Lugano Tigers
| Lugano Tigers | |||
| Founded | 1981 | ||
| Hall | Istituto Elvetico | ||
| Homepage | https://www.basketlugano.com/ | ||
| president | Alessandro Cedraschi | ||
| Trainer | Andrea Petitpierre | ||
| league |
LNB A 2013/14: 1st place |
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| Colours | black-and-white | ||
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| successes | |||
| 8 times Swiss champion (2000 to 2002, 2006, 2010 to 2012, 2014); 5 times Swiss Cup winners (1982, 2001, 2002, 2011, 2012) |
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The Lugano Tigers are a Swiss basketball club from Lugano in the Swiss canton of Ticino . The successful men's team plays in the A-season of the national basketball national league .
history
The club was founded under the name FV Lugano in 1981 as a merger of Federale Lugano and Viganello Basket , which had been very successful in the 1970s and together had won four Swiss championships and five Swiss Cup victories. In the first year of 1982, another cup victory was achieved. Then there were no further title wins.
In 1999 they changed their name to Lugano Snakes and won another championship in 2000, after which they entered the newly founded ULEB Euroleague 2000/01 . At the highest European club level next to the Suproleague , they achieved three wins in ten games in the preliminary round, but narrowly missed participation in the round of 16 of this competition. At the national level, there were two double successes in 2001 and 2002 . In 2003, however, the club was financially at an end and had to be liquidated.
In 2003, therefore, the license was acquired from AB Viganello, the successor organization to Viganello Basket, and subsequently entered as Lugano Tigers . In 2006 they won the championship again and after the championship success in 2010 they qualified for a main round of a European club competition for the first time in the 2010/11 season. In the third-tier EuroChallenge competition, however, they were eliminated after the preliminary round, while at the national level they won another double, which could be repeated in the following season 2011/12. After losing the championship in 2013 to the Lions de Genève in five games, the following year they were able to regain the 2014 title in a best-of-seven series in seven games against record champions Friborg Olympic .
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