Greece Basketball Team Roster, Schedule, Matches FIBA World Cup 2019
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The Hellenic Basketball Federation manages the Greece national basketball team. It is the strongest team and also runners-up in the 2006 FIBA World Championship.
Greece Team has won EuroBasket twice. Greece has also won 1 silver and two bronze medals at EuroBasket. Greece Team has won a total of 14 medals till now. Greece is currently placed 8th in the FIBA World Rankings.
Greece Basketball team is in the Group F of Fiba 2019 Championship in which total 6 matches is to be played & 3 matches will be played by each team in the group stages. The other 3 teams are New Zealand, Brazil & Montenegro.
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History Of Greece Basketball Team
Basketball is a popular sport in Greece, one of the eight founding members of the International Basketball Federation was from Greece. Greece won their first major international title in EuroBasket 1987.
Greece made its international debut 14 years later in the EuroBasket 1949. Greece also made its first appearance in the Olympic Games in 1952.
| Year | Position |
| Egypt 1951 | 4th |
| Spain 1955 | 3rd |
| Tunisia 1967 | 4th |
| Turkey 1971 | 3rd |
| Algeria 1975 | 5th |
| Yugoslavia 1979 | 1st |
| Morocco 1983 | 4th |
| Syria 1987 | 3rd |
| Greece 1991 | 2nd |
| France 1993 | 4th |
| Italy 1997 | 4th |
| Tunisia 2001 | 2nd |
| Spain 2005 | 2nd |
| Italy 2009 | 2nd |
| Total | 14/16 |
Golden Year for Greece Team
Nikos Galis is one of the greatest Greek basketball legend, regarded as one of the all-time greatest players in both European and FIBA International.
In 1986, they qualified for 1986 FIBA World Championship and for the first time, they got rank 10th among the twenty-four nations.
In EuroBasket 1987, it was the first time that a Greek national team won a major tournament. The European champions failed to qualify for the 1988 Olympic Games.
Head Coaches
- Panagiotis Giannakis (1997–1998, 2004–2008)
- 1998 FIBA World Championship (4th place)
- 2004 Summer Olympic Games (5th place)
- 2006 FIBA World Championship Silver
- 2008 Summer Olympic Games (5th place)
- 2× Greek League Coach of the Year (2004, 2006)
Greece Basketball Team Roster & Matches for Basketball World Cup 2019
Here’s the Antetokounmpo brothers, Bourousis and Calathes all in Greece preliminary squad for World Cup – FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019 – FIBA.basketball
*Updated Greece Team Squad & Roster for FIBA Basketball World Championship 2019
| Player Name | Height | Pre-NBA Draft Team | Nationality |
| Thanasis Antetokounmpo | 6-5 | Delaware 87ers | Greece |
| 6-5 | Nigeria | ||
| Giannis Athineou | 7-1 | Greece | |
| Eleftherios Bochoridis | 6-6 | Panathinaikos (Greece) | Greece |
| Yannis Bourousis | 6-9 | Ifestos Limnou (Greece) | Greece |
| Nick Calathes | 6-9 | Florida | United States |
| 6-9 | Greece | ||
| Vasilis Charalambopoulos | 6-5 | PAOK BC (Greece) | Greece |
| Vasilis Christidis | 6-7 | Greece | |
| Linos Chrysikopoulos | 6-1 | PAOK BC (Greece) | Greece |
| Tyler Dorsey | 6-9 | Oregon | United States |
| 6-7 | Greece | ||
| Charis Giannopoulos | 6-5 | PAOK BC (Greece) | Greece |
| Nikolaos Gikias | 6-4 | Greece | |
| Dimitrios Kaklamanakis | 6-5 | Greece | |
| Leonidas Kaselakis | 6-4 | Ilisiakos BC (Greece) | Greece |
| Dimitrios Katsivelis | 6-5 | Olympiacos (Greece) | Greece |
| Antonios Koniaris | 6-8 | PAOK BC (Greece) | Greece |
| Giannoulis Larentzakis | 6-10 | Ikaros Kallitheas BC (Greece) | Greece |
| Michail Lountzis | 6-10 | Panathinaikos (Greece) | Greece |
| Evangelos Mantzaris | 6-4 | Olympiacos (Greece) | Greece |
| Evaggelis Margaritis | 7-2 | Greece | |
| Dimitrios Mavroeidis | 6-8 | RETAbet Bilbao Basket (Spain) | Greece |
| Kostas Mitoglou | 6-8 | Panathinaikos (Greece) | Greece |
| Vasilis Mouratos | 6-9 | Greece | |
| George Papagiannis | 6-10 | Panathinaikos (Greece) | Greece |
| Kostas Papanikolaou | 6-7 | Olympiacos (Greece) | Greece |
| Ioannis Papapetrou | 6-2 | Olympiacos (Greece) | Greece |
| Georgios Printezis | 6-9 | Ifestos Limnou (Greece) | Greece |
| Dusan Sakota | 6-10 | Panathinaikos (Greece) | Serbia |
| 6-7 | Greece | ||
| Christos Saloustros | 6-2 | Greece | |
| Kostas Sloukas | 6-2 | Olympiacos (Greece) | Greece |
| Michail Tsairelis | 6-9 | Greece | |
| Georgios Tsalmpouris | 6-10 | AEK Athens (Greece) | Greece |
| Panagiotis Vasilopoulos | 6-7 | PAOK BC (Greece) | Greece |
| Ian Vougioukas | 6-7 | Saint Louis | Greece |
FIBA World Cup 2019 Greece Basketball Team Matches within GROUP F
| September 1, 2019 (Sunday) | (8:00PM) Greece vs. Montenegro |
| September 3, 2019 (Tuesday) | (8:00PM) Brazil vs. Greece |
| September 5, 2019 (Thursday) | (8:00PM) Greece vs. New Zealand |
- Venue: Nanjing Youth Olympic Sports Park Gymnasium, Nanjing
| 1 September 2019 | |||||
New Zealand  |
– |  Brazil |
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Greece  |
– |  Montenegro |
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| 3 September 2019 | |||||
| Montenegro |
– | New Zealand |
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| Brazil |
– | Greece |
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| 5 September 2019 | |||||
| Brazil |
– | Montenegro |
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| Greece |
– | New Zealand |
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