BK Budiwelnyk Kiev

	BK Budiwelnyk Kiev
Founded	1945 (as SKIF)
Hall	Sports Palace Kiev ; (7,000 seats)
Homepage	http://budivelnyk.ua/
president	Bogdan Gulyamov
General Director	Vyacheslav Evstratenko
Trainer	Zvezdan Mitrovic
league	Super league;
	ULEB Euroleague;
Colours	Green white
home	Away
	successes
	14 × Ukrainian champion 1 1958, 1964 to 1966, ; 1992 to 1997, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2017 ; Champion of the Soviet Union 1989 ; 1 to 1991 Ukraine was not an independent state, ; from an international point of view the previous championships are ; to be interpreted as regional championships .

BK Budiwelnyk ( Ukrainian баскетбольний клуб Будіве́льник ) is a professional Ukrainian basketball club from Kiev , Ukraine . In the 2013/14 season the club plays in the Ukrainian basketball Superliga Ukraine . In addition to the Ukrainian championship, the club plays in the ULEB Euroleague . It is one of the strongest clubs in Ukraine and formerly the USSR.

History and previous names

BK Budiwelnyk was founded in 1945 at a sports college as SKIF Kiev. In 1958 he was promoted to the top division of the Soviet Union and won the first Ukrainian championship. In 1962 the team was assigned a building trust and was given the name Stroitel ( Russian Строитель ), which means construction worker and Ukrainian means Budiwelnyk . This is what the team was called in the Ukrainian press. In 1989 it was finally renamed Budiwelnyk . After winning the championship in the 2012/13 season, Budivelnyk is the most successful Ukrainian team since independence with ten titles. In the European competitions, reaching the semi-finals in the Eurocup 2013 was the best result so far.

Well-known former players

Soviet Union 1955/ Anatolij Polywoda (1964–1972) - Olympic champion 1972 , world champion 1967Ukraine Soviet Socialist Republic
Soviet Union 1955/ Serhiy Kovalenko (1969–1975) - 1972 Olympic championUkraine Soviet Socialist Republic

Soviet Union 1955/ Volodymyr Tkachenko (1973–1983) - European basketball player of the year 1979, world champion 1982Ukraine Soviet Socialist Republic
Soviet Union/ Oleksandr Bilostinnyj (1986–1990) - Olympic champion in 1988 , world champion in 1982Ukraine Soviet Socialist Republic

Soviet Union/ Oleksandr Volkov (1981–1986, 1988/89) - 1988 Olympic championUkraine Soviet Socialist Republic

Web links

NN: Budivelnyk's History. ( Memento of January 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Archived from Budivelnyk website; Kiev, November 23, 2012. Retrieved February 6, 2019.