Pallacanestro Varese, also called by its current sponsor's name, the Openjobmetis Varese, is an Italian professional basketball club based in

Varese Varese ( , ; or ; ; ; archaic ) is a city and ''comune'' in north-western Lombardy, northern Italy, north-west of Milan. The population of Varese in 2018 was 80,559. It is the capital of the Province of Varese. The hinterland or exurban part ...

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. Founded in 1945, the team plays in the Italian first division LBA. For past club sponsorship names, see

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History

Basketball was introduced in

in 1945, with the creation of the historical club, Pallacanestro Varese. The first sponsors were introduced 8 years later in 1954, including Storm and Ignis, followed by Emerson, Turisanda,

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, Star, Ciaocrem, Divarese, Ranger, Metis,

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, and the most recent, Cimberio. Varese is also famous due to the lack of its having a main sponsor in the mid-1990s (something unusual in the Italian basketball league), and the choice of its franchise name, the Varese Roosters. Since their creation, Pallancanestro Varese has won 10 Italian first-tier level LBA titles, in the years 1961, 1964, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1977, 1978, and their last Italian League title, won 21 years after the previous title, in 1999. With 10 titles, Pallacanestro Varese is the third most winning team ever in the Italian League, after

Olimpia Milano Pallacanestro Olimpia Milano, commonly known as Olimpia Milano or as EA7 Emporio Armani Milan after its title sponsor, is an LBA Italian professional basketball team, based in Milan, Italy. Its colors are white and red, and the team is sometimes ...

and

Virtus Bologna Virtus Pallacanestro Bologna, known for sponsorship reasons as Virtus Segafredo Bologna, is an Italian professional basketball club based in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna. The club was founded in 1929, which makes it the oldest club in Italy and one ...

. As it is shown by its roll of honors, Varese was extremely competitive in the 1970s, when the club played in the European-wide first-tier level FIBA European Champions Cup (now called

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), and played in ten finals in a row, winning 5 of them, in the years 1970, 1972, 1973, 1975, and 1976. Between 1956 and 1975, the club was named Ignis Varese. What was the club's golden age had begun some years before, as Varese conquered the

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, and repeated the same title 4 and 7 years later, in the middle of the club's greatest decade in

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and

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. Varese accomplished the great feat of winning the Triple Crown, winning all the trophies available in 1973, with the legendary Professor Aca Nikolić as the team's

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. Varese also won two championships of the European-wide first-tier level

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, in 1967 and 1980, and four

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s, in 1969, 1970, 1971, and 1973. Varese's great age ended in the early nineties, when the team dropped down to the Italian second division. Soon, the club took its revenge, coming up once again to the Italian top-tier level league, and after 5 years time became the real team to watch in the Italian League's playoffs, as it succeeded in winning its historical 10th Italian League title in 1999, with

Carlo Recalcati Carlo Recalcati (born September 11, 1945, in Milan, Italy) is an Italian professional basketball coach, and a former player. He was the head coach of the senior Italian national basketball team, from 2001 to 2009, and led them to the silver meda ...

(who later coached the Italian national team), leading the way as the club's head coach. Varese has never repeated that triumph so far, but that success is still remembered to this day. Varese has been trying to return to the top of the Italian League and European-wide competitions in the years since.

Players

Current roster

Season by season

Honours

Total titles: 25 PalaWhirlpool

Domestic competitions

* Italian League : Winners (10): 1960–61, 1963–64, 1968–69, 1969–70, 1970–71,

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, 1973–74, 1976–77, 1977–78, 1998–99 : Runners-up (10): 1948–49, 1961–62, 1962–63, 1964–65, 1965–66, 1966–67, 1971–72, 1974–75, 1975–76, 1989–90 *

: Winners (4): 1968–69, 1969–70, 1970–71, 1972–73 : Runners-up (5): 1971–72, 1984–85, 1987–88, 1998–99, 2012–13 *

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: Winners (1): 1999 : Runners-up (1): 2013

European competitions

: Winners (5): 1969–70, 1971–72,

, 1974–75, 1975–76 : Runners-up (5): 1970–71, 1973–74, 1976–77, 1977–78, 1978–79 : Semifinalists (1): 1964–65 *

FIBA Saporta Cup The FIBA Saporta Cup, founded as ''FIBA European Cup Winners 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 eac ...

(defunct) : Winners (2): 1966–67, 1979–80 : Semifinalists (2): 1967–68, 1980–81 *

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(defunct) : Runners-up (1): 1984–85 : Semifinalists (1): 1985–86 *

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: Runners-up (1): 2015–16

Worldwide competitions

: Winners (3):

: Runners-up (4):

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1974 Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War determined politics; ...

1976 Events January * January 2 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea. * January 18 – Full diplomatic ...

1977 Events January * January 8 – 1977 Moscow bombings, Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group. * January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (no ...

: 3rd place (1):

1979 Events January * January 1 ** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the ''International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the song ...

: 4th place (1):

1978 Events January * January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213. * January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd ...

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: 4th place (1):

1999 1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons. Events January * January 1 – The euro currency is established and the European Central Bank assumes its full powers. * January 3 – The Mars Polar Lander is launc ...

Individual club awards

* Triple Crown : Winners (2): 1969–70, 1972–73

International record

Notable players

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* Geno Carlisle *

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* Derek Hamilton * Delonte Holland * Frank Johnson *

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* Kevin Magee * Stan McKenzie * Billy Keys *

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Pat Cummings Pat Cummings (July 11, 1956 – June 26, 2012F ...

