Pallacanestro Trieste

	Pallacanestro Trieste
Founded	1863
Hall	PalaTrieste ; (7,000 seats)
Homepage	www.pallacanestrotrieste2004.it
president	Gianluca Mauro
Trainer	Eugenio Dalmasson
league	Lega Basket Serie A ; 2018/19 : quarter-finals, main round 7th place
Colours	Red and white
home	Away
	successes
	5 × Italian championship : ; 1930, 1932, 1934, 1940, 1941

Pallacanestro Trieste is an Italian basketball club from Trieste . He was five times Italian basketball champion.

history

The origin of the association dates back to 1863, when the Società Ginnastica Triestina association was founded in the then Austro-Hungarian Trieste with irredentist claims. The ball sport of basketball was only taken up in the club after the First World War.

Between 1930 and 1941 Trieste dominated the top division in Italy, Serie A, and was five times Italian basketball champion and four times runner-up. After the Second World War, the club lost its dominance and was runner-up twice in 1947 and 1955. It was followed by ten more years in the first division before relegating to Serie B in 1966 .

In 1975 the club's basketball team spun off, henceforth called Pallacanestro Trieste and rose again to Serie A in the 1981/82 season. The big problem at that time was the lack of consistency. The Trieste team failed to establish themselves in the league and had to be relegated repeatedly.

This got significantly better in the 1990s. As early as the 1984/95 season, Stefanel took over sponsorship, which led to promotion to the first division in 1989/90. As a result, the team was a serious aspirant for the Italian championship, but initially failed three times in a row in the quarter-finals of the play-offs. In the 1993/94 season, the main round was finished third and in the play-offs they made it to the semi-finals for the first time, where they were defeated, however, Victoria Libertas Pesaro . The club also celebrated its greatest success at European level this season. In the Korać Cup , the final was reached, which was lost to PAOK Thessaloniki . In the following year, the good performance of the previous season could not be confirmed and clearly missed the play-offs in twelfth place. For this, the club became national vice cup winners. In the final, Pallacanestro Treviso beat the team from Trieste.

This was the club's last great success. There followed a few seasons in Serie A2 at the end of the 1990s, but also more seasons in Serie A, in which they were no longer one of the top teams. The best result in the recent past was the participation in the quarter-finals of the play-offs for the championship in the 1999/2000 season. In the first decade of the new millennium, the club spent seven years in the second and three years in the first division. Since the 2011/12 season, the team played in the second division, first in the Legadue and after the renaming in 2013 in the A2 series .

In the 2017/18 season, they were promoted to Serie A after 14 years , after defeating Junior Libertas Pallacanestro from Casale Monferrato in three games in the final series Best-of-Five .

In total, Pallacanestro Trieste played 52 years in the highest Italian league.

Hall

The club plays its home games in the 7,000-seat PalaTrieste .

successes

5 × Italian champion (1930, 1932, 1934, 1940, 1941)
6 × Italian runner-up (1931, 1935, 1937, 1939, 1947, 1955)
Korać Cup finalist (1994)
Italian Vice Cup Winner (1995)

Well-known former players

Italy Ferdinando Gentile (1993-94)
Serbia Dejan Bodiroga (1992-94)
Italy Gregor Fučka (1990-94)
Italy Dino Meneghin (1990-93)

Web links

History of the association on legabasket.it in Italian
Club profile of Pallacanestro Trieste (on eurobasket.com english )

Individual evidence

^ History of Ginnastica Triestina (Italian) accessed on July 17, 2018
^ Trieste torna in A dopo 14 anni (Italian), accessed on July 17, 2018

[1] History of Ginnastica Triestina (Italian) accessed on July 17, 2018

[2] Trieste torna in A dopo 14 anni (Italian), accessed on July 17, 2018