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Basketball Club Brno ( cs, Basketbalový Klub Brno), for sponsorship reasons Brno Next Generation, is a Czech professional
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club based in the city of
Brno Brno ( , ; german: Brünn ) is a city in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. Located at the confluence of the Svitava and Svratka rivers, Brno has about 380,000 inhabitants, making it the second-largest city in the Czech Republic ...
. The team plays in the Czech National Basketball League – the highest competition in the
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. Home games of Brno are played in the Sportovní hala Sokola Brno, which has a capacity of 1,100 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."


History

The team was a European powerhouse from 1945 through the 1960s and mid-1970s. Brno was the most successful basketball club in
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, 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
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. The 1974 loss in the
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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
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, 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
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Sponsorship names

Partly due to sponsorship reasons, the club has known several names:


Honours

Total titles: 24


Domestic

Czechoslovak League * 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 Czech League * Winners (3): 1993–94, 1994–95, 1995–96


European

EuroLeague * ''Runners-up (2)'': 1963–64, 1967–68
FIBA Saporta Cup The FIBA Saporta Cup was the name of the second-tier level European-wide professional club basketball competition, where the domestic National Cup winners, from all over Europe, played against each other. The competition was organized by FIBA E ...
* ''Runners-up (1)'': 1973–74


Worldwide

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* ''Runners-up (1)'':
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International record


The road to the great European journeys

1963–64 FIBA European Champions Cup 1967–68 FIBA European Champions Cup 1973–74 FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup


Notable players

* Jan Bobrovský (1963–1972 & 1973–1978) *
Zdeněk Bobrovský Zdeněk Bobrovský (1 December 1933 – 21 November 2014) was a Czech basketball player. He was voted to the Czechoslovakian 20th Century Team. National team career With the senior Czechoslovakian national team, Bobrovský competed in the ...
(1950–1951 & 1954–1968) * Kamil Brabenec (1972–1982 & 1983–1988) * Vlastimil Havlík (1975–1983 & 1984–1988) * Zdeněk Konečný (1955–1967) *
František Konvička František Konvička (born August 11, 1938 in Okříšky, Czechoslovakia) is a former Czech professional basketball player and coach. At 6'3 " tall (1.92 m), he played at the small forward position. Playing career Club career Konvička spent h ...
(1957–1969 & 1971–1973) * Leoš Krejčí (1983–1988, 1989–1990 & 1994–1998) *
Robert Mifka The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honou ...
(1966–1968) * Petr Novický (1966–1974) * Jiří Okáč (1980–1984, 1986–1990 & 2003–2004) * Vojtěch Petr (1972–1980) * Vladimír Pištělák (1958–1969 & 1971–1973) * Jiří "Áda" Pospíšil (1968–1974) * Jaroslav Tetiva (1951–1953)


References


External links


Eurobasket.com BC Brno Page
{{National Basketball League (Czech Republic) Sport in Brno Basketball teams established in 1926 Basketball teams in the Czech Republic Basketball in Czechoslovakia