PBC CSKA Moscow

CSKA Moscow
Nickname	Red Army Horses Red-Blue
Leagues	VTB United League EuroLeague
Founded	April 23, 1923 (1923-04-23)
History	PBC CSKA Moscow (1923–present)
Arena	Universal Sports Hall CSKA (capacity: 5,500) Megasport Arena (capacity: 13,126)
Location	Moscow, Russia
Team colors	Red, Blue
President	Andrey Vatutin
Head coach	Dimitrios Itoudis
Championships	7 European Championships 24 Soviet Championships 24 Russian Championships 4 Russian Cups 3 Soviet Cups 1 North European Championship 8 VTB United Leagues
Website	cskabasket.com
Uniforms
Home Away Third

Departments of CSKA Moscow
Football Futsal Beach soccer Basketball (Men's) Basketball (Women's) Ice Hockey Volleyball (Men's) Volleyball (Women's) Bandy Water polo Handball

PBC CSKA Moscow^[1] (Russian: ПБК ЦСКА Москва) is a Russian professional basketball team that is based in Moscow, Russia. The club is a member of the VTB United League and the EuroLeague. It is often referred to in the West as "Red Army" or "the Red Army team" for its past affiliation with the Armed Forces sports society, which was associated with the Soviet Army. CSKA won two titles between 2006 and 2009, in Europe's principal club competition, the EuroLeague, making the final in all four seasons, and has advanced to the EuroLeague Final Four 13 times in the 21st century.^[2] In their second most recent EuroLeague championship in 2008, they defeated Israeli powerhouse Maccabi Tel Aviv, 77–91, in the final at the Community of Madrid Sports Palace in Madrid.

CSKA lost in the 2007 final 93–91 to Panathinaikos on the Greens' home floor, the Nikos Galis Olympic Indoor Hall in Athens. In 2008, they won a rematch of the 2006 final against Maccabi 91–77 in Madrid. In 2009, they lost a rematch of the 2007 final against Panathinaikos 73–71 in Berlin. The club competed in 8 consecutive EuroLeague Final Fours from 2003 to 2010, which is an all-time record.

Well-known players that have played with the club over the years include: Sergei Belov, Gennadi Volnov, Viktor Zubkov, Yuri Korneev, Vladimir Andreev, Anatoly Myshkin, Stanislav Eremin, Rimas Kurtinaitis, Vladimir Tkachenko, Sergei Bazarevich, Alexander Volkov, Andrei Kirilenko, Trajan Langdon, Darius Songaila, Gordan Giriček, Dragan Tarlać, Marcus Brown, Ramūnas Šiškauskas, Theo Papaloukas, Nenad Krstić, and Miloš Teodosić. Over many years, CSKA has the reputation for being one of the richest sports clubs in Europe, having been previously owned by Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov,^[3][4] and being currently owned by Norilsk Nickel,.^[2]

History

CSKA was founded on 29 April 1923,^[5] then known as OPPV,^[6] when on that day soldiers and sportsmen fought in football against each other for the first place of Moscow. "OPPV", which means Опытно-показательная военно-спортивная площадка всевобуча, a department in the General military education service, was the first central sports department of the Red Army. It was based on the pre-revolutionary "Community of Amateur Skiers".^[5]

The first success of the basketball department came at the 1924 Soviet Championship, which was played between cities, not clubs. Two more titles followed in 1928 and 1935. In 1938, the Soviet Championships were played between clubs, and CSKA under the name CDKA (Центральный дом Красной Армии, Central House of the Red Army) debuted there. Stalin's son Vasily then founded the club BBC MBO, with CDKA merging with it. By the end of the Great Patriotic War, CSKA established itself as one of the most respected Soviet basketball teams.^[5]

In 1953 and 1954, the club was renamed CDSA (Центральный дом Советской Армии, Central House of the Soviet Army), between 1955–60 it was known as CSK MO, and finally in 1960 it received its current name CSKA (Центральный спортивный клуб Армии, Central Sports Club of the Army).^[5]

CSKA has had a long history of success. They won the European Cup in 1961, 1963, 1969, and 1971; won the Soviet Championship 24 times; and won the Russian League title every year from 1992 through 2000, and 2003 through 2013. CSKA also made the Final Four of the EuroLeague in 1996, 2004, and 2005, before winning the EuroLeague in 2006.

The team became the first in the history of the EuroLeague to go through the regular-season phase undefeated during the 2004–05 Euroleague season, and before the final four it had only lost to one team: FC Barcelona. Though CSKA eventually lost in the semifinals on their home court to Spanish League club Tau Cerámica and to Panathinaikos of the Greek League in the third-place game. That sent them to the 2nd grade teams in the EuroLeague draw, although they finished the league with the best record. That same year they also lost a game in the finals series of the Russian League, but they eventually got the Russian League crown.

