Sabah Basketball Club, also known simply as Sabah BC or Sabah, is an Azerbaijani professional basketball team based in

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. Founded in 2022, as a team affiliated to the Sabah FC

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team, they joined the

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(ABL) in the 2022–23 season. They won the national championship in their debut season. As champions, they entered the

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qualifying rounds, as the first Azerbaijani team to play in a European competition in 18 years (after Gala Baku in

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). Following three wins in the qualifying tournament in

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, Sabah qualified for the regular season.

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was appointed as Sabah's new head coach in August 2023. On 26 January 2024 he was replaced by

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Honours

* Winners (2): 2022–23, 2023–24

Players

Current roster

References

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