Portugal men's national basketball team
The Portugal men's national basketball team (Portuguese: Seleção Portuguesa de Basquetebol) represents Portugal in international basketball competition. The team is controlled by the Portuguese Basketball Federation.
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FIBA ranking | 58 ![]() | ||
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Joined FIBA | 1932 (co-founders) | ||
FIBA zone | FIBA Europe | ||
National federation | FPB | ||
Coach | Mário Gomes | ||
Nickname(s) | A Seleção das Quinas (Selection of the Quinas) | ||
FIBA World Cup | |||
Appearances | None | ||
EuroBasket | |||
Appearances | 3 | ||
Medals | None | ||
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First international | |||
![]() ![]() (Madrid, Spain; 15 April 1935) | |||
Biggest win | |||
![]() ![]() (São Lázaro, Macau; 13 October 2006) | |||
Biggest defeat | |||
![]() ![]() (Szombathely, Hungary; 6 May 1973) |
Portugal doesn't have much history on the international stage, although they have qualified for the EuroBasket three times (1951, 2007, 2011). While Portugal has made multiple appearances at the continental level, they continue their quest to qualify for the global stage at the FIBA World Cup.
History
Early years
The Portuguese Basketball Federation was founded in 1927, and would become a co-founder of FIBA in 1932. Three years later, in 1935, Portugal played its first match in the only qualification game for the first ever European Basketball Championship. The Portuguese lost the game 33–12 against Spain, which eliminated the team to qualify.[2]
EuroBasket 1951
After Portugal's failed attempt to qualify for the European Championship in 1935, and declining to enter the competition multiple times thereafter; Portugal made their debut at the Euros for EuroBasket 1951 in Paris. The national team got off to a lethargic start to begin the tournament, as they lost 35–81 in their first ever match in the event to Greece.[3] In Portugal's final two games of the preliminary round, the team would fall once again to Bulgaria, but would pick up their first official victory in the competition with a walkover win after Romania withdrew. With a record of (1–2) and sitting in third place in the group, Portugal could not progress any further and was relegated to the classification rounds. In the classification phase, Portugal lost its first two matches against West Germany and Austria, but would pullout a close win over Switzerland 49–52.[4] Finishing with a duplicate record of (1–2) once again, Portugal was sent to the classification play-offs to determine 13th–16th place. The national team would go on to lose their match to Denmark, before turning around to defeat Scotland to end the event placing 15th overall out of the 18 teams.[5]
EuroBasket 2007
At the conclusion of Portugal's first appearance at the European Championship in 1951, the national team would fail to make it back to the competition for the next five decades. However, Portugal would end their drought when they made their second appearance on the continental stage at EuroBasket 2007 (first time through direct qualification) by finishing first in their group during the qualifiers.
Entering the preliminary round, Portugal's first match of the tournament came against the hosts Spain, where the team suffered a heavy defeat 56–82.[6] After dropping their second game of the competition to Croatia, Portugal earned a crucial victory in their final preliminary phase match against Latvia 77–67.[7] The important win over Latvia ultimately was enough to propel the team into the second round of the tournament for the first time.
