PBK CSKA Moscow

PBK CSKA Moscow
Founded	1924
Hall	ZSKA-Universal-Sporthalle , Megasport-Arena (5,500 / 13,126 seats)
Homepage	cskabasket.com
president	Andrei Watutin
Trainer	Dimitrios Itoudis
league	Euroleague
	VTB United League
Colours	Red and blue
home Away
successes
Champion Russia (22) Champion Soviet Union (24) Cup winner Russia (4) Cup winner Soviet Union (3) Winner ULEB Euroleague (4) Winner European Champion’s Cup (9) Winner VTB United League (6) Winner NEBL (1)

The PBK CSKA Moscow (Professional Basketball Club Central Sports Club of the Moscow Army , Russian : ПБК ЦСКА Москва ) is the basketball club from the Russian capital Moscow that emerged from CSKA Moscow and is often mentioned in connection with the Red Army because of its connections .

history

During the Soviet Union

The basketball department of CSKA Moscow is first mentioned in 1924. From 1928 to 1951 the club was called ZDKA (Zentralny Dom Krasnoj Armii - Central House of the Red Army). As such, he participated in the Soviet basketball championship and won it for the first time in 1945. With the renaming of the Red Army in 1951, ZDKA was renamed ZDSA (Zentralny Dom Sowetskoj Armii - Central House of the Soviet Army). The club got its current name in 1960.

In the same year the era of dominance of the CSKA on the national level began. From 1960 to 1992 ( collapse of the Soviet Union ), 23 out of 32 championships were won. This superiority was due to the fact that the best players in the country were assigned to CSKA by other clubs. So it was not surprising that most of the Soviet national players came from CSKA during this period. In addition to national successes, there were also international ones. The team won the European Champion's Cup four times, made it to the finals of this competition three times and came third once.

After 1992

After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1992, the club was restructured and got the abbreviation PBK in front of the name. In place of the army, corporations acted as sponsors and ensured the club a leading economic position in Europe. The club is currently owned by Norilsk Nickel . Thanks to the strong financial support, ZSKA was able to further expand its domestic dominance and, with two exceptions, won all Russian championships. In Europe too, ZSKA remained a very successful team. Between 2000 and 2012, apart from 2002 and 2011, the club reached the Final Four of the Euroleague every year, including eight times in a row between 2002 and 2010, which no other European club has yet achieved. Under the leadership of coach Ettore Messina , the team won the tournament in 2006 and 2008, made it to the finals three more times and came third once. Among the eight Euroleague MVPs since 2005 are three CSKA players: Theodoros Papaloukas , Ramūnas Šiškauskas and Andrei Kirilenko .

In addition to the Russian championship and the Euroleague, ZSKA also won regional championships, such as the NEBL in 2000 and the VTB United League in 2010 and 2012 . On October 17, 2010 ZSKA succeeded with 90:87 against Cleveland Cavaliers one of a total of two away wins by a European club against an NBA club. In the 2011/12 season, CSKA lost only 5 of 63 games in all competitions, including the memorable final of the Euroleague against Olympiakos after a +19 lead with 62:61.

Squad

Squad CSKA Moscow in the 2019/2020 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 ) 4th Aleksandr Khomenko January 25, 1999 192 own youth 5 Mike James August 18, 1990 185 Olimpia Milano 7th Ivan Ukhov September 11, 1995 193 Parma Basket 13 Jānis Strēlnieks September 1, 1989 191 A-Nat Olympiacos 23 / Daniel Hackett December 19, 1987 193 A-Nat Brose Bamberg 30th Mikhail Kulagin 4th August 1994 192 Rossiya Novogorsk 84 Ron Baker March 30, 1993 193 Washington Wizards Forwards ( SF , PF ) 11 Semyon Antonov July 18, 1989 202 A-Nat BC Nizhny 17th Johannes Voigtmann September 30, 1992 211 A-Nat Baskonia 20th Andrey Vorontsevich 17th July 1987 207 A-Nat Sibirtelekom Novosibirsk 21st Will Clyburn May 17, 1990 201 Darusşafaka 26th Howard Sant-Roos February 13, 1992 200 AEK Athens 28 Andrey Lopatin August 27, 1998 208 own youth 32 Darrun Hilliard April 13, 1993 198 Baskonia 41 Nikita Kurbanov 5th October 1986 203 A-Nat Kuban locomotive Center ( C ) 3 / Joel Bolomboy January 28, 1994 204 A-Nat Milwaukee Bucks 31 / Kosta Koufos February 24, 1989 213 A-Nat Sacramento Kings 42 Kyle Hines 2nd September 1986 198 Olympiacos Piraeus	Trainer Nat. Surname position Dimitrios Itoudis boss Andreas Pistiolis Co Anton Yudin Co / Darryl Middleton Co Legend Abbr. meaning A-Nat National player swell Team homepage League homepage Status: 05.06.2020

successes

• Soviet championship winner : 1945, 1960–1962, 1964–1966, 1969–1974, 1976–1984, 1988, 1990
• Russian championship winner: 1992–2000, 2003–2015
• Soviet Cup winners: 1972, 1973, 1982
• Russian Cup Winner: 2005-2007
• European Champion Clubs' Cup: 1960/61, 1962/63, 1968/69, 1970/71
• Euroleague winners: 2005/06, 2007/08, 2015/16, 2018/19
• NEBL winner: 1999/2000
• VTB United League winner: 2009/10, 2011–2019

Web links

• Internet presence of PBK ZSKA Moscow (basketball) (Russian / English)
• CSKA history (Engl.)