Fribourg Olympic Basket

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Fribourg Olympic
Fribourg Olympic Basket logo.png
Leagues Swiss Basketball League
Founded27 April 1961;63 years ago (1961-04-27)
ArenaSalle Saint-Léonard
Capacity2,850
Location Fribourg, Switzerland
PresidentPhilippe de Gottrau
Head coachThibaut Petit
2023–24 positionSBL, 1st of 12
Championships Swiss League (22)
Swiss Cup (12)
Swiss League Cup (8)
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 nationalities not displayed.

Fribourg Olympic roster
PlayersCoaches
Pos.No.Nat.Name
PG 2 Flag of the United States.svg Nottage, Eric 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)30 – (1994-12-10)10 December 1994
PG 3 Flag of the United States.svg Williams, Anthony 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)23 – (2001-08-30)30 August 2001
PF 5 Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Smith, Matteo 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in)20 – (2004-12-31)31 December 2004
SG 6 Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Kazadi, Jonathan 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)33 – (1991-06-09)9 June 1991
PG 7 Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Flag of France.svg Dassin, Ugo 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)21 – (2003-03-30)30 March 2003
SF 8 Flag of the United States.svg Flag of Nigeria.svg Offurum, Chimezie 1.97 m (6 ft 6 in)24 – (2000-05-21)21 May 2000
SG 12 Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Dell'Acqua, Massimiliano 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)21 – (2003-06-12)12 June 2003
PF 13 Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Martin, Killian 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in)26 – (1998-04-03)3 April 1998
C 14 Flag of Senegal.svg Sane, Cheikh 2.07 m (6 ft 9 in)32 – (1992-05-04)4 May 1992
PF 20 Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Cotture, Arnaud 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in)29 – (1995-08-09)9 August 1995
SG 24 Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Flag of Croatia.svg Kovac, Roberto 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)34 – (1990-07-17)17 July 1990
PF 99 Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Jurkovitz, Natan 2.02 m (6 ft 8 in)29 – (1995-04-04)4 April 1995
Head coach
  • Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Thibaut Petit
Assistant coach(es)
  • Flag of Israel.svg Aner Lev Ron
  • Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Emerson Thomas
Legend
  • (C) Team captain
  • Cruz Roja.svg Injured
Updated: March 13, 2025

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.

Head coaches

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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