Portugal began the second round with a loss against Russia, who eventually went on to become champions of the competition; before picking up a solid victory in their second game of the round versus Israel 94–85.[8] Although with an opportunity to advance to the quarter-finals all but gone, Portugal would easily be defeated by Greece 85–67 in their final game of the event.[9] Nevertheless, the performance displayed by Portugal throughout the tournament was their best showing at the Euros ever to that point; which ensured the national team a top ten finish.[10]
EuroBasket 2011
After missing out on qualification for the EuroBasket in 2009, Portugal was successful during the qualifiers for EuroBasket 2011. Portugal was placed into Group A to begin the tournament, where they would meet Turkey in their first match. However, the team was outplayed from start to finish, in a 79–56 loss.[11] At a record of (0–1), Portugal's task of winning their next match would be even tougher, with a date against Spain. Even with a valiant effort put up by the national team, Spain were just too much to overcome in the 73–87 defeat.[12] For Portugal's final three group stage matches, the team was unable to put together an efficient stretch of basketball for a full game; which resulted in three more losses to prevent the team from advancing.[13]
EuroBasket 2017 qualification
In the attempt for Portugal to reach the European Championship once again, after failed opportunities to qualify in 2013 and 2015; the national team was placed into Group D during the qualifying process. However, Portugal struggled in their first five matches in the qualifiers (0–5), to come away with their only win against Belarus 77–62 before being eliminated.[14]
2019 World Cup qualification
During qualification for Portugal to advance toward making their first appearance in the FIBA World Cup, the team first had to make it through European Pre-Qualifiers in order to realize their chance. Unfortunately, the national team was unable to improve on their performance they would display during qualifying for the prior EuroBasket, and would fail to progress further with a record of (1–3).[15]
EuroBasket 2022 qualification
After Portugal's failure to qualify for the EuroBasket on multiple occasions after their last appearance in 2011, the team began the procedure to try to qualify for EuroBasket 2022. Portugal began their journey with the Pre-Qualifiers, being drawn into Group C for the first round. In their opening game, the team would lose in a narrow contest to Cyprus, before defeating Luxembourg. With two games left to go in the first round, Portugal put away Cyprus in the rematch before cruising past Luxembourg once again to advance into the second phase of pre-qualifiers at (3–1).[16] In the second round, however, Portugal's fortunes would completely be reversed as the team went (1–3) in this phase to need the third and final round to determine their fate. There, Portugal would only manage to achieve slightly better results at (2–2), but still finished at the bottom of their group again to miss out on qualification.[17]
Competitive record
FIBA World Cup
Olympic Games
Lusofonia Games
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EuroBasket
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Results and fixtures
Win Loss
2020
20 February 2020 | Portugal ![]() |
70–62 | ![]() |
Albufeira, Portugal |
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18:30 | Scoring by quarter: 9–18, 22–13, 13–16, 26–15 | |||
