Poland national basketball team

Poland
FIBA ranking	38
Joined FIBA	1934
FIBA zone	FIBA Europe
National federation	Polski Związek Koszykówki (PZKosz.)
Coach	Mike Taylor
Nickname(s)	Biało-czerwoni ("The-white-and-red") Orły ("The Eagles")
Olympic Games
Appearances	6
FIBA World Cup
Appearances	1
EuroBasket
Appearances	28
Medals	Silver: 1963 Bronze: 1939, 1965, 1967
Uniforms
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The Polish national basketball team is the national basketball side that represents Poland in international competitions. It is administrated by the Polski Związek Koszykówki (Polish Basketball Association).

Their biggest successes are the silver medal in the 1963 European Championships at home in Poland and fourth place at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

History

Continental Stage

EuroBasket 1937

The Poles took fourth place with an overall record of 2–3 at the second European basketball championship, the EuroBasket 1937 held by the International Basketball Federation's FIBA Europe continental federation. They took first place in their four-team preliminary group on a three-way tie-breaker after France and Latvia both matched the Polish team's 2–1 record. They then lost to eventual champions Lithuania in the semifinals and were defeated a second time by France in the bronze medal game.

EuroBasket 1939

Bronze medal Poland won the bronze medal in their second EuroBasket competition. The competition format was a single round-robin without playoffs; Latvia and Lithuania both defeated Poland whereas the other five teams in the competition fell to the Poles. With Lithuania undefeated and Poland and Latvia tied at 5–2, the loss to Latvia was decisive in pushing Poland to third place.

EuroBasket 1946

Due to World War II, the next European championship was EuroBasket 1946. The Poles started well, with a victory over Luxembourg. They lost their next two preliminary games to Italy and Hungary to finish in third place of the four-team group. This put them in the 7th–10th place classification semifinal, where they lost again, this time to Belgium. In the 9th/10th playoff, Poland defeated England.

EuroBasket 1947

The European championships returned to the odd-year schedule with EuroBasket 1947. Poland placed second in their preliminary group, losing only to eventual silver medallist Czechoslovakia en route to a 2–1 record. They then went 1–2 in their semifinal group, falling to the gold medal Soviet Union team and bronze medal Egypt. This put Poland in a 5th/6th place playoff against France, who had been 1–2 in the opposite semifinal group. France won, 62–29.

EuroBasket 1955

After an 8-year hiatus, Poland returned with EuroBasket 1955 in Budapest. They quickly showed that they could still play with the European field, winning all four of their preliminary round games to advance to the final round. Despite their mediocre 3–4 record in that round, the Poles had demonstrated that they could be effective against the best of the European pool with a 72–68 win over eventual silver medallist Czechoslovakia. They finished 5th overall of the 18 teams in the tournament.

EuroBasket 1957

Two years later in Sofia, Poland competed at EuroBasket 1957. Despite being seeded into the same preliminary pool as the Soviet Union, the Poles went 2–1 in the round-robin and advanced to the final round. They lost their first six of seven games in that round, getting their first win in the last game of the round, against France to take 7th place overall.

EuroBasket 1963

Silver medal

EuroBasket 1965

Bronze medal

EuroBasket 1967

Bronze medal

EuroBasket 2007

After a 10-year break, Poland returned with EuroBasket. It was quite sn unexpected achievement. The Poles advanced from eliminations defeated their group rivals : Ukraine, Bulgaria and Sweden. Because of injury, many key players including Michał Ignerski and Maciej Lampe did not compete. The Poles lost all 3 games, but even in defeat they remained competitive losing by 8 to a well-regarded French team and by 9 to the Italian squad.

• Poland – France 66–74 (most points for Poland : Wójcik 19)
• Poland – Slovenia 52–70 (most points for Poland : Pluta 12)
• Poland – Italy 70–79 (most points for Poland : Pluta 15)

Global Stage

On several occasions, Poland qualified for events where they competed at the global stage. Yet, the country's major performances there date back to 1980 when the country finished 7th at the Summer Olympics.

