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National team · China

«Team Dragon»

65 Matches
42 wins
23 losses
5413–4871 Points
+542 Difference
83.3 Average per match
Form W 11 Sep · Home Kazakhstan · 99:61 W 12 Sep · Away Bahrain · 105:59 W 14 Sep · Home Philippines · 105:61 W 16 Sep · Home Saudi Arabia · 87:78 L 18 Sep · Away Japan · 78:97 L 20 Sep · Home Iran · 70:79

Guo Shiqiang took charge of the national team in July 2024, the latest name in a coaching line that stretches back to when the side first travelled abroad in 1913, losing 26-8 to the Philippines in Manila. China joined FIBA in 1936 and reached the Berlin Olympics that same year, long before the programme had anything resembling the depth it would later build.

That depth showed itself most clearly through the "Three Mobile Great Walls" of Yao Ming, Wang Zhizhi and Mengke Bateer, who carried the team through Olympic appearances in Atlanta, Athens and Beijing, each ending in eighth place. No China side has finished higher at the Games, and none managed better than eighth at a FIBA World Cup either, a mark set in 1994.

Asia has been a different matter entirely. China has won the FIBA Asia Cup sixteen times, a run that started in 1975 and stretched through to 2015, interrupted only by the "Golden Generation" of the 1990s failing to add continental titles to the individual reputations of players like Liu Yudong and Sun Jun. The team, known as Team Dragon, also took eight Asian Games gold medals, most recently in 2018.

Japan and South Korea remain the sides China measures itself against in Asian competition, with the 1997 and 2009 Asia Cup finals — both lost, to South Korea and Iran respectively — standing as the closest the team has come to a continental setback in the modern era. There is no fixed home ground; matches rotate between arenas in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, with Wukesong Arena among the venues used most often.

Sixteen Asia Cup titles is a number no other nation in the competition's history has come close to matching.

Latest results

Fixtures and results
20 Sep Asian Games Iran H 70:79 L
18 Sep Asian Games Japan A 78:97 L
16 Sep Asian Games Saudi Arabia H 87:78 W
14 Sep Asian Games Philippines H 105:61 W
12 Sep Asian Games Bahrain A 105:59 W
11 Sep Asian Games Kazakhstan H 99:61 W

Standing

Asian Games

Group stage · Group B

# Team M W L Goals Pts
1 China 3 3 0 273:169 0
2 Chinese Taipei 3 2 1 228:226 0
3 Hong Kong 3 1 2 181:240 0
4 Mongolia 3 0 3 189:236 0
Full table

Team statistics

matches counted in total: 65
65 Matches
42 wins
23 losses
5413–4871 Points
+542 Difference
83.3 Average per match
Match outcomes matches counted in total: 65
42wins: 42 · 64% 23losses: 23 · 35%
wins losses
Scored and conceded last matches
11 Sep · Home Kazakhstan · 99:61
12 Sep · Away Bahrain · 105:59
14 Sep · Home Philippines · 105:61
16 Sep · Home Saudi Arabia · 87:78
18 Sep · Away Japan · 78:97
20 Sep · Home Iran · 70:79
scored — above the line conceded — below the line
Metric Total Home Away
Matches 65 29 36
Scored 5413 2501 2912
Conceded 4871 2088 2783
Average per match 83.3 86.2 80.9
Conceded per game 74.9 72.0 77.3
Difference +542 +413 +129

Fixtures of China

Honours of China

  • FIBA Asia Cup 1975, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1983, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2011, 2015 16
  • Asian Games 1978, 1986, 1990, 1994, 1998, 2006, 2010, 2018 8
  • Olympic Games 1996, 2004, 2008 3
  • FIBA World Cup 1994 1
  • FIBA Asia Cup 1997, 2009 2

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