The United Arab Republic national basketball team (Arabic: منتخب الجمهورية العربية المتحدة لكرة السلة للرجال) was a historical national basketball team that existed between the year 1958–1971 that has represented first the United Arab Republic which was a union between Egypt (including the occupied Gaza Strip) and Syria from 1958 to 1961 and then the name has continued with Egypt until the year 1971.
History The United Arab Republic men's national basketball team has since the foundation back in 1958 won three African Championships from 3 appearances and has participated in two World Championships but has no Olympic appearances.
Performance table FIBA World Cup YearPositionTournamentHosts 1959 11 1959 FIBA World Championship Chile 1970 13 1970 FIBA World Championship Yugoslavia
FIBA Africa Championship YearAfroBasket Info Retrieved 5 September 2021 African basketball competitions Retrieved 5 September 2021PositionTournamentHosts 1962 FIBA Africa Championship 1962 Cairo, United Arab Republic 1964 FIBA Africa Championship 1964 Casablanca, Morocco 1965 – FIBA Africa Championship 1965 Tunis, Tunisia 1968 – FIBA Africa Championship 1968 Casablanca, Morocco 1970 FIBA Africa Championship 1970 Alexandria, United Arab Republic
African Games YearPositionTournamentHosts 1965 1965 All-Africa Games Congo
Pan Arab Games YearPositionTournamentHosts1961 1961 Pan Arab Games 1965 1965 Pan Arab Games
Mediterranean Games YearPositionTournamentHosts1959 1959 Mediterranean Games Beirut
References
External links
FIBA profile Egyptian basketball records at FIBA Archive AfroBasket – Egyptian men's national team