Fortitudo Bologna

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Fortitudo Bologna

Founded	1932
Arena	PalaDozza (5721)
Team History	Fortitudo Bologna (1932-present)
Team Colors	White and Navy Blue
Lega Basket Serie A	2 (2000, 2005)
Italian Cup	1 (1998)
Italian Supercup	2 (1998, 2005)
Euroleague	0 (1 Final)
Cup Winners' Cups (Saporta Cup)	0 (-)
Owner	Michele Martinelli
Head Coach	Fabrizio Frates

Fortitudo Pallacanestro Bologna is a prominent Italian basketball club based in Bologna. It is now also known as Climamio Bologna after its current sponsor, a major dealer in home climate-control systems. The club has had numerous sponsors over the years.

Despite being one of Europe's richest clubs, Fortitudo has for much of its history played second fiddle in its own city to archrivals Virtus Bologna. Fortitudo won its first major trophy in 1998, winning the Italian Cup.

Fortitudo has made the Italian League championship finals ten consecutive years (1997 through 2006). After three straight finals losses, Fortitudo won the Italian League Championship for the first time in 2000. Four consecutive finals losses were followed by Fortitudo's second league title in 2005, courtesy of a 3-1 win over Armani Jeans Milano in the finals series when instant replay upheld a Ruben Douglas buzzer beater in Game 4 of the championship series.

In recent years, Fortitudo has become a fixture in the Euroleague, basketball's equivalent to the Champions League in football. It lost in the Euroleague final in 2004 to Maccabi Tel-Aviv by 44 points, after defeating Montepaschi Siena on the day before in semifinal.

Fortitudo's home arena is Paladozza, now also known for sponsorship reasons as Land Rover Arena.

[edit] List of former club sponsorship names

Cassera 1966-1968
Eldorado 1968-1971
Alco 1971-1978
Mercury 1978-1980
I&B 1980-1981
Lattesole 1981-1983
Yoga 1983-1988
Arimo 1988-1990
Aprimatic 1990-1991
Mangiaebevi 1991-1993
brief period without a name sponsor 1993
Filodoro 1993-1995
Teamsystem 1995-1999
Paf Wennington 1999-2001
Skipper 2001-2004
Climamio 2004-

[edit] Current roster

5	Tyus Edney	Point guard
6	Stefano Mancinelli	Small forward
7	Preston Shumpert	Power forward
8	Marco Belinelli	Shooting guard
9	Steffen Hamann	Point guard
10	Daniele Cavaliero	Point guard
11	Vasco Evtimov	Center
12	Kristaps Janičenoks	Shooting guard
13	David Bluthenthal	Small forward
14	Tomas Ress	Power forward
15	James Thomas	Power forward
17	Davide Bruttini	Small forward
20	Robert Fultz	Point guard