BASKETBALL – BAHRAIN’S youth basketball national team begin their campaign today in the 22nd U16 Arab Basketball Championship for Youth in Cairo, Egypt.
The nationals get their medal bid underway against their Qatari counterparts at 1pm, Bahrain time.
The six-nation competition is being organised and run by the Arab Basketball Confederation in cooperation with the Egyptian Basketball Federation.
In other fixtures on today’s opening day programme, Kuwait play Tunisia at 3pm followed by hosts Egypt battling Algeria at 7pm.
The Bahrainis next take on Algeria tomorrow and then go up against Kuwait on Tuesday. They are then back in action on Thursday against the Tunisians, before completing their tournament campaign on Friday against the host Egyptians.
The championship is being played in league format.
Bahrain are coached by Rasem Al Marzouki. They recently won the Fiba U16 Asia Cup Gulf Basketball Association (GBA) Qualifiers 2025, hosted by the kingdom in July.
Bahrain’s title-winning campaign in the GBA competition saw them win all four of their games in the tournament. They thus punched their tickets – along with Saudi Arabia – to this year’s Fiba U16 Asia Cup, to be held in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, next month.
Bahrain are set to be spearheaded in Egypt by top stars Hassan Oshobuge Abdulkadir and Somto Patrick Onoduenyi, who also just competed with the kingdom’s senior men’s national team in the 26th Arab Men’s Basketball Championship 2025, which concluded earlier this month.
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