| BC Budivelnik | ||||
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| Leagues | Ukrainian SuperLeague | |||
| Founded | 1962 | |||
| Arena | Meridian Sports Complex (capacity: 1,500) Kiev Sports Palace (capacity: 7,000) |
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| Location | Kiev, Ukraine | |||
| Team colors | Green and White |
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| President | Bogdan Guliamov | |||
| Head coach | Zvezdan Mitrovic | |||
| Championships | 1 Soviet Championship: 1989 7 Ukrainian Championships 1992 - 1997, 2011 |
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| Website | bcbudivelnik.com | |||
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BC Budivelnik is a Ukrainian professional basketball club based in Kiev. The club is currently playing in the Ukrainian Basketball SuperLeague. Budivelnik is owned and operated by the same group as the Kiev based hockey club, Budivelnyk.
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Founded in 1962, the club was one of the leading clubs in Soviet League basketball. It was formed out of another Kiev's club SKIF that was established in 1945. The club was established as a team of the Republican Trade Union Volunteer Sport Society Avanhard under sponsorship of the local municipal building company Kievgorstroi-4 (Kiev-City-Construction-4). In Soviet times, the club played at the 7,000 seat Kiev Sports Palace. The club has won the Soviet League in 1989, and the Ukrainian League six times, until it declined and was relegated to the lower division, due to financial problems. In 2006 however the club was rescued by a group of businessmen who have invested considerable resources into it, thus returning to the big league of Ukrainian basketball. Within two years they once again became one of the strongest teams in Ukraine, finishing second in the Ukrainian National League.
In March 2010, the management of Budivelnik held a joint press conference with the CEO of Euroleague Basketball Jordi Bertomeu, announcing that they might join the Euroleague in the next few years.
The club plays under the current name since 1962. The club's name means "The Builder" in Ukrainian. Amazingly the management chose the Ukrainian version of the club's name over the Russian "Stroitel". The club was nicknamed as "Konstruktory" (Constructors) and "Stroiteli" (the earlier mentioned Russian version).
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