Scaligera Basket Verona

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Scaligera Basket Verona
Founded 1951
Hall PalaOlimpia
(5,500 seats)
Homepage www.scaligerabasket.it
president Gianluigi Pedrollo
Trainer Luca Dalmonte
league Serie A2
2016/17: Play-off round 2, main round 8th place
Colours yellow and blue
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Scaligera Basket Verona is an Italian basketball club based in Verona . The club won the Korać Cup in 1998 and reached the final of the European Cup Winners ' Cup in 1997 .

After the club had to file for bankruptcy in 2002, there was a restart of club activities in 2007.

history

The association was founded in 1951 and was in the 1970s in the organized professional leagues of Italy active, first in the fünftklassigen Series D . By the end of the decade we made it to the third-rate series B . In the 1986/87 season the club was runner-up in this league and rose to the second highest division, the A2 series . There they established themselves and blossomed into aspiring promotion to the first division.

In 1991 the club celebrated two great successes as Glaxo Verona . At first, the team surprisingly won the Italian basketball cup . She beat the then 24-time Italian champion Phillips Milano with 97:85. In addition, the team was second division champions and rose to Serie A , where it could not establish itself at first and was relegated again. After a year in second class, however, they managed to get back up straight away.

In the 1993/94 season Verona convinced with good performances. In the league, the team reached the play-offs for the championship for the first time, where only in the semifinals against the eventual champions Virtus Bologna was over. In addition, the cup final was reached again, in which Pallacanestro Treviso had to admit defeat. In 1996 the team lost again in the cup final. Stefanel Milano, who had been defeated under a different name in 1991, returned the favor and won with 90:72.

In 1996/97 the semi-finals of the play-offs was reached again. Meanwhile renamed Riello Mash Verona , one failed at Treviso. The club made it into the semi-finals for a fourth and final time as Müller Verona in the 1999/2000 season. For the fourth time, the team missed the finals. Fortitudo Bologna won and later also became champions. After the 2001/02 season, Basket Verona filed for bankruptcy and stopped playing. The club played in Serie A for a total of ten years.

In 2007 the club ventured a fresh start in the third division. Since the 2010/11 season he has been back in the second division, the A2 series .

European Cup

Scaligera took part in the European Cup Winners' Cup in the 1991/92 season and made it to the final. There they lost to Real Madrid with 68:74.

In the 1997/98 season, the club achieved the greatest success in club history by winning the Korać Cup . In the final, they narrowly prevailed against Red Star Belgrade . The first leg was lost with 68-74, but in the second leg a 73-64 victory could be fought, with which Verona had scored three basket points more and won the competition.

In 2000/01, the club took part in the newly founded Euroleague as a semi-finalist in Serie A in the previous year and made it to the second round. With 92:94 and 84:86 they lost both games against Olympiacos Piraeus and were eliminated. These two games were also the last on the European stage to this day.

Hall

The club plays its home games in the 5,500-seat PalaOlimpia .

Name story

In the history of the club there have been many name changes due to changing main sponsors:

  • Vicenzi (1983-1984)
  • Citrosil (1986-1987)
  • Glaxo (1988-1994)
  • Birex (1994-1995)
  • Mash Jeans (1995-1998)
  • Müller (1998-2002)
  • Tezenis (since 2008)

successes

  • Korać Cup winner (1998)
  • Finalist Eurocup ( European Cup Winners' Cup ) (1997)
  • Italian Cup Winner (1991)
  • 2 × Italian runner-up cup winner (1994, 1996)

Well-known former players

Web links

Individual evidence