List of men's national basketball teams

This is a list of the men's national basketball teams in the world, accompanied by the date at which they joined FIBA.

Current FIBA zones: red-Americas, blue-Europe, dark gray-Africa, yellow-Asia, green-Oceania, black-unclassified, light gray-not a FIBA member

Active teams

The International Basketball Federation, or FIBA recognizes 215 national teams divided into 5 zones, each roughly corresponding to a continent (North America and South America are grouped under the Americas.)

The newest national team are Kosovo which were recognized in 2015.

It is interesting to note that there are more FIBA-recognized teams than FIFA-recognized teams (209).

FIBA Africa

FIBA Africa subzones.

FIBA Africa, which has 54 national teams,^[1] is divided into 7 zones.

Zone 1  Algeria (1963)  Libya (1961)  Morocco (1936)  Tunisia (1956) Zone 2  Cape Verde (1988)  Gambia (1972)  Guinea (1962)  Guinea-Bissau (1994)  Mali (1961)  Mauritania (1964)  Senegal (1962)  Sierra Leone (1991) Zone 3  Benin (1962)  Burkina Faso (1964)  Ivory Coast (1962)  Ghana (1962)  Liberia (1964)  Niger (1963)  Nigeria (1964)  Togo (1963)

Zone 4  Cameroon (1965)  Central African Republic (1963)  Chad (1963)  Congo (1962)  DR Congo (1963)  Equatorial Guinea (1994)  Gabon (1965)  São Tomé and Príncipe (1983) Zone 5  Burundi (1994)  Egypt (1934)  Eritrea (1997)  Ethiopia (1949)  Kenya (1965)  Rwanda (1977)  Somalia (1960)  South Sudan (2013)  Sudan (1953)  Tanzania (1963)  Uganda (1963)

Zone 6  Angola (1979)  Botswana (1997)  Lesotho (1997)  Malawi (1988)  Mozambique (1978)  Namibia (1995)  South Africa (1992)  Swaziland (2000)  Zambia (1962)  Zimbabwe (1962) Zone 7  Comoros (1995)  Djibouti (1979)  Madagascar (1963)  Mauritius (1959)  Seychelles (1979)

FIBA Americas

FIBA Americas subzones.

FIBA Americas (formerly the Pan-American Basketball Confederation), which controls North America, Central America, the Caribbean, and South America, has 43 national teams, divided into three areas.^[2] The Central American and Caribbean Confederations of Basketball (CONCECABA) is further divided into the Central America and Caribbean zone.^[3]

CONCECABA Caribbean  Antigua and Barbuda  Aruba  Bahamas  Barbados  Bermuda  British Virgin Islands  Cayman Islands  Cuba  Dominica  Dominican Republic  Grenada  Guyana  Haiti  Jamaica  Montserrat  Puerto Rico  Saint Kitts and Nevis  Saint Lucia  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines  Suriname  Trinidad and Tobago  Turks and Caicos Islands  U.S. Virgin Islands  Belize  Costa Rica  El Salvador  Guatemala  Honduras  Mexico  Nicaragua  Panama North America  Canada  United States South America  Argentina  Bolivia  Brazil  Chile  Colombia  Ecuador  Paraguay  Peru  Uruguay  Venezuela

FIBA Asia

FIBA Asia subzones.

FIBA Asia (formerly the Asian Basketball Confederation) is divided into 6 zones and has 44 national teams.^[4]

Central Asia  Kazakhstan  Kyrgyzstan  Tajikistan  Turkmenistan  Uzbekistan East Asia  China  Chinese Taipei  Hong Kong  Japan  Macau  Mongolia  North Korea  South Korea

Gulf  Bahrain  Kuwait  Oman  Qatar  Saudi Arabia  United Arab Emirates South Asia  Afghanistan  Bangladesh  Bhutan  India  Maldives    Nepal  Pakistan  Sri Lanka

Southeast Asia  Brunei  Cambodia  Indonesia  Laos  Malaysia  Myanmar  Philippines  Singapore  Thailand  Vietnam West Asia  Iran  Iraq  Jordan  Lebanon  Palestine  Syria  Yemen

FIBA Europe

FIBA Europe subzones.

