Bulgaria national basketball team

Bulgaria Bulgaria България
FIBA ranking 48 Decrease8
FIBA zone FIBA Europe
National federation Bulgarian Basketball Federation
Coach Bulgaria Georgi Mladenov
Nickname(s) The Lions (Лъвовете)
Olympic Games
Appearances 4 (1952, 1956, 1960, 1968)
FIBA World Cup
Appearances 1 (1959)
Medals None
FIBA EuroBasket
Appearances 24 (1935, 1947, 1951, 1953, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1961, 1963, 1965, 1967, 1969, 1971, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1979, 1985, 1989, 1991, 1993, 2005, 2009, 2011)
Medals

Silver: 1957

Bronze: 1961
Uniforms
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Dark

The Bulgarian national basketball team is the basketball side that represents Bulgaria in international competitions.[1]

Current roster

Bulgaria National Basketball Team roster
Players Coaches
Pos. # Name Age - DOB Ht. Club
PF 4 Ivanov, Dejan 27 – 18 March 1986 2.05 m (6 ft 9 in) CB Estudiantes
PF 5 Ivanov, Kaloyan 27 – 18 March 1986 2.05 m (6 ft 9 in) Air Avellino
SG 8 Kostov, Chavdar 25 – 18 April 1988 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) Lukoil Academic
SF 11 Ivanov, Pavel 25 – 26 February 1988 2.00 m (6 ft 7 in) BC Levski Sofia
G 10 Avramov, Bozhidar 23 – 8 March 1990 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) Lukoil Academic
F 24 Veselinov, Veselin 30 – 16 February 1983 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) PBC Lukoil Academic
SG 11 LIlov, Ivan 24 – 6 August 1988 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) Balkan
F 12 Yanev, Aleksandar 22 – 6 December 1990 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) PBC Lukoil Academic
PG 13 Velikov, Asen 27 – 11 January 1986 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) Euroins Cherno More
G/F 32 Zahariev, Hristo 22 – 27 October 1990 1.99 m (6 ft 6 in) BC Levski Sofia
C 15 Varbanov, Nikolay 28 – 6 June 1985 2.09 m (6 ft 10 in) BC Levski Sofia
SF 34 Durchev, Martin 25 – 3 November 1987 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) Basket Navarra Club
C 13 Marshavelski, Kostadin 23 – 12 October 1989 2.11 m (6 ft 11 in) CB Clavijo
NATIONAL POOL
G/F 00 Marinov, Pavel 25 – 12 June 1988 1.99 m (6 ft 6 in) Balkan
F/C 00 Kolev, Nikolay 25 – 17 July 1988 2.05 m (6 ft 9 in) Lukoil Academic
F 00 Nikolov, Hristo 27 – 2 October 1985 2.00 m (6 ft 7 in) Pau Orthez
PG 00 Gruev, Aleksandar 30 – 24 July 1983 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) Balkan
G 00 Marinov, Stanimir 21 – 7 September 1991 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in) Balkan
PF 00 Dimitrov, Dimitar ? – 1 March 1993 2.05 m (6 ft 9 in) Arkadia Traiskirchen Lions
SG 00 Ivanov, Pavlin 20 – 28 March 1993 1.97 m (6 ft 6 in) BC Yambol
F/C 00 Vaklinov, Stanislav 24 – 7 June 1989 2.07 m (6 ft 9 in) BC Rilski Sportist
SF 00 Vezenkov, Aleksandar 18 – 6 August 1995 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) Aris BC
F 00 Evtimov, Ilian 30 – 28 April 1983 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) Elan Chalon
Head coach
Legend
  • (C) Team captain
  • Club field describes current pro club
  • nat field describes country
    of last club
    before the tournament
  • Age field is age on 31 August 2013

Depth chart

Pos. Starter Bench Bench Inactive
C Nikolay Varbanov Tencho Banev
PF Dejan Ivanov Kaloyan Ivanov Aleksandar Yanev
SF Filip Videnov Pavel Marinov
SG Chavdar Kostov Zlatin Georgiev
PG E.J. Rowland Bozhidar Avramov Asen Velikov

