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The 1935 FIBA European Championship, commonly called EuroBasket 1935, was the first FIBA EuroBasket regional basketball championship, held by FIBA, as well as a test event preceding the first Olympic basketball tournament at the 1936 Summer Olympics.
EuroBasket, also commonly referred to as the European Basketball Championship, is the main international basketball competition that is contested quadrennially, by the senior men's national teams that are governed by FIBA Europe, which is the European zone within the International Basketball Federation. The competition was first held in 1935.
The first international basketball tournament took place in South America in 1930, some forty years after Dr. James Naismith invented the game.. The International Amateur Basketball Federation (better known by its French acronym FIBA) was founded two years later with founding members Argentina, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Portugal, Romania, and Switzerland. [1]
The main Western European basketball club, Real Madrid, started to show signs of ambition, and was eliminated only after the semifinals, by Rīgas ASK. The following two years, the Spanish Primera División champions, Real Madrid, found their way to the final game, but lost both times, versus Dinamo Tbilisi ( 1961–62 season ) and CSKA Moscow ...
After its arrival in Europe, basketball developed very quickly. In 1909 the first international match was held in Saint Petersburg: Mayak Saint Petersburg beat a YMCA American team. [30] The first great European event was held in 1919 in Joinville-le-Pont, near Paris, during the Inter-Allied Games.
FIBA Europe is an international federation whose membership consists of the national basketball federations of Europe, of which there are currently 50 members. [ 1 ] The highest decision-making body is the Board of FIBA Europe which consists of 25 persons elected by the National Federations.
A pre-European rournament – Due to politic changes in Eastern Europe caused by breaks of two big countries, Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, which dominated in European basketball in recent decades, FIBA Europe organized an additional qualifying tournament, that took place in Wrocław, Poland, between 30 May 1993 and 7 Jun 1993, in order to ...
The 1963 FIBA European Championship, commonly called FIBA EuroBasket 1963, was the thirteenth FIBA EuroBasket regional basketball championship, held by FIBA Europe. Sixteen national teams affiliated with the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) entered the competition. The tournament was hosted by Poland, and held in Wrocław.