Finland Basketball

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Established
1939 (86 years old)

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Basketball

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FIBA Basketball World Cup
FIBA EuroBasket
Basketball International Friendlies

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27 Feb	Belgium B	5:00pm	Finland B
01 Mar	Finland B	5:00pm	Belgium B
03 Jul	Finland B	4:00pm	Hungary B
06 Jul	France Ba	4:00pm	Finland B
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01 Dec	Finland B	83 - 76	France Ba
28 Nov	Hungary B	89 - 82	Finland B
14 Sep	Greece Ba	92 - 89	Finland B
12 Sep	Germany B	98 - 86	Finland B
10 Sep	Finland B	93 - 79	Georgia B

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The Finland national basketball team (Finnish: Suomen kansallinen koripallojoukkue, Swedish: Finlands herrlandslag i basket) represents Finland in international basketball competition. The team is governed by Basketball Finland.

Finland has played in 16 EuroBasket tournaments, with their best finish coming in sixth place at EuroBasket 1967 on home soil. The national team also has reached the Summer Olympics twice, in 1952 as the host, and 1964. In 2014 Finland qualified for their first ever appearance to the FIBA World Cup.

Since 2011, Finland has had the highest FIBA World Ranking among Nordic countries.