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 52th in the FIBA World Rankings.

Competitive record

Olympic Games

FIBA World Cup

FIBA AmeriCup

Pan American Games

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

• Juan Collazo: 1936 • Raúl Canale: 1948 • Prudencio de Pena: 1954 • Héctor López Reboledo: 1956 • Olguiz Rodríguez: 1959 • Héctor López Reboledo: 1960 • Dante Méndez: 1963 • Raúl Ballefin: 1964–1967 • Héctor Bassaiztegui: 1970 • Ramón Etchamendi: 1982–1986 • Javier Espíndola: 1991 • Luis Pierri: 1995 • Hugo Vázquez: 1999 • 🇦🇷 Che García: 2003 • Gerardo Jauri: 2008–2011 • Alvaro Tito: 2011 • Pablo Lopez: 2012, 2013 • 🇪🇸 Mateo Rubio Díaz 2014 • 🇦🇷 Adrian Capelli: 2014, 2015 • 🇮🇹 Marcelo Signorelli: 2016–2018 • 🇦🇷 Rubén Magnano: 2018-present

Past rosters

1936 Olympic Games: finished 6th among 21 teams 1948 Olympic Games: finished 5th among 23 teams 1952 Olympic Games: finished 3rd among 23 teams 1954 World Championship: finished 6th among 12 teams 1956 Olympic Games: finished 3rd among 15 teams 1959 World Championship: finished 9th among 13 teams 1960 Olympic Games: finished 8th among 16 teams 1963 World Championship: finished 10th among 13 teams 1964 Olympic Games: finished 8th among 16 teams 1967 World Championship: finished 7th among 13 teams 1970 World Championship: finished 7th among 13 teams 1982 World Championship: finished 11th among 13 teams 1984 Olympic Games: finished 6th among 12 teams 1986 World Championship: finished 18th among 24 teams 1991 Pan American Games: finished 7th among 10 teams 1995 Pan American Games: finished 4th among 6 teams 1999 Pan American Games: finished 8th among 8 teams 2003 Pan American Games: finished 8th among 8 teams 2007 Pan American Games: finished 3rd among 8 teams FIBA Americas Championship 2009: finished 6th among 10 teams South American Basketball Championship 2010: finished 3rd among 8 teams FIBA Americas Championship 2013: finished 7th among 10 teams Roster for the 2015 FIBA Americas Championship. At the 2016 South American Basketball Championship:

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