Luxembourg men's national basketball team

The Luxembourg men's national basketball team (, , ) represents Luxembourg in international basketball tournaments. They are controlled by the Luxembourg Basketball Federation.

Luxembourg has competed at the EuroBasket three times, in 1946, 1951, and 1955. Their best result was an eighth place finish at their first appearance at the competition in 1946. However, the national team has yet to qualify to compete at the FIBA World Cup.

History EuroBasket 1946 Luxembourg appeared in their first international event at EuroBasket 1946 in Geneva. After being placed in Group A for the preliminary round, the national team would play in their first ever match against Poland, where the team would lose 45–28. Following the defeat, Luxembourg went on to lose their next two matches against Hungary and Italy, which ultimately dropped the team into the classification phase of the tournament. There, Luxembourg captured their first ever victory against England 27–50. With only one game remaining for Luxembourg, the team would finish out the competition with a loss against Belgium, to end the tournament eighth out of the ten teams overall.

EuroBasket 1951 After not entering the competition in 1947 and 1949, Luxembourg made their way back to the continental stage at EuroBasket 1951 in Paris. Luxembourg's first match of the tournament was against the host France, which resulted in a demoralising defeat for the national team 72–26. Ensuing the tough loss for Luxembourg, were four straight defeats for the team, to relegate them into a must win elimination game for the right to advance into the classification rounds. Luxembourg, however, would lose in a tightly contested match 45–46 against Denmark to be eliminated.

EuroBasket 1955

Following Luxembourg's dismal performance at the EuroBasket in 1951, the national team declined to enter the event in 1953, instead looked toward EuroBasket 1955 in Budapest to make amends. After a disastrous first game in the preliminary round, which saw Luxembourg completely dominated by the Soviet Union, the team was narrowly defeated in their second match against Sweden 54–53. However, in Luxembourg's final two matches of the preliminary phase, the team struggled to build upon their game against Sweden; and were relegated toward the classification rounds at a record of (0–5).

Entering the classification round, Luxembourg dropped their first match against Turkey, before earning their first win of the tournament against Denmark 46–31. Luxembourg would eventually go on to pickup two more victories, both against Sweden to end the tournament 15th out of the 18 teams at the event.

Subsequent years After Luxembourg's last appearance at the EuroBasket in 1951, the national team endured numerous failed qualifying cycles in order to make it back to the EuroBasket. However, Luxembourg eventually achieved success competing at smaller competitions such as the European Championship for Small Countries and the Games of the Small States of Europe.

Entering qualification for Luxembourg to reach EuroBasket 2017, the team struggled toward a (1–5) record during the process to being eliminated. After Luxembourg's missed opportunity to qualify for the 2017 tournament, the team was tasked with going through Pre-Qualifiers with a chance to qualify for EuroBasket 2022. Luxembourg would get off to a slow start during the first round of pre-qualifiers, losing their first three matches before picking up a needed win on the road against Cyprus 89–76. With a record of (1–3), Luxembourg's path of advancing took a detour, as the team was relegated to the third and final phase of pre-qualifiers. There, Luxembourg would only win one game during that qualifying window (1–3), at home against Kosovo 88–80 and failing to advance.

For Luxembourg's process to qualify for the 2023 FIBA World Cup, the national team took part in European Pre-Qualifiers, where they went (2–4) in the first round; and were initially eliminated. Although due to Austria withdrawing from qualification, Luxembourg were next inline to replace them. Entering the second and final phase of World Cup European pre-qualifiers, Luxembourg's qualification campaign officially came to a close, after posting an (0–4) record during the round.

Competitive record

FIBA World Cup World CupQualificationYearPosition 1950Did not enterDid not enter 1954 1959 1963 1967 1970 1974 1978Did not qualifyEuroBasket servedas qualifiers 1982 1986Did not enterDid not enter 1990 1994Did not qualifyEuroBasket servedas qualifiers 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2019Did not enterDid not enter 2023Did not qualify1028 2027413 2031To be determinedTo be determinedTotal0/20 14 3 11

Olympic Games Olympic GamesQualifyingYearPosition 1936No national representative 1948Did not enter 1952 1956Did not qualify 1960Did not enterDid not enter 1964Did not qualify707 1968Did not enterDid not enter 1972 1976 1980Did not qualify404 1984Did not enterDid not enter 1988 1992 1996Did not qualifyDid not qualify 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016 2020 2024 2028Total0/21 11 0 11

Games of the Small States of Europe Games of the Small States of EuropeYearPosition 1985321 19876th312 19894th422 1991532 1993523 1995422 19974th413 20015th312 2003422 2005422 2007541 2009532 2013431 2015312 20174th523 2019532 2023541Total703733

EuroBasket EuroBasketQualificationYearPosition 1935No national representative 1937 1939 19468th514 1947Did not enter 1949 195117th505 1953Did not enter 195515th1037 1957Did not enter 1959 1961 1963Did not enter 1965Did not qualify312 1967303 1969Did not enterDid not enter 1971 1973 1975Did not qualify505 1977514 1979312 1981Did not enterDid not enter 1983 1985Did not qualify532 1987413 1989Did not enterDid not enter 1991 1993Did not qualify606 1995606 1997514 1999514 2001606 200311110 2005Division B606 2007Division B808 2009Division B808 2011Division B606 2013Did not qualify808 201512012 2017615 2022826 2025817 2029Qualification in progress624Total3/3920416143 16 127

Championship for Small Countries FIBA European Championship for Small CountriesYearPosition 19884th523 1990532 1992532 19944th523 2004541Total251411

Results and fixtures

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2026

Team Current roster Roster for the EuroBasket 2029 Pre-Qualifiers matches on 2 and 5 July 2026 against Azerbaijan and North Macedonia.

Depth chart

Head coach position

Past rosters 1946 EuroBasket: finished 8th among 10 teams

3 Alfred Achen, 4 René Bicheler, 5 René Colling, 6 Henri Heyart, 7 Pierre Kelsen, 8 Eugene Kohn, 9 Léon Konsbruck, 10 Joseph Linck, 11 Gaston Poncin, 12 Roger Scheuren (Coach: Henri Heyart)

1951 EuroBasket: finished 17th among 18 teams

3 Guy Neumann, 4 Mathias Steffen, 5 Xander Frantz, 6 Fernand Schmalen, 7 Roger Dentzer, 8 Joseph Eyschen, 9 Marcel Gales, 10 Mathias Birel, 11 Jean Guillen, 12 Pierre Steinmetz, 13 Léon Konsbruck, 14 René Haas, 15 Ley, 25 Paul Linster (Coach: Pierrot Conter)

1955 EuroBasket: finished 15th among 18 teams

3 Pierre Steinmetz, 4 Mathias Birel, 5 Fernand Wolter, 6 Joseph Lettal, 7 Paul Kemp, 8 Fernand Schmalen, 9 John Kieffer, 10 Marcel Simon, 11 Florent Lickes, 12 Gust Scharle, 13 Albert Meyers, 14 Jean Christophory (Coach: Pierre Kelsen)

Luxembourg men's national basketball team

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