Competitive record

Olympic Games Olympic Games Record Year Position Pld W L 1936 Fourth Place 7 3 4 1948-1956 Did Not Qualify 1960 7th Place 8 3 5 1964 6th Place 9 5 4 1968 6th Place 9 5 4 1972 10th Place 9 3 6 1976 Did Not Qualify 1980 7th Place 7 4 3 1984-2016 Did Not Qualify 2020 To Be Determined Total 6/18 49 23 26 World Cup FIBA Basketball World Cup Year Position Pld W L 1967 5th Place 9 4 5 2019 To Be Determined Total 9 4 5

EuroBasket EuroBasket Year Position Pld W L 1935 Did Not Qualify 1937 Fourth Place 5 2 3 1939 Third Place 7 5 2 1946 9th Place 5 2 3 1947 6th Place 7 3 4 1949-1953 Did Not Qualify 1955 5th Place 11 7 4 1957 7th Place 10 3 7 1959 6th Place 8 4 4 1961 9th Place 9 5 4 1963 Runners-up 9 7 2 1965 Third Place 9 7 2 1967 Third Place 9 7 2 1969 Fourth Place 7 3 4 1971 Fourth Place 7 4 3 1973 12th Place 7 1 6 1975 8th Place 7 3 4 1977 Did Not Qualify 1979 7th Place 8 5 3 1981 7th Place 8 5 3 1983 9th Place 7 3 4 1985 11th Place 7 2 5 1987 7th Place 8 4 4 1989 Did Not Qualify 1991 7th Place 5 2 3 1993-1995 Did Not Qualify 1997 7th Place 9 4 5 1999-2005 Did Not Qualify 2007 13th Place 3 0 3 2009 9th Place 6 2 4 2011 17th Place 5 2 3 2013 21st Place 5 1 4 2015 [N 1] 11th place 6 3 3 2017 Qualified Total 194 96 98

Team

Current roster

Roster for the EuroBasket 2015.

Poland men's national basketball team roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. # Name Age – Date of birth Ht. Club Ctr. PF 0 Czyż, Aleksander 25 – 3 March 1990 2.04 m (6 ft 8 in) Turow PF 5 Cel, Aaron 28 – 4 March 1987 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) AS Monaco SG 6 Slaughter, A. J. 28 – 3 August 1987 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) Banvit PF 7 Kulig, Damian 28 – June 23, 1987 2.04 m (6 ft 8 in) Trabzonspor SF 10 Ponitka, Mateusz 22 – 29 August 1993 1.97 m (6 ft 6 in) Zielona Góra SF 12 Waczyński, Adam 25 – 15 October 1989 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) Rio Natura Monbus C 13 Gortat, Marcin 31 – February 17, 1984 2.11 m (6 ft 11 in) Washington Wizards PG 15 Koszarek, Łukasz 31 – 12 January 1984 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) Zielona Góra SG 17 Zamojski, Przemysław 28 – 16 December 1986 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) Zielona Góra C 24 Karnowski, Przemysław 21 – November 8, 1993 2.14 m (7 ft 0 in) Gonzaga PG 33 Gruszecki, Karol 25 – 4 November 1989 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) Zielona Góra PG 66 Skibniewski, Robert 32 – 19 July 1983 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) Anwil	Head coach Mike Taylor Assistant coach(es) Wojciech Kaminski Pawel Turkiewicz Legend Club – describes last club before the tournament Age – describes age on 5 September 2015

Depth chart

Maciej Lampe represents Poland internationally. Lampe and Marcin Gortat are known as Poland's own Twin Towers.

