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Angola women's national basketball team


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countryAngola
coachPaulo Macedo
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national_fedFederação Angolana de Basquetebol
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zone_championshipAfroBasket
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zone_medals[[File:Gold medal africa.svg16px]] (2011, 2013)
[[File:Bronze medal africa.svg16px]] (1981, 1986, 1994, 2007, 2009)
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Angola women's national basketball team is the basketball team which represents Angolan women internationally. In 2011 FIBA Africa Championship for Women They won their first Continental African title and they qualified for the first time to 2012 Summer Olympics. They have made their only appearance so far in the FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup in 2014, where they finished last among 16 teams.

History

FIBA Africa Championship for Women 2007

The squad traveled to Senegal for the FIBA Africa Championship for Women 2007 in September 2007. It went 4–1 in the first round of the competition, losing only to the Democratic Republic of the Congo once they had clinched advancement to the next round. In the round of single elimination, Angola beat Côte d'Ivoire 44–42, before losing to eventual champion Mali by 9. In the third place game, Angola beat Mozambique by 15 to clinch a spot in the qualifying tournament for the 2008 Summer Olympics.

FIBA Africa Championship for Women 2011

Angola won its first African title at the 2011 FIBA Africa Championship for Women in Bamako, Mali. It finished with a 7–1 record with Small forward Nacissela Maurício being named the tournament's MVP. Moreover, Power forward Sónia Guadalupe was named to the All-Tournament team. With this win, Angola secured a spot at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Results

Olympic Games

YearReachedPositionGPWLGSGAGDTotal1/10 titles505243395−152
GBR London 2012Group stage12th505243395−152

World Cup

YearReachedPositionGPWLGSGAGDTotal1/10 titles303125186−161
TUR Istanbul/Ankara 2014Group stage16th303125286−161

African Games

YearReachedPositionGPWLGSGAGDTotal5/80 titles272071,8361,660+176
KEN Nairobi 1987Final2nd523243278−35
EGY Cairo 1991Did not participate
ZIM Harare 1995Qualifiers1014546−1
RSA Jo'burg 1999
NGR Abuja 2003round robin4th532323312+11
ALG Algiers 2007Semi-finals3rd752384362+22
MOZ Maputo 2011Final2nd871494347+147
CGO Brazzaville 2015Semi-finals3rd752392361+31

AfroBasket

YearReachedPositionGPWLGSGAGDTotal21/282 titles119704976176704+887
SEN Dakar 1981Semi-finals3rd532366325+41
ANG Luanda 1983Quarter-finals6th514277350−73
SEN Dakar 1984Quarter-finals7th4132552550
MOZ Maputo 1986Semi-finals3rd422307246+61
TUN Tunis 1990Quarter-finals5th422268233+35
SEN Dakar 1993Quarter-finals6th523321312+9
RSA Jo'burg 1994Semi-finals3rd532310236+74
KEN Nairobi 1997Quarter-finals5th532316252+64
TUN Tunis 2000Quarter-finals5th532438293+145
MOZ Maputo 2003Semi-finals4th642387320+67
NGR Abuja 2005Quarter-finals6th523295222+73
SEN Dakar 2007Semi-finals3rd862463396+67
MAD Antananarivo 2009Semi-finals3rd862508436+72
MLI Bamako 2011Final1st871495432+63
MOZ Maputo 2013Final1st880490399+91
CMR Yaoundé 2015Semi-finals4th853485415+70
MLI Bamako 2017Quarter-finals6th862543466+77
SEN Dakar 2019Quarter-finals5th642286239+47
CMR Yaoundé 2021Quarter-finals8th624403429−26
RWA Kigali 2023Qualification to quarterfinals9th303212211−25
CIV Abidjan 2025Qualification to quarterfinals10th303192237−45

Angola all-time record against all nations

AgainstPldWnLstGFGAGDDetails
550356237+119
11011635+81
1091705519+186
22014292+50
1109658+38
20291141−50
11010163+38
1015675−19
1014782−35
140148311.070−239
440289214+75
330227132+95
330268140+128
13103821686+135
541331272+59
1174672655+17
17125983886+97
22023346+187
1284678624+54
330186135+51
16610824959−135
10142102−60
431264166+98
11011846+72
651399311+88
20282209−127
1109436+58
1108137+44

Team

Main article: List of Angola women's national basketball team players

Current roster

Roster for the 2025 Women's Afrobasket.

  • ANG Paulo Macedo
  • ANG Fernando Figueiredo
  • ANG Jaquelina Francisco
  • Club – describes last club before the tournament
  • Age – describes age on 26 July 2025

Head coach position

  • ANG Aníbal Moreira – Sep 2009 – Oct 2014
  • ANG Jaime Covilhã – Jun 2015 – Aug 2017

References

References

  1. "Team roster: Angola". fiba.basketball.
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