Kazma Sporting Club (), also known as simply Kazma, is a Kuwaiti professional basketball team based in
Kuwait City
Kuwait City (; ) is the capital and largest city of Kuwait. Located at the heart of the country on the south shore of Kuwait Bay on the Persian Gulf, it is the political, cultural and economic center of the emirate, containing Kuwait's Seif Pal ...
. It plays in the
Kuwaiti Division 1, the national top-flight league. The home arena of Kazma is the Shaikh Saad Alabdullah Sport Hall Complex.
Founded in 1964, the club has been the runner-up in the
Arab Club Basketball Championship
The Arab Club Championship is an annual basketball tournament for Arab teams. The competition is organised by the Arab Basketball Confederation (ABC). Each season is typically held in October and is held in one venue. The tournament typically featu ...
in 1990 and finished in the third place of the
FIBA Asia Champions Cup
The Basketball Champions League Asia (BCL Asia), formerly the FIBA Asia Champions Cup, is an annual continental club men's basketball competition organised by FIBA Asia. It is the highest level club competition for basketball in Asia.
Introduce ...
twice (
1990
Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South ...
and
1991
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). Kazma was also one of the eighteen teams for the inaugural
West Asia Super League
The FIBA West Asia Super League (WASL) is a regional basketball league organised by FIBA Asia, consisting of clubs from West Asia, India and Kazakhstan. The league was announced in 2022 and started with the inaugural season from December, until J ...
in
2022–23
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.
Honour
Kuwaiti Division I Basketball League
The Kuwaiti Division I Basketball League is the highest professional basketball league in Kuwait. The most decorated team in the league is Kuwait SC, who have won fourteen national titles.
Teams
* Al Kuwait SC
*Al Arabi
* Al Jahraa
*Al Nasar
...
(10)
* Champion: 1968, 1980, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1994, 2000, 2001, 2012
Kuwaiti Basketball Association Cup (3)
* Winner: 1969, 1988, 2016
** Second: 2011, 2013, 2024
** Bronze: 2010, 2012
Kuwaiti Basketball Super Cup (0)
* Second: 2022
Arab Club Basketball Championship
The Arab Club Championship is an annual basketball tournament for Arab teams. The competition is organised by the Arab Basketball Confederation (ABC). Each season is typically held in October and is held in one venue. The tournament typically featu ...
* (1): 1990
ABC Championship / Asian Basketball Championship
* (2):
1990
Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South ...
,
1991
It was the final year of the Cold War, which had begun in 1947. During the year, the Soviet Union Dissolution of the Soviet Union, collapsed, leaving Post-soviet states, fifteen sovereign republics and the Commonwealth of Independent State ...
Players
Current roster
References
Sport in Kuwait City
Basketball teams established in 1964
Basketball teams in Kuwait
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