Yugoslavia men's national under-16 basketball team


The Yugoslavia men's national under-16 basketball team was the boy's basketball team, administered by Basketball Federation of Yugoslavia, that represented SFR Yugoslavia in international under-16 men's basketball competitions, consisted mainly of the European Championship for Cadets, nowadays known as the FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship.
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
Year
1971761
1973963
1975651
1977752
1979770
19815th743
1983761
1985761
1987770
1989752
19918th734
Total11/11786018

Coaches

Rosters

1983 Championship1985 Championship1987 Championship1989 Championship1991 Championship
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 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:
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