Spirou BC Charleroi

	Spirou BC Charleroi
Founded	1989
Hall	RTL Spiroudome ; (6,300 seats)
Homepage	www.proximusspirou.be (French)
president	Eric Somme
Manager	Jacques Stas
Trainer	Giovanni Bozzi
league	Scoooreleague ; 2010/11: 1st place
Colours	Red White
home	Away
	successes
	Belgian champion 1996 to 1999, 2003, 2004, 2008 to 2011 ; Belgian cup winner 1996, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2009

Proximus Spirou Basket Club Charleroi is a basketball club from Charleroi in the Belgian - Walloon Hainaut . Founded in 1989, Spirou Charleroi has recently become one of the most successful Belgian clubs in basketball. Since 1996, ten championships have been won and five cup victories have been won, four of them together as a double . The mascot and part of the emblem association is the comic figure Spirou , a main character in the comic magazine of the same name , published by Dupuis Verlag from Marcinelle, an independent district of Charleroi until 1977.

history

The predecessor club was Éveil Monceau , a club from Monceau-sur-Sambre, a district also incorporated in 1977, which was represented in the Korać Cup for some seasons in the 1970s . In 1989 he was promoted to the first Belgian league and the club was re-established as Spirou Charleroi. In the 1992/93 season took part for the first time at the international level in the Korać Cup and also for the first time reached the final series of the play-offs for the championship, in which they were defeated Racing Mechelen , against which they were defeated in the pre-season in the semifinals was. Two more runner-up championships followed: in 1994 they had to give up Mechelen in the play-offs for the third time in a row; the following year Mechelen was finally eliminated in the semifinals, but was lost to Sunair Oostende in the final.

Then succeeded in the 1995/96 season the commitment of Eric Struelens from the bankruptcy estate of Mechelen and with him the revenge against Sunair in the play-off final and thus the first championship. This was connected with the cup victory against the same opponent, so that you not only won both national titles for the first time, but also as a double. This was followed by three more championships in series until 1999; first again Ostend was defeated in the finals, then twice Giants Antwerp . The last championship in this series in 1999 was again connected with the cup victory. In 2000 the defending champion failed in the semifinals at Ostend, against which they also lost in the final in the following two seasons. But after the cup final defeat in 2001 against double winner Ostend they could celebrate the cup victory at least in 2002.

In the following season you could not only defend the cup title, but also won the championship in the final against RBC Verviers-Pepinster . In 2004 the next championship title followed against the final opponent from Liège , with which one could reciprocate for the semi-final defeat in the cup against the same opponent. In the following season they lost both national finals, in the cup against the Baskets from Leuven and in the championship against Euphony Bree . In 2006 they even missed the leap among the top four teams in the championship, which they tried to correct the following year with first place in the main round of the championship, but failed again in the semi-finals of the play-offs due to Euphony Bree.

In the 2007/08 season the team did not play as convincingly in the main series at first, but after a coach change they were again in the end with the championship title, after remaining unbeaten in the play-offs and this time defeating the main round first from Bree . Two more championship titles followed, in the 2008/09 season combined with the fifth cup win and fourth double. In 2010 they won the qualification of the ULEB Euroleague 2010/11 over the German representative Alba Berlin and reached the main round of the highest European competition for the first time since 2001, which no other Belgian club had achieved in the past few years. The same was repeated in 2011, after the championship they won the qualifying tournament for the ULEB Euroleague 2011/12 in front of a home crowd, in which they again defeated Alba Berlin, among other things. After retired again in the first round of the Euro League, joining point guard Demond Mallet of the year in the short term for Israeli club Maccabi Tel Aviv , but the Euro League returned to their elimination from the quarter-final play-offs already returned to Spirou back. Nevertheless, they lost in the fifth and decisive final game of the Ostend championship in extra time and thus missed their fifth championship success in a row.

Current squad

Squad Spirou Charleroi in the 2012/2013 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	Belgium	Jorn Steinbach	01/20/1989	181		Okapi eel star
7th	United States	Justin Hamilton	December 19, 1980	190
8th	United States	Carldell Johnson	01/28/1983	177		Austin Toros
11	Belgium	Amaury Jadin	08/10/1986	189
14th	United States	Matt Walsh	12/02/1982	199		Azovmash Mariupol
20th	United States	Je'Kel Foster	07/22/1983	191		Bayern Munich
		Forwards ( SF , PF )
5	United States	Derrick Allen	07/17/1980	203		Alba Berlin
9	United States	Glen Dandridge	07/16/1985	203		RSB Berkane
12	Belgium	Sacha Massot	October 24, 1983	204		Olympique Antibes
		Center ( C )
6th	Serbia	Nikola Janković	02/13/1994	203		Red Star Belgrade
10	United States	Andre Riddick	02/01/1973	208
13	Belgium	Boris Penninck	09.09.1988	202
15th	Belgium	Christophe Beghin	01/02/1980	207