Russia Basketball Team Roster, Schedule, Matches FIBA World Cup 2019
Russia Basketball Team Roster & Schedule for FIBA World Cup 2019 China. Find Men’s Basketball Russian world cup matches schedule, players & National basketball team squad for FIBA 2019.
The Russian national basketball team is the most powerful team for FIBA Basketball Worldcup. The Russian Team is managed by the Russian Basketball Federation (RBF). Russian national basketball team is very old and come to existence after the Soviet Union basketball team.
The Russian team were champions at EuroBasket 2007 and won bronze medals at EuroBasket 2011. This was the turning point for the team.
After Blatt left the staff, the team saw a deep crisis due to corruption and issue with FIBA. The team performed poorly at EuroBasket 2015 and that’s why team Russia did not qualify for the 2016 Summer Olympics. The current head coach is Sergei Bazarevich.
Russia Basketball team is in the Group B 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 Nigeria, Argentina & South Korea.
History Of Russia Basketball Team
Russia participated in EuroBasket 1993 Germany. The roster included famous players like Sergey Bazarevich, Dmitry Sukharev. Russia became runners-uu in EuroBasket 1993 Germany.
Sergey Belov became the new head coach after the EuroBasket and then team Russia took the 7th place. At the EuroBasket 2001, the Russians took the overall 5th place. Russia qualified for the quarterfinals the 2002 World Cup.
Russia Basketball Team Medals
Olympic Games
- Bronze: (2012)
FIBA World Cup
- Silver: (1994, 1998)
EuroBasket
- Gold: (2007)
- Silver: (1993)
- Bronze: (1997, 2011)
| Year | Position |
| 1935 to 1991 | Did not participate |
| 1993 | – |
| 1995 | 7th |
| 1997 | – |
| 1999 | 6th |
| 2001 | 5th |
| 2003 | 8th |
| 2005 | 8th |
| 2007 | – |
| 2009 | 7th |
| 2011 | – |
| 2013 | 21st |
| 2015 | 17th |
| 2017 | Qualified |
Team Russia won the EuroBasket 2007. At the 2008 Olympics, the Russian roster has strong players. In the first match, they defeated Iran. Team Russia got 24th place at the EuroBasket 2013.
Russia Basketball Team Roster & Matches for Basketball World Cup 2019
*Updated Russian Team Squad & Roster for FIBA Basketball World Championship 2019
| Name | Position | Height(Feet-Inch) | Birthdate | NBA Draft |
| Pavel Antipov | F | 6-9 | Sep 19, 1991 | UNICS Kazan (Russia) |
| Semen Antonov | SF | 6-8 | Jul 18, 1989 | – |
| Evgeny Baburin | SG | 6-3 | Jul 4, 1987 | – |
| Nikita Balashov | PF | 6-8 | Jun 19, 1991 | Krasnye Krylia (Russia) |
| Joel Bolomboy | FC | 6-9 | Jan 28, 1994 | Weber State |
| Vitaliy Fridzon | SG | 6-5 | Oct 14, 1985 | Khimki (Russia) |
| Petr Gubanov | PF | 6-8 | Apr 3, 1987 | Dynamo Saint Petersburg (Russia) |
| Stanislav Ilnitskiy | PF | 6-7 | Feb 24, 1994 | Khimki (Russia) |
| Vladimir Ivlev | F | 6-9 | Feb 28, 1990 | Dynamo Moscow (Russia) |
| Sergey Karasev | SF | 6-7 | Oct 26, 1993 | Zenit Saint Petersburg (Russia) |
| Dmitriy Khvostov | G | 6-3 | Aug 21, 1989 | Khimki (Russia) |
| Artem Klimenko | C | 7-0 | Jan 10, 1994 | Avtodor Saratov (Russia) |
| Dmitry Kulagin | SG | 6-6 | Jul 1, 1992 | Krasnye Krylia (Russia) |
| Mikhail Kulagin | SG | 6-2 | Aug 4, 1994 | Zenit Saint Petersburg (Russia) |
| Nikita Kurbanov | F | 6-8 | Oct 5, 1986 | Spartak Saint Petersburg (Russia) |
| Timofey Mozgov | C | 7-1 | Jul 16, 1986 | Khimki (Russia) |
| Alexey Shved | G | 6-6 | Dec 16, 1988 | Dynamo Moscow (Russia) |
| Ivan Strebkov | G | 6-3 | Jul 27, 1991 | CSKA Moscow (Russia) |
| Vladislav Trushkin | PF | 6-7 | May 5, 1993 | Sparta&K M.R. Vidnoje (Russia) |
| Ivan Ukhov | SF | 6-2 | Sep 11, 1995 | Parma Basket Perm (Russia) |
| Evgeny Valiev | F | 6-7 | May 3, 1990 | Zenit Saint Petersburg (Russia) |
| Andrey Vorontsevich | F | 6-9 | Jul 17, 1987 | CSKA Moscow (Russia) |
| Artem Zabelin | FC | 7-1 | Jan 15, 1988 | CSKA Moscow (Russia) |
| Vyacheslav Zaytsev | G | 6-3 | Aug 28, 1989 | – |
| Andrey Zubkov | SF | 6-9 | Jun 29, 1991 | Lokomotiv Kuban (Russia) |
Head coach positions
Yuri Selikhov – 1992–1993
Sergei Belov – 1993–2000
Stanislav Eremin – 1999–2002
Sergey Elevich – 2003–2004
Sergei Babkov – 2004–2005
Israel David Blatt – 2006–2012
Fotis Katsikaris – 2012–2013
Vasiliy Karasev – 2013
Evgeny Pashutin – 2014–2015
Sergey Bazarevich – Since 2016
FIBA World Cup 2019 Russia Basketball Team Matches within GROUP B
| Date | Matches |
| August 31, 2019 (Saturday) | (4:30PM) Russia vs. Nigeria |
| September 2, 2019 (Monday) | (8:30PM) Korea vs. Russia |
| September 4, 2019 (Wednesday) | (8:30PM) Russia vs. Argentina |
Venue : Wuhan Gymnasium, Wuhan
| 31 August 2019 | |||||
Russia  |
– |  Nigeria |
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Argentina  |
– |  South Korea |
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| 2 September 2019 | |||||
| Nigeria |
– | Argentina |
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| South Korea |
– | Russia |
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| 4 September 2019 | |||||
| South Korea |
– | Nigeria |
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| Russia |
– | Argentina |
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