Austria men's national basketball team

Austria

FIBA ranking	67 2 (25 February 2025)[1]
Joined FIBA	1934
FIBA zone	FIBA Europe
National federation	Basketball Austria
Coach	Chris O'Shea
Nickname(s)	Das Team (The Team) Unsere Burschen (Our Boys)
FIBA World Cup
Appearances	None
EuroBasket
Appearances	6
Medals	None
Championship for Small Countries
Appearances	2
Medals	Gold: (1992, 1996)
Home Away
First international
Bulgaria 56–13 Austria  (Prague, Czechoslovakia; 27 April 1947)
Biggest win
Algeria 63–119 Austria  (Böblingen, West Germany; 13 May 1975)
Biggest defeat
France 100–6 Austria  (Prague, Czechoslovakia; 28 April 1947)

The Austria men's national basketball team (

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Austria has competed at the

FIBA World Cup

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History

EuroBasket 1947

Austria first competed in the

Netherlands

for 11th and 12th place, which Austria lost after a long battle.

Austria made their second appearance on the continental stage at

propelled Austria into 11th place of the 18 teams in the tournament.

Austria's appearance at

in classification for the 13th–16th place playoffs, Austria won both games to finish 13th of the 18 teams.

In Sofia for the EuroBasket 1957 competition, Austria was defeated three times in the preliminary round. Their 0–3 record put them last in their group and sent them to the classification pool. The team won two games there, finishing at a record of 2–5 to take an overall 14th place in the 16 team tournament.

Austria went on to qualify to the EuroBasket two more times in 1959 and 1977. But since then it has been a struggle for the national team to qualify for major international basketball tournaments.

  Win   Loss

Roster for the 2027 FIBA World Cup Pre-Qualifiers match on 23 February 2025 against Albania.^[2]

Austria men's national basketball team roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. No. Name Age – Date of birth Height Club Ctr. SG 5 Bogić Vujošević 32 – (1992-08-05)5 August 1992 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in) SCM Timișoara PG 6 Daniel Friedrich 33 – (1992-02-11)11 February 1992 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) Swans C 12 Benjamin Schuch 18 – (2006-06-04)4 June 2006 2.07 m (6 ft 9 in) Sun Chlorella Dragons SG 15 Aleksej Kostić 19 – (2005-08-16)16 August 2005 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) Traiskirchen PF 16 Renato Poljak 27 – (1997-04-20)20 April 1997 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) Wels G/F 17 Erol Ersek 25 – (1999-04-20)20 April 1999 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) Heidelberg PG 25 Lukas Hahn 25 – (1999-08-02)2 August 1999 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) Nord Dragonz PF 26 Marvin Ogunsipe 28 – (1996-02-26)26 February 1996 2.04 m (6 ft 8 in) Ourense F 33 Omer Suljanovic 19 – (2005-04-02)2 April 2005 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) Assigeco Piacenza C 35 Luka Brajkovic 25 – (1999-06-26)26 June 1999 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) Darüşşafaka SF 42 Imran Suljanovic 18 – (2006-04-25)25 April 2006 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) Reggiana G 77 Timo Lanmüller 23 – (2001-03-17)17 March 2001 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) Frankfurt	Head coach Chris O'Shea Assistant coach(es) Benedikt Danek Stefan Grassegger Legend (C) Team captain Club – describes last club before the competition Age – describes age on 23 February 2025

Pos.	Starting 5	Bench 1	Bench 2
C	Luka Brajkovic	Fynn Schott
PF	Omer Suljanovic	Renato Poljak
SF	Sylven Landesberg	Edi Patekar	Jakob Löhr
SG	Bogić Vujošević	Erol Ersek	Aleksej Kostić
PG	Timo Lanmüller	Daniel Friedrich	Jonathan Knessl

• Jakob Pöltl – First Austrian-born player to get drafted and play in the NBA.

: finished 12th among 14 teams

3 Frankl, 4 Hans Bohman, 5 Eder, 6 Ganglberger, 7 Franz Gluck, 8 Herbert Haselbacher, 9 Paulin, 10 Konrad Pitsch, 12 Helmut Schmidt, 13 Richard Pollak, 15 Otto Schreiweiss, 16 Vostatek, 17 Hans Zsak, 29 Walter Ledl (Coach: ?)

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: finished 11th among 17 teams

3 Hans Zsak, 5 Gerhard Puschner, 6 Peter Vecernik, 7 Richard Pollak, 8 Herbert Haselbacher, 10 Walter Ledl, 13 Felix Schober, 15 Franz Gluck, 16 Hans Bohman, 17 Benno Binder, 18 Ewald Polansky, 19 Hans Praschl (Coach: Miodrag Stefanović)

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: finished 13th among 18 teams

3 Gunter Brousek, 4 Karl Hackl, 5 Franz Gebhard, 6 Oskar Doppes, 7 Ewald Polansky, 8 Helmut Schmidt, 9 Karl Thiering, 10 Helmut Schurer, 11 Baczinsky, 12 Johann Karall, 13 Karl Machek, 14 Peter Vecernik, 15 Karl Privoznik, 17 Alfred Probst (Coach: Janos Gerdov)

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: finished 14th among 16 teams

3 Nikolaus Waldingbrett, 4 Gunter Brousek, 5 Johann Karall, 6 Friedrich Walz, 7 Ewald Polansky, 8 Herwig Schon, 9 Werner Grohs, 10 Karl Thiering, 11 Alfred Waschkau, 12 Helmut Schurer, 14 Franz Vranitzky, 15 Alfred Probst (Coach: Herbert Haselbacher)

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: finished 16th among 17 teams

3 Friedrich Walz, 4 Peter Kotas, 5 Franz Havlicek, 6 Oskar Doppes, 7 Ewald Polansky, 8 Herwig Schon, 9 Walter Ledl, 10 Karl Thiering, 11 Alfred Probst, 12 Heinz Vybiral, 13 Ernst Tutschek, 15 Karl Privoznik (Coach: Herbert Haselbacher)

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: finished 12th among 12 teams

4 Wolfgang Vlk, 5 Friedrich Miklas, 6 Bernhard Slavicek, 7 Peter Bilik, 8 Peter Poiger, 9 Herbert Watzke, 10 Erich Tecka, 11 Werner Meisinger, 12 Helmut Zimmel, 13 Walter Fuchs, 14 Peter Wolf, 15 Herbert Haselbacher (Coach: Jan Hluchy)

• 2015–2017:
  Spalding^[3]

Sponsor

• 2015–2017: Admiral (Sportwetten)^[3]

• Sport in Austria
• Austria women's national basketball team
• Austria men's national under-20 basketball team
• Austria men's national under-18 basketball team
• Austria men's national under-16 basketball team

• Official website (in German)
• Austria FIBA profile
• Austria National Team – Men at Eurobasket.com

• Great Britain v Austria - Full Game - EuroBasket 2022 Pre-Qualifiers Youtube.com video