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Basketball Club Brno (Czech: Basketbalový Klub Brno), for sponsorship reasons Brno Next Generation, is a Czech professional basketball club based in the city of Brno. The team plays in the Czech National Basketball League – the highest competition in the Czech Republic.

Home games of Brno are played in the Sportovní hala Sokola Brno, which has a capacity of 1,100 people.

The club owned by True Player Group with the idea to "unite the city top two youth clubs to one elite club and push the players to professional level, providing the best coaches, mentoring, nutrition programs, strength programing, rehab, etc."^[1]

History

The team was a European powerhouse from 1945 through the 1960s and mid-1970s. Brno was the most successful basketball club in Czechoslovakia, winning 21 championship titles through the 1970s, and another three titles from 1994 to 1996. Brno lost two FIBA European Champion Cup finals in 1964 and 1968, both times to Spanish champions Real Madrid. The 1974 loss in the FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup final to Crvena zvezda marked the end of a golden era for the club in European competitions.

On January 25 and 26, 1969 Spartak ZJŠ Brno participated in the FIBA Intercontinental Cup at Macon, Georgia, the second time a basketball club from Czechoslovakia participated in the competition after Slavia VŠ Praha had done so in 1967. In the 1969 semifinal, Spartak beat European champions, Real Madrid but lost the final 71–84 to the Akron Goodyear Wingfoots, a basketball team of workers at the Goodyear Tire Company in Akron, Ohio.

Since 2022 Brno team participates also in the newly founded international league European North Basketball League. In the debut season Brno won 4 games out of 5 in the regular season, finishing second in the standings. Later in the Final Four Brno lost to Šiauliai team from Lithuania and won the bronze medal.

Current roster

BC Brno roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. No. Nat. Name PF 1 Riley, Cody 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) 26 – (1997-12-12)12 December 1997 PF 2 Stráněl, Milan Tomáš 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) 18 – (2005-10-17)17 October 2005 SF 3 Chatman, Kameron 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) 27 – (1996-06-01)1 June 1996 SF 4 Rychtecký, Matěj 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) 20 – (2004-03-08)8 March 2004 G 6 Půlpán, Marek 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) 19 – (2004-11-28)28 November 2004 SF 9 Nečas, Jakub 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) 20 – (2004-01-30)30 January 2004 PF 10 Svoboda, Šimon 2.05 m (6 ft 9 in) 20 – (2004-04-15)15 April 2004 G 11 Bálint, Richard 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in) 21 – (2002-11-08)8 November 2002 PG 12 Křivánek, Petr 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) 20 – (2003-05-18)18 May 2003 G 14 Houzar, Tomáš 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in) 21 – (2002-09-30)30 September 2002 SG 18 Půlpán, Viktor 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) 27 – (1996-08-17)17 August 1996 C 20 Puršl, Šimon 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) 27 – (1997-01-29)29 January 1997 PF 30 Djuricic, Danilo 2.04 m (6 ft 8 in) 25 – (1999-02-20)20 February 1999 C 32 Krakovič, Jakub (C) 2.05 m (6 ft 9 in) 33 – (1990-10-12)12 October 1990 PG 33 Culpepper, Randy 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) 34 – (1989-05-16)16 May 1989 PF 73 Kubin, Jaroslav 2.05 m (6 ft 9 in) 23 – (2000-08-01)1 August 2000 G 88 Dáňa, Matěj   1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) 20 – (2003-10-24)24 October 2003 PF -- Koulisianis, Joanis 2.05 m (6 ft 9 in) 18 – (2005-05-01)1 May 2005	Head coach Lubomír Růžička Assistant coach(es) Martin Vaněk Legend (C) Team captain Injured Roster Updated: January 31, 2023

Depth chart

Pos.	Starting 5	Bench
C	Šimon Puršl
PF	Kameron Chatman
SF	Richard Bálint
SG	Marek Půlpán
PG	Randy Culpepper

Sponsorship names

Partly due to sponsorship reasons, the club has known several names:

Honours

Total titles: 24

Domestic

Czechoslovak League

• Winners (21): 1945–46, 1947, 1947–48, 1948*, 1948–49, 1949–50, 1950–51, 1951*, 1957–58, 1961–62, 1962–63, 1963–64, 1966–67, 1967–68, 1975–76, 1976–77, 1977–78, 1985–86, 1986–87, 1987–88, 1989–90

Czech League

• Winners (3): 1993–94, 1994–95, 1995–96

European

EuroLeague

• Runners-up (2): 1963–64, 1967–68

FIBA Saporta Cup

• Runners-up (1): 1973–74

Worldwide

FIBA Intercontinental Cup

• Runners-up (1): 1969

International record

Season	Achievement	Notes
EuroLeague
1962–63	Semi-finals	eliminated by Real Madrid, 79–60 (W) in Brno and 67–90 (L) in Madrid
1963–64	Final	lost to Real Madrid, 110–99 (W) in Brno and 64–84 (L) in Madrid in the double finals of European Champions Cup
1964–65	Quarter-finals	eliminated by Ignis Varese, 84–90 (L) in Varese and 72–67 (W) in Brno
1967–68	Final	lost to Real Madrid, 95–98 in the final (Lyon)
1968–69	Semi-finals	eliminated by CSKA Moscow, 66–101 (L) in Moscow and 92–83 (W) in Brno
1976–77	Semi-final group stage	6th place in group with Mobilgirgi Varese, Maccabi Tel Aviv, CSKA Moscow, Real Madrid & Maes Pils
FIBA Saporta Cup
1966–67	Semi-finals	eliminated by Ignis Varese, 83–84 (L) in Brno and 53–58 (L) in Varese
1972–73	Quarter-finals	3rd place in a group with Spartak Leningrad and Mobilquattro Milano
1973–74	Final	lost to Crvena zvezda, 75–86 in the final (Udine)
FIBA Intercontinental Cup
1969	Final	lost to Akron Goodyear Wingfoots, 71–84 in the final (Macon)

The road to the great European journeys

Notable players

Criteria
To appear in this section a player must have either: Set a club record or won an individual award while at the club Played at least one official international match for their national team at any time Played at least one official NBA match at any time.

• Jan Bobrovský (1963–1972 & 1973–1978)
• Zdeněk Bobrovský (1950–1951 & 1954–1968)
• Kamil Brabenec (1972–1982 & 1983–1988)
• Vlastimil Havlík (1975–1983 & 1984–1988)
• Zdeněk Konečný (1955–1967)
• František Konvička (1957–1969 & 1971–1973)
• Leoš Krejčí (1983–1988, 1989–1990 & 1994–1998)^{[citation needed]}
• Robert Mifka (1966–1968)^{[citation needed]}
• Petr Novický (1966–1974)
• Jiří Okáč (1980–1984, 1986–1990 & 2003–2004)^{[citation needed]}
• Vojtěch Petr (1972–1980)
• Vladimír Pištělák (1958–1969 & 1971–1973)
• Jiří "Áda" Pospíšil (1968–1974)
• Jaroslav Tetiva (1951–1953)

References

External links

• Eurobasket.com BC Brno Page