Pos.	Starter	Bench	Bench	Inactive
C	Marcin Gortat	Przemyslaw Karnowski	Olek Czyz
PF	Maciej Lampe	Damian Kulig	Aaron Cel
SF	Mateusz Ponitka	Adam Waczyński	Karol Gruszecki
SG	A.J. Slaughter	Dardan Berisha
PG	Łukasz Koszarek	Przemyslaw Zamojski

Notable players

Other current notable players from Poland:

Poland roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. # Name Age – Date of birth Ht. Club Ctr. F/C Maciej Lampe 31 – 2 May 1985 2.11 m (6 ft 11 in) Shenzhen Leopards Legend Club – describes current club Age – describes age on 13 August 2016

Coaches

• 1936 – 1939 / Walenty Kłyszejko
• 1946 Józef Pachla & Mieczysław Piotrowski
• 1947 – 1948 Józef Pachla
• 1949 / Walenty Kłyszejko & Jerzy Patrzykont
• 1950 Tadeusz Ulatowski
• 1950 – 1953 Władysław Maleszewski
• 1953 Tadeusz Ulatowski & Jan Rudelski
• 1954 Andrzej Kulesza & Romuald Markowski
• 1955 Władysław Maleszewski & Jerzy Patrzykont
• 1956 Zygmunt Olesiewicz
• 1957 Jan Rudelski
• 1958 Jan Rudelski & Jerzy Patrzykont
• 1959 Zygmunt Olesiewicz & Jerzy Lelonkiewicz
• 1960 Zygmunt Olesiewicz
• 1961 Jerzy Lelonkiewicz
• 1961 Zygmunt Olesiewicz
• 1961 – 1975 Witold Zagórski
• 1986 – 1992 Arkadiusz Koniecki
• 1993 Tadeusz Aleksandrowicz
• 1993 – 1998 Eugeniusz Kijewski
• 1998 – 2000 Piotr Langosz
• 2000 – 2003 Dariusz Szczubiał
• 2003 – 2004 Andrzej Kowalczyk
• 2004 – 2006 Veselin Matić
• 2006 – 2008 Andrej Urlep
• 2008 – 2010 Muli Katzurin
• 2010 – 2011 / Igor Griszczuk
• 2011 – 2013 Aleš Pipan
• 2013 – 2014 Dirk Bauermann
• 2014 - present Mike Taylor

Past rosters

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1936 Olympic Games: finished 4th among 21 teams
Pawel Stok, Andrzej Plucinski, Zdzislaw Kasprzak, Zdzislaw Filipkiewicz, Jakub Kopf, Edward Szostak, Ewaryst Loj, Janusz Patrzykont, Florian Grzechowiak, Zenon Rozycki (Coach: Walenty Klyszejko)

1937 EuroBasket: finished 4th among 8 teams
Pawel Stok, Andrzej Plucinski, Zdzislaw Kasprzak, Zbigniew Resich, Zenon Rozycki, Jaroslaw Smigielski, Stefan Gendera, Florian Grzechowiak, Michal Czajczyk, Janusz Patrzykont (Coach: Walenty Klyszejko)

1939 EuroBasket: finished 3rd among 8 teams
Pawel Stok, Florian Grzechowiak, Zbigniew Resich, Stanislaw Pawlowski, Jerzy Rossudowski, Zdzislaw Kasprzak, Ewaryst Loj, Jerzy Gregolajtis, Bohdan Bartosiewicz, Jaroslaw Smigielski (Coach: Walenty Klyszejko)

1946 EuroBasket: finished 9th among 10 teams
Florian Grzechowiak, Pawel Stok, Zbigniew Resich, Jaroslaw Smigielski, Edward Jarczynski, Zdzislaw Kasprzak, Wladyslaw Maleszewski, Franciszek Szymura, Roscislaw Ruszkiewicz (Coach: Jozef Pachla)

1947 EuroBasket: finished 6th among 14 teams
Zbigniew Resich, Pawel Stok, Edward Jarczynski, Henryk Jaznicki, Wladyslaw Maleszewski, Jozef Zylinski, Bohdan Bartosiewicz, Jerzy Dowgird, Romuald Markowski, Ludwik Barszczewski, Tadeusz Ulatowski (Coach: Jozef Pachla)

