The Uruguay national basketball team (Spanish: Selección de baloncesto de Uruguay) represents Uruguay in men's international basketball competitions and it is governed by Federación Uruguaya de basketball, The team has made seven appearances in the FIBA World Cup and the team represents FIBA and FIBA Americas.
Uruguay is one of three South American countries to win medals at the Basketball Tournament of the Summer Olympics. It won the bronze medal in both the 1952 and 1956 Summer Olympics. Uruguay is currently ranked 40th in the FIBA World Rankings.
Competitive record
Olympic Games
1936: 6th
1948: 5th
1952: 3rd
1956: 3rd
1960: 8th
1964: 8th
1984: 6th
FIBA World Cup
1954 FIBA World Championship: 6th
1959 FIBA World Championship: 9th
1963 FIBA World Championship: 10th
1967 FIBA World Championship: 7th
1970 FIBA World Championship: 7th
1982 FIBA World Championship: 11th
1986 FIBA World Championship: 18th
1990 FIBA World Championship to 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup: Did not qualify
FIBA AmeriCup
1980 Tournament of the Americas: 7th
1984 Tournament of the Americas: 2nd
1988 Tournament of the Americas: 4th
1992 Tournament of the Americas: 10th
1993 Tournament of the Americas: 10th
1995 Tournament of the Americas: 6th
1997 Tournament of the Americas: 8th
1999 Tournament of the Americas: 8th
2001 Tournament of the Americas: 8th
2003 Tournament of the Americas: 9th
2005 FIBA Americas Championship: 8th
2007 FIBA Americas Championship: 6th
2009 FIBA Americas Championship: 6th
2011 FIBA Americas Championship: 7th
2013 FIBA Americas Championship: 7th
2015 FIBA Americas Championship: 8th
2017 FIBA AmeriCup: 6th
2022 FIBA AmeriCup: 10th
Pan American Games
1963: 4th
1987: 7th
1991: 8th
1995: 4th
1999: 8th
2003: 8th
2007: 3rd
2011: 8th
2019: 6th
FIBA South American Championship
Uruguay was the host and champion of the first major continental basketball championship, the South American Basketball Championship 1930. The event was held in Montevideo and featured four South American national basketball teams. Teams played each of the other three teams twice each; Uruguay won all six of its games. In 1932, Uruguay lost its first game of the South American Basketball Championship series when it was defeated by Chile in one of the two matches it played against the Chileans in the preliminary round. When each team finished at 3–1 (each having defeated Argentina twice), the two countries played a third match to determine the champion, which Uruguay won.
The 1934 and 1935 competitions did not end so happily for the Uruguay team, as they finished in last place each year. With the larger fields of 5 teams each year in 1937, 1938, and 1939, Uruguay fared somewhat better. They took second place in 1937 and 1939, and third in 1938.
Uruguay won their third championship in 1940, which saw the return of the series to Montevideo. There were a record six teams in competition that year; Uruguay beat each of the other five in turn to finish undefeated. 1941 resulted in a bronze medal for Uruguay. The team played in their second tie-breaker final in 1942, this time losing to Argentina to take second place in the tournament. Uruguay advanced to the final round in the first two-round tournament, in 1943, finishing in second place overall.
Uruguay has won the South American Championship 11 times, the last two in 1995 and 1997. The team ranked in the top four in all editions as of 2016.
Team
Current roster
The roster for the 2022 FIBA AmeriCup.
Depth chart
Head coach position
Past rosters
Scroll down to see more. 1936 Olympic Games: finished 6th among 21 teams Héctor González, Alberto Martí, Amílcar Mesa, Rodolfo Braselli, Carlos Gabin, Leandro Gómez, Gregorio Agos, Tabaré Quintans, Humberto Bernasconi, Prudencio de Pena, Alejo González Roig, Víctor Latou (Coach: Juan Collazo)
1948 Olympic Games: finished 5th among 23 teams
Martín Acosta y Lara, Nelson Demarco, Héctor García Otero, Adesio Lombardo, Héctor Ruiz, Roberto Lovera, Carlos Rosello, Miguel Diab, Eduardo Folle, Abraham Eidlin Grossman, Gustavo Magarinos, Victorio Cieslinskas, Néstor Anton, Eduardo Gordon (Coach: Raúl Canale)