Russian Basketball Cup

Russian Basketball Cup
Current season, competition or edition:
Current sports event 2014–15 Russian Basketball Cup
Sport Basketball
Founded 2000
Country Russia Russia
Most recent champion(s) Novosibirsk
(1th title)
Most titles CSKA Moscow
(4 titles)
Official website basket.ru

The Russian Basketball Cup is the primary professional national domestic basketball cup competition of Russia.

History

The first cup tournament took place in the year 2000. Since the year 2003, the competition has been held annually.

In the 2010–11 season, 4 teams of the PBL did not participate in the Cup: CSKA Moscow, Dynamo Moscow, Khimki, and UNICS.[1]

In the 2011–12 season, 5 teams of the PBL did not participate in the Cup: CSKA Moscow, Enisey, Khimki, Lokomotiv-Kuban and UNICS.

Title holders

Performance by club

Russian Basketball Cup 2012–2013
Club Winners Runners-up Winning Years Runner-up years
CSKA Moscow 4 3 2004-05, 2005-06, 2006-07, 2009-10 2002-03, 2003-04, 2007-08
UNICS 3 3 2002-03, 2008-09, 2013-14 2004-05, 2006-07, 2009-10
Krasnye Krylia 2 – 2011-12, 2012-13
Spartak Saint Petersburg 1 2 2010-11 1999-00, 2012-13
Khimki 1 1 2007-08 2005-06
Lokomotiv Kuban 1 1 1999-00 2013-14
Ural Great 1 – 2003-04
Novosibirsk 1 – 2014-15
Dynamo Moscow – 2 2008-09, 2014-15
Nizhny Novgorod – 1 2010-11
Spartak Primorye – 1 2011-12

Final Fours

Season Winner Runner-up Semifinalists Host City MVP
1999–2000Lokomotiv Mineralnye Vody Spartak Saint Petersburg Ural Great (3rd) Dinamo-Avtodor Volgograd (4th) Sochi N/A
2002–03UNICS CSKA Moscow Ural Great Khimki Ekaterinburg N/A
2003–04Ural Great CSKA Moscow UNICS (3rd) Khimki (4th) Perm N/A
2004–05CSKA Moscow UNICS Dynamo Moscow (3rd) Khimki (4th) Moscow N/A
2005–06CSKA Moscow Khimki UNICS (3rd) Triumph Lyubertsy (4th) Khimki Greece Theo Papaloukas
2006–07CSKA Moscow UNICS Dynamo Moscow Triumph Lyubertsy Kazan Russia Alexey Savrasenko
2007–08Khimki CSKA Moscow UNICS Dynamo Moscow Vidnoye Poland Maciej Lampe
2008–09UNICS Dynamo Moscow CSKA Moscow (3rd) Triumph Lyubertsy (4th) Lyubertsy Croatia Krešimir Lončar
2009–10CSKA Moscow UNICS Spartak Saint Petersburg (3rd) Khimki (4th) Moscow Russia Victor Khryapa
2010–11Spartak Saint Petersburg Nizhny Novgorod Enisey Krasnoyarsk (3rd) Lokomotiv Kuban (4th) Krasnoyarsk Republic of Macedonia Pero Antić
2011–12Krasnye Krylia Spartak Primorye Spartak Saint Petersburg (3rd) Ural Ekaterinburg (4th) Samara United States Brion Rush
2012–13Krasnye Krylia Spartak Saint Petersburg Spartak Primorye (3rd) Enisey Krasnoyarsk (4th) Vladivostok United States Aaron Miles
2013–14UNICS Lokomotiv Kuban Khimki Krasny Oktyabr Kazan, Krasnodar United States Andrew Goudelock
2014–15 a Novosibirsk Dynamo Moscow Krasnye Krylia Spartak Primorye Novosibirsk N/A
^a – In the 2014–15 competition, teams were only allowed to play with Russian players; which led to the withdrawals of most of the top tier Russian teams.[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Хомичюс: интерес к Кубку не пропадёт ни у команд, ни у фанатов (in Russian). Championat.ru. 29 October 2010. Retrieved 30 October 2010.
  2. ↑ Европейцев: только российские баскетболисты смогут играть в Кубке России (Only Russian players can play in the Cup Competition)

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