Past rosters

1935 EuroBasket: finished 8th among 10 teams

Krum Konstantinov, Pinkas, Etropolski, Rogachev, Tsankov, Kevorkjan, Khaimov (Coach: Krum Konstantinov)

1947 EuroBasket: finished 8th among 14 teams

Bozhidar Takev, Veselin Temkov, Ilija Asenov, Georgi Georgiev, Ljudmil Katerinski, Nikola Kolev, Krhisto Khajtov, Stefan Bankov, Peev, Sharkov, Rajkov (Coach: Georgi Petkov)

1951 EuroBasket: finished 4th among 17 teams

Kiril Semov, Konstantin Totev, Georgi Georgiev, Stefan Bankov, Nejcho Nejchev, Vladimir Slavov, Ilija Asenov, Petar Shishkov, Anton Kuzov, Gencho Rashkov, Ivan Vladimirov, Dimitar Popov, Metodi Tomovski (Coach: Veselin Temkov)

1952 Olympic Games: finished 7th among 23 teams

Georgi Panov, Konstantin Totev, Kiril Semov, Petar Shishkov, Khristo Donev, Ilija Georgiev, Vladimir Slavov, Anton Kuzov, Nejcho Nejchev, Vasil Manchenko, Ivan Nikolov, Veselin Penkov, Konstantin Georgiev, Genczo Hristov

1953 EuroBasket: finished 9th among 17 teams

Georgi Panov, Ljubomir Panov, Ilija Mirchev, Konstantin Totev, Georgi Georgiev, Dimitar Popov, Vladimir Stefanov, Velko Velkov, Khristo Donev, Ilija Georgiev, Vasil Manchenko, Anton Kuzov, Veselin Ivanov, Vladimir Slavov (Coach: Veselin Temkov)

1955 EuroBasket: finished 4th among 18 teams

Viktor Radev, Cvjatko Barchovski, Georgi Panov, Ilija Mirchev, Konstantin Totev, Gencho Rashkov, Metodi Tomovski, Vasil Manchenko, Vladimir Ganchev, Emanuil Gjaurov, Anton Kuzov, Rajkov (Coach: Bozhidar Takev)

1956 Olympic Games: finished 5th among 15 teams

Atanas Atanasov, Viktor Radev, Georgi Panov, Ljubomir Panov, Cvjatko Barchovski, Ilija Mirchev, Georgi Kanev, Konstantin Totev, Vladimir Slavov, Vasil Manchenko, Tsvetko Savov, Nikola Ilov (Coach: Ljudmil Katerinski)

1957 EuroBasket: finished 2nd among 16 teams

Viktor Radev, Georgi Panov, Ljubomir Panov, Mikhail Semov, Petko Lazarov, Cvjatko Barchovski, Vladimir Ganchev, Georgi Kanev, Ilija Mirchev, Konstantin Totev, Atanas Pejchinski, Metodi Tomovski (Coach: Ljudmil Katerinski)

1959 EuroBasket: finished 5th among 17 teams

Georgi Panov, Viktor Radev, Atanas Atanasov, Ilija Mirchev, Petko Lazarov, Georgi Kanev, Mikhail Semov, Nikola Ilov, Khristo Donev, Tsvetko Savov, Angel Shipkov, Gencho Rashkov (Coach: Ljudmil Katerinski)

1959 World Championship: finished 7th among 13 teams

Georgi Panov, Viktor Radev, Atanas Atanasov, Ljubomir Panov, Mikhail Semov, Ilija Mirchev, Georgi Kanev, Petko Lazarov, Tsvetko Savov, Gencho Rashkov, Emanuil Gjaurov, Metodi Tomovski (Coach: Ljudmil Katerinski)

