Netherlands Basketball vs Latvia Basketball — FIBA Basketball World Cup

Founded

1946

Country

The Netherlands

The Netherlands men's national basketball team (Dutch: Het Nederlands Elftal) represents the Netherlands in international basketball matches. The national team is governed by Basketball Nederland. The Dutch have reached the European Basketball Championship on 15 occasions. Their best results at the event came in 1983, where they finished in fourth place. They have also qualified for the FIBA World Cup once, in 1986. In recent years though, the national team has struggled to maintain consistency to reach major international tournaments. The team represents itself as the Orange Lions.

Stadium

Xiaomi Arena

Founded

1924

Country

Latvia

The Latvia men's national basketball team (Latvian: Latvijas basketbola izlase) represents Latvia in international basketball. They are organized and run by the Latvian Basketball Association. Latvia has reached the European Basketball Championship 15 times, with their ultimate success occurring during the inter-war period, when they became the first team to win the tournament in 1935. Four years later, they had another impressive run to come away with the silver in 1939. After 1939 though Latvia were forced to suspend their national team operations, due to the Occupation of the Baltic stat...