England men's national basketball team

England
FIBA Ranking None
Joined FIBA 1937
FIBA Zone FIBA Europe
National Federation English Basketball Federation
Coach Paul James
Olympic Games
Appearances None
Medals None
World Championships
Appearances None
Medals None
EuroBasket
Appearances 4 (1946, 1955, 1961, 1981)
Medals None
Commonwealth Games
Appearances 1
Medals Bronze: 2006
Uniforms
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The England national basketball team represents England in international basketball competitions. The team is organized by England Basketball, the sport's governing body in England. In 2005 England, along with the basketballscotland and their counterparts in Wales combined forces to form the Great Britain national basketball team, with the target goal to field a competitive team capable of winning medals at the London 2012 summer Olympics.

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Eurobasket 1946

England's first European championship appearance was at Eurobasket 1946. They lost all four of the games that they played, and subsequently finished last in the field of ten teams.

Eurobasket 1955

England played at Eurobasket 1955 in Budapest. Again, all four preliminary round games were lost as well as their first two of the four classification round games. Then, after beating Switzerland (England's first victory at a major international basketball event), England outscored Austria as well. Eventually, the team placed second in the five teams of the classification group, moving to the 9-12 classification semifinals. There, however, England could not take advantage of the gained self-confidence and lost the next two games. Overall, England finished in 12th place out of the 18 teams, a considerable improvement from its last eurobasket appearance in 1946.

Competitions

Performance at Summer Olympics

Year Position Note Tournament Host
1948 20 played alongside Scotland and Wales as Team United Kingdom Basketball at the 1948 Summer Olympics London, United Kingdom
2012 qualified played alongside Scotland and Wales as Team United Kingdom Basketball at the 2012 Summer Olympics London, United Kingdom
2016 TBD Basketball at the 2016 Summer Olympics Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Performance at FIBA World Championships

yet to qualify

Performance at Eurobasket

Year Position Note Tournament Host
1946 10 EuroBasket 1946 Geneva, Switzerland
1955 12 EuroBasket 1955 Budapest, Hungary
1961 19 EuroBasket 1961 Belgrade, Yugoslavia
1981 12 EuroBasket 1981 Czechoslovakia
2009 13 played alongside Scotland and Wales as Team United Kingdom EuroBasket 2009 Katowice, Poland
2011 13 played alongside Scotland and Wales as Team United Kingdom EuroBasket 2011 Kaunas, Lithuania
2013 TBD EuroBasket 2013 Ljubljana, Slovenia

Rosters

1946 EuroBasket: finished 10th among 10 teams

Colin Hunt, Douglas Legg, John Hart, Ronald Legg, Frank Cole, Arthur Lee, Derius Hewitt, Stanley Weston, Ken Dight, Charles Watson (Coach: W.Browning)

1948 Olympic Games: finished 20th among 23 teams

Colin Hunt, Douglas Legg, Ronald Legg, Frank Cole, Robert Norris, Stanley Weston, Lionel Price, Trevor Davies, Malcolm Finlay, Stanley McMeekan, Sydney McMeekan, Alexander Eke, Harry Weston

1955 EuroBasket: finished 12th among 18 teams

Arthur Cladingboel, Reg Fearn, William James, Gordon Cook, Dennis Wilkinson, Colin Wedge, Alan Bruce, Ugo Agnelli, Wilf Byrne, Keith Ledbrook, Michael Roblou, Ronald Rix, N.Smith

1961 EuroBasket: finished 19th among 19 teams

Raymond Kirk, Kornel Tober, Alan Wardle, Peter Creasey, Wilfred Byrne, Alan Tillot, Alan Hildyard, Ronald Hextall, Geoffrey Kaiser, Dennis Wakefield, George Whitmore, Terry Keogh (Coach: Thomas Vaughan)

1981 EuroBasket: finished 12th among 12 teams

David Lloyd, Neville Hopkins, David Berry, Martin Clark, Paul Richards, Nick Burns, Clive Hartley, Jim McCauley, Ian Day, Paul Stimpson, Dan Lloyd, Karl Tatham (Coach: Victor Amber)

Commonwealth Games

Melbourne 2006

The men's and women's teams were competing for the first time as England in a major multi-sport event, and it was the first Commonwealth Games in which basketball was featured.

The men's team included Steve Bucknall, the second Englishman to play in the NBA. John Amaechi, who played 284 games in the NBA, was also in the squad. England defeated Nigeria, 80-57, to claim the bronze medal in Men's Basketball.The teams were tied at 15 points to end the first quarter.Robert Reed and Andrew Bridge led the way as England found their stride in the second phase, and they pulled away in the second half of play. Reed was the top scorer for England with 16 points, and Michael Martin contributed 13.[1]

Team

Coaching Staff

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