1960 Olympic Games: finished 16th among 16 teams

Viktor Radev, Georgi Panov, Atanas Atanasov, Petko Lazarov, Ljubomir Panov, Ilija Mirchev, Georgi Kanev, Nikola Ilov, Stefan Stojkov, Emanuil Gjaurov, Tsvetko Savov, Khristo Tsvetkov (Coach: Nikola Kolev)

1961 EuroBasket: finished 3rd among 19 teams

Mincho Dimov, Georgi Panov, Atanas Atanasov, Ljubomir Panov, Viktor Radev, Petko Lazarov, Ilija Mirchev, Radko Zlatev, Stefan Stojkov, Khristo Tsvetkov, Tsvetko Savov, Khristo Donev (Coach: Veselin Temkov)

1963 EuroBasket: finished 5th among 16 teams

Mincho Dimov, Georgi Panov, Viktor Radev, Atanas Atanasov, Ljubomir Panov, Ilija Mirchev, Georgi Kanev, Tsvetko Savov, Nikola Atanasov, Kliment Kamenarov, Dimitar Donev, Stefan Filipov (Coach: Kiril Khajtov)

1965 EuroBasket: finished 5th among 16 teams

Mincho Dimov, Atanas Atanasov, Ljubomir Panov, Slavejko Rajchev, Valentin Spasov, Stefan Filipov, Emil Mikhajlov, Radko Zlatev, Georgi Barzakov, Paspalanov, Kolev, Ilchev (Coach: Kiril Semov)

1967 EuroBasket: finished 4th among 16 teams

Mincho Dimov, Cvjatko Barchovski, Ivan Vodenicharski, Georgi Khristov, Emil Mikhajlov, Khristo Dojchinov, Georgi Genev, Boris Krastev, Pando Pandov, Bojcho Branzov, Temelaki Dimitrov, Slavejko Rajchev (Coach: Kiril Khajtov)

1968 Olympic Games: finished 10th among 16 teams

Mincho Dimov, Georgi Khristov, Bojcho Branzov, Stefan Filipov, Emil Mikhajlov, Pando Pandov, Khristo Dojchinov, Valentin Spasov, Ivajlo Kirov, Dimitar Sakhanikov, Stanislav Bojadzhiev, Slavejko Rajchev (Coach: Kiril Khajtov)

1969 EuroBasket: finished 7th among 12 teams

Atanas Golomeev, Mincho Dimov, Georgi Khristov, Bojcho Branzov, Khristo Dojchinov, Rumen Pejchev, Dimitar Galabov, Ivan Rusinov, Bogomil Chanev, Georgi Barzakov, Stancho Kostov, Temelaki Dimitrov (Coach: Dimitar Mitev)

1971 EuroBasket: finished 6th among 12 teams

Atanas Golomeev, Georgi Khristov, Stefan Filipov, Pando Pandov, Khristo Dojchinov, Bogomil Chanev, llija Yankov, Docho Petrov, Ivajlo Kirov, Rumen Pejchev, Slavejko Rajchev, Paspalanov (Coach: Dimitar Mitev)

1973 EuroBasket: finished 6th among 12 teams

Atanas Golomeev, Georgi Khristov, Bojcho Branzov, Bogomil Chanev, Pando Pandov, Rumen Pejchev, Khristo Borisov, Georgi Stojanov, Ivajlo Kirov, Marin Romanski, Khristo Dojchinov, Boris Krastev (Coach: Nejcho Nejchev)

1975 EuroBasket: finished 5th among 12 teams

Atanas Golomeev, Georgi Khristov, Valentin Petkov, Bojcho Branzov, Temelaki Dimitrov, Marin Romanski, Mikhail Dukov, Khristo Dojchinov, Atanas Stojanov, Docho Petrov, Mikhail Mikhajlov, Valentin Sharkov (Coach: Ivan Kolev)

1977 EuroBasket: finished 6th among 12 teams

Atanas Golomeev, Ilija Evtimov, Petko Marinov, Milko Arabadzhijski, Todor Bogdanov, Atanas Kolev, Rumen Pejchev, Plamen Takev, Valentin Sharkov, Smochevski, Shantov, Yosifov (Coach: Nejcho Nejchev)

