On February 27, the Ukrainian national basketball team will play in Riga against Spain in a nominally home match of the first round of the 2027 World Cup qualifiers.<\/p>\n
According to the Ukrainian Basketball Federation, our players enter the game with two wins in the first window of the qualifying tournament \u2013 over Georgia and Denmark. The Spaniards also won both of their matches against the Georgian and Danish national teams, having the same record.<\/p>\n
Note that during the second game window of the 2027 World Cup qualifiers, the Ukrainians will also play a match against Spain. The game is scheduled for March 2 in Oviedo.<\/p>\n
Below is the history of official matches between Ukraine and Spain national teams.<\/p>\n
History of official matches between Ukraine and Spain national teams<\/p>\n
EuroBasket 1997. Final round. Group stage. June 25, 1997, Badalona, Spain \u2013 Ukraine \u2013 Spain 54:82 (25:45, 29:37).<\/p>\n
EuroBasket 1999. Qualification. Group stage. November 26, 1997. Kyiv, Palace of Sports \u2013 Ukraine \u2013 Spain 66:83 (38:36, 28:47).<\/p>\n
EuroBasket 1999. Qualification. Group round. November 25, 1998. Le\u00f3n, Spain \u2013 Spain \u2013 Ukraine 80:51 (32:34, 48:17).<\/p>\n
FIBA World Cup 2019. Qualification. Second group round. September 14, 2018. Kyiv, Palace of Sports \u2013 Ukraine \u2013 Spain 76:65 (19:12, 17:22, 20:17, 20:14).<\/p>\n
FIBA World Cup 2019. Qualification. Second group round. September 14, 2018. Tenerife, Spain \u2013 Spain \u2013 Ukraine 72:68 (20:14, 19:17, 15:17, 18:20).<\/p>\n
FIBA World Cup 2023. Qualification. First group round. February 24, 2022. Cordoba, Spain \u2013 Spain \u2013 Ukraine 88:74 (22:17, 23:12, 28:17, 15:28).<\/p>\n
FIBA World Cup 2023. Qualification. First group round. July 7, 2022. Riga, Latvia \u2013 Ukraine \u2013 Spain 76:77 (19:20, 20:20, 21:17, 16:20).<\/p>\n
Overall, the history of encounters between Ukraine and Spain national teams shows frequent and intense matches across various tournaments \u2013 from EuroBasket to World Cups. The upcoming duels in the 2027 World Cup qualifiers are set to again offer tense moments and confirm the high level of both teams, as both strive to advance to the next rounds of the competition.<\/p>\n
It is also worth noting the results of Ukrainian basketball in 2025 and key events in the national championship, which could influence the national team\u2019s form in the coming matches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On February 27, the Ukrainian national basketball team will play in Riga against Spain in a nominally home…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[91],"tags":[2075,2076,2077,169,38,168,2078,2079,2074,2080,2081],"class_list":["post-1681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-riga","tag-basketball-history","tag-basketball-rivalry","tag-international-basketball","tag-latvia","tag-news","tag-riga","tag-spain-basketball","tag-ukraine-basketball","tag-ukraine-basketball-spain-basketball-world-cup-2027-qualifiers-basketball-rivalry-ukraine-spain-matches-basketball-history-international-basketball","tag-ukraine-spain-matches","tag-world-cup-2027-qualifiers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}