Montenegrin: Košarkaški Savez Crne Gore, KSCG / Кошаркашки Савез Црне Горе, КСЦГ), is the governing body of basketball in Montenegro. It operates the top ...

.
The Montenegrin women's national team entered international competition in 2008, playing their first official match on 27 August, against

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(68–56).
The Montenegrin women's team participated at the

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four times – 2011, 2013, 2015, and 2017 reaching the quarterfinals twice.

History

Period 2006–2015

At 2006, soon after

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, Basketball Association of Montenegro became a member of

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. Federation founded its national teams, and among them was Montenegro women's basketball selection, which started to play in FIBA competitions during the 2008.
Montenegro started with the record of ''17 consecutive wins in official games''.
At summer 2008 and 2009, Montenegrin team played in FIBA Division B with the final score of 12 victories without any lose. That means fast promotion to FIBA Division A and participation in EuroBasket Women 2011 qualification.
In their first qualifiers, Montenegro qualified for

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as a first-placed team in the group. On EuroBasket, the team made successful result and played in quarterfinals. At the end, Montenegro finished as a sixth-placed team, which is the best placement in history of Montenegrin women's basketball.
After new successful qualifiers, Montenegro played on

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, but finished competition in the second phase, with final placement on 10th position.
For the third time, Montenegro played on EuroBasket at

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. Like 2011, Montenegro played in the quarterfinals but lost against Spain with one point difference. Montenegro finished EuroBasket 2015 as seventh-placed team.

Period 2016–

Montenegro made another successful result in qualifiers for

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. With score 4–2, the team qualified for European Championship, fourth in their history. At the championship finals, Montenegrin team disappointed with 3 losses and elimination on early stage of tournament.
Just like in previous campaigns, Montenegrin national team won the Group A in EuroBasket Women 2019 qualifiers and gained their fifth performance on European Championship.

Competitive record

Montenegro was part of Yugoslavia until 2006.

Olympic Games

FIBA Women's World Cup

EuroBasket Women

Team

Current roster

Roster for the EuroBasket Women 2025.

Head coaches

Since its foundation, Montenegro women's national basketball team had four head coaches.
In the period 2008–2013, head coach of Montenegro was

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. From 2014, Montenegrin team was led by Momir Milatović, who was head coach during three years. In 2017, first foreigner was promoted as head coach of Montenegrin team. That was

Roberto Íñiguez Roberto Íñiguez de Heredia Santamaria (born 5 September 1967) is a former Spanish basketball player and the current head coach of Spar Girona. Iñiguez spent most of his career with Valencia BC. He played for Saski Baskonia, Valencia BC, CB M ...

, whose mandate lasted until the beginning of 2019.
In January 2019, Basketball Association of Montenegro stated that new head coach of national team is former player and captain Jelena Škerović. She became a first woman to be a head coach of any Montenegrin national A team.

Statistics and games

List of official matches

Montenengro played its first official match in August 2008. There is a List of official matches of the Montenegro women's national basketball team played since independence.

Opponents

Below is the list of performances of Montenegro national basketball team against every single opponent. ''Last update: September 22, 2023.''

Kit

Manufacturer

* 2008–2011:

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* 2011–present:

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Sponsor

* 2008–2011: VOLI * 2012–2014:

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* 2014–2015: EPCG * 2015–present: m:tel

References

External links

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FIBA profile
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