GB learn opponents as European Championship youth draws complete

By Sam Neter on February 8, 2024

Great Britain’s junior national team now know their opponents for the newly named FIBA Youth EuroBasket competitions, after the draw for this summer’s tournaments took place in Freising, Germany.

The competitions, formerly known as the European Championships, are now called the Youth EuroBaskets, but will follow the same formats.

GB learned in which groups they will be and who they will face for each tournament, which is as follows:

U20 Men Division B FIBA EuroBasket

July 12-21: Pitesti, ROU
Group B
Netherlands
Azerbaijan
Portgual
Ireland

U20 Women Division B FIBA EuroBasket

July 6-14: Sofia, BUL
Group D
Romania
Netherlands

U18 Men Division B FIBA EuroBasket

July 26 – August 4: Skopje, MKD
Group D
Austria
Norway
Georgia
Portugal

U18 Women Division B FIBA EuroBasket

August 2-11: Ploiesti, ROU
Group B
Lithuania
Denmark
Netherlands

U16 Men Division B FIBA EuroBasket

August 8-17: Skopje, MKD
Group C
Romania
Slovakia
Ireland
Denmark
Hungary

U16 Women Division B FIBA EuroBasket

August 15-24: Konya, TUR
Group B
Estonia
Iceland
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Lithuania

A British Basketball combine took place in January to begin to identify players that will represent GB at U16 and U18 level.

Paul Fournel, the new Youth Teams Programme Manager for GB, organised the combine as one of his first tasks while the majority of performance staff for the GB youth teams have now also been confirmed.

These include the continuing head coaches Chantelle Handy (Women U20) and Alan Keane (Men U18) as well as new roles for Krumesh Patel (Women U18) and Dan Petts (Men U16).

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