Pts: Fonseca 16 Rebs: Fonseca, Queiroz 6 Asts: Lisboa, Ventura 4 |
Boxscore | Pts: Taflaj 18 Rebs: Lekndreaj 9 Asts: Shestani 7 |
Arena: Pavilhão Desportivo de Albufeira Referees: Can Mavisu (TUR), Raúl Zamorano (ESP), James Dominique (GIB) |
24 February 2020 | Belarus ![]() |
72–56 | ![]() |
Minsk, Belarus |
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19:00 | Scoring by quarter: 19–18, 15–11, 19–18, 19–9 | |||
Pts: Salash 19 Rebs: Veremeenko 9 Asts: Stabrouski 6 |
Boxscore | Pts: Wilson 15 Rebs: three players 4 Asts: Ventura 4 |
Arena: Minsk Sports Palace Referees: Marek Kúkelčík (SVK), Juozas Barkauskas (LTU), Kristaps Konstantinovs (LAT) |
26 November 2020 | Portugal ![]() |
74–56 | ![]() |
Matosinhos, Portugal* [note 1] |
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19:30 | Scoring by quarter: 17–21, 27–12, 14–11, 16–12 | |||
Pts: Fonseca 12 Rebs: Fonseca 6 Asts: Lisboa 5 |
Boxscore | Pts: Koumis 15 Rebs: Koumis, Mantovani 7 Asts: Michail 5 |
Arena: Centro de Desportos e Congressos Referees: Mart Uuehendrik (EST), Nikola Perlić (CRO), Maxime Boubert (FRA) |
28 November 2020 | Albania ![]() |
70–88 | ![]() |
Matosinhos, Portugal* [note 1] |
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18:00 | Scoring by quarter: 16–22, 21–26, 25–21, 8–19 | |||
Pts: Shima 18 Rebs: Lekndreaj 7 Asts: Lekndreaj 7 |
Boxscore | Pts: Bastos 16 Rebs: Queiroz 8 Asts: Lisboa, Ventura 7 |
Arena: Centro de Desportos e Congressos Referees: Charalampos Karakatsounis (GRE), Guido Giovannetti (ITA), Alberto Sánchez (ESP) |
2021
18 February 2021 | Portugal ![]() |
75–57 | ![]() |
Nicosia, Cyprus* [note 1] |
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16:00 | Scoring by quarter: 14–12, 25–11, 17–6, 19–28 | |||
Pts: Amarante 14 Rebs: Queiroz, Ventura 6 Asts: Ventura 6 |
Boxscore | Pts: Blizniuk, Vikentsyeu 12 Rebs: Vikentsyeu 6 Asts: Blizniuk 5 |
Arena: Eleftheria Indoor Hall Referees: Ciprian Stoica (ROU), Aleksandar Milojević (MKD), Nemanja Ninković (SRB) |
20 February 2021 | Cyprus ![]() |
52–84 | ![]() |
Nicosia, Cyprus* [note 1] |
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16:00 | Scoring by quarter: 13–21, 9–24, 16–17, 14–22 | |||
Pts: Stylianou 15 Rebs: Maragkos 7 Asts: three players 2 |
Boxscore | Pts: Borovnjak 21 Rebs: Borovnjak 11 Asts: Barbosa 6 |
Arena: Eleftheria Indoor Hall Referees: Aleksandar Milojević (MKD), Ciprian Stoica (ROU), Ilya Putenko (RUS) |
12 August 2021 | Sweden ![]() |
77–79 | ![]() |
Matosinhos, Portugal* [note 2] |
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18:00 WEST (UTC+1) | Scoring by quarter: 14–16, 18–22, 21–23, 24–18 | |||
Pts: Czerapowicz 16 Rebs: Birgander 11 Asts: Håkanson 11 |
Boxscore | Pts: Borovnjak 20 Rebs: Borovnjak, Queiroz 6 Asts: Barbosa, Silva 6 |
Arena: Centro de Desportos e Congressos de Matosinhos Referees: Erez Gurion (ISR), Martin Vulić (CRO), Gvidas Gedvilas (LTU) |
13 August 2021 | Portugal ![]() |
83–74 | ![]() |
Matosinhos, Portugal* [note 2] |
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18:00 WEST (UTC+1) | Scoring by quarter: 21–12, 26–16, 20–26, 16–20 | |||
Pts: Brito 20 Rebs: Delgado, Queiroz 8 Asts: Barbosa 7 |
Boxscore | Pts: Laurent 14 Rebs: Laurent 10 Asts: Rugg 4 |
Arena: Centro de Desportos e Congressos de Matosinhos Referees: Andris Aunkrogers (LAT), Zdravko Rutešić (MNE), Tanel Suslov (EST) |
16 August 2021 | Portugal ![]() |
60–79 | ![]() |
Matosinhos, Portugal* [note 2] |
