The 1963 European Basketball Championship, commonly called Eurobasket 1963, was the 13th regional championship held by FIBA Europe

FIBA Europe

FIBA Europe is a zone within the International Basketball Federation which includes all 49 national European basketball federations.-Division A:-Division B: -Division C:...

. Seventeen national teams affiliated with the International Basketball Federation

International Basketball Federation

The International Basketball Federation, more commonly known as FIBA , from its French name Fédération Internationale de Basketball, is an association of national organizations which governs international competition in basketball...

 (FIBA) entered the competition. The competition was hosted by Poland and held at Wrocław.

Final rankings

First round

Group A

		107-62
		79-58
		55-55 aet.71-74
		71-52
		60-73
		71-52
		71-69
		80-73
		71-77
		64-55
		55-64
		71-69
		97-67
		75-76
		71-99
		73-80
		42-50
		70-55
		51-59
		95-62
		72-80
		72-74
		63-57
		82-73
		90-60
		65-72
		93-68
		76-66

Pos.	Team	Matches	Wins	Loses	Results	Points	Diff.
1.		7	7	0	608:472	14	+136
2.		7	5	2	499:455	10	+44
3.		7	5	2	509:444	10	+65
4.		7	4	3	520:512	8	+8
5.		7	4	3	467:459	8	+8
6.		7	2	5	463:505	4	-42
7.		7	1	6	453:588	2	-135
8.		7	0	7	404:499	0	-95

Group B

		49-63
		75-53
		76-79
		55-56
		72-79
		75-70
		50-73
		64-54
		45-78
		76-52
		64-60
		86-70
		83-79
		61-62
		98-65
		64-54
		91-85
		59-51
		68-54
		96-56
		62-93
		69-55
		76-98
		77-59
		54-66
		61-59
		73-86
		106-64

Pos.	Team	Matches	Wins	Loses	Results	Points	Diff.
1.		7	7	0	558:392	14	+166
2.		7	6	1	542:454	12	+88
3.		7	4	3	468:469	8	-1
4.		7	3	4	563:575	6	-12
5.		7	3	4	422:430	6	-8
6.		7	3	4	479:514	6	-35
7.		7	1	6	427:521	2	-94
8.		7	1	6	399:503	2	-104

Places 13 - 16

Team 1	Team 2	Res.
		58-71
		80-63

Places 9 - 12

Team 1	Team 2	Res.
		66-70
		47-57

Places 5 - 8

Team 1	Team 2	Res.
		66-70
		47-57

Places 1 - 4

Team 1	Team 2	Res.
		72-83
		89-51

Finals

Placement	Team 1	Team 2	Res.
15th place			64-62
13th place			60-50
11th place			66-85
9th place			58-60
7th place			83-86
5th place			62-77
3rd place			89-61
Final			61-45

Team rosters

1.Soviet Union: Jānis Krūmiņš

Janis Kruminš

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, Gennadi Volnov

Gennadi Volnov

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, Jaak Lipso, Armenak Alachachian

Armenak Alachachian

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, Guram Minashvili, Tõnno Lepmets

Tonno Lepmets

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, Juris Kalnins, Aleksander Travin, Aleksander Petrov, Viacheslav Khrinin, Vadim Gladun, Olgerts Jurgensons (Coach: Alexander Gomelsky

Alexander Gomelsky

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)

2.Poland: Mieczyslaw Lopatka, Bohdan Likszo, Janusz Wichowski, Andrzej Pstrokonski, Leszek Arent, Zbigniew Dregier, Kazimierz Frelkiewicz, Wieslaw Langiewicz, Andrzej Nartowski, Stanislaw Olejniczak, Jerzy Piskun, Marek Sitkowski (Coach: Witold Zagórski

Witold Zagórski

Witold Zagórski is a Polish basketball player and coach.As a basketball player, Zagórski was a member of Poland national basketball team 49 times . He was a player of Polonia Warszawa and CWKS Legia Warszawa teams.In the years of 1961–1975 he was a coach of Poland national basketball team...

)

3.Yugoslavia: Radivoj Korać

Radivoj Korac

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, Ivo Daneu

Ivo Daneu

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, Trajko Rajković

Trajko Rajkovic

Trajko Rajković was a Yugoslavian basketball player. He was born in Leskovac, Kingdom of Yugoslavia.During the time of Rajković’s performance on the national team, Yugoslavia won two European silvers and one bronze , one Olympic silver in Mexico City, and one World Championship gold...

, Slobodan Gordić, Borut Bassin, Nemanja Đurić, Miodrag Nikolić, Miloš Bojović, Živko Kasun, Emil Logar, Zvonko Petricevic, Dragoslav Ražnatović (Coach: Aleksandar Nikolić

Aleksandar Nikolic

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)

4.Hungary: János Greminger

János Greminger

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, Laszlo Gabanyi, János Simon

János Simon

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, Janos Bencze, Miklos Bohaty, Gyorgy Polik, Gyorgy Vajdovics, Jozsef Prieszol, Arpad Glatz, Tibor Kangyal, Otto Temesvari, Pal Koczka (Coach: Tibor Zsiros

Tibor Zsíros

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)