Austria men's national basketball team

Austria

FIBA ranking	65 (1 March 2024)[1]
Joined FIBA	1934
FIBA zone	FIBA Europe
National federation	Basketball Austria
Coach	Chris O'Shea
Nickname(s)	Das Team (The Team) Unsere Burschen (Our Boys)
FIBA World Cup
Appearances	None
EuroBasket
Appearances	6
Medals	None
Championship for Small Countries
Appearances	2
Medals	Gold: (1992, 1996)
Home Away
First international
Bulgaria 56–13 Austria  (Prague, Czechoslovakia; 27 April 1947)
Biggest win
Algeria 63–119 Austria  (Böblingen, West Germany; 13 May 1975)
Biggest defeat
France 100–6 Austria  (Prague, Czechoslovakia; 28 April 1947)

The Austria men's national basketball team (German: Österreichische Basketballnationalmannschaft) represents Austria in international basketball competition. The team is controlled and organised by Basketball Austria.

Austria has competed at the EuroBasket six times throughout their history. Their best performance overall came at the 1951 tournament. However, the team is still seeking qualification to their first appearance on to the global stage at the FIBA World Cup.

History

EuroBasket 1947

Austria first competed in the European Basketball Championship at EuroBasket 1947, placing 12th of 14 teams. Initially, the team struggled and lost both of their preliminary round matches, along with their first semifinal round match. Then they defeated Albania to place second in the group and set up a match against the Netherlands for 11th and 12th place, which Austria lost after a long battle.

EuroBasket 1951

Austria made their second appearance on the continental stage at EuroBasket 1951 in Paris. The national team was eliminated from championship contention after finishing 1–3 in pool play and fourth in their group. They won all three of their first round classification games, however, advancing to the 9th–12th place classification semifinals. A loss to the Netherlands, but a win over West Germany propelled Austria into 11th place of the 18 teams in the tournament.

EuroBasket 1955

Austria's appearance at EuroBasket 1955 in Budapest began with a 2–2 showing in preliminary round play. This was good enough for third place in the pool, and Austria was pushed to classification play. There, they were able to win only 1 out of 4 games (the win coming against West Germany), placing fourth of the five teams in the group. Playing against Luxembourg and then Switzerland in classification for the 13th–16th place playoffs, Austria won both games to finish 13th of the 18 teams.

EuroBasket 1957

In Sofia for the EuroBasket 1957 competition, Austria was defeated three times in the preliminary round. Their 0–3 record put them last in their group and sent them to the classification pool. The team won two games there, finishing at a record of 2–5 to take an overall 14th place in the 16 team tournament.

Later years

Austria went on to qualify to the EuroBasket two more times in 1959 and 1977. But since then it has been a struggle for the national team to qualify for major international basketball tournaments.

Competitive record

Results and fixtures

  Win   Loss

2023

2024

2025

Team

Current roster

Roster for the 2027 FIBA World Cup Pre-Qualifiers match on 22 February 2024 against Armenia.^[2]

Austria men's national basketball team roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. No. Name Age – Date of birth Height Club Ctr. G 5 Bogić Vujošević 31 – (1992-08-05)5 August 1992 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in) Vienna PG 6 Daniel Friedrich 32 – (1992-02-11)11 February 1992 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) Swans PG 7 Sebastian Kaferle 27 – (1996-09-23)23 September 1996 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) Gunners G 15 Aleksej Kostić 18 – (2005-10-16)16 October 2005 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) Traiskirchen PF 16 Renato Poljak 26 – (1997-04-20)20 April 1997 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) Wels G/F 17 Erol Ersek 24 – (1999-04-20)20 April 1999 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) Tübingen PG 21 Benedikt Güttl 30 – (1994-02-18)18 February 1994 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) Swans C 24 Rašid Mahalbašić 33 – (1990-11-07)7 November 1990 2.08 m (6 ft 10 in) Halcones de Xalapa F 33 Omer Suljanović 18 – (2005-04-02)2 April 2005 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) Reggiana F/C 35 Luka Brajkovic 24 – (1999-06-26)26 June 1999 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) Kolossos SF 40 Quincy Diggs 33 – (1990-04-08)8 April 1990 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) Sopron SG 77 Timo Lanmüller 22 – (2001-03-17)17 March 2001 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) Tübingen	Head coach Chris O'Shea Assistant coach(es) Benedikt Danek Legend (C) Team captain Club – describes last club before the competition Age – describes age on 22 February 2024

