ČEZ Basketball Nymburk

ČEZ Basketball Nymburk
Founded	1929
Hall	ČEZ Aréna (Pardubice) (10,000 places)
Homepage	basket-nymburk.cz
president	Miroslav Jansta
General manager	Rudolf Šimeček
Trainer	Ronen Ginzburg
league	Mattoni NBL
	VTB United League
Colours	Red and white
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successes
Czech champion (14) 2004–2017 Czech cup winner (10) 2005, 2007–2015

ČEZ Basketball Nymburk is a Czech professional basketball team from Nymburk in the Czech Republic . The club currently plays in the Czech National Basketball League . In addition to the Czech championship, the club plays in the VTB United League .

history

ČEZ Basketball Nymburk was founded in 1929. The club has had different names throughout its history. Since 2004 it bears the name of the sponsor ČEZ. The rise to the Czech top club began in 1995 when the club got a new management. Nymburgk rose in 1997 to the third Czech league and in 2000 made it to the top Czech division. After finishing third in 2002, Nymburk won the title two years later and since 2004 has won all the Czech championships as well as the cup nine times. In the 2002/03 season Nymburgk started for the first time in a European competition. Nymburgk has been in the ULEB Eurocup every year since the 2007/08 seasonwith it. The best result so far was the quarter-finals in 2009/10 and 2011/12. In the 2010/11 and 2011/12 seasons Nymburgk started qualifying for the ULEB Euroleague . Since ČEZ has no equal opponents in the national championship, the club regularly competes in the regional leagues alongside its own championship. Nymburk played in the Adriatic League in 2010/11 and in the VTB United League from 2011 to 2016 .

Squad

Squad ČEZ Basketball Nymburk in the 2015/2016 season
Attention: The squad information is out of date! (current season: 2020/2021)
player No. Nat. Surname birth size info Last club Guards ( PG , SG ) 5 Chasson Randle 02/05/1993 187 8th Theodor Dlugoš 04/05/1997 180 11 Michael Dixon December 01, 1990 186 BC Pieno žvaigždės 12 Hörður Vilhjálmsson December 18, 1988 194 Trikala BC Aries Forwards ( SF , PF ) 4th Petr Benda 25/03/1982 203 A-Nat 7th Vojtěch Hruban 08/29/1989 202 A-Nat 9 Jiří Welsch 01/27/1980 199 A-Nat 13 Martin Peterka December 18, 1988 194 USK Prague 14th Maxime de Zeeuw 04/26/1988 204 Pallacanestro Virtus Roma 22nd Matej Svoboda 09/22/1996 200 23 Howard Sant-Roos 02/13/1991 200 31 Martin Kříž 06/17/1993 200 Center ( C ) 10 Pavel Houška 01/23/1984 203 BK Děčín 15th Julian Vaughn December 16, 1988 208 PAOK Thessaloniki	Trainer Nat. Surname position Ronen Ginzburg boss Lubomír Růžička Co Legend Abbr. meaning A-Nat National player swell Team homepage League homepage Status: October 27, 2015

successes

• Czech Championship (14): Winner 2004-2017
• Czech Cup (10): Winner 2005, 2007-2015