Montenegro women's national basketball team

Period 2006–2015

At 2006, soon after Montenegrin independence, Basketball Association of Montenegro became a member of FIBA. Federation founded its national teams, and among them was Montenegro women's basketball selection, which started to play in FIBA competitions during the 2008.
Montenegro started with the record of 17 consecutive wins in official games.
At summer 2008 and 2009, Montenegrin team played in FIBA Division B with the final score of 12 victories without any lose. That means fast promotion to FIBA Division A and participation in EuroBasket Women 2011 qualification.
In their first qualifiers, Montenegro qualified for EuroBasket Women 2011 as a first-placed team in the group. On EuroBasket, the team made successful result and played in quarterfinals. At the end, Montenegro finished as a sixth-placed team, which is the best placement in history of Montenegrin women's basketball.
After new successful qualifiers, Montenegro played on EuroBasket Women 2013, but finished competition in the second phase, with final placement on 10th position.
For the third time, Montenegro played on EuroBasket at 2015. Like 2011, Montenegro played in the quarterfinals but lost against Spain with one point difference. Montenegro finished EuroBasket 2015 as seventh-placed team.

Period 2016–

Montenegro made another successful result in qualifiers for EuroBasket Women 2017. With score 4–2, the team qualified for European Championship, fourth in their history. At the championship finals, Montenegrin team disappointed with 3 losses and elimination on early stage of tournament.

As in previous campaigns, the Montenegrin national team won the Group A in EuroBasket Women 2019 qualifiers and gained their fifth performance in the European Championship.

Current roster

Roster for the EuroBasket Women 2025.^[3][4]

More information Players, Coaches ...

Montenegro women's national basketball team roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. No. Name Age – Date of birth Height Club Ctr. PF 3 Bojana Kovačević 28 – (1996-10-16)16 October 1996 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) Hapoel Petah Tikva PG 4 Sofija Živaljević 27 – (1997-12-24)24 December 1997 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) MBK Ružomberok F 5 Jovana Pašić 33 – (1992-05-12)12 May 1992 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) Hapoel Kfar Saba SG 7 Zorana Radonjić 23 – (2002-06-13)13 June 2002 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) Budućnost Podgorica PG 10 Marija Baošić 20 – (2004-10-12)12 October 2004 1.66 m (5 ft 5 in) Budućnost Podgorica PF 14 Nikolina Ilić 21 – (2003-10-13)13 October 2003 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) Budućnost Podgorica C 21 Maja Bigović 22 – (2002-09-24)24 September 2002 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) Budućnost Podgorica SG 23 Jelena Vučetić 31 – (1993-09-14)14 September 1993 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) BC Castors Braine SG 24 Marija Baošić 24 – (2001-02-05)5 February 2001 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) BG Göttingen PG 25 Marija Leković 21 – (2003-07-21)21 July 2003 1.66 m (5 ft 5 in) Valencia Basket F 35 Milica Jovanović (C) 35 – (1989-08-14)14 August 1989 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in) Maccabi Bnot Ashdod G 88 Jelena Bulajić 18 – (2007-02-27)27 February 2007 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) South Florida Bulls	Head coach Jelena Škerović Assistant coach(es) Alexander Geddes Legend (C) Team captain Club – describes last club before the tournament Age – describes age on 18 June 2025

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Head coaches

Since its foundation, Montenegro women's national basketball team had four head coaches.
In the period 2008–2013, head coach of Montenegro was Miodrag Baletić. From 2014, Montenegrin team was led by Momir Milatović, who was head coach during three years. In 2017, first foreigner was promoted as head coach of Montenegrin team. That was Roberto Íñiguez, whose mandate lasted until the beginning of 2019.
In January 2019, Basketball Association of Montenegro stated that new head coach of national team is former player and captain Jelena Škerović. She became a first woman to be a head coach of any Montenegrin national A team.

More information Years, Name ...

Years	Name	Score	Competition
2008–2013	Miodrag Baletić	33–10	EuroBasket 2011 (6th); EuroBasket 2013 (10th)
2014–2017	Momir Milatović	14–8	EuroBasket 2015 (7th)
2017–2019	Roberto Íñiguez	4–5	EuroBasket 2017 (16th)
2019–present	Jelena Škerović	16–8	GSS 2019 (1st); EuroBasket 2019 (12); EuroBasket 2021 (12); GSS 2019 (1st); EuroBasket 2023 (8)

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List of official matches

Montenengro played its first official match in August 2008. There is a List of official matches of the Montenegro women's national basketball team played since independence.

Opponents

Below is the list of performances of Montenegro national basketball team against every single opponent.

More information Opponents' country, G ...

Opponents' country	G	W	L	PD
Albania	2	2	0	+118
Austria	2	2	0	+27
Belarus	1	1	0	+5
Belgium	1	0	1	-2
Bosnia and Herzegovina	2	1	1	+6
Bulgaria	2	1	1	-30
Croatia	2	1	1	+7
Czech Republic	2	2	0	+32
Cyprus	3	2	1	+71
Denmark	2	1	1	+4
Estonia	2	2	0	+52
Finland	4	4	0	+90
France	4	1	3	-85
Germany	3	3	0	+35
Great Britain	3	1	2	-17
Greece	3	2	1	+7
Hungary	2	2	0	+13
Iceland	5	5	0	+87
Ireland	2	2	0	+15
Israel	2	2	0	+33
Italy	5	2	3	0
Latvia	3	2	1	-14
Lithuania	2	2	0	+21
Luxembourg	3	3	0	+44
Malta	2	2	0	+63
Monaco	1	1	0	+10
Netherlands	2	2	0	+11
Poland	3	2	1	+23
Portugal	2	2	0	+13
Romania	1	1	0	+18
Russia	2	0	2	-32
Serbia	4	1	3	-16
Slovakia	3	2	1	+27
Slovenia	2	2	0	+29
Spain	5	1	4	-56
Sweden	4	1	3	-36
Switzerland	4	4	0	+85
Turkey	5	1	4	-30
Ukraine	4	3	1	+27
OVERALL	106	71	35	+653

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Last update: September 22, 2023.

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• 2014–2015: EPCG
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