Montenegro women's national basketball team

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Montenegro
FIBA ranking 19 Increase2.svg 3 (9 February 2025) [1]
Joined FIBA 2006
FIBA zone FIBA Europe
National federation KSCG
Coach Jelena Škerović
EuroBasket
Appearances8
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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 Republic of Ireland in Bijelo Polje (68–56).
The Montenegrin women's team participated at the EuroBasket Women four times – 2011, 2013, 2015, and 2017 reaching the quarterfinals twice.

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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.
Just like in previous campaigns, Montenegrin national team won the Group A in EuroBasket Women 2019 qualifiers and gained their fifth performance on European Championship.

Competitive record

Montenegro was part of Yugoslavia until 2006.

Team

Current roster

Roster for the EuroBasket Women 2025. [2] [3]

Montenegro women's national basketball team roster
PlayersCoaches
Pos.No.NameAge – Date of birthHeightClubCtr.
PF 3 Bojana Kovačević 28 – (1996-10-16)16 October 19961.86 m (6 ft 1 in) Hapoel Petah Tikva Flag of Israel.svg
PG 4 Sofija Živaljević 27 – (1997-12-24)24 December 19971.76 m (5 ft 9 in) MBK Ružomberok Flag of Slovakia.svg
F 5 Jovana Pašić 33 – (1992-05-12)12 May 19921.83 m (6 ft 0 in) Hapoel Kfar Saba Flag of Israel.svg
SG 7 Zorana Radonjić 23 – (2002-06-13)13 June 20021.73 m (5 ft 8 in) Budućnost Podgorica Flag of Montenegro.svg
PG 10 Marija Baošić 20 – (2004-10-12)12 October 20041.66 m (5 ft 5 in) Budućnost Podgorica Flag of Montenegro.svg
PF 14 Nikolina Ilić 21 – (2003-10-13)13 October 20031.80 m (5 ft 11 in) Budućnost Podgorica Flag of Montenegro.svg
C 21 Maja Bigović 22 – (2002-09-24)24 September 20021.95 m (6 ft 5 in) Budućnost Podgorica Flag of Montenegro.svg
SG 23 Jelena Vučetić 31 – (1993-09-14)14 September 19931.82 m (6 ft 0 in) BC Castors Braine Flag of Belgium (civil).svg
SG 24 Marija Baošić 24 – (2001-02-05)5 February 20011.80 m (5 ft 11 in) BG Göttingen Flag of Germany.svg
PG 25 Marija Leković 21 – (2003-07-21)21 July 20031.66 m (5 ft 5 in) Valencia Basket Flag of Spain.svg
F 35 Milica Jovanović  (C)35 – (1989-08-14)14 August 19891.89 m (6 ft 2 in) Maccabi Bnot Ashdod Flag of Israel.svg
G 88 Jelena Bulajić 18 – (2007-02-27)27 February 20071.79 m (5 ft 10 in) South Florida Bulls Flag of the United States.svg
Head coach
Assistant coach(es)
  • Flag of Scotland.svg Alexander Geddes
Legend
  • (C) Team captain
  • Club – describes last
    club before the tournament
  • Age – describes age
    on 18 June 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.

YearsNameScoreCompetition
2008–2013 Flag of Montenegro.svg Miodrag Baletić 33–10 EuroBasket 2011 (6th); EuroBasket 2013 (10th)
2014–2017 Flag of Montenegro.svg Momir Milatović 14–8 EuroBasket 2015 (7th)
2017–2019 Flag of Spain.svg Roberto Íñiguez 4–5 EuroBasket 2017 (16th)
2019–present Flag of Montenegro.svg 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' countryGWLPD
Flag of Albania.svg  Albania
2
2
0
+118
Flag of Austria.svg  Austria
2
2
0
+27
Flag of Belarus.svg  Belarus
1
1
0
+5
Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium
1
0
1
-2
Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina.svg  Bosnia and Herzegovina
2
1
1
+6
Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Bulgaria
2
1
1
-30
Flag of Croatia.svg  Croatia
2
1
1
+7
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic
2
2
0
+32
Flag of Cyprus.svg  Cyprus
3
2
1
+71
Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark
2
1
1
+4
Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia
2
2
0
+52
Flag of Finland.svg  Finland
4
4
0
+90
Flag of France.svg  France
4
1
3
-85
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
3
3
0
+35
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain
3
1
2
-17
Flag of Greece.svg  Greece
3
2
1
+7
Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary
2
2
0
+13
Flag of Iceland.svg  Iceland
5
5
0
+87
Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland
2
2
0
+15
Flag of Israel.svg  Israel
2
2
0
+33
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy
5
2
3
0
Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia
3
2
1
-14
Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania
2
2
0
+21
Flag of Luxembourg.svg  Luxembourg
3
3
0
+44
Flag of Malta.svg  Malta
2
2
0
+63
Flag of Monaco.svg  Monaco
1
1
0
+10
Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands
2
2
0
+11
Flag of Poland.svg  Poland
3
2
1
+23
Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal
2
2
0
+13
Flag of Romania.svg  Romania
1
1
0
+18
Flag of Russia.svg  Russia
2
0
2
-32
Flag of Serbia.svg  Serbia
4
1
3
-16
Flag of Slovakia.svg  Slovakia
3
2
1
+27
Flag of Slovenia.svg  Slovenia
2
2
0
+29
Flag of Spain.svg  Spain
5
1
4
-56
Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden
4
1
3
-36
Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg   Switzerland
4
4
0
+85
Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey
5
1
4
-30
Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine
4
3
1
+27
OVERALL
106
71
35
+653

Last update: September 22, 2023.

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References

  1. "FIBA Ranking Presented by Nike". FIBA. 9 February 2025. Retrieved 9 February 2025.
  2. "Finalni roster za Eurobasket" (in Montenegrin). kscg.me. Retrieved 17 June 2025.
  3. "Team roster: Montenegro" (PDF). fiba.basketball. p. 9. Retrieved 17 June 2025.