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18:00 WEST (UTC+1) | Scoring by quarter: 12–16, 20–15, 12–23, 16–25 | |||
Pts: Brito 12 Rebs: Delgado 8 Asts: Barbosa 3 |
Boxscore | Pts: Andersson 18 Rebs: three players 7 Asts: Håkanson 7 |
Arena: Centro de Desportos e Congressos de Matosinhos Referees: Andris Aunkrogers (LAT), Tanel Suslov {EST), Martin Vulić (CRO) |
17 August 2021 | Luxembourg ![]() |
74–80 | ![]() |
Matosinhos, Portugal* [note 2] |
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18:00 WEST (UTC+1) | Scoring by quarter: 19–23, 27–25, 7–13, 21–19 | |||
Pts: Rugg 20 Rebs: Rugg 6 Asts: Melcher 6 |
Boxscore | Pts: Borovnjak 17 Rebs: Queiroz 7 Asts: three players 3 |
Arena: Centro de Desportos e Congressos de Matosinhos Referees: Martin Vulić (CRO), Erez Gurion (ISR), Zdravko Rutešić (MNE) |
26 November 2021 | Portugal ![]() |
75–81 | ![]() |
Matosinhos | ||
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18:00 | Scoring by quarter: 15–20, 19–18, 16–23, 26–20 | |||||
Pts: Borovnjak 16 Rebs: Monteiro 6 Asts: Ventura 5 |
Boxscore | Pts: Perl 19 Rebs: Keller 7 Asts: Váradi 6 |
Arena: Centro de Desportos e Congressos de Matosinhos Attendance: 1,500 Referees: Wojciech Liszka (POL), Ivor Matějek (CZE), Gintaras Vitkauskas (LTU) |
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29 November 2021 | Montenegro ![]() |
83–69 | ![]() |
Podgorica | ||
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18:30 | Scoring by quarter: 24–14, 17–22, 23–20, 19–13 | |||||
Pts: Cobbs 22 Rebs: Nikolić 11 Asts: three players 3 |
Boxscore | Pts: Relvão 16 Rebs: Queiroz 9 Asts: Barbosa 6 |
Arena: Bemax Arena Attendance: 1 Referees: Manuel Mazzoni (ITA), Vilius Mačiulaitis (LTU), Sergei Beliakov (RUS) |
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2022
24 February 2022 | France ![]() |
94–56 | ![]() |
Dijon | ||
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19:00 | Scoring by quarter: 15–17, 22–16, 27–11, 30–12 | |||||
Pts: Labeyrie 15 Rebs: Tarpey 10 Asts: Cordinier 7 |
Boxscore | Pts: Brito 15 Rebs: Queiroz 4 Asts: Brito, Ventura 4 |
Arena: Palais des Sports de Dijon Attendance: 4,000 Referees: Aleksandar Glišić (SRB), Viola Györgyi (NOR), Geert Jacobs (BEL) |
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27 February 2022 | Portugal ![]() |
56–69 | ![]() |
Matosinhos | ||
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17:00 | Scoring by quarter: 16–17, 19–17, 8–15, 13–20 | |||||
Pts: Lisboa 14 Rebs: Borovnjak 7 Asts: Barbosa 5 |
Boxscore | Pts: M'Baye 16 Rebs: Lessort, Tarpey 6 Asts: Julien 5 |
Arena: Centro de Desportos e Congressos de Matosinhos Attendance: 4,000 Referees: Oskars Lūcis (LAT), Zdenko Tomašovič (SVK), Vladimir Jevtović (SRB) |
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4 July 2022 | Portugal ![]() |
vs. | ![]() |
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Team
Current roster
Roster for the 2023 FIBA World Cup Qualifiers matches on 24 and 27 February 2022 against France.[20][21]
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Depth chart
Pos. | Starting 5 | Bench 1 | Bench 2 |
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C | Saša Borovnjak | Daniel Relvão | |
PF | Miguel Queiroz | Gonçalo Delgado | João Guerreiro |
SF | Diogo Araújo | Vladyslav Voytso | |
SG | Diogo Brito | Pedro Bastos | Francisco Amarante |
PG | Diogo Ventura | José Barbosa |
Head coach position
Luis Magalhaes – (1999)
Valentin Melnychuk – (2000–2007)
Moncho Lopez – (2008–2010)
Mário Palma – (2011–2013)
Ricardo Vasconcelos – (2014)
