The Saudi Arabia national basketball team is the national basketball team representing the Kingdom of
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in Western Asia. It covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and has a land area of about , making it the fifth-largest country in Asia, the second-largest in the A ...
. It is administrated by the
Saudi Arabian Basketball Federation. ( ar, اتحاد المملكة العربية السعودية لكرة السلة)
Its biggest success has been the Bronze medal at the
1999 Asian Championship. The team last qualified for the
2022 FIBA Asia Cup
The 2022 FIBA Asia Cup (formerly known as the FIBA Asia Championship) will be the 30th continental basketball championship in Asia. The tournament is organised by FIBA Asia.
Originally intended to be the 2021 edition, the tournament was initiall ...
.
Competition records
Summer Olympics
''yet to qualify''
FIBA World championships
''yet to qualify''
FIBA Asia Cup
Asian Games
*1951-74 : ''Did Not Qualify''
*1978 : 12th
*1982-86 : ''Did Not Qualify''
*1990 : 9th
*1994 : 7th
*1998-2010 : ''Did Not Qualify''
*2014 : 13th
*2018 : ''Did Not Qualify''
*2022 : ''To Be Determined''
Islamic Solidarity Games
*2005 : 6th
*2013 : 5th
''Beginning with the 2017 event, regular basketball was replaced by
3x3 basketball
3x3 basketball (pronounced ''three-ex-three'') is a variation of basketball played three-a-side, with one backboard and in a half-court setup. According to an ESSEC Business School study commissioned by the International Olympic Committee, 3x3 ...
.''
Arab Nations Championship
*1974-1975 : ?
*1978 :
*1981-1994 : ?
*1997 :
*1999-2005 : ?
*2007 :
*2008 : 5th
*2009 : 7th
*2010-2011 : ?
*2015 : 4th
*2017 : 4th
*2018 :
*2020 : ''To Be Determined''
Pan Arab Games
*1953-1992 : ?
*1997 :
*1999-2004 : ?
*
2007 : 8th
*
2011 : 11th
*2021 : ''To Be Determined''
Team
Current roster
2021 FIBA Asia Cup qualification
Due to the
COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identi ...
, the FIBA Executive Committee decided that for the 2020 November window games will be held at a single venue under a
bubble format.
Venue:
Al-Gharafa Sports Club Multi-Purpose Hall
Al-Gharafa Sports Club ( ar, نادي الغرافة الرياضي) is a Qatari multisports club based in the Al Gharrafa district of Al Rayyan. It is best known for its football team, although it also has teams for other sports. It was estab ...
,
Doha
Doha ( ar, الدوحة, ad-Dawḥa or ''ad-Dōḥa'') is the capital city and main financial hub of Qatar. Located on the Persian Gulf coast in the east of the country, north of Al Wakrah and south of Al Khor, it is home to most of the count ...
Opposition:
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...
(28 November)
Opposition:
Qatar
Qatar (, ; ar, قطر, Qaṭar ; local vernacular pronunciation: ), officially the State of Qatar,) is a country in Western Asia. It occupies the Qatar Peninsula on the northeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula in the Middle East; it ...
(30 November)
Depth chart
Past rosters
2021 FIBA Asia Cup qualification
Opposition:
Qatar
Qatar (, ; ar, قطر, Qaṭar ; local vernacular pronunciation: ), officially the State of Qatar,) is a country in Western Asia. It occupies the Qatar Peninsula on the northeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula in the Middle East; it ...
(20 February)
Venue:
King Abdullah Sports City
King Abdullah Sports City (Arabic: مدينة الملك عبدالله الرياضية), also nicknamed The Shining Jewel, in Arabic (al-Jawharaa Al-Moshe'ah) (Arabic: الجوهرة المشعة) or simply The Jewel, in Arabic (al-Jawhara) (A ...
,
Jeddah
Opposition:
Syria (23 February)
Venue:
King Abdullah Sports City
King Abdullah Sports City (Arabic: مدينة الملك عبدالله الرياضية), also nicknamed The Shining Jewel, in Arabic (al-Jawharaa Al-Moshe'ah) (Arabic: الجوهرة المشعة) or simply The Jewel, in Arabic (al-Jawhara) (A ...
,
Jeddah
In February 2020, at the
2021 FIBA Asia Cup qualification
The 2022 FIBA Asia Cup qualification was a basketball competition that was played from February 2018 to August 2021, to determine the fifteen FIBA Asia-Oceania nations who would join the automatically qualified host Indonesia at the 2022 FIBA As ...
games,
Khalid Abdel-Gabar averaged most minutes, points and assists for Saudi Arabia.
2018
FIBA Asia Cup Pre-qualifiers Squad:
2017 Arab Nations Basketball Championship Squad:
2012 Squad:
2014 Asian Games Squad:
Head coach position
* Lofti Chikhaoui – 2011
* Nenad Krdzic – 2013
* Abdulrahim Akhtar – 2014
* Mensur Bajramovic – 2017
* Ali Alsanhani – 2018 السعودية تقلب الطاولة على فلسطين وتحقق انتصارًا ثمينًا
alayam.com, 13 September 2018. Accessed 29 May 2020.
* Johan Roijakkers – 2022
See also
* Saudi Arabia national under-19 basketball team
* Saudi Arabia national under-17 basketball team
* Saudi Arabia national 3x3 team
* Saudi Arabia women's national basketball team
References
External links
Saudi Arabia Basketball Records at FIBA Archive
Asia-basket - Saudi Arabia Men National Team
Saudi Basketball Federation
on Instagram
Videos
#FIBAAsia - Day 1: Saudi Arabia v Philippines (highlights)
Youtube.com video
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Basketball teams established in 1964
1964 establishments in Saudi Arabia