Belgrade Trophy Explained

Belgrade Trophy
Sport:Basketball
Owner: Basketball Federation of Serbia
Inaugural:2012
Teams:3 or 4
Countries:FIBA members
Champion: (5th title)
Most Champs: (5 titles)

The Belgrade Trophy (Serbian: Трофеј Београда/Trofej Beograda) is an international basketball competition between national teams, which has been held annually since 2012 and takes place in Belgrade, Serbia each summer, before the big official FIBA tournaments, such as the FIBA EuroBasket, the FIBA World Cup, and the Summer Olympic Games. The tournament is organized by the Basketball Federation of Serbia. The competition is played under FIBA rules.

All five editions of the tournament held so far have been won by Serbia, which has won all ten games it played, by an average margin of 24.8 points. The 2017 edition of the tournament was the first one with three participating teams competing in a round-robin tournament, replacing previous format with four participating teams competing in a single-elimination tournament.

Standings

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2012
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Pionir Hall Miloš Teodosić
2013
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Kombank Arena Nenad Krstić
2014
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Kombank Arena Stefan Marković
2015
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Kombank Arena Miloš Teodosić
2016
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Tournament not held. See: 2016 FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament – Belgrade
2017
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Aleksandar Nikolić Hall Bogdan Bogdanović
2018Tournament not held.
2019Tournament not held.
2020Tournament not held.
2021Tournament not held. See: 2020 FIBA Men's Olympic Qualifying Tournaments – Belgrade

Results by country

RankCountry1st place2nd place3rd place4th placeAppearances
1.50005
2.02103
3.01102
4.01001
5.01001
6.00101
7.00101
8.00101
9.00011
10.00011
11.00011
12.00011

Tournament history

2012

Finals

2013

Finals

2014

Finals

2015

Finals

2016

Belgrade Trophy was not held in 2016, due to the participation of Serbia national team at the 2016 FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament – Belgrade, one of three 2016 FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournaments for Men, which was held in Kombank Arena in July 2016.

2017

Standings

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Matches

2018–2021

Belgrade Trophy was not held in 2018 since there was no major FIBA-organized international tournament scheduled for that year. In 2019, no tournament was held prior to the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup, and in 2020, 2020 Summer Olympics were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, marking another year with no major international basketball competition. In 2021, like in 2016, instead of the Belgrade Trophy, one of the 2020 Olympic Qualifying Tournaments was held in Belgrade. After four consecutive years with no tournament held, and no official announcements regarding the tournament from the Basketball Federation of Serbia, the future of Belgrade Trophy remains uncertain.

See also

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