1979 EuroBasket: finished 11th among 12 teams

Georgi Glouchkov, Ilija Evtimov, Rumen Pejchev, Dimitar Marchin, Atanas Kolev, Milko Arabadzhijski, Todor Bogdanov, Valentin Sharkov, Mikhail Manolov, Ognjan Rusev, Dimitar Donov (Coach: Ivan Todorov)

1985 EuroBasket: finished 8th among 12 teams

Georgi Glouchkov, Georgi Mladenov, Ilija Evtimov, Atanas Kolev, Yordan Kolev, Rosen Barchovski, Ljubomir Amiorkov, Tsvetan Antov, Emil Yonov, Kojo Koev, Sashko Vezenkov, Ivan Tsenov (Coach: Cvjatko Barchovski)

1989 EuroBasket: finished 7th among 8 teams

Georgi Glouchkov, Georgi Mladenov, Robert Gergov, Ivan Tsenov, Sashko Vezenkov, Eduard Valchev, Yordan Kolev, Kojo Koev, Tsvetan Antov, Ljubomir Amiorkov, Ventsislav Slavov, Emil Yonov (Coach: Kiril Semov)

1991 EuroBasket: finished 8th among 8 teams

Georgi Glouchkov, Georgi Mladenov, Spas Natov, Robert Gergov, Yordan Kolev, Ljubomir Amiorkov, Ivan Tsenov, Daniel Dimitrov, Sashko Vezenkov, Ivajlo Ravutsov, Tsvetan Nedelchev, Plamen Petrov (Coach: Simeon Varchev)

1993 EuroBasket: finished 16th among 16 teams

Georgi Mladenov, Spas Natov, Ljubomir Amiorkov, Robert Gergov, Daniel Dimitrov, Vasil Stojanov, Dimo Kostov, Ivajlo Ravutsov, Vladimir Dimitrov, Anton Kharalanov, Stanislav Stankov, Ventsislav Slavov (Coach: Simeon Varchev)

2005 EuroBasket: finished 13th among 16 teams

Todor Stoykov, Filip Videnov, Dimitar Angelov, Yordan Bozov, Georgi Davidov, Stefan Georgiev, Bojko Mladenov, Kalojan Ivanov, Tencho Banev, Dejan Ivanov, Yulijan Radionov, Khrisimir Dimitrov (Coach: Rosen Barchovski)

2009 EuroBasket: finished 16th among 16 teams

2011 EuroBasket: finished 13th among 24 teams

Competitive record

At FIBA EuroBasket

FIBA EuroBasket
Year Position Pld W L
Switzerland 1935 8th Place 4 1 3
Latvia 1937 Did not Qualify
Lithuania 1939
Switzerland 1946
Czechoslovakia 1947 8th Place 6 1 5
Egypt 1949 Did not Qualify
France 1951 Fourth Place 8 5 3
Soviet Union 1953 9th Place 9 8 1
Hungary 1955 Fourth Place 10 6 4
Bulgaria 1957 Runners-up 10 9 1
Turkey 19595th Place 9 6 3
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 1961Third Place 8 6 2
Poland 1963 5th Place 9 6 3
Soviet Union 1965 5th Place 9 6 3
Finland 1967Fourth Place 9 4 5
Italy 19697th Place 7 3 4
West Germany 1971 6th Place 7 4 3
Spain 1973 6th Place 7 3 4
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 1975 5th Place 7 3 4
Belgium 19776th Place 7 4 3
Italy 197911th Place 8 1 7
Czechoslovakia 1981 Did not Qualify
France 1983
West Germany 1985 8th Place 8 3 5
Greece 1987 Did not Qualify
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 1989 7th Place 8 1 4
Italy 1991 8th Place 8 0 5
Germany 199314th Place 3 0 3
Greece 1995 Did not Qualify
Spain 1997
France 1999
Turkey 2001
Sweden 2003
Serbia and Montenegro 2005 13th Place 3 0 3
Spain 2007 Did not Qualify
Poland 2009 13th Place 3 0 3
Lithuania 201113th Place 5 2 3
Slovenia 2013 Did not Qualify
Croatia France GermanyLatvia 2015 Did not Qualify
Total24/38 166 82 84

