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Iceland national basketball team

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FIBA zone
  
FIBA Europe

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Location
  
Iceland

Joined FIBA
  
1959

Appearances
  
2

Coach
  
Craig Pedersen

FIBA ranking
  
84

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National federation
  
Icelandic Basketball Federation

The Icelandic national basketball team is the national men's basketball team of Iceland.

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The team participates at European tournaments. It qualified for the FIBA Eurobasket 2015 and is well represented in the Games of the Small States of Europe.

EuroBasket 2015

On August 28, 2014, Iceland qualified for the EuroBasket 2015, joining for the first time in its history the Final Round of the top European competition. Iceland achieved two wins to Great Britain and two narrow losses to Bosnia and Herzegovina, which allowed them to qualify as one of the best second teams.

Iceland could not win any of its five game in the Group B, played in Berlin, Germany.

EuroBasket 2017

On 17 September 2016, Iceland repeated it success and qualified again to the continental tournament. The Icelandic team finished its qualification group as runner-up below Belgium and over Cyprus and Switzerland, with four wins and two losses.

Current roster

Roster for the EuroBasket 2017 qualification.

References

Iceland national basketball team Wikipedia