S.S.P. Reyer Venezia Mestre, commonly known as Reyer Venezia or simply Reyer, is an Italian professional

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club that is based in

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. The club currently plays in the

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(LBA), the highest tier of basketball in

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, as well as the EuroCup. Reyer operates both men's and women's professional teams, both playing in their respective first divisions as of the 2017–18 season. The men's team has been crowned the Italian champions four times, as they won the

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in 1942, 1943, 2017 and 2019.

History

The team was founded in 1872 as gymnastics club Società Sportiva Costantino Reyer, by the gymnastics teacher Peter Gallo in

. The basketball section was founded in 1925. In the 1941–42 and 1942–43 season, Reyer won back-to-back Italian league titles. In 1944, the team also won the Italian championship, but the victory was not approved by the Italian Federation. The club, under the name Carrera Venezia, participated in the

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and managed to reach the final where the club was defeated 104–105 by

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that took place in

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at March 19. In 2006–07, Reyer was the amateur champion of Italy, and promoted to the LegaDue. In the 2010–11 season, the team finally promoted back to the

. In the 2016–17 season, Reyer reached the LBA Finals for the first time since 1944. Reyer claimed its third national championship on June 20, 2017, after beating

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4–2 in the series. Reyer also played in the Basketball Champions League that season and advanced to the Final Four, where the team finished in fourth place. In the 2017–18 season, coming off of its national championship, Venezia participated in its second straight Champions League season. In Group C, Reyer finished in the sixth-place after holding an 8–6 record. The team was transferred to the FIBA Europe Cup for the play-offs, where it beat

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and Donar in order to reach the

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. In the Finals, Reyer faced fellow Italian side

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. Reyer won the finals 158–148 on aggregate, and on 2 May 2018 the club won the FIBA Europe Cup, its first ever European trophy. On June 22, 2019, Umana Reyer Venezia won their 4th Italian league title by beating

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in game 7 of the LBA finals. On February 16, 2020, Venezia went to win its first Italian Cup ever by beating

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73–67 in the

in the

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Honours

Total titles: 4

Domestic competitions

* Italian League : Winners (4): 1941–42, 1942–43, 2016–17, 2018–19 : Runners-up (1): 1945–46 * Italian Cup : Winners (1): 2019–20 * Italian Supercup : Runners-up (2):

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European competitions

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(defunct) : Runners-up (1): 1980–81 * FIBA Europe Cup : Winners (1): 2017–18

Players

Current roster

Depth chart

Notable players

Season by season

Source
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Head coaches

* 1940–1946: Vidal Carmelo * 1948–1951: Amerigo Penzo * 1951–1953: Enrico Garbosi * 1953–1955: Egidio Marsico * 1955–1956: Enrico Garbosi * 1956–1957: Giulio Geroli * 1958–1959: Egidio Marsico * 1959–1960: Giulio Geroli * 1964–1971: Giulio Geroli * 1971–1979: Tonino Zorzi * 1979–1980: Giuseppe Guerrieri * 1980–1981: Tonino Zorzi * 1981–1982: Waldi Medeot * 1982–1983:

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* 1983–1985: Waldi Medeot * 1985–1987: Tonino Zorzi * 1987–1988: Petar Skansi * 1988–1990: Marco Calamai * 1990–1991: Andy Russo * 1991–1993: Mario De Sisti * 1993–1996:

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* 1997–2006: Costantini Sales e Rubini * 2008: Eugenio Dalmasson * 2008: Stefano Bizzozi * 2009: Sandro Dell'Agnello * 2009–2013:

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* 2013–2014:

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* 2014–2016:

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Sponsorship names

Throughout the years, due to sponsorship, the club has been known as : *Noalex Venezia: (1966–1970) *Splügen Venezia (1970–1973) *Canon Venezia: (1973–1980) *Carrera Venezia: (1980–1984) *Giomo Venezia: (1984–1987) *Hitachi Venezia: (1987–1990) *Scaini Venezia: (1991–1993) *Acqua Lora Venezia: (1993–1994) *San Benedetto: (1994–1995) *Reyer Venezia: (1995-1996) *Panto Venezia: (1998–2001) *Acqua Pia Antica Marcia: (2005–2006) *Umana Reyer Venezia: (2006–present)

References

External links

Official site

Serie A profile
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