* Bill Edwards *

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* Jerry McCullough * Larry Micheaux *

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* Charles Pittman *

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* Daniel Farabello * Gabriel Fernández *

Luis Scola Luis Alberto Scola Balvoa (born 30 April 1980) is an Argentine former basketball player and the chief executive officer for the Italian Lega Basket Serie A (LBA) team Pallacanestro Varese. A three-time All-EuroLeague Team, All-EuroLeague selecti ...

Arijan Komazec Arijan Komazec (born January 23, 1970) is a former Croatian professional basketball player. Professional career Komazec started his professional career as a basketball player at the age of 16, in the historical club of Zadar, in the 1986–87 s ...

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* Sani Bečirović *

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* Antero Lehto *

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* Siim-Sander Vene *

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* Richard Petruška * Pavel Podkolzin *

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* Fedon Matheou * D. J. Mbenga

Head coaches

Vittorio Tracuzzi Vittorio Tracuzzi (2 January 1923 – 21 October 1986) was an Italian basketball player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1948 Summer Olympics The 1948 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XIV Olympiad and officially ...

(1948–54) * Valerio Giobbi (1954–55) *

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(1955–56) *

Enrico Garbosi Enrico Garbosi (7 April 1916 – 6 January 1973) was an Italian basketball player and coach. He made major contributions to Italian women's basketball, serving as head coach of the Italy women's national basketball team, national team and winning f ...

(1956–62) *

(1954–55 & 1966–68) *

Nico Messina Christa Päffgen (; 16 October 1938 – 18 July 1988), known by her stage name Nico, was a German singer, songwriter, actress, and model. Nico had roles in several films, including Federico Fellini's ''La Dolce Vita'' (1960) and Andy Warhol's ' ...

(1968–69 & 1977–78) *

Aleksandar Nikolić Aleksandar "Aca" Nikolić ( sr-cyr, Александар "Аца" Николић; 28 October 1924 – 12 March 2000) was a Serbian professional basketball player and coach. He was also a professor at the University of Belgrade's Faculty of S ...

(1969–73) *

Sandro Gamba Alessandro "Sandro" Gamba (born 3 June 1932) is an Italian former professional basketball player and coach. Gamba was a finalist for induction into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2005, and was elected as a member in 2006. He ...

(1973–77) * Edoardo Rusconi (1978–80, 1993–97 & 2003–04) * Joe Isaac (1986–89 & 1992–93) *

(1997–99 & 2010–12) *

Valerio Bianchini Valerio Bianchini (born July 22, 1943) is an Italian professional basketball coach. He was the first coach in Italian basketball to win three championship titles with three clubs ( Cantù, Virtus Roma and Victoria Libertas Pesaro). His nickname ...

(1999 & 2007–08) *

Gianfranco Lombardi Gianfranco "Franco" Lombardi (20 March 1941 – 22 January 2021) was an Italian professional basketball player and coach. During his playing career, his nickname was "Dado". In 2006, he was inducted into the Italian Basketball Hall of Fame. Pr ...

(2000–01) * Grégor Beugnot (2001–03) *

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(2004–07) *

(2007–08) *

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(2008–10) *

Francesco Vitucci Francesco "Frank" Vitucci (born 5 April 1963) is an Italian basketball head coach, currently managing Universo Treviso in the Italian Lega Basket Serie A (LBA). Coaching career Vitucci began his career as a basketball coach with the Reyer Venez ...

(2012–13) *

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(2013–14) *

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(2014) *

(2014–15) *

Attilio Caja Attilio Caja (born 20 May 1961 in Pavia, Italy) is an Italian professional basketball coach who is head coach for Scafati Basket of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A (LBA). Coaching career He was head-coach of the Italy national basketball team, I ...

(2015 & 2016–20) *

Paolo Moretti Paolo Moretti (born 30 June 1970 in Arezzo) is a former professional basketball player, and current basketball coach from Italy, who won the silver medal with his national team at the Eurobasket 1997 in Spain. Standing at a height of , he played ...

(2015–16) *

Massimo Bulleri Massimo "Bullo" Bulleri (born 10 September 1977) is an Italian professional basketball coach and former player. During his playing career, standing at a height of tall, he played at the point guard and shooting guard positions. He is currently t ...

(2020–21) *

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(2021–22) *

Johan Roijakkers Johan Roijakkers (born 15 September 1980) is a Dutch basketball coach, who is the head coach of the Kortrijk Spurs. He coached eight years in the German Basketball Bundesliga with BG Göttingen and Brose Bamberg and in Italy in the Lega Basket S ...

(2022) * Alberto Seravalli (2022) *

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(2022–2023) *

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(2023–2024) *

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(2024–2025) * Ioannis Kastritis (2025–present)

Sponsorship names

Through the years, due to sponsorship deals, it has been also known as:Lega A page on the history of Pallacanestro Varese.
* Storm (1954–56) * Ignis (1956–75) * Mobilgirgi (1975–78) * Emerson (1978–80) * Turisanda (1980–81) *

(1981–83) * Star (1983–84) * Ciao Crem (1984–85) * Divarese (1985–89) * Ranger (1989–92) *

(1992–97) * No name sponsorship (1997–99) * Varese Roosters (1999–01) * Metis (2001–04) * Casti Group (2004–05) *

(2005–07) * Cimberio (2007–2014) * OpenjobMetis (2014–present)

Shirt sponsors and manufacturers

Colors and badge

Image:Varese-Stemma.png, City crest
(1997–99) Image:Varese Roosters Logo.jpg, Roosters crest
(1999–01) Image:Logo Varese.JPG, Casti Group crest
(2004–05) File:Logo Cimberio Varese.png, Cimberio Varese crest
(2010–14) File:Scudetto_Openjobmetis.jpg, Openjobmetis Varese crest
(2014–present)

References

External links

Official Website

Eurobasket.com Team PageVarese Fans Basket
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