BC Levski Sofia

BC Levski

Nickname

The Blues (Сините)

Leagues

NBL
ABA Liga

Founded

1923

Arena

Universiada Hall
(capacity:4,000)

Location

Sofia, Bulgaria

Team colors

Blue and white

President

Konstantin Papazov

Head coach

Nikolay Gospodinov

Championships

(18) NBL
(15) Bulgarian Cup
(2) BIBL

Website

http://www.levskibasket.com/

Uniforms

Home

Away

BC Levski Sofia (Bulgarian: БК Левски 2014) is a Bulgarian professional basketball club based in the capital Sofia and part of the Levski Sofia sports club.

Founded in 1923, Levski has won a record 59 honours: 18 NBL titles and 15 Bulgarian Cups/Men/ & 8 Bulgarian championships and 13 Bulgarian Cups/Women/. International titles won by the club are : 1 EuroLeague in 1984, 2 EuroCups in 1978 & 1979 and 2 Balkan Leagues (regional European title) in 2010 & 2014. They play their home matches at the Universiade Hall in Sofia. In 2015 the club was renamed to Levski 2014.

Honours

Men

NBL : 18

1942, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1954, 1956, 1960, 1962, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1986, 1993, 1994, 2000, 2001, 2014

Bulgarian Cup : 15

1951, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1976, 1979, 1982, 1983, 1993, 2001, 2009, 2010, 2014

Balkan League : 2

Winner: 2010, 2014
Runners-up: 2012, 2013

Women

Bulgarian Women's Basketball Championship : 8

1980, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1994

Bulgarian Women's Basketball Cup : 13

1969, 1972, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1991

EuroLeague

Winner: 1984

Ronchetti Cup / EuroCup

Winners: 1978, 1979

Runners-up: 1975

Players

Current roster

Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationality not displayed.

BC Levski Sofia roster

Players

Coaches

Pos.	#	Nat.	Name	Ht.	Wt.	Age
1.5 !G	4	BUL !	Hadzhirusev, Evgeni	7000192000000000000♠1.92 m (6 ft 4 in)	7001680000000000000♠68 kg (150 lb)	7001200000000000000♠20 – (1995-12-11)11 December 1995
1.5 !G	5	BUL !	Karamfilov, Deyan	7000180000000000000♠1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)	7001730000000000000♠73 kg (161 lb)	7001220000000000000♠22 – (1994-01-21)21 January 1994
4.5 !F/C	7	BUL !	Angelov, Dimitar	7000202000000000000♠2.02 m (6 ft 8 in)	7002109000000000000♠109 kg (240 lb)	7001360000000000000♠36 – (1979-08-25)25 August 1979
3.5 !F	9	BUL !	Simeonov, Alex	7000200000000000000♠2.00 m (6 ft 7 in)	7001910000000000000♠91 kg (201 lb)	7001220000000000000♠22 – (1993-03-28)28 March 1993
1.5 !G	10	USA !	Hunt, Jimmie	7000187000000000000♠1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)	7001860000000000000♠86 kg (190 lb)	7001330000000000000♠33 – (1982-09-19)19 September 1982
2.5 !G/F	11	BUL !	Ivanov, Pavel (C)	7000200000000000000♠2.00 m (6 ft 7 in)	7001900000000000000♠90 kg (198 lb)	7001270000000000000♠27 – (1988-02-26)26 February 1988
4.5 !F/C	15	BUL !	Evtimov, Vassil	7000208000000000000♠2.08 m (6 ft 10 in)	7002120000000000000♠120 kg (265 lb)	7001380000000000000♠38 – (1977-05-30)30 May 1977
5.0 !C	21	BUL !	Titov, Denis	7000206999999999999♠2.07 m (6 ft 9 in)	7002101000000000000♠101 kg (223 lb)	7001210000000000000♠21 – (1994-08-15)15 August 1994
2.5 !G/F	23	BUL !	Uandie, Alex	7000196000000000000♠1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)	7001800000000000000♠80 kg (176 lb)	7001190000000000000♠19 – (1996-12-22)22 December 1996
2.5 !G/F	32	BUL !	Ivkov, Ivko	7000195000000000000♠1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)	7001800000000000000♠80 kg (176 lb)	7001200000000000000♠20 – (1995-11-01)1 November 1995
2.5 !G/F	34	BUL !	Minchev, Jordan	7000193000000000000♠1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)	7001800000000000000♠80 kg (176 lb)	7001170000000000000♠17 – (1998-10-17)17 October 1998
3.5 !F	55	BUL !	Nikolov, Spas	7000202999999999999♠2.03 m (6 ft 8 in)	7001850000000000000♠85 kg (187 lb)	7001180000000000000♠18 – (1997-10-17)17 October 1997
3.5 !F	—	BUL !	Rusimov, Nikolay	7000200000000000000♠2.00 m (6 ft 7 in)	7001840000000000000♠84 kg (185 lb)	7001170000000000000♠17 – (1998-04-14)14 April 1998

Head coach

Konstantin Papazov

Assistant coach(es)

Toni Dechev

Strength & conditioning coach(es)

Svetoslav Andonov

Physiotherapist(s)

Yavor Kasabov

Legend

(C) Team captain
Injured

Roster
Updated: 12 February 2015

Depth chart

Pos.	Starting 5	Bench 1	Bench 2
C	Dimitar Angelov	Vassil Evtimov
PF		Nikolay Rusimov
SF	Alex Simeonov	Ivko Ivkov	Spas Nikolov
SG	Pavel Ivanov		Jordan Minchev
PG	Deyan Karamfilov		Evgeni Hadzhirusev

Former players

Iliya Mirchev
Mincho Dimov
Atanas Peychinski
Hristo Doychinov
Atanas Golomeev
Georgi Mladenov
Gjorgji Čekovski
Marcus Hall
Charles Jones
Dwayne Morton
Aaron Harper
Agiani Williams
Chuck Stuart
Arnas Kazlauskas
Joseph Mazibuko

External links

Official website (Bulgarian)
Levski Sofia at Basketball-bg.com (Bulgarian)
Levski Sofia at BulgarianBasket.com (English)

Bulgarian National Basketball League

Academic Plovdiv Balkan Botevgrad Beroe Cherno More Port Varna Chernomorets Levski Lukoil Akademic Rilski Sportist Spartak Pleven Yambol

ABA League

Current teams	Budućnost VOLI Cedevita Cibona Crvena zvezda Telekom Igokea Krka-Telekom Mega Leks Metalac Valjevo MZT Skopje Aerodrom Partizan NIS Sutjeska Tajfun Šentjur Union Olimpija Zadar

Former teams	Borac Banja Luka Bosna FMP Domžale Kvarner (defunct) Levski Lovćen Maccabi Tel Aviv Nymburk Radnički Kragujevac (defunct) Sloboda Tuzla (defunct) Slovan Split Szolnoki Olaj Šibenik (defunct) Široki Vršac Vojvodina Srbijagas Zagreb Zlatorog Laško

Seasons	2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16

BC Levski Sofia at Eurobasket.com

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