BC Borisfen
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Nickname | Knights | ||
Leagues | Belarusian Premier League FIBA Europe Cup (suspended) European North Basketball League (suspended) | ||
Founded | 3 September 2010 | ||
History | BC Borisfen 2010–present | ||
Arena | Olympic Stadium | ||
Location | Mogilev, Belarus | ||
President | Andrey Nikolaevich Kotov | ||
Head coach | Andrey Krivonos | ||
Website | bcborisfen | ||
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BC Borisfen, also known as Borisfen Mogilev (in Belarusian: Барысфэн Магілёў; in Russian: Борисфен Могилёв), is a Belarusian basketball club based in Mogilev. It plays in the Belarusian Premier League[1] and played in the European North Basketball League until it was suspended.
History
[edit]The club was established on 3 September 2010.[2] The club was founded after BC Temp-OSHVSM disappeared from the highest Belarusian basketball league.[citation needed] In 2011, Borisfen played in the Belarusian Second League for one season.[citation needed]
In the 2016–17 season, Borisfen made its debut in the Baltic Basketball League. Domestically, in 2018 and 2019, Borisfen finished as runners-up behind BC Tsmoki-Minsk.[3] In the 2019–20 season, Borisfen made its debut in a European competition, playing in the qualifying rounds of the FIBA Europe Cup.[4] The team lost to BC Dnipro.[citation needed]
Borisfen qualified for the regular season of the 2020–21 FIBA Europe Cup.,[5] but due to the discovery of COVID-19 in one of the members of the delegation, the team was unable to participate in the games and was sent to quarantine.[citation needed]
In 2021, in the fourth match in the final series, BC Borisfen lost to BC Tsmoki-Minsk by a score 52:85. Thus, BC Borisfen - four-time vice-champion of the Belarusian Basketball Championship. Also, on July 16, it became known that several players left the team, namely: Dupree McBrayer, Darol Hernandez-Zinenko, Tywain МcКee, Brooks DeBisschop and Anton Zaretsky.
In the 2021/2022 season, the club planned to compete in the newly formed European Northern League, where the opponents would also be: Anwil Wloclawek, Basket Brno, BK Liepaja, Enisey Krasnoyarsk, BK Siauliai, Tartu Ulikool Maks and Moorits and BC Valmiera GLASS VIA[citation needed]. The European North Basketball League has excluded BC Borisfen and BC Enisey from the competition from March 1, 2022 due to the war against Ukraine.
European record
[edit]Season | Competition | Round | Club | Home | Away | |
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2019–20 | FIBA Europe Cup | Qualifying round | ![]() |
76–101 | 81–71 | ![]() |
2020–21 | FIBA Europe Cup | Regular season | ![]() |
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- ^1 Borisfen withdrew from the 2020–21 FIBA Europe Cup after players on the team were diagnosed with COVID-19.
Players
[edit]Current roster
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Updated: January 4, 2024 |
References
[edit]- ^ "COR-Borisfen Mogilev". www.eurobasket.com. Archived from the original on 18 July 2019. Retrieved 18 July 2019.
- ^ "ИСТОРИЯ". BC Borisfen. Retrieved 27 August 2020.
- ^ "History". www.eurobasket.com. Archived from the original on 17 May 2020. Retrieved 18 July 2019.
- ^ "22 clubs register for 2019-20 FIBA Europe Cup". FIBA Europe. 23 July 2019.
- ^ "Teams registered for FIBA Europe Cup season 2020-21 confirmed". FIBA Europe. 12 August 2020.
External links
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