See main article: Yugoslavia men's national basketball team.
The Yugoslavia men's national under-18 basketball team (sh|Juniorska košarkaška reprezentacija Jugoslavije) was the boys' basketball team, administered by Basketball Federation of Yugoslavia, that represented SFR Yugoslavia in international under-18 (under age 18) men's basketball competitions, consisted mainly of the European Championship for Juniors, nowadays known as the FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship.
After the dissolution of SFR Yugoslavia in 1991, the successor countries all set up their own national under-18 teams. Serbia and Croatia teams won the Championship for three times each, as of 2017.
Several team members have been inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame, including players Krešimir Ćosić, Mirza Delibašić, Zoran Slavnić, Dragan Kićanović, Vlade Divac, Jure Zdovc, Toni Kukoč, Dražen Petrović, and coaches Ranko Žeravica, Bogdan Tanjević, Mirko Novosel, Dušan Ivković, and Svetislav Pešić. Also, Dino Rađa, Divac, Petrović, Kukoč, and Novosel are members of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
Bogdan Tanjević is the only individual who respresented the team both as a player (1964) and a head coach (1974).
Top Scorer
See main article: FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship.
Year | width=30 | width=30 | width=30 | width=30 | |||||
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![]() | 7th | 5 | 2 | 3 | [1] | ||||
![]() | 5 | 4 | 1 | [2] | |||||
![]() | 7 | 6 | 1 | [3] | |||||
1970 | 4th | 7 | 4 | 3 | [4] | ||||
1972 | 7 | 7 | 0 | [5] | |||||
![]() | 9 | 9 | 0 | [6] | |||||
![]() | 8 | 7 | 1 | [7] | |||||
![]() | 7 | 6 | 1 | [8] | |||||
1980 | 7 | 6 | 1 | [9] | |||||
1982 | 7 | 6 | 1 | [10] | |||||
![]() | 7 | 5 | 2 | [11] | |||||
![]() | 7 | 7 | 0 | [12] | |||||
1988 | 7 | 7 | 0 | [13] | |||||
1990 | 5th | 7 | 4 | 3 | [14] | ||||
Total | 14/14 | 97 | 82 | 17 |
Years | Head Coach[15] | Assistant Coach(es) | |
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1964–1966 | Ranko Žeravica | ||
1968 | Slobodan Ivković | ||
1970 | Lazar Lečić | ||
1972 | Mirko Novosel | ||
1974 | Bogdan Tanjević | Slobodan Ivković | |
1976–1980 | Luka Stančić | Dušan Ivković | |
1982 | Rusmir Halilović | Dejan Srzić | |
1984 | Luka Stančić | Dejan Srzić | |
1986 | Svetislav Pešić | Dejan Srzić | |
1988–1990 | Duško Vujošević | Dejan Srzić |
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-18 teams on the SFR Yugoslavia area: