Spirou Basket, commonly known simply as Spirou, is a Belgian professional basketball club that is located in

Charleroi Charleroi (, , ; ) is a city and a municipality of Wallonia, located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. It is the largest city in both Hainaut and Wallonia. The city is situated in the valley of the Sambre, in the south-west of Belgium, not ...

. The club competes in the

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, the highest tier of basketball in Belgium. The club's home arena is the Spiroudome which can host 6,300 people. Established in 1989, the team is named after the long-running Belgian comics magazine '' Spirou'', the publisher of which,

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, is based in Marcinelle, Charleroi.

History

Spirou Charleroi has won the Belgian League championship ten times (1996–99, 2003, 2004, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011), the

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5 times (1996, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2009), and the Belgian Supercup 7 times (1996, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2008, 2010). In the 2010–11 season, Spirou made its debut in the

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, the highest continental league of Europe. The following season, Spirou played in the regular season for the second time in a row. On July 29, 2014, Jacques Stas became the new head coach of the club while his predecessor Giovanni Bozzi replaced him as team president. Since the 2021–22 season, Spirou plays in the

, in which the national leagues of Belgium and the Netherlands have been merged.

Sponsorship names

Partly due to sponsorship reasons, the club has known several names: *Spirou Monceau (1989–1990) *Spirou Charleroi (1990–2011) * Belgacom Spirou (2011–2014) *

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Spirou (2014–2018)

Current roster

Honours

* Belgian League **Champions (10): 1995–96, 1996–97, 1997–98, 1998–99, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11 ***Runners-up (2): 2004–05, 2011–12 *

**Winners (5): 1995–96, 1998–99, 2001–02, 2002–03, 2008–09 * Belgian Supercup **Winners (7): 1996, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2008, 2010 *Charleroi, Belgium Invitational Game **Winners (1): 2008

Season by season

Notable players

References

External links

*
Eurocup – Team profileEurobasket.com – Team page
{{BNXT League Basketball teams in Belgium Sport in Charleroi Basketball teams established in 1989 Dupuis Pro Basketball League teams