1955 EuroBasket: finished 5th among 18 teams
Witold Zagorski, Slawomir Zlotkiewicz, Jerzy Mlynarczyk, Andrzej Nartowski, Ryszard Olszewski, Bogdan Przywarski, Jerzy Sterenga, Wincent Wawro, Leszek Kaminski, Tadeusz Pacula, Wladyslaw Pawlak, Stefan Wojcik, Jedrzej Bednarowicz (Coach: Wladyslaw Maleszewski)

1957 EuroBasket: finished 7th among 16 teams
Andrzej Pstrokonski, Janusz Wichowski, Wincent Wawro, Stefan Wojcik, Ryszard Olszewski, Tadeusz Pacula, Wladyslaw Pawlak, Andrzej Nartowski, Marek Sitkowski, Jerzy Mlynarczyk, Zdzislaw Skrzeczkowski (Coach: Wladyslaw Maleszewski)

1959 EuroBasket: finished 6th among 17 teams
Andrzej Pstrokonski, Janusz Wichowski, Zbigniew Dregier, Andrzej Nartowski, Bogdan Przywarski, Ryszard Olszewski, Jerzy Mlynarczyk, Zenon Matysik, Tadeusz Pacula, Jerzy Piskun, Marek Sitkowski, Wladyslaw Pawlak (Coach: Zygmunt Olesiewicz)

1960 Olympic Games: finished 7th among 16 teams
Mieczyslaw Lopatka, Andrzej Pstrokonski, Janusz Wichowski, Zbigniew Dregier, Marek Sitkowski, Bogdan Przywarski, Dariusz Swierczewski, Andrzej Nartowski, Jerzy Mlynarczyk, Jerzy Piskun, Ryszard Olszewski, Tadeusz Pacula (Coach: Zygmunt Olesiewicz)

1961 EuroBasket: finished 9th among 19 teams
Janusz Wichowski, Andrzej Pstrokonski, Andrzej Nartowski, Wladyslaw Pawlak, Jerzy Piskun, Ryszard Niewodowski, Ryszard Olszewski, Jerzy Mlynarczyk, Marek Sitkowski, Stanislaw Olejniczak, Zygmunt Wysocki, Leszek Arent (Coach: Witold Zagorski)

1963 EuroBasket: finished 2nd among 16 teams
Mieczyslaw Lopatka, Bohdan Likszo, Janusz Wichowski, Andrzej Pstrokonski, Zbigniew Dregier, Jerzy Piskun, Marek Sitkowski, Leszek Arent, Kazimierz Frelkiewicz, Wieslaw Langiewicz, Andrzej Nartowski, Stanislaw Olejniczak (Coach: Witold Zagorski)

1964 Olympic Games: finished 6th among 16 teams
Mieczyslaw Lopatka, Bohdan Likszo, Zbigniew Dregier, Andrzej Pstrokonski, Janusz Wichowski, Kazimierz Frelkiewicz, Krzysztof Sitkowski, Jerzy Piskun, Andrzej Perka, Stanislaw Olejniczak, Tadeusz Blauth, Krystian Czernichowski (Coach: Witold Zagorski)

1965 EuroBasket: finished 3rd among 16 teams
Bohdan Likszo, Mieczyslaw Lopatka, Andrzej Pstrokonski, Janusz Wichowski, Zbigniew Dregier, Kazimierz Frelkiewicz, Andrzej Perka, Jerzy Piskun, Edward Grzywna, Wieslaw Langiewicz, Czeslaw Malec, Stanislaw Olejniczak (Coach: Witold Zagorski)

1967 EuroBasket: finished 3rd among 16 teams
Mieczyslaw Lopatka, Bohdan Likszo, Wlodzimierz Trams, Boleslaw Kwiatkowski, Zbigniew Dregier, Grzegorz Korcz, Kazimierz Frelkiewicz, Waldemar Kozak, Czeslaw Malec, Henryk Cegielski, Miroslaw Kuczynski, Maciej Chojnacki (Coach: Witold Zagorski)

