Yugoslavia women's national basketball team


The Yugoslavia women's national basketball team was the women's basketball side that represented Kingdom of Yugoslavia and Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1943 until 1992 in the international basketball matches, controlled by the Basketball Federation of Yugoslavia.
The team's first major tournament appearance was at the 1954 European Championship, hosted by Yugoslavia, in which it finished fourth. The team's biggest success in the following decades were bronze medal at the 1980 Moscow and silver medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympic games.
The team disappeared during the breakup of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s and its last major tournament appearance was at the 1991 European Championship in Israel, where they finished as runners-up, losing to Soviet Union in the final. Direct successor of SFRJ team is FR Yugoslavian women's national team.

Competition records

;Olympic Games
;FIBA World Championship for Women
;EuroBasket Women

Head coaches

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 women's national teams on the SFR Yugoslavia area:
None of these teams is an inheritor of the results the SFR Yugoslavia national basketball team had accomplished.