BK Ogre is a professional

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club based in

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playing in the

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and Latvian-Estonian Basketball League. The professional club was founded in 2014, but until then there was a local team that played second tier basketball. Ogre has a long history of bringing up professional players like Kaspars Bērziņš, Artūrs Bērziņš,

Rinalds Sirsniņš Rinalds Sirsniņš (born 4 July 1985 in Ogre, Latvia) is a Latvian professional basketball player. He is currently playing for BK Ogre at the guard position and general manager of the team. Honours *Latvijas Basketbola līga: 2008 **Runner-up: ...

among many others.

History

City of Ogre has a long history of bringing up professional basketball players, including Kaspars Bērziņš, Artūrs Bērziņš and

who have all once played for

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. In 2009 local sports school's team started to play in Latvian 2nd division. After going to semi-finals in debut season management was assured of going to right direction with participation in 2nd division. As

was looking for new teams to join the league, Ogre first started to think of going fully professional in 2014. City of Ogre established a professional club with a goal to win the 2nd division. After winning 2nd division in 2015, management decided it's time to move to the next level and joined the

. During the first season club got new title sponsor and changed its name to Ogre/Kumho Tyre. After finishing the debut season next to last team let go head coach

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and hired Latvian U16 head coach

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, who previously worked for

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. In 2016/2017 Ogre/Kumho Tyre made a debut in

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. Also, during the season the most famous Ogre's player Kaspars Bērziņš joined the team for couple months to get back in shape after an injury and wait for bigger offers. In 2023 the new Arēna Ogre was opened and BK Ogre moved there to play its home games in a brand new arena.
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Players

Current roster

Depth chart

Season by season

Honours

League

* Latvijas Basketbola līga, Latvian League: ::Winners (0): :::''Runners-up (1)'':

2020 The year 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of even ...

::::''Bronze (3)'':

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

* Latvian League 2nd Division: ::Winners (1): 2015 * Latvian–Estonian League ::Winners (0): :::''Runners-up (0)'': ::::''Bronze (1)'':

Coaches

* Pēteris Ozoliņš: 2014-2015 *

: 2015-2016 *

: 2016-2019 * Nikolajs Mazurs: 2019-2021 *

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: 2021-

References

External links

* {{Latvian Basketball League Ogre, Latvia

Basketball teams established in 2014