The BC BC Neptūnas is a basketball club of Lithuania in the port city of Klaipeda , one of the oldest Lithuanian basketball clubs (founded in 1964 ), Lithuanian Basketball runner-up (2014) and plays in the LKL . In the 2014/15 season they made their debut in the ULEB Euroleague . Neptūnas became the third Lithuanian basketball club in the Euroleague.
Neptūnas was founded in 1962 under the name "BC Maistas" at the Maistas meat company. Two years later the name of the club was changed to Neptūnas. While Lithuania was part of the Soviet Union, the club participated in various regional competitions, but never played high-class. In the 1980s Neptūnas belonged to the highest Lithuanian regional league. After Lithuania's independence, Neptūnas was one of the first eight clubs to establish the highest Lithuanian league. The greatest success in the 1990s was the quarterfinals of the Lithuanian championship, which Neptūnas reached eight times in a row from 1996 to 2003. In the 1998/99 season Neptūnas started for the first time in a European cup, the Korać Cup. Between 2004 and 2012, Neptunas played several seasons in the Baltic Basketball League . In the 2012/13 season Neptūnas was included in the VTB United League . A year later, she made her debut in the ULEB Eurocup . In the 2013/14 season, the club became the Lithuanian runner-up. In the 2014/15 season Neptūnas made his debut in the ULEB Euroleague .
Squad
Squad of Neptūnas Klaipėda in the 2013/2014 season
Attention: The squad information is out of date! (current season: 2020/2021)
Tomas Delininkaitis (* 1982), since 2010 for PAOK Thessaloniki
Jerome Coleman (* 1979), 2007/08 for TBB Trier
