Sopron Basket is a Hungarian

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club from

Sopron Sopron (; german: Ödenburg, ; sl, Šopron) is a city in Hungary on the Austrian border, near Lake Neusiedl/Lake Fertő. History Ancient times-13th century When the area that is today Western Hungary was a province of the Roman Empire, a ...

. Founded in 1921 as the women's section of

Soproni VSE Soproni VSE is a Hungary, Hungarian football club in Sopron. The club's colours are purple and white. They won the Nemzeti Bajnokság II two times in 1945 and 1946, but they have never played in the first league. In 2011, the club won the champio ...

, it has played in the Hungarian National Championship since 1986. It plays its home games in the

Aréna Sopron Aréna Sopron (official sponsored name ''Novomatic Musical Aréna Sopron'', previously ''MKB Aréna'') is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Sopron, Hungary. Its best known tenant is the women's basketball club UNIQA Sopron, one of the top teams of ...

. Sopron won its first national championship in 1993, making its debut in the Euroleague the following season. Settled in the top positions, the team played in subsequent years the

Ronchetti Cup The Ronchetti Cup (called till 1996 ''European Cup Liliana Ronchetti'') was an annual women’s basketball European club competition held by FIBA between the years 1972 and 2002. It was the second competition in European basketball, after the E ...

, which it won in 1998 beating ASPTT Aix-en-Provence. As of 2011 Sopron remains the only Hungarian women's basketball team that has won an international competition since the fall of

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. The following year Sopron won its second championship, which marked its return to the Euroleague, which it has played every year since. The team has won four more championships since 2002, three of them between 2007 and 2011. In

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it reached the Euroleague's Final Four after beating

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and

Bourges Basket Tango Bourges Basket (formerly ''Cercle Jean-Macé Bourges Basket'') is a French women's basketball club from Bourges. Bourges was the first French team to win a FIBA women's competition, the 1995 Ronchetti Cup. So began the club's most success ...

in the knockout stages, ending 4th after losing to

CB Avenida Perfumerías Avenida Baloncesto formerly C.B. Halcón Viajes, is a women's professional basketball team based in Salamanca, Spain. The team currently plays in the Liga Femenina de Baloncesto. In 2011 Perfumerías Avenida won the Euroleague, and ...

and

UMMC Ekaterinburg BC Ekaterinburg (russian: БК «УГМК») is a Russian women's basketball team based in Yekaterinburg competing in the Russian Premier League, and until February 2022 in FIBA Europe's EuroLeague Women. In reaction to the 2022 Russian in ...

. Sopron won its first-ever EuroLeague championship in

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Honours

Titles

* 1 EuroLeague Women ( 2021–22) * 1

(1998) * 15 Hungarian Leagues (1993, 1999, 2002, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022) * 10 Hungarian Cups (2007, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021)

Record in European competitions

* EuroLeague **

1994 File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which sank in the Baltic Sea; Nelson Ma ...

: 1st Preliminary Round **

2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ...

: Quarter-Finals **

2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a multi-national coalition in an invasion of Afghanistan ...

: Quarter-Finals **

2002 File:2002 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her daughter Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon die; East Timor gains independence from Indonesia and ...

: Quarter-Finals **

2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, disintegrated during reentry into Atmosphere of Earth, Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an 2002– ...

: Quarter-Finals **

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

: Round of 16 **

2005 File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris (dwarf planet), Er ...

: Round of 16 ** 2006: Quarter-Finals **

2007 File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple's first iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto ...

: Quarter-Finals **

2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing ...

: Round of 16 **

: 4th **

2010 File:2010 Events Collage New.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2010 Chile earthquake was one of the strongest recorded in history; The Eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland disrupts air travel in Europe; A scene from the opening ceremony of ...

: Group Stage (4/6) ** 2011: Round of 16 **

2012 File:2012 Events Collage V3.png, From left, clockwise: The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia lies capsized after the Costa Concordia disaster; Damage to Casino Pier in Seaside Heights, New Jersey as a result of Hurricane Sandy; People gather ...

: Group Stage (4/8) **

2013 File:2013 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: Edward Snowden becomes internationally famous for leaking classified NSA wiretapping information; Typhoon Haiyan kills over 6,000 in the Philippines and Southeast Asia; The Dhaka garment ...

: Group Stage (3/9) **

2014 File:2014 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Stocking up supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Western African Ebola virus epidemic; Citizens examining the ruins after the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping; Bundles of wat ...

: Round of 16 ** 2016: Group Stage (1/13) **

2017 File:2017 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The War Against ISIS at the Battle of Mosul (2016-2017); aftermath of the Manchester Arena bombing; The Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017 ("Great American Eclipse"); North Korea tests a ser ...

: Group Stage (4/10) **

2018 File:2018 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in PyeongChang, South Korea; Protests erupt following the Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi; March for Our Lives protests take place across the United ...

: Runners-up **

2019 File:2019 collage v1.png, From top left, clockwise: Hong Kong protests turn to widespread riots and civil disobedience; House of Representatives votes to adopt articles of impeachment against Donald Trump; CRISPR gene editing first used to experim ...

: 4th **

2020 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global social and economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of events, worldwide lockdowns and the largest economic recession since the Great Depression in ...

: Group Stage (6/8) **

2021 File:2021 collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: the James Webb Space Telescope was launched in 2021; Protesters in Yangon, Myanmar following the coup d'état; A civil demonstration against the October 2021 coup in Sudan; Crowd shortly after t ...

: 4th **

: Champion *

** 1995: Group Stage (4/4) ** 1996: 3rd Preliminary Round ** 1997: Quarter-Finals ** 1998: Champion ** 1999: Quarter-Finals

Current squad

Team roster

:''Roster for the 2017–18 season'' * Guards ** .78 Virág Weninger **

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Zsófia Fegyverneky Zsófia Fegyverneky (born September 29, 1984) is a Hungarian basketball player for Sopron Basket and the Hungarian national team The Hungary national football team ( hu, magyar labdarúgó-válogatott) represents Hungary in men's internatio ...

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Ángela Salvadores Ángela Salvadores Álvarez (born 10 March 1997) is a Spanish basketball player for Galician team Durán Maquinaria Ensino. She played for Duke Blue Devils during the 2015–16 season. Club career Early years Salvadores started playing basketb ...

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Aleksandra Crvendakić Aleksandra Crvendakić ( sr-cyr, Александра Црвендакић, born 17 March 1996) is a Serbian professional women's basketball player who plays for LDLC ASVEL Féminin of the French Ligue 1 and EuroLeague Women. She also represent ...

** .83 Dalma Czukor ** .91

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** .68 Dominika Böröndy **

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Jelena Milovanović Jelena Brooks (; sr-cyr, Јелена Брукс, ; born April 28, 1989) is a Serbian professional women's basketball player for UNIQA Sopron. Standing at , she plays at the power forward position. She also represents the Serbian national baske ...

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Patrícia Bakó *

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Technical staff

* Head Coach: Roberto Íñiguez * Assistant Coach: Carlos Cantero * Fitness Coach: Alberto Pacheco * Physiotherapist: Angel Lopez * Team Doctor: György Sztancs, MD

References

External links

*
Profile
at eurobasket.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Sopron (Women's Basketball Team) Women's basketball teams in Hungary EuroLeague Women clubs Sport in Sopron Basketball teams established in 1921