BC Prievidza
| BC Prievidza | |||
| Founded | 1947 | ||
| Hall | Niké Aréna (3,500 seats) |
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| Homepage | http://www.pdbasket.com/ | ||
| president | Mudr. Mohammed Hemza | ||
| Trainer | Michael Claxton | ||
| league |
SBL 2015/16: 1st place |
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| Colours | Green , Yellow & Black | ||
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| successes | |||
| 2 times Czechoslovakian champion (1989, 1993) 4 times Slovakian champion (1994, 1995, 2012, 2016) |
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The basketball club Prievidza is a basketball club from Prievidza in the Trenčín Region in northwestern Slovakia . The club was founded in 1947 under the name Sokol Prievidza , before operating as Baník Cígeľ Prievidza for 40 years until 2004 and winning two men's championships under this name in the last few years of Czechoslovakia and at the beginning of the again independent Slovakia. Under the current Anglicised name, which has existed since 2009 and which is linked to the previous name in its abbreviation, two more Slovak championships were added in 2012 and 2016.
history
After it was founded in 1947 as Sokol, the name was changed to Carpathia five years later in 1952 and Tatran Prievidza until 1957 . Under the new name of Lokomotive Prievidza from 1957, they played in 1961 for the first time in the top class in what was then the ČSSR . From 1964 the team was named after the local lignite mine Baník Cígeľ . Although the club had not previously occupied any of the top three places in a championship season, 25 years later in 1989 under coach Ján Hluchý after first place in the regular season, they could also win the championship. At the beginning of the following season one reached the qualification for the round of 16 of the FIBA European Cup 1989/90 . Here you lost both games against the eventual finalists FC Barcelona , but then played regularly in club competitions of FIBA Europe . The team clearly missed defending their title in the championship in 1990, but took third place under the new coach Ivan Chrenka in 1991 and with the Lithuanian Vladas Garastas they even moved into the final series of the championship in 1992, which was lost to USK Prague . From 1991 to 1994 they competed four times in a row in the Korać Cup , where they were eliminated in the first, but at the latest in the second qualifying round. After Vladas Garastas, the former Soviet national coach, had now also become the coach of the Lithuanian national team , Ivan Chrenka took over the coaching position again and the club was able to achieve first place and the championship of a country that was behind at the beginning of the year in the last season of the Czechoslovak league in 1993 the independence of Slovakia had been dissolved. In the new Slovak league you reached the championship in 1994 and 1995 over the team from Pezinok , which was, however, serial champions from 1997 to 2002. In the European Cup, in the second qualifying round in 1995 against KK Cibona and in 1996 against Benetton Treviso , they missed entry into the group stage of the FIBA European League and then also in the FIBA European Cup . In 1996 Baník Cígeľ finally lost the Slovak championship title in the final series to Inter Bratislava . The third place in the Slovak championship in 1997 meant the best position in the national league for years after the team could only win one of six games in the group stage of the Korać Cup 1996/97 .
In 2004, instead of the pit, the club took on the name of the mining company Hornonitrianske Bane Prievidza as a sponsor in the name of the first team, but initially moved as an elevator team between the first division and the top division of the extraliga . Under the young Croatian coach Ivan Rudež they were able to establish themselves in the extra league from 2007 and finally broke away from the name sponsor in 2009 after taking third place in the championship when they adopted the simple name Basketball club , which in its anglicised form with its initials on remembers earlier pit names. After a transition year with various head coaches, the young Dutch coach Johan Roijakkers took over the team in the 2011/12 season and led the team back to the top of the league. Tied with the competitor MBK Rieker Komárno you reached the play-offs for the championship in first place , in which you defeated the defending champion Astrum Levice in five games in the quarter-finals . The first game of the final series was lost at MBK Rieker, but after victories in the following three games, the club won the third Slovak championship title in 2012. Coach Roijakkers then moved to the German ProA to the first division relegated BG Göttingen and took four players with him to Germany before he also steered David Godbold to Göttingen a year later . In a transition year, after two coach changes, the new Croatian coach Krunoslav Krajnovič was able to stabilize the team. After the fifth place as the defending champion in 2013, the team reached the final series of the championship again in the 2013/14 season, in which, however, they remained without a win against Inter Bratislava. As the main round first, they reached the final series in 2015, in which they could equalize 3: 3 after victories in the fifth and sixth games, but lost the decisive seventh final game against MBK Rieker in front of their own audience. In the following season, it was reserved for the new Serbian coach Miljan Čurovič to defeat defending champion MBK Rieker in the final series in 2016 with only one defeat in five games and to win the fourth Slovak championship title for the club after the first main round place. After BC Prievidza competed against international opponents in the Alpe Adria Cup in the 2015/16 season and failed in the Final Four at KK Zlatorog Laško , the team lost both games against CSM in qualifying for the new 2016/17 Basketball Champions League Oradea and therefore starts in the FIBA Europe Cup 2016/17 .
In the 2017/18 season, the American Ryan Pannone looked after the team as head coach and was replaced by his compatriot Michael Claxton in the summer of 2018 .
Known players
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Other well-known players and coaches from the past are listed in the Hall of Fame on the club's website.
Web links
- BC Prievidza - O klube - Profile of the club in its own presentation (Slovak)
- BK BANIK CIGEL - Club profile on the FIBA Europa website ( English )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Strong last test, Philipps new at BG. Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine , September 23, 2012, accessed on November 6, 2016 .
- ↑ SBL 2014–2015 Basketball League SLOVAKIA. Eurobasket.com, accessed on November 16, 2016 (English, season summary with chronicle of the last final game).
- ↑ http://www.pdbasket.com/novinka/novym-trenerom-bc-prievidza-michael-claxton-20180726
- ↑ BC Prievidza - Sieň slávy ( Memento of the original dated November 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ( Slovak )
