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BC Brno

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Leagues
  
NBL

Founded
  
1926

Website
  
www.basketbrno.cz

Location
  
Brno, Czech Republic


History
  
Sokol Brno I (1926–1945) Spartak ZJŠ Brno (1945–1976) Spartak-Zbrojovka Brno (1976–1977) Zbrojovka Brno (1977-1991) BVC Bioveta Ivanovice na Hane (1991–1992) Bioveta COOP Banka Brno (1992-95) Stavex Brno (1995-98) Draci Brno (1998-99) BC BVV ŽS Brno (1999-03) A plus ŽS Brno BC (2003-08) BC Brno (2009-present)

Team colors
  
Logo           Uniforms

Championships
  
21 Czechoslovak Championships 3 Czech Championships

League
  
National Basketball League

BC Brno (Basketball Club Brno / Czech: Basketbalový Klub Brno) is a Czech professional basketball club based in the city of Brno. They used to play in the Czech National Basketball League - the highest competition in the Czech republic.

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History

After 1945, Brno is the most successful basketball club in Czechoslovakia when it won 21 championship titles. Three more titles then, joined the club in 1994-1996. A European powerhouse during the 60s and until the mid 70s, they lost two Euroleague finals in 1964 and 1968, twice against the Spanish Real Madrid. In 1974, the loss in the Saporta Cup final against Crvena Zvezda meant the end of a golden era for the club in the European competitions.

In January 1969 (25 & 26) Spartak ZJŠ Brno participated in the FIBA Intercontinental Cup at Macon, Georgia (the second participation to a basketball club from Czechoslovakia after Slavia Prague in 1967) and reached the final where it lost 71-84 to American Akron Goodyear Wingfoots, a basketball team by workers at the Goodyear Tire Company in Akron, Ohio. In the semifinal, Spartak beat European champions, Real Madrid.

Honours

Total Titles: 24

Domestic

Czechoslovak League

  • Winners (21): 1945–46, 1947, 1947–48, 1948*, 1948–49, 1949–50, 1950–51, 1951*, 1957–58, 1961–62, 1962–63, 1963–64, 1966–67, 1967–68, 1975–76, 1976–77, 1977–78, 1985–86, 1986–87, 1987–88, 1989–90

    • Czech League

  • Winners (3): 1993–94, 1994–95, 1995–96

    • European

    Euroleague

  • Runners-up (2): 1963–64, 1967–68

    • FIBA Saporta Cup

  • Runners-up (1): 1973–74

    • Worldwide

    FIBA Intercontinental Cup

  • Runners-up (1): 1969

    • Notable players

  • Jan Bobrovský (1963–1972 & 1973–1978)
  • Zdeněk Bobrovský (1950–1951 & 1954–1968)
  • Kamil Brabenec (1972–1982 & 1983–1988)
  • Vlastimil Havlík (1975–1983 & 1984–1988)
  • Zdeněk Konečný (1955–1967)
  • František Konvička (1957–1969 & 1971–1973)
  • Leoš Krejčí (1983–1988, 1989–1990 & 1994–1998)
  • Robert Mifka (1966–1968)
  • Petr Novický (1966–1974)
  • Jiří Okáč (1980–1984, 1986–1990 & 2003–2004)
  • Vojtěch Petr (1972–1980)
  • Vladimír Pištělák (1958–1969 & 1971–1973)
  • Jiří "Áda" Pospíšil (1968–1974)
  • Jaroslav Tetiva (1951–1953)

    • References

    BC Brno Wikipedia
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