In 2006, CSKA qualified for the 2005–06 Euroleague Top 16 by finishing third in their group. They finished at the top of their Top 16 group, being denied a perfect record at Tau in their final match. CSKA entered the Final Four on a roll as the only club to sweep their best-of-three quarterfinal series defeating Turkish League power Efes Pilsen. They defeated Barça in the EuroLeague semis before defeating the high-powered offense of Maccabi Tel Aviv of the Israeli League in the final on April 30, even though the overall record of Maccabi's games with CSKA Moscow favors the Israeli club.

The following year, they nearly repeated as EuroLeague champions, but wound up facing Panathinaikos in the final, on the Greek team's home floor, OAKA Indoor Hall, which had been designated more than a year earlier as the site for that year's Final Four. Panathinaikos won a closely fought battle.

In 2008, their EuroLeague win put them in sole possession of second place for overall European titles. Only Real Madrid, with nine titles, had won more than CSKA's six titles at the time (and seven now). On October 14, 2008, the team played a NBA preseason game with the Toronto Raptors at Air Canada Centre in Toronto.

Since the foundation of the VTB United League, CSKA has dominated that league, winning 6 of its 7 seasons.

In the 2015–16 season, CSKA won its 7th EuroLeague championship. In Berlin, Moscow defeated Fenerbahçe 101–96 after overtime.^[7] The star player of CSKA was Nando de Colo, who was named EuroLeague MVP and Final Four MVP.^[8][9]

Home arenas

CSKA played all of its home games, both national domestic league games, and European league games, at the 5,500 seat Universal Sports Hall CSKA, from 1979 to 2015. They also played a home EuroLeague game at the 13,126 seat Megasport Arena, on January 23, 2008. Starting with the 2015–16 season, CSKA began playing its home EuroLeague games at Megasport Arena, while still playing at CSKA Universal Sports Hall for VTB United League games.

Players

Current roster

CSKA Moscow roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. # Nat. Name Ht. Wt. Age 3.5 !F 11 RUS ! Antonov, Semyon 7000202000000000000♠2.02 m (6 ft 8 in) 7002104000000000000♠104 kg (229 lb) 7001280000000000000♠28 – (1989-07-18)18 July 1989 3.0 !SF 21 USA ! Clyburn, Will 7000200999999999999♠2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) 7001950000000000000♠95 kg (209 lb) 7001270000000000000♠27 – (1990-05-17)17 May 1990 1.5 !G 1 FRA ! de Colo, Nando 7000196000000000000♠1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) 7001910000000000000♠91 kg (201 lb) 7001300000000000000♠30 – (1987-06-23)23 June 1987 2.0 !SG 7 RUS ! Fridzon, Vitaly 7000195000000000000♠1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) 7001810000000000000♠81 kg (179 lb) 7001310000000000000♠31 – (1985-10-14)14 October 1985 2.5 !G/F 22 USA ! Higgins, Cory 7000196000000000000♠1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) 7001820000000000000♠82 kg (181 lb) 7001280000000000000♠28 – (1989-06-14)14 June 1989 4.5 !F/C 42 USA ! Hines, Kyle 7000198000000000000♠1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) 7002111000000000000♠111 kg (245 lb) 7001300000000000000♠30 – (1986-09-02)2 September 1986 4.5 !F/C 44 USA ! Hunter, Othello 7000202999999999999♠2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) 7002107000000000000♠107 kg (236 lb) 7001310000000000000♠31 – (1986-05-28)28 May 1986 4.0 !PF 31 RUS ! Khryapa, Victor (C) 7000206000000000000♠2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) 7002107000000000000♠107 kg (236 lb) 7001350000000000000♠35 – (1982-08-03)3 August 1982 4.5 !F/C 12 RUS ! Korobkov, Pavel 7000206000000000000♠2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) 7002103000000000000♠103 kg (227 lb) 7001270000000000000♠27 – (1989-10-18)18 October 1989 1.5 !G 30 RUS ! Kulagin, Mikhail 7000192000000000000♠1.92 m (6 ft 4 in) 7001910000000000000♠91 kg (201 lb) 7001230000000000000♠23 – (1994-08-04)4 August 1994 3.5 !F 41 RUS ! Kurbanov, Nikita 7000202000000000000♠2.02 m (6 ft 8 in) 7001990000000000000♠99 kg (218 lb) 7001300000000000000♠30 – (1986-10-05)5 October 1986 1.5 !G 13 ESP ! Rodríguez, Sergio 7000191000000000000♠1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) 7001800000000000000♠80 kg (176 lb) 7001310000000000000♠31 – (1986-06-12)12 June 1986 4.0 !PF 20 RUS ! Vorontsevich, Andrey 7000206999999999999♠2.07 m (6 ft 9 in) 7002107000000000000♠107 kg (236 lb) 7001300000000000000♠30 – (1987-07-17)17 July 1987 1.0 !PG 9 FRA ! Westermann, Léo 7000198000000000000♠1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) 7001900000000000000♠90 kg (198 lb) 7001250000000000000♠25 – (1992-07-24)24 July 1992	Head coach Dimitrios Itoudis Assistant coach(es) Darryl Middleton Andreas Pistiolis Anton Yudin Athletic trainer(s) Kostas Chatzichristos Eugeniy Burin Physiotherapist(s) Asker Barcho Aleksandar Bata Aleksandr Selyavkin Team manager Alexander Gugunishvili Legend (C) Team captain Injured Roster Updated: July 27, 2017