1967 World Championship: finished 5th among 13 teams
Mieczyslaw Lopatka, Bohdan Likszo, Boleslaw Kwiatkowski, Janusz Wichowski, Wlodzimierz Trams, Kazimierz Frelkiewicz, Zbigniew Dregier, Igor Oleszkiewicz, Wieslaw Langiewicz, Andrzej Chmarzynski, Czeslaw Malec, Henryk Cegielski (Coach: Witold Zagorski)

1968 Olympic Games: finished 6th among 16 teams
Edward Jurkiewicz, Mieczyslaw Lopatka, Bohdan Likszo, Wlodzimierz Trams, Boleslaw Kwiatkowski, Grzegorz Korcz, Kazimierz Frelkiewicz, Andrzej Kasprzak, Adam Niemiec, Andrzej Pasiorowski, Czeslaw Malec, Henryk Cegielski (Coach: Witold Zagorski)

1969 EuroBasket: finished 4th among 12 teams
Edward Jurkiewicz, Bohdan Likszo, Andrzej Seweryn, Boleslaw Kwiatkowski, Grzegorz Korcz, Wlodzimierz Trams, Waldemar Kozak, Jan Dolczewski, Henryk Cegielski, Adam Niemiec, Marek Ladniak, Krzysztof Gula (Coach: Witold Zagorski)

1971 EuroBasket: finished 4th among 12 teams
Edward Jurkiewicz, Andrzej Seweryn, Waldemar Kozak, Grzegorz Korcz, Henryk Cegielski, Jerzy Frolow, Janusz Ceglinski, Zbigniew Jedlinski, Jan Dolczewski, Miroslaw Kalinowski, Marek Ladniak, Eugeniusz Durejko (Coach: Witold Zagorski)

1972 Olympic Games: finished 10th among 16 teams
Mieczyslaw Lopatka, Andrzej Seweryn, Waldemar Kozak, Grzegorz Korcz, Jan Dolczewski, Andrzej Pasiorowski, Franciszek Niemiec, Ryszard Bialowas, Eugeniusz Durejko, Andrzej Kasprzak, Janusz Ceglinski, Piotr Langosz (Coach: Witold Zagorski)

1973 EuroBasket: finished 12th among 12 teams
Grzegorz Korcz, Andrzej Seweryn, Jan Dolczewski, Janusz Ceglinski, Andrzej Pasiorowski, Jacek Kalinowski, Zdzislaw Myrda, Tadeusz Grygiel, Eugeniusz Durejko, Jerzy Plebanek, Tomasz Tybinkowski, Piotr Langosz (Coach: Witold Zagorski)

1975 EuroBasket: finished 8th among 12 teams
Edward Jurkiewicz, Andrzej Seweryn, Franciszek Niemiec, Adam Gardzina, Wojciech Fiedorczuk, Marek Ladniak, Dariusz Kwiatkowski, Piotr Langosz, Zdzislaw Myrda, Tomasz Garlinski, Eugeniusz Durejko, Tadeusz Grygiel (Coach: Witold Zagorski)

1979 EuroBasket: finished 7th among 12 teams
Mieczyslaw Mlynarski, Dariusz Zelig, Eugeniusz Kijewski, Andrzej Seweryn, Zdzislaw Myrda, Ryszard Prostak, Krzysztof Fikiel, Justyn Weglorz, Leszek Chudeusz, Zbigniew Kudlacz, Tomasz Garlinski, Wojciech Rosinski (Coach: Jerzy Swiatek)

1980 Olympic Games: finished 7th among 12 teams
Mieczyslaw Mlynarski, Dariusz Zelig, Zdzislaw Myrda, Eugeniusz Kijewski, Krzysztof Fikiel, Wojciech Rosinski, Justyn Weglorz, Ryszard Prostak, Jerzy Binkowski, Marcin Michalski, Leszek Dolinski, Ireneusz Mulak (Coach: Stefan Majer)

