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This article is about the men's team. For the women's team, see Tajikistan women's national basketball team.

Tajikistan
FIBA rankingNR (1 March 2024)[1]
Joined FIBA1994
FIBA zoneFIBA Asia
National federationTajikistan Basketball Federation
Nickname(s)Шерҳои форсӣ (The Persian Lions)
Olympic Games
AppearancesNone
FIBA World Cup
AppearancesNone
FIBA Asia Cup
AppearancesNone

The Tajikistan men's national basketball team (Tajik: Тими миллии мардонаи баскетболбозони Тоҷикистон) represents Tajikistan in international basketball and is controlled by the Tajikistan Basketball Federation, the governing body of basketball in Tajikistan.[2]

History[edit]

Back in the Soviet era, Pamir Dushanbe participated in Soviet Basketball League Competitions, Tajik SSR national team participated in Spartakiads, Boris Sokolovsky had played for both of these teams. Tajik SSR-born Dmitri Sukharev[3][4] was a member of Unified Team national basketball team at the 1992 Summer Olympic Games.

Despite its active Soviet past, Tajikistan national team currently remains inactive and the only international tournament that the team participated was 2005 Islamic Solidarity Games.[5][6]

Competitions[edit]

Main article: Basketball at the Islamic Solidarity Games
Year Rank Pld W L
Saudi Arabia 2005 Group stage 4 0 4

FIBA Asia Cup[edit]

Main article: FIBA Asia Cup
Year Rank P W L
1960 to 1991 Part of Soviet Union
Indonesia 1993 Not a FIBA member
South Korea 1995 Did not enter
Saudi Arabia 1997
Japan 1999
China 2001
China 2003
Qatar 2005
Japan 2007
China 2009
China 2011
Philippines 2013
China 2015
Lebanon 2017
Indonesia 2022
Saudi Arabia 2025
Total 0/31 0 0 0

Notable players[edit]

  • Umed Aknazarov
  • Shukur Mansurov
  • Villa Ochildiev

References[edit]

  1. ^ "FIBA Ranking Presented by Nike". FIBA. 1 March 2024. Retrieved 1 March 2024.
  2. ^ FIBA National Federations – Tajikistan, Fiba.com, accessed 25 Sep 2016.
  3. ^ "Dmitry Sukharev Player Profile, Dynamo Saint Petersburg (Russia), Events Stats, Game Logs, Awards - RealGM". Basketball.realgm.com. Retrieved 12 March 2019.
  4. ^ "Dmitry Sukharev Olympic Stats". Basketball-reference.com. Retrieved 12 March 2019.
  5. ^ "Таджикский баскетбол - вне мирового рейтинга". Toptj.com. Retrieved 12 March 2019.
  6. ^ "Не самая баскетбольная страна. О баскетболе в Таджикистане". Sports.ru. Retrieved 12 March 2019.

External links[edit]

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tajikistan_men%27s_national_basketball_team

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