Depth chart

Season by season

Notable players

Coaches by season

1953–54 Evgenii Alexeev 1954–55 Evgenii Alexeev 1955–56 Evgenii Alexeev 1956–57 Evgenii Alexeev 1957–58 Evgenii Alexeev 1958–59 Evgenii Alexeev 1959–60 Evgenii Alexeev 1960–61 Evgenii Alexeev 1961–62 Evgenii Alexeev 1962–63 Evgenii Alexeev 1963–64 Evgenii Alexeev 1964–65 Evgenii Alexeev 1965–66 Evgenii Alexeev 1966–67 Evgenii Alexeev 1968–69 Armenak Alachachian 1969–70 Armenak Alachachian 1970–71 Alexander Gomelsky

1971–72 Alexander Gomelsky 1972–73 Alexander Gomelsky 1973–74 Alexander Gomelsky 1974–75 Alexander Gomelsky 1975–76 Alexander Gomelsky 1976–77 Alexander Gomelsky 1977–78 Alexander Gomelsky 1978–79 Alexander Gomelsky 1979–80 Alexander Gomelsky 1980–81 Jurij Selichov 1981–82 Sergei Belov 1982–83 Jurij Selichov 1983–84 Jurij Selichov 1984–85 Jurij Selichov 1985–86 Alexander Gomelsky 1986–87 Jurij Selichov 1987–88 Jurij Selichov

1988–89 Jurij Selichov Sergei Belov 1989–90 Sergei Belov 1990–91 Ivan Edeshko 1991–92 Ivan Edeshko Stanislav Eremin 1992–93 Stanislav Eremin 1993–94 Stanislav Eremin 1994–95 Stanislav Eremin 1995–96 Stanislav Eremin 1996–97 Stanislav Eremin 1997–98 Stanislav Eremin 1998–99 Stanislav Eremin 1999–00 Stanislav Eremin 2000–01 Valeri Tikhonenko 2001–02 Valeri Tikhonenko 2002–03 Dušan Ivković

2003–04 Dušan Ivković 2004–05 Dušan Ivković 2005–06 Ettore Messina 2006–07 Ettore Messina 2007–08 Ettore Messina 2008–09 Ettore Messina 2009–10 Evgeniy Pashutin 2010–11 Duško Vujošević Dmitry Shakulin Jonas Kazlauskas 2011–12 Jonas Kazlauskas 2012–13 Ettore Messina 2013–14 Ettore Messina 2014–15 Dimitrios Itoudis 2015–16 Dimitrios Itoudis 2016–17 Dimitrios Itoudis 2017–18 Dimitrios Itoudis

Honours

Domestic competitions

USSR League / Russian League (RSL, PBL & VTB)

• Winners (48): 1945, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017

USSR Cup / Russian Cup

• Winners (7): 1972, 1973, 1982, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2010

European competitions

EuroLeague

• Winners (7): 1961, 1963, 1969, 1971, 2006, 2008, 2016
• Runners-up (6): 1965, 1970, 1973, 2007, 2009, 2012

Triple Crown (unofficial)

• Winners (1): 2006

Regional competitions

North European League

• Winners (1): 2000

VTB United League

• Winners (8): 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017

Matches against NBA teams

October 7, 2006

Boxscore

Los Angeles Clippers

75–94

CSKA Moscow

Universal Sports Hall CSKA, Moscow

October 11, 2006

Boxscore

Philadelphia 76ers

85–71

CSKA Moscow

Kölnarena, Cologne

October 10, 2008

Boxscore

Orlando Magic

94–66

CSKA Moscow

Amway Arena, Orlando, FL

October 14, 2008

Boxscore

Toronto Raptors

86–78

CSKA Moscow

Air Canada Centre, Toronto, ON

October 12, 2010

Boxscore

Miami Heat

96–85

CSKA Moscow

American Airlines Arena, Miami, FL

October 14, 2010

Boxscore

Oklahoma City Thunder

97–89

CSKA Moscow

Ford Center, Oklahoma City, OK

October 16, 2010

Boxscore

Cleveland Cavaliers

87–90

CSKA Moscow

Quicken Loans Arena, Cleveland, OH

7 October 2013

Boxscore

Minnesota Timberwolves

106–108

CSKA Moscow

Target Center, Minneapolis, MN

9 October 2013

Boxscore

San Antonio Spurs

95–93

CSKA Moscow

AT&T Center, San Antonio, TX

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to PBC CSKA Moscow.

• Official website (in Russian) (in English)
• Official Facebook Page
• Official YouTube Channel
• EuroLeague Profile