Yugoslavia men's national under-16 basketball team

The Yugoslavia men's national under-16 basketball team (Serbo-Croatian: Kadetska košarkaška reprezentacija Jugoslavije) was the boy's basketball team, administered by Basketball Federation of Yugoslavia, that represented SFR Yugoslavia in international under-16 (under age 16) men's basketball competitions, consisted mainly of the European Championship for Cadets, nowadays known as the FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship.

Yugoslavia men's national under-16 basketball team

Medal record
Men's Basketball
Representing  Yugoslavia
European Championship for Cadets
	1971 Gorizia
	1979 Damascus
	1983 Tübingen, Ludwigsburg
	1985 Ruse
	1987 Székesfehérvár, Kaposvár
	1977 Le Touquet, Berck
	1989 Spain
	1973 Angri, Summonte
	1975 Athens, Thessaloniki

After the dissolution of SFR Yugoslavia in 1991, the successor countries all set up their own national under-16 teams. Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Croatia teams won the Championship, as of 2017.

Several members of the team have been inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame, including players Mirza Delibašić, Vlade Divac, Dragan Kićanović, Toni Kukoč, Dražen Petrović, and coach Mirko Novosel. Also, Petrović and Novosel are members of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

Individual awards

Top Scorer[1]

• Dražen Petrović — 1981
• Arijan Komazec – 1987

Competitive record

Year	Pos.	GP	W	L	Ref.
1971		7	6	1	[2]
1973		9	6	3	[3]
1975		6	5	1	[4]
1977		7	5	2	[5]
1979		7	7	0	[6]
1981	5th	7	4	3	[7]
1983		7	6	1	[8]
1985		7	6	1	[9]
1987		7	7	0	[10]
1989		7	5	2	[11]
1991	8th	7	3	4	[12]
Total	11/11	78	60	18

Coaches

Years	Head Coach[13]	Assistant Coach(es)
1971	Mirko Novosel
1973	Joša Gagel
1975	Janez Drvarič
1977–1979	Luka Stančić
1981–1983	Rusmir Halilović
1985	Svetislav Pešić
1987–1989	Janez Drvarič
1991	Rajko Toroman

Rosters

1971 Championship	1973 Championship	1975 Championship	1977 Championship	1979 Championship	1981 Championship
[14]	[15]	[16]	[17]	[18]	[19]
4 Dragan Todorić 5 Predrag Tripković 6 Ante Zaloker 7 Dragan Kićanović 8 Marko Martinović 9 Milan Milićević 10 Zoran Biorac 11 Rajko Žižić 12 Mirza Delibašić 13 Željko Morelj 14 Radmilo Lukovac 15 Mirko Grgin	4 Dušan Božić 5 Goran Kriznar 6 Boško Bosiočić 7 Dušan Zupančić 8 None 9 Budimir Ćosović 10 Andro Knego 11 Mladen Mohorović 12 Ratko Radovanović 13 Dragan Pribanović 14 Dragan Vulić 15 Đorđe Bosnić	4 Mladen Ostojić 5 Žarko Koprivica 6 Milenko Babić 7 Peter Vilfan 8 Boran Pilindavinć 9 Stane Košnik 10 Slobodan Pećirko 11 Željko Pribanović 12 Aleksandar Petrović 13 Nebojša Nikolić 14 Branko Sikirić 15 Rade Vukosavljević	4 Stane Premrl 5 Draško Vučetić 6 Darko Petronijević 7 Sabahudin Bilalović 8 Žarko Đurišić 9 Mitja Muha 10 Bogdan Blaznik 11 Davor Dogan 12 Mihailo Poček 13 Goran Mastilović 14 Milenko Savović 15 Milenko Manojlović	4 Srđan Dabić 5 Nebojša Zorkić 6 Marko Ivanović 7 Matej Janžek 8 Milan Benčić 9 Zoran Čutura 10 Dragan Zovko 11 Tomislav Tiringer 12 Jurica Kos 13 Robert Medved 14 Željko Mrnjavac 15 Jurid Kebe	4 Neven Cambij 5 Dražen Petrović 6 Aleksandar Aleksić 7 Ivo Petović 8 Stojko Vranković 9 Siniša Radonjić 10 Zoran Sretenović 11 Velimir Perasović 12 Saša Radunović 13 Vladimir Mićunović 14 Edin Pašić 15 Aleksandar Milivojša

1983 Championship	1985 Championship	1987 Championship	1989 Championship	1991 Championship
[20]	[21]	[22]	[23]	[24]
4 Zoran Livljanić 5 Branislav Prelević 6 Zoran Jevtić 7 Jure Zdovc 8 Miroslav Pecarski 9 Ivo Nakić 10 Samir Mujanović 11 Igor Lukačić 12 Ivica Mavrenski 13 Žarko Paspalj 14 Denis Perić 15 Luka Pavićević	4 Emilio Kovačić 5 Nenad Trunić 6 Zoran Kalpić 7 Toni Kukoč 8 Slaviša Koprivica 9 Nebojša Ilić 10 Nebojša Razić 11 Rade Milutinović 12 Vlade Divac 13 Dževad Alihodžić 14 Nenad Videka 15 Radenko Dobraš	4 Živko Badžim 5 Oliver Popović 6 Rastko Cvetković 7 Žan Tabak 8 Ante Perica 9 Nenad Grmuša 10 Boris Orcev 11 Marijan Kraljević 12 Obrad Ignjatović 13 Arijan Komazec 14 Mirko Pavlović 15 Bojan Popović	4 Vladimir Novosel 5 Nikola Lončar 6 Mirko Joksimović 7 Aleksandar Surla 8 Aleksandar Avlijaš 9 Velibor Radović 10 Miro Jurić 11 Željko Topalović 12 Miladin Mutavdžić 13 Petar Arsić 14 Bojan Tadić 15 Predrag Prlinčević	4 Igor Perović 5 Aleksandar Bjelić 6 Haris Brkić 7 Saša Dončić 8 Đerđ Palfi 9 Branko Sinđelić 10 Zlatko Bolić 11 Predrag Drobnjak 12 Aleksandar Lazić 13 Miljan Vuksanović 14 Dejan Mišković 15 Dušan Jelić

New national teams

After the dissolution of SFR Yugoslavia in 1991, five new countries were created: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, FYR Macedonia, FR Yugoslavia (in 2003, renamed to Serbia and Montenegro) and Slovenia. In 2006, Montenegro became an independent nation and Serbia became the legal successor of Serbia and Montenegro. In 2008, Kosovo declared independence from Serbia and became a FIBA member in 2015.

Here is a list of men's national under-16 teams on the SFR Yugoslavia area:

•  Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992–present)
•  Croatia (1992–present)
•  North Macedonia (1993–present)
•  Serbia and Montenegro (1992–2006)
  •  Montenegro (2006–present)
  •  Serbia (2006–present)
    •  Kosovo (2015–present)
•  Slovenia (1992–present)

See also

• Yugoslavia men's national under-19 basketball team
• Yugoslavia men's national under-18 basketball team

References

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