Finland national basketball team
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| FIBA ranking | 32
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| Joined FIBA | 1939 | ||
| FIBA zone | FIBA Europe | ||
| National federation | Finnish Basketball Association | ||
| Coach | Henrik Dettmann | ||
| Nickname(s) | Susijengi (The Wolf Pack) | ||
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| Appearances | 2 | ||
| FIBA World Cup | |||
| Appearances | 1 | ||
| EuroBasket | |||
| Appearances | 16 | ||
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The Finnish national basketball team (Finnish: Suomen koripallomaajoukkue, Swedish: Finlands herrlandslag i basket) represents Finland in international basketball.
It played at 13 EuroBasket tournaments, its best finish being 6th in 1967 on home soil. Finland made its FIBA World Cup debut in the 2014 edition.
Finland first competed at the European championship at its third installment, the EuroBasket 1939. In the round-robin, they initially struggled and lost to each of the other seven teams and finished with a 70–541 overall point differential.
Finland's next European competition was 12 years later, at the EuroBasket 1951 in Paris. Overall, they fared much better and split their four preliminary round games and finished at third place in the group at 2–2 but were eliminated from championship contention. They had success after that, winning all three of their classification round 1 games and both round 2 games to finish in 9th place of the 18 teams.
In 1952, by virtue of hosting the games in Helsinki, Finland played at the Olympic basketball competition for the first time. The team finished at the bottom of its first-round Group B with the Soviet Union, Bulgaria and Mexico, losing all of its games and scoring 147-178.
Finland used this international experience when they competed again at the EuroBasket 1953 in Moscow. In the preliminary round, they finished with 1 win and 3 losses for 4th place of the 5 teams in the group. They fared significantly better in the first classification round, winning 3 and losing only 1 to finish in the middle of a three-way tie in the group. They lost both the 9–12 and 11/12 classification games, however, taking 12th place of 17 overall.
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