AS Monaco Basket

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AS Monaco
AS Monaco Basket Logo.png
NicknameLa Roca Team
Les Rouges et Blancs
(The Red and Whites)
Roca Boys
Leagues LNB Élite
EuroLeague
Founded1928;96 years ago (1928)
Arena Salle Gaston Médecin
Capacity5,000
Location Fontvieille, Monaco
Team colorsRed, White and Gold
   
President Alexey Fedorychev
General managerOleksiy Yefimov
Head coach Vassilis Spanoulis
Championships1 EuroCup
2 French Championships
1 French Cup
3 French League Cup
Website asmonaco.basketball

AS Monaco Basket, commonly referred to as AS Monaco or simply Monaco, is a French-registered Monaco-based professional basketball club. They are a part of the Monaco-based multi-sports club of A.S. Monaco, which was founded in 1924.

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The club's basketball section was founded four years later in 1928, [1] and it currently competes in the French top-tier level LNB Pro A and the EuroLeague. Monaco plays their home games at Salle Gaston Médecin.

Monaco has won one EuroCup title in 2021, one French Cup in 2023, and three Leaders Cups.

History

About four years after the parent athletic club, A.S. Monaco, was itself founded, A.S. Monaco Basket was founded in 1928. They finished as runners-up in the French top-tier level Nationale 1 (current LNB Pro A) following the 1950 season, which is regarded as one of their greatest successes in their history. Monaco also won the LNB Pro B (French 2nd Division) championship in the 1973 season, with one of the greatest offenses on the European continent.

A.S. Monaco Basket joined the Nationale 1 for the 1973–74 season, where they finished in ninth place. They made their first appearance in the European 3rd-tier level FIBA Korać Cup in the 1974–75 season, where they lost in the group stage to other notable teams, such as the French League club ASVEL Basket, the Bulgarian League club Levski Sofia, and the Italian League club AMG Sebastiani Basket. They entered the same tournament again in the 1982–83 season, but lost to Dynamo Moscow in the semifinals qualification battle, in the Top 16 group stage, despite a far better finish in the tournament overall. [2] [3]

Entering the 1980s, Monaco was in the process of securing their title as one of the most dangerous teams in French basketball. They reached the finals game of the French Federation Cup, where they lost to Limoges CSP, by a score of 96–81. The Red and Whites also became a threat in the LNB Pro A (French 1st Division), what the league had been renamed to, after former NBA player, Robert Smith, joined the team in 1985. Smith was named the 1987 French League All-Star Game MVP. [4]

After Smith left the team, Monaco found themselves descending in the league. They were relegated to the second division LNB Pro B, later in the decade, and eventually ended up in the Nationale 1 Division. They would not return to the LNB Pro A, the highest division of basketball in France, for many years to come. In 2014, A.S. Monaco Basket was crowned the champions of the French third-tier league, the Nationale Masculine 1 (NM1), and they returned to the LNB Pro B (French 2nd Division). [5]

In the 2014–15 season, Monaco became the French 2nd-tier LNB Pro B champions, and they were finally promoted back to the top-tier league in France, the LNB Pro A. In 2015, the Ukrainian businessman and philanthropist, Sergey Dyadechko, became the President of A.S. Monaco Basket. In the 2015–16 season, Monaco won the 2016 edition of the French Pro A League Cup, after beating Élan Chalon in the finals, by a score of 99–74. [6] Monaco player, Jamal Shuler, was named the French Pro A Leaders Cup MVP.

In the 2016–17 season, Monaco returned to European-wide competitions, when it qualified for one of the pan-European secondary level competitions, the FIBA Basketball Champions League. [7] They finished the season in third place. In 2017, the charity fund, DSF, founded by the club's owner, Dyadechko, became a sponsor of A.S. Monaco Basket. The club also played in the FIBA Champions League, during the 2017–18 season, in which they finished in second place, after they lost to the Greek League club AEK Athens in the final, by a score of 100–94. The club won the 2017 French Pro A League Cup and the 2018 French Pro A League Cup titles. They also finished in second place in the French Pro A League, in the 2017–18 season.

In European-wide competitions, Monaco spent the next three seasons (2018–19, 2019–20, and 2020–21) playing in the other pan-European secondary level competition, the EuroCup, subsequently winning it in 2020–21. [8] In the 2021–22 season, Monaco made its debut in the EuroLeague, the highest pan-European level. Finishing seventh in the regular season with a 15–13 record, Monaco qualified for the playoffs where they lost 2–3 to the second-seeded Olympiacos.

The following season, Monaco was eligible for another EuroLeague season because of their good performance the previous season. They made the playoffs for a second season in a row. [9]

On April 22, 2023, Monaco won its first major trophy when it won its maiden French Basketball Cup with Monaco, after beating ASVEL in the final. [10] Élie Okobo was the cup final's MVP after his 20-point performance. [11] In the same 2022–23 season, Monaco reached new height on the continental level after reaching the 2023 EuroLeague Final Four after beating Maccabi Tel Aviv in the playoffs. [12] They became the third French League club ever to reach the Final Four (after ASVEL and Limoges) and the first to do so in 26 years. [13]

Arena

A.S. Monaco Basket plays its home games at the 3,000 seat [14] [15] [16] Salle Gaston Médecin, which is a part of the Stade Louis II sports complex.

Due to minimum requirements, Monaco was supposed to play its 2021–22 EuroLeague games in the Azur Arena in Antibes. The decision was later overturned, thus the team could play in its usual home arena. [17]

Logos

Players

Current roster

Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationalities not displayed.