FIBA Europe has 52 member nations under it.^[5]

Albania  Andorra  Armenia  Austria  Azerbaijan  Belarus  Belgium  Bosnia and Herzegovina  Bulgaria  Croatia  Cyprus  Czech Republic  Denmark  England  Estonia  Finland  France

Georgia  Germany  Gibraltar  Greece  Hungary  Iceland  Ireland[6]  Israel  Italy  Kosovo[7]  Latvia  Lithuania  Luxembourg  Macedonia  Malta  Moldova  Monaco  Montenegro

Netherlands  Norway  Poland  Portugal  Romania  Russia  San Marino  Scotland  Serbia  Slovakia  Slovenia  Spain  Sweden   Switzerland  Turkey  Ukraine  Wales

 Great Britain, a combined team of England, Scotland and Wales, competed in Eurobasket 2009 and played at the 2012 Olympics. Starting September 30, 2016, England, Scotland and Wales will all rescind their FIBA memberships and operate internationally as the British Basketball Federation.^[8]

FIBA Oceania

FIBA Oceania has 22 member nations under it.^[9]

American Samoa  Australia  Cook Islands  F.S. Micronesia  Fiji  Guam  Kiribati  Marshall Islands  Nauru  New Caledonia  New Zealand

Norfolk Island  Northern Mariana Islands  Palau  Papua New Guinea  Samoa  Solomon Islands  Tahiti  Timor-Leste  Tonga  Tuvalu  Vanuatu

Not members of FIBA

Åland Islands  Anguilla  Bonaire  Chuuk  Curaçao  Faroe Islands  Falkland Islands

French Guiana  Greenland  Guadeloupe  Guernsey  Isle of Man  Isle of Wight  Jersey  Kosrae  Liechtenstein  Martinique  Mayotte  Northern Ireland

Niue  Pitcairn Islands  Pohnpei  Republika Srpska  Réunion  Rhodes  Saare County  Saba  Saint Pierre and Miquelon  Saint Helena  Saint Martin

Sint Eustatius  Sint Maarten  Northern Cyprus  Tokelau   Vatican City  Wallis and Futuna  Western Sahara  Yap  Zanzibar

Defunct teams

•  Czechoslovakia - split into two teams; no team carried over the records of Czechoslovakia
  •  Czech Republic
  •  Slovakia
•  East Germany - merged into
  •  West Germany; West Germany assumes the records of a unified  Germany team
•  South Vietnam - merged into
  •  North Vietnam; North Vietnam assumes the records of a unified  Vietnam team
•  South Yemen - merged into
  •  North Yemen; North Yemen assumes the records of a unified  Yemen team
•  Soviet Union - split into 15 different national teams; no team carried over the records of the Soviet Union. National teams descended from  Soviet Union are:

Armenia  Azerbaijan  Belarus

Georgia  Kazakhstan  Kyrgyzstan

Moldova  Tajikistan  Turkmenistan

Ukraine  Uzbekistan

The three Baltic states and Russia which played international basketball prior to 1945 inherited their old records prior to being merged with  Soviet Union:

•  Estonia
•  Latvia
•  Lithuania
•  Russia

The Unified Team (a.k.a. the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) team) for the 1992 Summer Olympics was a one-off team.

•  United Arab Republic - merger of two teams;
  •  Egypt
  •  Syria

Later split into two teams:

•  Syria retained its old records as Syria.
•  United Arab Republic (later renamed as Egypt) retained the old records as Egypt

•  Yugoslavia - split into five teams; no team carried over the records of Yugoslavia. Other national teams descended from  Yugoslavia are:
  •  Bosnia and Herzegovina
  •  Croatia
  •  Macedonia
  •  Slovenia
  •  Serbia and Montenegro - split into two teams
    •  Montenegro
    •  Serbia; retained Serbia and Montengro's records. A team later split from Serbia:
      •  Kosovo
•  Netherlands Antilles - replaced by:
  •  Aruba

FIBA country codes

FIBA uses IOC country codes for most countries which are IOC members. For non-IOC members and exceptions, FIBA uses the following codes:

•  England: ENG
•  Gibraltar: GIB
•  Marshall Islands: MIS (IOC: MHL)
•  Montserrat: MAT
•  New Caledonia: CAL
•  Norfolk Island: NIS
•  Northern Mariana Islands: SAI
•  Scotland: SCO
•  Tahiti: TAH
•  Turks and Caicos Islands: TCI
•  Wales: WAL

See also

• List of women's national basketball teams

References

1. FIBA.com - Zones:FIBA Africa
2. FIBA.com - Zones: FIBA Americas
3. About FIBA Americas
4. FIBA.com - Zones: FIBA Asia
5. FIBA.com - Zones: FIBA Europe
6. "FIBA Europe". Retrieved 4 August 2010.
7. "Kosovo becomes 215th National Member Federation of FIBA". FIBA. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
8. . FIBA http://www.fiba.com/news/decisions-aplenty-as-fiba-central-board-concludes. Retrieved 12 August 2015. Missing or empty |title= (help)
9. FIBA.com - Zones: FIBA Oceania