Fribourg Olympic | |||
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Leagues | Swiss Basketball League | ||
Founded | 27 April 1961 | ||
Arena | Salle Saint-Léonard | ||
Capacity | 2,850 | ||
Location | Fribourg, Switzerland | ||
President | Philippe de Gottrau | ||
Head coach | Petar Aleksić | ||
2019–20 position | SBL, 1st of 12 | ||
Championships | Swiss League (18) Swiss Cup (9) Swiss League Cup (6) | ||
Website | fribourg-olympic.ch | ||
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Fribourg Olympic Basket, commonly known as Fribourg Olympic, is a Swiss professional basketball club that is based in Fribourg. Due to name sponsorship reasons, the former name of the club was Benetton Fribourg. The club is a seventeen-time Swiss Basketball League champion.
History
[edit]Fribourg Olympic competed in seven seasons of the original version of the EuroLeague, the top-level European competition, when it was run by FIBA, due to being the Swiss League champions. In all those seasons, the club only qualified two times for the competition's second round, by winning their previous series. In 2007, Fribourg Olympic competed in the European-wide secondary competition, the 2007–08 ULEB Cup regular season, but they ended up in the last position of their group.
In the 2015–16 season, Fribourg won its first Swiss Basketball League (SBL) title in eight years. In the 2017–18 season, Fribourg won its seventeenth Swiss national title. Following that domestic title, the club made its debut in the qualifying rounds of the European secondary level FIBA Basketball Champions League (BCL). On 4 October 2018, they eventually qualified to the competition's regular season phase,[1] after winning three successive qualifying rounds against Avtodor Saratov, Donar, and Sakarya.
Arena
[edit]Fribourg Olympic plays its home games at the Salle Saint-Léonard arena, which has a seating capacity of 2,850 people.
Honours and titles
[edit]- Champions (18): 1966, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1985, 1992, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2007, 2008, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022
- Runners-up (17): 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1972, 1976, 1977, 1983, 1989, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2010, 2011
- Winners (9): 1967, 1976, 1978, 1997, 1998, 2007, 2016, 2018, 2019
- Winners (6): 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2018, 2020
Roster
[edit]Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationalities not displayed.
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Updated: 15 October 2022 |
Notable players
[edit]Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationalities not displayed.
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To appear in this section a player must have either:
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Vladimir Buscaglia
Arnaud Cotture
Eric Fongue
Jérémy Jaunin[2]
Jonathan Kazadi
Roberto Kovac
Kevin Madiamba
Vigdon Memishi
Marko Mladan
Westher Molteni
Florian Steinmann
Oliver Vogt
Robert Zinn
Ville Kaunisto
Babacar Touré
Greg Howard
Arizona Reid
Chad Timberlake
Cornell Warner
Derek Wright
Clint Chapman
Head coaches
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Qualification Round 3, Gameday 2 - Round up".
- ^ "Jeremy Jaunin: "Si on peut sortir les Lions, on ne va pas se gêner…"". Tribune de Genève (in French). 15 June 2020. Retrieved 30 April 2021.
- ^ "Historique et palmarès". Fribourg Olympic Basket (in French). Retrieved 2022-02-22.