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Iraq men's national basketball team

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country	Iraq
logo	Iraqi Basketball Association.png
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nickname	Lions of Mesopotamia
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coach	Veselin Matić
fiba_ranking
fiba_zone	FIBA Asia
joined_fiba	1948
national_fed	Iraqi Basketball Association
oly_appearances	1
zone_championship	FIBA Asia Cup
zone_appearances	5
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the men's team

|WABA Championship|0|1|3 |Arab Nations Basketball Championship|0|4|3 |Pan Arab Games|0|1|0 The Iraq national basketball team () represents Iraq in international basketball competitions. It is one out of only two Arab nations to ever qualify for the Men's Basketball Tournament at the Summer Olympics. (the other nation being Egypt)

Competitive record

Olympic Games

Summer Olympics	Year	Position	Pld	W	L	Total		1/20		7		0		7
UK 1948	22nd place	7	0	7

1948 Iraqi Olympic men's basketball team

FIBA Asia Cup

FIBA Asia Cup	Year	Position	Pld	W
PHI 1960	Did not enter
CHN 1963
MAS 1965
KOR 1967
THA 1969
JPN 1971
PHI 1973
THA 1975
MAS 1977	6th place	9	3	6
JPN 1979	8th place	8	5	3
IND 1981	Did not enter
HKG 1983
MAS 1985
THA 1987	9th place	8	5	3
CHN 1989	Did not enter
JPN 1991
INA 1993
KOR 1995
KSA 1997
JPN 1999
CHN 2001	Did not qualify
CHN 2003
QAT 2005
JPN 2007	Did not enter
CHN 2009
CHN 2011	Did not qualify
PHI 2013
CHN 2015
LIB 2017	11th place	4	1	3
INA 2022	Did not qualify
KSA 2025	14th place	3	0	3

Asian Games

Asian Games	Year	Position	Pld	W
IND 1951	Did not enter
PHI 1954
JPN 1958
IDN 1962
THA 1966
THA 1970
IRI 1974	9th place	4	2	2
THA 1978	9th place	9	5	4
IND 1982	9th place	6	4	2
KOR 1986	Did not enter
CHN 1990
JPN 1994
THA 1998
KOR 2002
QAT 2006
CHN 2010
KOR 2014
IDN 2018
CHN 2022

West Asian Championship

WABA Championship	Year	Position	Pld	W	L
LIB 1999	5th place	4	-	-
LIB 2000	3rd place	4	2	2
JOR 2001	4th place	4	1	3
JOR IRI 2002	3rd place	4	0	4
IRI 2004	5th place	4	-	-
LIB 2005	4th place	4	0	4
JOR 2008	Did not enter	–	–	–
IRQ 2010	Runners-up	-	-	-
IRQ 2011	4th place	3	0	3
JOR 2012	Did not enter	-	-	-
	IRI 2013	4th place	3	0	3
JOR 2014	4th place	5	2	3
JOR 2015	5th place	4	0	4
JOR 2016	3rd place	4	2	2

Pan Arab Games

Pan Arab Games	Year	Position	Pld	W	L
UAR 1965	4th place	-	-	-
	MAR 1985	2nd place	-	-	-
EGY 2007	4th place	5	2	3
QAT 2011	8th place	6	3	3

Team

Current roster

Roster for the 2025 FIBA Asia Cup.

SRB Veselin Matić
IRQ Aqeel Al-Jasim
(C) Team captain
(NP) Naturalized player
Club – describes last club before the tournament
Age – describes age on 5 August 2025

Past rosters

2021 FIBA Asia Cup qualification

Opposition: Lebanon (21 February)

Venue: Nouhad Nawfal Sports Complex, Zouk Mikael

Opposition: India (24 February)

Venue: Al Shaab Hall, Baghdad

IRQ Khalid Deroish
(C) Team captain
(NP) Naturalized player
Club – describes last club before the tournament
Age – describes age on 21 February 2020 Roster for the 2017 FIBA Asia Cup.
TUR Mustafa Derin
IRQ Atilla Celebi
(C) Team captain
(NP) Naturalized player
Club – describes last club before the tournament
Age – describes age on 8 August 2017

Head coach position

IRQ Fikrat Toma – 2002–2004, 2010–2013
ESP Manuel Povea – 2014–2015
SER Srđan Antić – 2016
IRQ Atila Abdulaziz – 2017
TUR Mustafa Derin – 2017
IRQ Khalid Deroish – 2020
BIH/TUR Aziz Bekir – 2020

References

"Demario Mayfield banners Iraq in FIBA Asia Cup 2025".
"Team roster: Iraq".
"Iraq at the FIBA Asia Cup 2021 Qualifiers".
[http://www.fiba.basketball/asiacup/2017/Iraq#

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