AS Monaco roster
PlayersCoaches
Pos.No.Nat.NameHt.Wt.Age
G 0 Flag of France.svg Okobo, Élie 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)86 kg (190 lb)27 – (1997-10-23)23 October 1997
F 4 Flag of the United States.svg Blossomgame, Jaron 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in)100 kg (220 lb)31 – (1993-09-16)16 September 1993
SG 8 Flag of the United States.svg Loyd, Jordan 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)95 kg (209 lb)31 – (1993-07-27)27 July 1993
C 9 Flag of Greece.svg Papagiannis, Georgios 2.17 m (7 ft 1 in)121 kg (267 lb)27 – (1997-07-03)3 July 1997
G/F 10 Flag of Turkey.svg Korkmaz, Furkan 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in)92 kg (203 lb)27 – (1997-07-24)24 July 1997
SF 11 Flag of the United States.svg Flag of Guinea.svg Diallo, Alpha   Cruz Roja.svg 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in)95 kg (209 lb)27 – (1997-06-29)29 June 1997
PF 12 Flag of France.svg Cornelie, Petr 2.11 m (6 ft 11 in)108 kg (238 lb)29 – (1995-07-26)26 July 1995
C 14 Flag of France.svg Jaiteh, Mouhammadou 2.11 m (6 ft 11 in)112 kg (247 lb)30 – (1994-11-27)27 November 1994
F/C 20 Flag of Lithuania.svg Motiejūnas, Donatas 2.13 m (7 ft 0 in)118 kg (260 lb)34 – (1990-09-20)20 September 1990
SF 22 Flag of France.svg Flag of the United States.svg Tarpey, Terry 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)95 kg (209 lb)30 – (1994-03-02)2 March 1994
SG 23 Flag of France.svg Begarin, Juhann 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)84 kg (185 lb)22 – (2002-08-07)7 August 2002
F 30 Flag of the United States.svg Brown, Vitto 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in)107 kg (236 lb)29 – (1995-07-13)13 July 1995
SG 32 Flag of France.svg Strazel, Matthew 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)81 kg (179 lb)22 – (2002-08-05)5 August 2002
PG 33 Flag of Greece.svg Calathes, Nick   Cruz Roja.svg 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)97 kg (214 lb)35 – (1989-02-07)7 February 1989
PG 55 Flag of the United States.svg James, Mike  (C)1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)89 kg (196 lb)34 – (1990-08-18)18 August 1990
Head coach
Assistant coach(es)
Team manager
  • Flag of Ukraine.svg Oleksiy Yefimov
Legend
  • (C) Team captain
  • Cruz Roja.svg Injured
Updated: 9 December 2024

Depth chart

Pos.Starting 5Bench 1Bench 2Bench 3
C Donatas Motiejūnas Georgios Papagiannis Mam Jaiteh
PF Jaron Blossomgame Vitto Brown Petr Cornelie
SF Furkan Korkmaz Terry Tarpey Alpha Diallo Cruz Roja.svg
SG Jordan Loyd Matthew Strazel Juhann Begarin
PG Mike James Élie Okobo Nick Calathes Cruz Roja.svg

Trophies and honors

Domestic competitions

Winners (2): 2022–23, 2023–24
Runners-up (4): 1949–50, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2021–22
Winners (1): 2022–23
Runners-up (1): 1982–83
Winners (3): 2016, 2017, 2018
Champions (2): 1972–73, 2014–15
Champions (1): 2013–14

European competitions

Third place (1): 2022–23
Champions (1): 2020–21
Runners-up (1): 2017–18
Third place (1): 2016–17

Other competitions

Winners (1): 2019

Season by season

Season Tier DivisionPos. French Federation Cup Pro A Leaders Cup European competitions
2008–094NM29th
2009–104NM27th
2010–114NM21st
2011–124NM21stRound of 44
2012–133 NM1 1stRound of 40
2013–143 NM1 1st Round of 44
2014–152 Pro B 1st Round of 16
2015–16 1 Pro A 3rd Quarterfinals Winner
2016–17 1 Pro A 5th Quarterfinals Winner 3 Champions League 3rd17–4
2017–18 1 Pro A 2nd Quarterfinals Winner 3 Champions League RU17–4
2018–19 1 Pro A 2nd Quarterfinals 2 EuroCup T169–7
2019–20 1 Pro A 1st Quarterfinals Semifinals 2 EuroCup QF10–6
2020–21 1 Pro A 4th Quarterfinals 2 EuroCup C17–6

Notable players

Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationalities not displayed.

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.

France:

Europe:

United States:

Rest of Americas & Oceania & Middle East:

Africa:

Head coaches

Head CoachYears
Flag of the United States.svg Bill Sweek
1985–1990
Flag of France.svg Jean-Pierre Baldwin
1999–2000
Flag of France.svg Philippe Beorchia
2000–2003
Flag of France.svg Claude Palanca
2003–2004
Flag of France.svg Stéphane Dao
2004–2007
Flag of France.svg Georgy Adams
2007–2010
Flag of France.svg Jean-Michel Sénégal
2010–2013
Flag of Montenegro.svg Savo Vučević
2013–2015
Flag of France.svg Philippe Beorchia
2015
Flag of Montenegro.svg Zvezdan Mitrović
2015–2018
Flag of Slovenia.svg Sašo Filipovski
2018–2019
Flag of Serbia.svg Saša Obradović
2019–2020
Flag of Montenegro.svg Zvezdan Mitrović
2020–2021
Flag of Serbia.svg Saša Obradović
2021–2024

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  15. ↑ Euroligue (H) – Monaco : La salle Gaston-Médecin pose problème (in French).
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