By Johnny Askounis/ info@eurohoops.net
Looking to secure a spot in the 2025 EuroBasket, Greece is heading to the last international window dedicated to the Qualifiers of this summer’s tournament.
On Wednesday, the Hellenic Basketball Federation announced the selections made by head coach Vassilis Spanoulis.
A brief training camp before games with Czechia and the Netherlands starts next Monday. Players from teams participating in Sunday’s championship game of Greece’s OPAP Final 8 will join on Tuesday.
Greece’s roster
- Neoklis Avdalas (Peristeri Domino’s)
- Nikos Chougkaz (MoraBanc Andorra)
- Panagiotis Kalaitzakis (Panathinaikos Aktor)
- Antonis Karagiannidis (Promitheas Vikos Cola)
- Giannis Kouzeloglou (AEK Betsson)
- Giannoulis Larentzakis (Olympiacos)
- Konstantinos Mitoglou (Panathinaikos Aktor)
- Naz Mitrou-Long (Olympiacos)
- Dimitris Moraitis (Panathinaikos Aktor)
- Omiros Netzipoglou (AEK Betsson)
- Giorgos Papagiannis (AS Monaco)
- Kostas Papanikolaou (Olympiacos)
- Ioannis Papapetrou (Panathinaikos Aktor)
- Vassilis Toliopoulos (Aris Midea)
- Giorgos Tsalmpouris (Panionios Viva Juices)
- Thomas Walkup (Olympiacos)
- Vangelis Zougris (Peristeri Domino’s)
At 3-1 in Group F of the EuroBasket Qualifiers and with two fixtures remaining, Greece needs one win or favorable tiebreaker in the event of two losses to join the EuroBasket field. The schedule features a clash opposite Czechia in Pardubice’s Enteria Arena on February 21 and versus the Netherlands in Patras’ Dimitris Tofalos Arena on February 24.
Cyprus, Finland, Latvia, and Poland secured automatic berths as co-hosts. In the previous FIBA window, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, and Turkiye clinched a berth in the EuroBasket. Among the 13 remaining tickets, three are assigned to Group F with Greece, Czechia, Great Britain, and the Netherlands in contention.