The Montenegro women's national basketball team represents Montenegro in international women's basketball tournaments. The supervising body is the Basketball Federation of Montenegro. The Montenegrin women's national team entered international competition in 2008, playing their first official match on 27 August, against the Republic of Ireland in Bijelo Polje (68–56).The Montenegrin women's team participated at the EuroBasket Women nine times. The national team achieved its best result at EuroBasket 2011, finishing in sixth place.
History Period 2006–2015 At 2006, soon after Montenegrin independence, Basketball Association of Montenegro became a member of FIBA. Federation founded its national teams, and among them was Montenegro women's basketball selection, which started to play in FIBA competitions during the 2008. Montenegro started with the record of 17 consecutive wins in official games. At summer 2008 and 2009, Montenegrin team played in FIBA Division B with the final score of 12 victories without any lose. That means fast promotion to FIBA Division A and participation in EuroBasket Women 2011 qualification. In their first qualifiers, Montenegro qualified for EuroBasket Women 2011 as a first-placed team in the group. On EuroBasket, the team made successful result and played in quarterfinals. At the end, Montenegro finished as a sixth-placed team, which is the best placement in history of Montenegrin women's basketball. After new successful qualifiers, Montenegro played on EuroBasket Women 2013, but finished competition in the second phase, with final placement on 10th position. For the third time, Montenegro played on EuroBasket at 2015. Like 2011, Montenegro played in the quarterfinals but lost against Spain with one point difference. Montenegro finished EuroBasket 2015 as seventh-placed team.
Period 2016–
Montenegro made another successful result in qualifiers for EuroBasket Women 2017. With score 4–2, the team qualified for European Championship, fourth in their history. At the championship finals, Montenegrin team disappointed with 3 losses and elimination on early stage of tournament.
As in previous campaigns, the Montenegrin national team won the Group A in EuroBasket Women 2019 qualifiers and gained their fifth performance in the European Championship.
Competitive record Montenegro was part of Yugoslavia until 2006.
Olympic Games Olympic GamesYearPosition 2008Did not qualify 2012 2016 2020 2024 2028To be determined
FIBA Women's World Cup Women's World CupYearPosition 2010Did not qualify 2014 2018 2022 2026 2030 To be determined EuroBasket Women EuroBasket WomenQualificationYearPosition 2009Division B 12 12 0 20116th place972 8 6 2 201310th place624 8 6 2 20157th place1055 6 5 1 201716th place303 6 4 2 201912th place4 1 3 6 4 2 202112th place4 1 3 4 3 1 20238th place6 3 3 431 2025 15th place 3 0 3 6 4 2 2027To be determinedTo be determinedTotal451926604713
Team Current roster Roster for the EuroBasket Women 2025.
Head coaches Since its foundation, Montenegro women's national basketball team had four head coaches. In the period 2008–2013, head coach of Montenegro was Miodrag Baletić. From 2014, Montenegrin team was led by Momir Milatović, who was head coach during three years. In 2017, first foreigner was promoted as head coach of Montenegrin team. That was Roberto Íñiguez, whose mandate lasted until the beginning of 2019. In January 2019, Basketball Association of Montenegro stated that new head coach of national team is former player and captain Jelena Škerović. She became a first woman to be a head coach of any Montenegrin national A team. Years Name Score Competition 2008–2013 Miodrag Baletić 33–10 EuroBasket 2011 (6th); EuroBasket 2013 (10th) 2014–2017 Momir Milatović 14–8 EuroBasket 2015 (7th) 2017–2019 Roberto Íñiguez 4–5 EuroBasket 2017 (16th) 2019–present Jelena Škerović 16–8 GSS 2019 (1st); EuroBasket 2019 (12); EuroBasket 2021 (12); GSS 2019 (1st); EuroBasket 2023 (8)
Statistics and games List of official matches
Montenengro played its first official match in August 2008. There is a List of official matches of the Montenegro women's national basketball team played since independence.
Opponents Below is the list of performances of Montenegro national basketball team against every single opponent. Opponents' country G W L PD OVERALL Last update: September 22, 2023.
Kit Manufacturer 2008–2011: Kappa 2011–present: Peak
Sponsor 2008–2011: VOLI 2012–2014: diva 2014–2015: EPCG 2015–present: m:tel
See also List of official matches of the Montenegro women's national basketball team Sport in Montenegro First А Women's Basketball League of Montenegro Montenegro national basketball team
References
External links
FIBA profile