PBC CSKA Sofia

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**PBC CSKA Sofia**
Club Name	PBC CSKA Sofia
Image
Arena	Universiade Hall, Sofia, Bulgaria.
Capacity	4,500
Chairman	Emil Cohen
Manager	Krešimir Bašić
League	Bulgarian First A1 League
Website	www.cskabasket.net

PBC CSKA Sofia (Bulgarian: ПБК „ЦСКА София“) are a Bulgarian professional basketball club based in the capital Sofia and part of the CSKA Sofia sports club.

CSKA Sofia have been 11 times champions of Bulgaria and 18 times Bulgarian cup winners. They play their home games at Universiade Hall in Sofia. In 2006 they are taking part in the FIBA Europe EuroCup tournament.

1 Honours
2 History
3 Roster
4 Former players and coaches
5 External links

[edit] Honours

Champions of Bulgaria: 1949, 1951, 1965, 1967, 1977, 1980, 1983, 1984, 1990, 1991, 1992
Bulgarian Cup winners: 1953, 1955, 1962, 1963, 1973, 1974, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1984, 1985, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, 2005

[edit] History

The CSKA Basketball team takes over the AC 23, a team won 2nd place in the national championship in 1942. In 1946 BC “Chavdar” was created and became 3rd in the championship. In 1948 the team was renamed as “Septemvri” under authority of the Central Military Club and took the second place. In 1949 the club won the golden medals of the National championship. In 1950 the team (again renamed as “Narodna voiska”) was national champion and repeated the success in 1951. Altogether, the team has won 12 first places, 14 second places and 3 third places in the National Championship. The founders of the club are Kosyo Totev, Iliya Angelov, Tonko Rainov. One of the players in the early years of the Club is Konstantin Kotsev, who, after finishing his player’s career became actor of the National Theater in Sofia. When being player, Kotzev performed extracts from theater plays before his teammates and is remembered as one of the most prominent players of the “Red Club”. Within 1948-1974 period 26 players of the Club became Masters of Sports – a honorable title for the most skilled and distinguished sportsmen in Bulgaria. The most famous basketball players of the CSKA are: Dimitar Donev, Kliment Kamenarov, Georgi Maleev Tsvyatko Barchovski, Temelaki Dimitrov, Atanas Golomeev, Petko Marinov, Milko Arabadjiyski, Rumen Peychev and others. Many famous coaches were working in the Club: Lyubomir Katerinski, Iliya Semov, Kosyo Totev, Tsvyatko Barchovski, Omurtag Kuzmanov, Petko Marinov. The most successful period of the Club is 1990 – 1992, when the team becomes national champion for three years in a row.

[edit] Roster

(as of January 2007)

PBC CSKA Sofia current roster
Head coach: Krešimir Bašić
G	4	Dimitar Mirakovski
C	5	Trevor Harvey
G	6	Adrian Pledger
G	7	Marko Piplovic
F	8	Hristo Nikolov
C	9	Greg Danielson
G	11	Yordan Bozov
SG	12	Thierry Zig
F	14	Dimitar Angelov
GF	15	Toni Dechev
C	16	Thomas Fikoff
G	18	Carlos Cherry
C	50	Alvin Jones

[edit] Former players and coaches

Players:
- Dimitar Donev
- Kliment Kamenarov
- Georgi Maleev
- Tsvyatko Barchovski
- Temelaki Dimitrov
- Atanas Golomeev
- Petko Marinov
- Milko Arabadzhiyski
- Rumen Peychev
- Georgi Glouchkov

Coaches:
- Lyubomir Katerinski
- Iliya Semov
- Kosyo Totev
- Tsvyatko Barchovski
- Omurtag Kuzmanov
- Petko Marinov
- Rosen Barchovski
- Jaacob Gino