{"id":455914,"date":"2025-08-20T19:55:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T17:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=455914"},"modified":"2025-08-20T19:55:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T17:55:31","slug":"iceland-lock-in-final-roster-for-fiba-eurobasket-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/iceland-lock-in-final-roster-for-fiba-eurobasket-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Iceland lock in final roster for FIBA EuroBasket 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iceland have officially confirmed their 12-man roster for the upcoming FIBA EuroBasket 2025, headlined by the team&#8217;s leader, Martin Hermansson.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Craig Pedersen finalized the squad ahead of their last preparation game, scheduled on August 22 against Lithuania.<\/p>\n<p>ICELAND&#8217;S ROSTER FOR FIBA EUROBASKET 2025<\/p>\n<p>Elvar Fridriksson, Haukur Palsson, Hilmar Henningsson, Jon Axel Gudmundsson, Kari Jonsson, Kristinn Palsson, Martin Hermansson, Orri Gunnarsson, Styrmir Thrastarson, Sigtryggur Bjornsson, Tryggvi Hlinason, Aegir Steinarsson<\/p>\n<p>Thus far, the Icelanders have played four warm-up matches ahead of FIBA EuroBasket 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Having beaten Sweden but being defeated by Italy, Poland, and Portugal before the Group Phase, they are currently standing with a record of 1-3.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This will be Iceland&#8217;s third FIBA EuroBasket appearance, following back-to-back participations in 2015 and 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Returning to Europe&#8217;s most-awaited national team competition, they are yet to record their first-ever victory in the tournament. The whole nation dreams of marking a historic win at FIBA EuroBasket 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Qualifying in February, they have proved to have the talent to compete, beating Hungary and T\u00fcrkiye at home while also celebrating on the road against Italy.<\/p>\n<p>Iceland will play the Group Phase in Katowice, alongside Poland, France, Israel, Belgium, and Slovenia in Group D.<\/p>\n<p>They will begin their campaign against Israel on August 28 at 14:00 CET.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Small nation. Big hearts. \ud83d\udc99<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf8 Iceland have announced their <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EuroBasket?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#EuroBasket<\/a> roster!<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd17 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wsRCTogpkv\">https:\/\/t.co\/wsRCTogpkv<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KNcKr9qiX4\">pic.twitter.com\/KNcKr9qiX4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FIBA EuroBasket (@EuroBasket) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EuroBasket\/status\/1958168607549980990?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 20, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Iceland will play the Group Phase in Katowice, alongside Poland, France, Israel, Belgium, and Slovenia in Group D.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":455912,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[377],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[15727],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-455914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurobasket","typology-press-release-en"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/08\/islanda.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455914"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=455914"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=455914"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=455914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}