Greece Wins Third Place in EuroBasket Marking First Medal in 16 Years

Giannis Antetokounmpo of Greece and Mikael Jantunen (L) and Jacob Grandison (R) of Finland successful enactment during the FIBA EuroBasket 2025 bronze medal hoops lucifer betwixt Greece and Finland successful Riga, Latvia, Credit: EPA/TOMS KALNINS via AMNA

At Arena Riga successful Latvia connected Sunday afternoon, Greece sealed the EuroBasket bronze with a 92-89 triumph implicit Finland. It was the team’s archetypal medal successful 16 years. Greece built a 24–15 first-quarter cushion, extended it to 48–34 astatine fractional aft different 24-point period, and entered the 4th up 69–56 contempt Finland edging the 3rd 22–21.

The past 4th was a nail-biting 10 minutes of aggravated action, with Finland coming truly adjacent to victory, scoring 33 points against Greece’s 22. However, the Greek squad managed to triumph the game. With the podium decider complete, the effect caps a run defined by landmark wins and a hard semi-final acquisition for the Greek imagination team.

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— FIBA EuroBasket (@EuroBasket) September 14, 2025

Greece’s travel done Eurobasket 2025

Group play successful Limassol acceptable the code for this year’s Eurobasket way for Greece. The country’s beloved squad topped its excavation with a hard-fought 90-86 triumph implicit Spain, a broadside that entered the finale 2-2 aft an opening nonaccomplishment to Georgia near it chasing tiebreakers. Greece had already qualified astatine 3-1 and started fast, ripping a 14-0 tally arsenic Tyler Dorsey poured successful 14 points and the squad sank 8-of-10 three-pointers to pb 30-14. Spain rallied to 38-33, but Greece closed the fractional 13-2 for 50-36.

Spain’s propulsion continued aft the break, tying the crippled astatine 71-71 and aboriginal nudging up 84-82. Giannis Antetokounmpo steadied Greece with back-to-back baskets earlier Spain faltered astatine the line: Juancho Hernangomez missed 3 escaped throws with 13 seconds near and Santi Aldama divided 2 with 9.4 remaining. Antetokounmpo, who started dilatory but distributed early, finished connected the brink of a triple-double with 25 points, 14 rebounds and 9 assists, portion Dorsey totaled 22.

In the Round of 16, Greece overcame Israel 84-79 to assertion the past quarter-final berth. Greece led astir ligament to ligament yet could not propulsion distant until late, with Israel cutting the borderline to 60-58 earlier a timely burst from Kostas Sloukas, Alexandros Samodurov and Kostas Antetokounmpo restored daylight. A layup from Sloukas reopened treble digits aboriginal successful the 4th and settled control.

Giannis Antetokounmpo again dominated, signaling a 37-point, 10-rebound double-double connected 18-of-23 shooting and a show scale standing of 37. “One of the apical 3 players successful the world, his crippled is precise beardown and unique,” Israel manager Ariel Beit-Halahmy said afterward. Teammate Tyler Dorsey added, “They couldn’t halt him tonight, and we kept feeding him.” The effect sent Greece to a 4th consecutive EuroBasket quarter-final and ninth top-eight decorativeness successful 10 editions.

The momentum carried into Riga, wherever Greece bushed Lithuania 87-76 to scope a archetypal semi-final successful sixteen years. Antetokounmpo supplied 29 points connected 9-of-15 shooting and 11-of-16 from the line, positive six rebounds, 2 assists, 4 steals and a block. Vasileios Toliopoulos deed 3 triples connected his mode to 17 points, and Kostas Sloukas added 11 and 4 assists. “My players did a large occupation playing with a large heart,” manager Vasilis Spanoulis said.

JANTUNEN HAD A CHANCE TO PUT FINLAND IN FRONT 😳#EuroBasket pic.twitter.com/HhlmpkmwFP

— FIBA EuroBasket (@EuroBasket) September 14, 2025

The resounding decision from Turkey

Turkey halted the surge successful the semi-final, winning 94-68 aft seizing power aboriginal and stretching the borderline beyond 20 by the fourth. Celebratory posts from Turkey led to an authoritative protest being issued by Greece. The Hellenic Basketball Federation (EOK) lodged an authoritative protestation aft a societal media station by the Turkish Basketball Federation celebrating Turkey’s triumph implicit Greece successful the EuroBasket 2025 semi-final connected Friday.

EOK said the protestation had besides been communicated to FIBA. The Turkish federation aboriginal removed the station pursuing the complaint, according to the Greek body.

As for the different finalist this year, Germany bushed Finland 98-86 successful the different semi, sending Greece to today’s bronze decider. Off the court, Greece’s federation filed an authoritative protestation implicit a Turkish “No Mercy” graphic and a abstracted social-media flare-up, but the team’s absorption stayed connected execution.

Two titles, successful 1987 and 2005, framework that ambition. Greece present targets sustained consistency crossed aboriginal windows.