BC Sūduva ( lt, Krepšinio Klubas Sūduva; en, Basketball Club Sūduva) known as Sūduva-Mantinga for sponsorship reasons, is a professional basketball club based in

Marijampolė Marijampolė (; also known by Marijampolė#Names, several other names) is a cultural and industrial city and the Capital city, capital of the Marijampolė County in the south of Lithuania, bordering Poland and Russian Kaliningrad Oblast, and Lake ...

, Lithuania. Sūduva formerly participated in the LKL. On 16 September 2010 Sūduva basketball club was removed from the LKL because of financial problems. The club currently competes in the second-tier

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. The club was named after

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, an ethnographic

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, of which Marijampolė is considered capital.

History

Marijampolė basketball club "Mantinga" was founded in 2007. The club aims to develop and promote basketball in Marijampolė, promote the formation of wellness and physical development, unite members for physical activity, healthy lifestyles, physical culture, enable Marijampolė residents to systematically engage in basketball, promote social employment, mutual communication, and cooperation, promote a healthy and active lifestyle, represent members and defend their interests, provide a wide range of information and assistance. The team was called "Mantinga − ŽSM" for the first two seasons and successfully competed in

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, showing better results every year. In the 2010-2011 season, the team successfully won the Small Cup of the Regional Basketball League. In 2011, the team changed the name and became "Sūduva" and started playing in NKL. The debut was successful, Sūduva was one victory from reaching NKL Final Four. Marijampolė municipality contributed to the team's sponsors.

Players

Current roster

Season by season

: Cancelled due to the

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Head coaches

* Povilas Šakinis: 2019–2021 * Marius Kiltinavičius: 2021–present

References

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