Fribourg Olympic Basket

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Fribourg Olympic
Fribourg Olympic Basket logo.png
Leagues Swiss Basketball League
Founded27 April 1961;62 years ago (1961-04-27)
ArenaSalle Saint-Léonard
Capacity2,850
Location Fribourg, Switzerland
PresidentPhilippe de Gottrau
Head coach Petar Aleksić
2019–20 positionSBL, 1st of 12
Championships Swiss League (18)
Swiss Cup (9)
Swiss League Cup (6)
Website fribourg-olympic.ch

Fribourg Olympic Basket, commonly known as Fribourg Olympic, is a Swiss professional basketball club that is based in Fribourg. Due to name sponsorship reasons, the former name of the club was Benetton Fribourg. The club is a seventeen-time Swiss Basketball League champion.

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History

Fribourg Olympic competed in seven seasons of the original version of the EuroLeague, the top-level European competition, when it was run by FIBA, due to being the Swiss League champions. In all those seasons, the club only qualified two times for the competition's second round, by winning their previous series. In 2007, Fribourg Olympic competed in the European-wide secondary competition, the 2007–08 ULEB Cup regular season, but they ended up in the last position of their group.

In the 2015–16 season, Fribourg won its first Swiss Basketball League (SBL) title in eight years. In the 2017–18 season, Fribourg won its seventeenth Swiss national title. Following that domestic title, the club made its debut in the qualifying rounds of the European secondary level FIBA Basketball Champions League (BCL). On 4 October 2018, they eventually qualified to the competition's regular season phase, [1] after winning three successive qualifying rounds against Avtodor Saratov, Donar, and Sakarya.

Arena

Fribourg Olympic plays its home games at the Salle Saint-Léonard arena, which has a seating capacity of 2,850 people.

Honours and titles

Swiss Basketball League
Swiss Cup
Swiss League Cup

Roster

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

Fribourg Olympic roster
PlayersCoaches
Pos.No.Nat.Name
G 1 Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Boris Mbala
G 2 Flag of the United States.svg Davonta Jordan
PG 3 Flag of the United States.svg Justin Roberts
C 4 Flag of Serbia.svg Milos Jankovic
PF 6 Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Paul Gravet
PG 6 Flag of Mauritius.svg David Crudo
SG 7 Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Jonathan Kazadi
F 20 Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Arnaud Cotture
PG 21 Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Yuri Solca
F 28 Flag of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.svg Rodin Sangwa
F 99 Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Natan Jurkovitz
Head coach

Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina.svg Petar Aleksic

Assistant coach(es)

Flag of Serbia.svg Ivica Radosavljevic

Legend
  • (C) Team captain
  • Cruz Roja.svg Injured
Updated: 15 October 2022

Notable players

Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationality 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.

Head coaches

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References

  1. ↑ "Qualification Round 3, Gameday 2 - Round up".
  2. ↑ "Jeremy Jaunin: "Si on peut sortir les Lions, on ne va pas se gêner…"". Tribune de Genève (in French). 15 June 2020. Retrieved 30 April 2021.
  3. ↑ "Historique et palmarès". Fribourg Olympic Basket (in French). Retrieved 2022-02-22.
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