Mário Palma – (2015–2016)
Mário Gomes – (2016–present)
Notable players
- Tó Ferreira
- João Gomes
- Carlos Lisboa
- Nuno Marçal
- Pedro Miguel
- Pedro Nuno
- Rui Pinheiro
- Mike Plowden
- Sérgio Ramos
- Steve Rocha
Past rosters
1951 EuroBasket: finished 15th among 18 teams
3 Mário Almeida, 4 Bernardo Leite, 5 Rui Duarte, 6 Avelino Carmo, 7 Máximo Couto, 8 Lenine Santos, 9 José Oliveira, 10 Antonio Cardoso, 11 César Cardoso, 12 Domingos Diogo, 14 José Almeida, 15 João Coutinho (Coach: Fernando Amaral)
2007 EuroBasket: finished 9th among 16 teams
4 Miguel Minhava, 5 Mário Gil Fernandes, 6 Sérgio Ramos, 7 Paulo Cunha, 8 Francisco Jordão, 9 Filipe da Silva, 10 João Gomes, 11 Jorge Coelho, 12 Paulo Simão, 13 Elvis Évora, 14 Miguel Miranda 15 João Santos (Coach: Valentin Melnychuk)
2011 EuroBasket: finished 21st among 24 teams
4 António Tavares, 5 José Costa, 6 Miguel Minhava, 7 Fernando Sousa, 8 Cláudio Fonseca, 9 Filipe da Silva, 10 Carlos Andrade, 11 José Silva, 12 Elvis Évora, 13 Marco Goncalves, 14 Miguel Miranda, 15 João Santos (Coach: Mário Palma)
See also
Notes
- Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all matches in the November 2020 and February 2021 windows were played behind closed doors in select host cities.[18]
- Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all matches during the European Pre-Qualifiers second round window in August 2021 were played in a single location in select host cities.[19]
References
- "FIBA Ranking Presented by Nike". FIBA. 1 March 2022. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
- "Spain v Portugal EuroBasket 1935 qualification results".
- "Portugal v Greece EuroBasket 1951 game results".
- "Switzerland v Portugal EuroBasket 1951 game results".
- "EuroBasket 1951 tournament results".
- "Portugal v Spain EuroBasket 2011 game results". Archive.fiba.com. 3 September 2011.
- "Portugal v Latvia EuroBasket 2011 game results". Archive.fiba.com. 5 September 2011.
- "Portugal Surprise Israel". fibaeurope.com. 9 September 2007.
- "Greece Send Valiant Portugal Home". fibaeurope.com. 11 September 2007.
- "Portugal at the EuroBasket 2007". Archive.fiba.com. 11 September 2007.
- "Turkey v Portugal EuroBasket 2011 game results". Archive.fiba.com. 31 August 2011.
- "Portugal v Spain EuroBasket 2011 game results". Archive.fiba.com. 1 September 2011.
- "Portugal at the EuroBasket 2011". Archive.fiba.com. 5 September 2011.
- "Portugal during the EuroBasket 2017 Qualifiers". Retrieved 17 September 2016.
- "Portugal during the 2019 FIBA World Cup European Pre-Qualifiers". Retrieved 19 August 2017.
- "Portugal avoid drama against Luxembourg, sail through to the Second Round". Retrieved 28 June 2018.
- "Portugal during the EuroBasket 2022 Pre-Qualifiers". Retrieved 17 August 2019.
- "Statement regarding the November 2020 and February 2021 Qualifiers". Retrieved 18 September 2020.
- "Find out who is hosting the European Pre-Qualifiers Second Round". Retrieved 10 June 2021.
- "Convocatória da Seleção Nacional de seniores masculinos". fpb.pt. Retrieved 14 February 2022.
- "Portugal during the 2023 FIBA World Cup European Qualifiers in Feb. 2022". Retrieved 24 February 2022.
- 2015 Elvis Evora Photos - Standard Life Team GB Men v Portugal - Basketball, Zimbio.com, Retrieved 8 July 2016.
External links
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- Official website (in Portuguese)
- Portugal at FIBA site
- Portugal National Team - Men at Eurobasket.com
- Portugal Basketball Records at FIBA Archive