The Croatia men's national basketball team () represents Croatia in international basketball matches. The team is controlled by the Croatian Basketball Federation (HKS).
The biggest success Croatia has achieved was at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics when the team reached the final against the United States and won the silver medal. Croatia has also won one bronze medal at the FIBA World Cup and two bronze medals at EuroBasket.
Croatia's Kreà ¡imir ÃÂosiÃÂ, Draà ¾en PetroviÃÂ, Dino RaÃÂa, Mirko Novosel and Toni Kukoàare members of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. ÃÂosiàwas inducted in 1996, Petroviàin 2002, RaÃÂa in 2018 and Kukoàin 2021, all as players. Novosel was inducted in 2007 as a coach. PetroviÃÂ, ÃÂosiÃÂ, Kukoàand Novosel are members of the FIBA Hall of Fame. ÃÂosiàis also the only Croatian to have received the FIBA Order of Merit. ÃÂosiÃÂ, however, never played for the Croatia national team. As he was only a member of the Yugoslavia national team, holding the record for number of medals (including Olympic gold) and the most games played by a player.
Croatia played its first unofficial friendly game on 2 June 1964 in Karlovac. Croatian team played against US All Star Team and lost 65âÂÂ110 (31âÂÂ50). USA players coached by Red Auerbach were Bob Cousy, Tom Heinsohn, K. C. Jones, Jerry Lucas, Bob Pettit, Oscar Robertson and Bill Russell and Croatian team was Giuseppe Gjergja, Nemanja ÃÂuriÃÂ, à ½ivko Kasun, Zlatko Kiseljak, Slobodan KolakoviÃÂ, Dragan KovaÃÂiÃÂ, Boris Krià ¾an, Stjepan LediÃÂ, Mirko Novosel, Marko OstarÃÂeviÃÂ, Petar Skansi and à ½eljko Troskot.
After independence of Croatia in 1991, the first official tournament played by Croatians were the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. Croatia defeated the CIS team 75âÂÂ74 and reached the final against the USA Dream Team led by Michael Jordan. The USA won 85âÂÂ117, but Croatia won its first medal at a major tournament in history.
The next competition for Croatia was the 1993 EuroBasket in Germany. Tragically, before the tournament Draà ¾en Petroviàdied in a car accident on 7 June 1993 at the age of 28. Croatia still managed to reach the bronze medal game to defeat Greece 99âÂÂ59.
Croatia earned its third medal at the 1994 FIBA World Cup in Canada. Croatia lost their semi-finals match against Russia 64âÂÂ66, but beat Greece once again 78âÂÂ60 for the bronze medal. A similar occurrence happened at the EuroBasket 1995 in Greece. Croatia lost in the semi-finals 80âÂÂ90 against Lithuania, but beat Greece 73âÂÂ68 for the third time in a row in a bronze medal match. That medal to date was the last Croatian medal from any major tournament. At the 1996 Summer Olympics Croatia finished in a subpar seventh place.
At the EuroBasket 1997 in Spain, the new Croatian generation emerged, but ended in 11th place. Croatia failed to qualify for the 2000, 2004, 2012, 2020, 2024 Summer Olympics, but finished sixth at the 2008 and fifth at the 2016. Croatia also failed to qualify for the 1998, 2002, 2006, 2019 and 2023. They also failed to qualify for their first ever Eurobasket in 2025. Although the team did manage to qualify in 2010, before falling in the Round of 16. However, at the EuroBasket 2013, Croatia had its best tournament appearance since 1995, where the team finished in fourth place.
The Croatia national team's all-time medal table:
Roster for the 2027 FIBA World Cup Qualifiers matches on 27 February and 1 March 2026 against Germany.
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