At Summer Olympic Games

Summer Olympic Games Record
Year Position Pld W L
Germany 1936 Did Not Qualify
United Kingdom 1948
Finland 1952 7th Place 8 4 4
Australia 1956 5th Place 8 5 3
Italy 1960 16th Place 6 1 5
Japan 1964 Did Not Qualify
Mexico 196810th Place945
Germany 197211th Place945
Canada 1976Did Not Qualify
Soviet Union 1980
United States 1984
South Korea 1988
Spain 1992
United States 1996
Australia 2000
Greece 2004
China 2008
United Kingdom 2012
Total5/18401822

At FIBA World Cup

FIBA Basketball World Cup
Year Position Pld W L
Chile 1959 7th Place 9 5 4

Competitions

EuroBasket 1935

The Bulgarian side came in eighth place at the first European basketball championship, the EuroBasket 1935 held by the International Basketball Federation's FIBA Europe continental federation. They lost to Italy in the preliminary round then defeated Hungary. Following this, the Bulgarians lost their classification matches to Belgium and Italy. They finished with a 1–3 record.

EuroBasket 1947

Twelve years later, the Bulgarian team again competed. In EuroBasket 1947 they finished eighth again, this time out of 14 teams. In the preliminary round, the Bulgarians split their two games, advancing to the upper bracket semifinal groups. There, they lost all three of their games, putting them in a 7th/8th classification match with Hungary. This time, the Hungarians were victorious, defeating Bulgaria 59–29.

EuroBasket 1951

The Bulgarian team's third appearance was at EuroBasket 1951 in Paris. They won their two contested preliminary games, outscoring opponents 145–70, and gained a third win by Romania's forfeit. In the semifinal round, the Bulgarians became enmeshed in a three-way tie for first place in the four-team group after losing to France but winning the other two games; they ended up with the second ranking. This pitted them against the Soviet Union in a semifinal matchup, which the Bulgarians lost. Their final game was the bronze medal match against France; France again proved victorious and Bulgaria took 4th place.

EuroBasket 1953

Bulgaria's next appearance was in Moscow for EuroBasket 1953. They found themselves on the unfortunate end of a three-way tiebreaker after finishing 3–1 in the preliminary group, and their 3rd rank in the group sent them to the classification round, a disappointing turn of events for a team which had expected to do at least as well as they had two years previously. They won their next 5 games to take the highest place available to them after the preliminary round. Thus, the 9th place team in the tournament had an 8–1 record.

EuroBasket 1955

Bulgaria's preliminary round loss at EuroBasket 1955 was not as devastating as their preliminary round loss two years earlier had been, and their 2–1 record allowed them to advance to the final round along with preliminary leader Czechoslovakia. After losing to the three eventual medallists in the final round, Bulgaria finished the round with a 4–3 record and 4th place in the tournament.

EuroBasket 1957

Bulgaria hosted the next tournament, EuroBasket 1957, in Sofia. They breezed through their three preliminary round games, and kept their win streak through the first six of the final round games, including an 82–80 victory over Czechoslovakia. In their final game of the tournament, which by chance was against the similarly undefeated Soviet Union squad, Bulgaria led by 4 points at halftime, 23–19. Their lead did not last through the second half, however, as the Soviets powered to a 60–57 final that gave Bulgaria a silver medal, Bulgaria's first European medal.

Summer Olympic Games

FIBA World Cup

References

  1. ↑ http://www.fiba.com/pages/eng/fc/FIBA/fibaStru/nfLeag/nfProf.asp?nationalFederationNumber=253 FIBA.com – National Federations & Leagues