Romania's national basketball team
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| FIBA ranking | 58  1 (28 February 2018)
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| Joined FIBA | 1932 (co-founders) | ||
| FIBA zone | FIBA Europe | ||
| National federation | FRB | ||
| Coach | Zare Markovski | ||
| Olympic Games | |||
| Appearances | 1 | ||
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| Appearances | 18 | ||
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The Romanian national basketball team is the basketball side that represents Romania in international competitions. Romania has 17 appearances for the EuroBasket competition. Twice the team finished in 5th place, but has yet to qualify for the Basketball World Cup. Romania played once for the Basketball Olympic Tournament, in 1952.
Romania is one of the founding members of the International Federation of Basketball (FIBA) and has one of the world's longest basketball traditions.
The Romanian side came in tenth out of ten at the first European basketball championship, the EuroBasket 1935 held by the International Basketball Federation's FIBA Europe continental federation. They lost all three of their games; 42-9 to Switzerland, 66-23 to France, and 24-17 to Hungary.
Romania returned to the European championships twelve years later, in EuroBasket 1947. They had a record of 1-2 in their preliminary round, eliminating them from championship contention but giving them their first EuroBasket win. The Romanians added two more in the classification semifinal, defeating Austria and Albania. This put them in a classification match against Italy for 9th and 10th places, which Romania lost 55-39. Romania thus placed tenth again, but this time they had outranked four teams to do so.
The Romanian team entered the EuroBasket 1951 in Paris, but withdrew before any games were played, so official records gave them three preliminary round losses, each with a score of 2-0.
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