Apollon Limassol BC

Pizza Express Primetel Apollon
Leagues	Cypriot Championship
Founded	1967 (1967)
History	1967–present
Arena	Primetel Apollon Arena (capacity: 1,700)
Location	Limassol, Cyprus
Team colors	Blue and White
President	George Papas
Head coach	Igors Miglinieks
Championships	Cypriot Cup (1): 2002 Cypriot Super Cup (1): 2005
Website	Official website
Uniforms
Home Away

Pizza Express Primetel Apollon (in Greek: Pizza Express Primetel Απόλλων), is a Cypriot professional basketball club based in Limassol, Cyprus. The club competes in the Cypriot League. The president of the team is Tasos Anastasiades and the current manager is the Irish James Weldon.

History

Apollon Limassol BC was founded in 1967 and is from the founding members of Cyprus Basketball Federation. From then the team participates regularly in the Cyprus Basketball Division 1. The unique titles in the history of department, are a cup in 2002 and a Super Cup in 2004.

Apollon Limassol BC won the cup against apoel with score 76-69 in nicosia. over than 1500 fans travelled to nicosia.

League Positions

League achievements

• Cyprus League Finalist:
  • 1999, 2000, 2001, 2005
• Cyprus League Semifinals:
  • 2003, 2004, 2006, 2009

Cup achievements

• Cyprus Cup Winner:
  • 2002, 2014
• Cyprus Cup Finalist:
  • 2004

European cups achievements

• EuroCup Challenge Semifinals:
  • 2007

European cups

• 1999–00: Korać Cup
• 2000–01: Korać Cup: lost to Hemofarm Vršac in eliminations
• 2001–02: Korać Cup
• 2002–03: FIBA Regional Challenge Final 4
• 2003–04: FIBA Europe Cup: took 2nd place (2-2) in Group D of South Conference
• 2004–05: FIBA Europe Cup: took 3rd place (1-3) in Conference South Group C
• 2005–06: EuroCup Challenge: took 1st place (3-1) in Group G, lost to Khimik in 1/8 Finals
• 2006–07: Europe Cup Challenge: took 1st place (4-2) in Group A, lost to Samara 77-75, 50-76 in the Semifinals
• 2012–13: EuroChallenge: took 4th place (1–5) in Group G

2009-10 Roster

Pizza Express Primetel Apollon Roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. Νο. Nat. Name Ht. 1.0 !PG 4 Latvia ! Gabrāns, Raimonds 70001840000000000001.84 m (6 ft 0 in) 1.0 !PG 5 Lithuania ! Gaidamavičius, Tomas 70001920000000000001.92 m (6 ft 4 in) 1.0 !PG 6 Cyprus ! Iliadis, Stefanos 70001860000000000001.86 m (6 ft 1 in) 3.0 !SF 7 Sweden ! Rush, Erik 70001950000000000001.95 m (6 ft 5 in) 1.0 !PG 8 England ! Robinson, Justin 70001760000000000001.76 m (5 ft 9 in) 2.0 !SG 9 Georgia ! Lezhava, Besik 70001820000000000001.82 m (6 ft 0 in) 4.5 !PF 10 Russia ! Omelchenko, Mikhail 70001970000000000001.97 m (6 ft 6 in) 2.0 !SG 11 USA ! Raymond, Benjamin 70001980000000000001.98 m (6 ft 6 in) 2.0 !SG 12 Cyprus ! Pantouris, Grigoris (C) 70001900000000000001.90 m (6 ft 3 in) 6.0 !C 13 Latvia ! Grafs, Raitis 70002060000000000002.06 m (6 ft 9 in) 6.0 !C 14 USA ! Tremaine, Ford 70002069999999999992.07 m (6 ft 9 in) 3.0 !SF 15 USA ! Gillenwater, Troy 70002029999999999992.03 m (6 ft 8 in) 3.0 !SF Cyprus ! Antonov, Vanko 70001930000000000001.93 m (6 ft 4 in) 4.5 !PF Czech Republic ! Englicky, Pavel 70002090000000000002.09 m (6 ft 10 in)	Head coach Igors Miglinieks Assistant coach(es) Marios Argyrou Akis Constantinou Marios Thrasyvoulidis Legend (C) Team captain

Former players

Notable managers

• Guillermo Vecchio
• Predrag Benacek
• James Weldon

External links

• http://www.apollonbc.net/ Apollon BC Official Site
• http://www.apollon1954.com/ Apollon Limassol News
• http://www.fygas.net/ Apollon Limassol Fan Page