Basket Brno
Basketball team in Brno, Czech Republic
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Basketball Club Brno (Czech: Basketbalový Klub Brno), for sponsorship reasons PUMPA BASKET Brno, is a Czech professional basketball club based in the city of Brno. The team plays in the Czech National Basketball League – the highest competition in the Czech Republic.
- Sokol Brno I
(1926–1945)
Spartak ZJŠ Brno
(1945–1976)
Spartak-Zbrojovka Brno
(1976–1977)
Zbrojovka Brno
(1977–1991)
BVC Bioveta Ivanovice na Hané
(1991–1992)
BC Brno
(1992–present)
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| Leagues | NBL | ||
| Founded | 1926 | ||
| History | List
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| Arena | STAREZ ARÉNA Vododa | ||
| Capacity | 2,900 | ||
| Location | Brno, Czech Republic | ||
| Championships | 21 Czechoslovak Championships 3 Czech Championships | ||
| Website | www.basketbrno.cz | ||
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Home games of Brno are played in the STAREZ ARÉNA Vododa, which has a capacity of 2,900 people.
The club owned by True Player Group with the idea to "unite the city top two youth clubs to one elite club and push the players to professional level, providing the best coaches, mentoring, nutrition programs, strength programing, rehab, etc."[1]
History
The team was a European powerhouse from 1945 through the 1960s and mid-1970s. Brno was the most successful basketball club in Czechoslovakia, winning 21 championship titles through the 1970s, and another three titles from 1994 to 1996. Brno lost two FIBA European Champion Cup finals in 1964 and 1968, both times to Spanish champions Real Madrid. The 1974 loss in the FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup final to Crvena zvezda marked the end of a golden era for the club in European competitions.
On January 25 and 26, 1969 Spartak ZJŠ Brno participated in the FIBA Intercontinental Cup at Macon, Georgia, the second time a basketball club from Czechoslovakia participated in the competition after Slavia VŠ Praha had done so in 1967. In the 1969 semifinal, Spartak beat European champions, Real Madrid but lost the final 71–84 to the Akron Goodyear Wingfoots, a basketball team of workers at the Goodyear Tire Company in Akron, Ohio.
Since 2022 Brno team participates also in the newly founded international league European North Basketball League. In the debut season Brno won 4 games out of 5 in the regular season, finishing second in the standings. Later in the Final Four Brno lost to Šiauliai team from Lithuania and won the bronze medal.
Current roster
Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationalities not displayed.
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Sponsorship names
Partly due to sponsorship reasons, the club has known several names:
- Sokol Brno I (1926–1945)
- BC Spartak ZJŠ Brno (1945–1976)
- Spartak-Zbrojovka Brno (1976–1977)
- Zbrojovka Brno (1977–1991)
- BVC Bioveta Ivanovice na Hane (1991–1992)
- Bioveta COOP Banka Brno (1992–1995)
- Stavex Brno (1995–1998)
- Draci Brno (1998–1999)
- BC BVV ŽS Brno (1999–2003)
- A plus ŽS Brno BC (2003–2008)
- BC Brno (2009–2013)
- mmcité Brno (2013–2018)
- egoé Brno (2018–2020)
- Brno Next Generation (2020–2022)
- Basket Brno (2022–2025)
- PUMPA BASKET Brno (2025–present)
Honours
Total titles: 24
Domestic
- Winners (21): 1945–46, 1947, 1947–48, 1948*, 1948–49, 1949–50, 1950–51, 1951*, 1957–58, 1961–62, 1962–63, 1963–64, 1966–67, 1967–68, 1975–76, 1976–77, 1977–78, 1985–86, 1986–87, 1987–88, 1989–90
- Winners (3): 1993–94, 1994–95, 1995–96
European
- Runners-up (1): 1973–74
Worldwide
- Runners-up (1): 1969
International record
| Season | Achievement | Notes | |
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| 1962–63 | Semi-finals | eliminated by Real Madrid, 79–60 (W) in Brno and 67–90 (L) in Madrid | |
| 1963–64 | Final | lost to Real Madrid, 110–99 (W) in Brno and 64–84 (L) in Madrid in the double finals of European Champions Cup | |
| 1964–65 | Quarter-finals | eliminated by Ignis Varese, 84–90 (L) in Varese and 72–67 (W) in Brno | |
| 1967–68 | Final | lost to Real Madrid, 95–98 in the final (Lyon) | |
| 1968–69 | Semi-finals | eliminated by CSKA Moscow, 66–101 (L) in Moscow and 92–83 (W) in Brno | |
| 1976–77 | Semi-final group stage | 6th place in group with Mobilgirgi Varese, Maccabi Tel Aviv, CSKA Moscow, Real Madrid & Maes Pils | |
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| 1966–67 | Semi-finals | eliminated by Ignis Varese, 83–84 (L) in Brno and 53–58 (L) in Varese | |
| 1972–73 | Quarter-finals | 3rd place in a group with Spartak Leningrad and Mobilquattro Milano | |
| 1973–74 | Final | lost to Crvena zvezda, 75–86 in the final (Udine) | |
| FIBA Intercontinental Cup | |||
| 1969 | Final | lost to Akron Goodyear Wingfoots, 71–84 in the final (Macon) | |
The road to the great European journeys
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1963–64 FIBA European Champions Cup
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1967–68 FIBA European Champions Cup
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1973–74 FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup
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Notable players
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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Jan Bobrovský (1963–1972 & 1973–1978)- Zdeněk Bobrovský (1950–1951 & 1954–1968)
- Kamil Brabenec (1972–1982 & 1983–1988)
- Vlastimil Havlík (1975–1983 & 1984–1988)
- Zdeněk Konečný (1955–1967)
- František Konvička (1957–1969 & 1971–1973)
- Leoš Krejčí (1983–1988, 1989–1990 & 1994–1998)[citation needed]
- Robert Mifka (1966–1968)[citation needed]
- Petr Novický (1966–1974)
- Jiří Okáč (1980–1984, 1986–1990 & 2003–2004)[citation needed]
- Vojtěch Petr (1972–1980)
- Vladimír Pištělák (1958–1969 & 1971–1973)
- Jiří "Áda" Pospíšil (1968–1974)
- Jaroslav Tetiva (1951–1953)
Aapeli Alanen (2021)