Depth chart

Pos.	Starting 5	Bench 1	Bench 2
C	Renato Poljak	Daniel Köppel
PF	Erol Ersek	David Vötsch
SF	Edi Patekar	Jakob Lohr	Lukas Simoner
SG	Bogić Vujošević	Timo Lanmüller
PG	Benedikt Güttl	Sebastian Kaferle	Tobias Schrittwieser

Head coaches

Notable players

• Jakob Pöltl – First Austrian-born player to get drafted and play in the NBA.

Past rosters

1947 EuroBasket: finished 12th among 14 teams

3 Frankl, 4 Hans Bohman, 5 Eder, 6 Ganglberger, 7 Franz Gluck, 8 Herbert Haselbacher, 9 Paulin, 10 Konrad Pitsch, 12 Helmut Schmidt, 13 Richard Pollak, 15 Otto Schreiweiss, 16 Vostatek, 17 Hans Zsak, 29 Walter Ledl (Coach: ?)

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1951 EuroBasket: finished 11th among 17 teams

3 Hans Zsak, 5 Gerhard Puschner, 6 Peter Vecernik, 7 Richard Pollak, 8 Herbert Haselbacher, 10 Walter Ledl, 13 Felix Schober, 15 Franz Gluck, 16 Hans Bohman, 17 Benno Binder, 18 Ewald Polansky, 19 Hans Praschl (Coach: Miodrag Stefanović)

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1955 EuroBasket: finished 13th among 18 teams

3 Gunter Brousek, 4 Karl Hackl, 5 Franz Gebhard, 6 Oskar Doppes, 7 Ewald Polansky, 8 Helmut Schmidt, 9 Karl Thiering, 10 Helmut Schurer, 11 Baczinsky, 12 Johann Karall, 13 Karl Machek, 14 Peter Vecernik, 15 Karl Privoznik, 17 Alfred Probst (Coach: Janos Gerdov)

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1957 EuroBasket: finished 14th among 16 teams

3 Nikolaus Waldingbrett, 4 Gunter Brousek, 5 Johann Karall, 6 Friedrich Walz, 7 Ewald Polansky, 8 Herwig Schon, 9 Werner Grohs, 10 Karl Thiering, 11 Alfred Waschkau, 12 Helmut Schurer, 14 Franz Vranitzky, 15 Alfred Probst (Coach: Herbert Haselbacher)

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1959 EuroBasket: finished 16th among 17 teams

3 Friedrich Walz, 4 Peter Kotas, 5 Franz Havlicek, 6 Oskar Doppes, 7 Ewald Polansky, 8 Herwig Schon, 9 Walter Ledl, 10 Karl Thiering, 11 Alfred Probst, 12 Heinz Vybiral, 13 Ernst Tutschek, 15 Karl Privoznik (Coach: Herbert Haselbacher)

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1977 EuroBasket: finished 12th among 12 teams

4 Wolfgang Vlk, 5 Friedrich Miklas, 6 Bernhard Slavicek, 7 Peter Bilik, 8 Peter Poiger, 9 Herbert Watzke, 10 Erich Tecka, 11 Werner Meisinger, 12 Helmut Zimmel, 13 Walter Fuchs, 14 Peter Wolf, 15 Herbert Haselbacher (Coach: Jan Hluchy)

Kit

Manufacturer

• 2015–2017: Spalding^[3]

Sponsor

• 2015–2017: Admiral (Sportwetten)^[3]

See also

• Sport in Austria
• Austria women's national basketball team
• Austria men's national under-20 basketball team
• Austria men's national under-18 basketball team
• Austria men's national under-16 basketball team

References

External links