1981 EuroBasket: finished 7th among 12 teams
Mieczyslaw Mlynarski, Dariusz Zelig, Wojciech Rosinski, Eugeniusz Kijewski, Krzysztof Fikiel, Zbigniew Bogucki, Jerzy Binkowski, Miroslaw Boryca, Dariusz Szczubial, Jaroslaw Jechorek, Ryszard Prostak, Justyn Weglorz (Coach: Jerzy Swiatek)

1983 EuroBasket: finished 9th among 12 teams
Mieczyslaw Mlynarski, Dariusz Zelig, Jaroslaw Jechorek, Eugeniusz Kijewski, Ryszard Prostak, Krzysztof Fikiel, Jerzy Binkowski, Stanislaw Kielbik, Ireneusz Mulak, Justyn Weglorz, Stanislaw Reschke, Zbigniew Bogucki (Coach: Jerzy Swiatek)

1985 EuroBasket: finished 11th among 12 teams
Dariusz Zelig, Henryk Wardach, Jaroslaw Zyskowski, Krzysztof Fikiel, Jerzy Binkowski, Ireneusz Mulak, Adam Fiedler, Marek Sobczynski, Jaroslaw Jechorek, Andrzej Zurawski, Justyn Weglorz, Dariusz Szczubial (Coach: Andrzej Kuchar)

1987 EuroBasket: finished 7th among 12 teams
Dariusz Zelig, Henryk Wardach, Jaroslaw Jechorek, Jerzy Binkowski, Adam Fiedler, Krzysztof Fikiel, Dariusz Szczubial, Dariusz Kobylanski, Marek Sobczynski, Jerzy Kolodziejczak, Ryszard Prostak, Miroslaw Boryca (Coach: Andrzej Kuchar)

1991 EuroBasket: finished 7th among 8 teams
Maciej Zielinski, Dariusz Zelig, Adam Wojcik, Jerzy Binkowski, Dariusz Szczubial, Jaroslaw Jechorek, Jacek Duda, Mariusz Bacik, Wojciech Krolik, Tomasz Torgowski, Piotr Baran, Jaroslaw Marcinkowski (Coach: Arkadiusz Koniecki)

1997 EuroBasket: finished 7th among 16 teams
Adam Wojcik, Dominik Tomczyk, Maciej Zielinski, Andrzej Pluta, Mariusz Bacik, Tomasz Jankowski, Rafal Bigus, Piotr Szybilski, Krzysztof Dryja, Jaroslaw Darnikowski, Robert Kosciuk, Krzysztof Mila (Coach: Eugeniusz Kijewski)

2007 EuroBasket: finished 13th – 16th among 16 teams
Adam Wójcik, Filip Dylewicz, Andrzej Pluta, Kamil Pietras, Szymon Szewczyk, Robert Witka, Radosław Hyży, Robert Skibniewski, Bartłomiej Wołoszyn, Iwo Kitzinger, Łukasz Koszarek, Przemysław Frasunkiewicz (Coach: Andriej Urlep)

2009 EuroBasket: finished 9th among 16 teams
Adam Wójcik, Krzysztof Roszyk, Michal Chylinski, Krzysztof Szubarga, Szymon Szewczyk, Robert Witka, Michal Ignerski, Robert Skibniewski, David Logan, Marcin Gortat, Łukasz Koszarek, Maciej Lampe (Coach: Muli Katzurin)

Kit

Manufacturer

2011: Spalding 2013-15: Zina ^[1]

Sponsor

2011: Prokom 2013: Lotto 2015: Tauron ^[1]

References and notes

1. Along with France, hosts were Croatia, Germany and Latvia. Poland has been drawn in Group A, and therefore they competed in France.

1. Poland | EuroBasket 2015, FIBA.com, Retrieved 27 May 2016.

See also

• Poland women's national basketball team
• Poland national under-19 basketball team
• Poland national under-17 basketball team
• Poland national 3x3 team

External links

• Official website
• FIBA profile
• EuroBasket.com
• Archived records

Videos

• Poland v Bosnia and Herzegovina - Group A - Game Highlights - EuroBasket 2015 Youtube.com video