Russian Basketball Cup

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Russian Basketball Cup
Russian Basketball cup 2011-03-19.JPG
The Russian Cup trophy
Sport Basketball
Founded2000
Country Russia
Most recent
champion(s)
Zenit Saint Petersburg
(1st title)
Most titles CSKA Moscow
(4 titles)
Related
competitions
BSL, VTB
Official website russiabasket.ru/competitions/1938/kubok-rossii

The Russian Basketball Cup is the primary professional national domestic basketball cup competition of Russia.

Contents

History

After the cease of the USSR Basketball Cup in 1987, the Russian Federation did not launch any Cup competition in the following years despite the fact that the Russian Basketball Super League 1 had started in 1992. The first cup tournament took place in the year 2000 with the Final Four being hosted at Sochi. It was not held in the following two seasons, but it returned in 2002. Starting from the 2014-15 season most of the VTB League clubs withdrew as the Russian Federation did not allow the use of foreign players in the competition resulting in only 3 VTB teams (Khimki, Krasnye Krylia and Krasny Oktyabr) participating. BC UNICS was the last club from the VTB League to win the trophy in 2014. The last two seasons (2020-22) no VTB club applied to participate in the competition as normally two or three teams would join annually. Current holders are BC Samara.

Final Fours

YearWinnerRunner-upSemifinalistsCityMVP
1999–2000 Lokomotiv Mineralnye Vody Spartak Saint Petersburg Ural Great (3rd)Dinamo-Avtodor Volgograd (4th) Sochi
2002–03 UNICS CSKA Moscow Ural Great Khimki Ekaterinburg
2003–04 Ural Great CSKA Moscow UNICS (3rd) Khimki (4th) Perm
2004–05 CSKA Moscow UNICS Dynamo Moscow (3rd) Khimki (4th) Moscow
2005–06 CSKA Moscow Khimki UNICS (3rd) Triumph Lyubertsy (4th) Khimki Flag of Greece.svg Theo Papaloukas
2006–07 CSKA Moscow UNICS Dynamo Moscow Triumph Lyubertsy Kazan Flag of Russia.svg Alexey Savrasenko
2007–08 Khimki CSKA Moscow UNICS Dynamo Moscow Vidnoye Flag of Poland.svg Maciej Lampe
2008–09 UNICS Dynamo Moscow CSKA Moscow (3rd) Triumph Lyubertsy (4th) Lyubertsy Flag of Croatia.svg Krešimir Lončar
2009–10 CSKA Moscow UNICS Spartak Saint Petersburg (3rd) Khimki (4th) Moscow Flag of Russia.svg Victor Khryapa
2010–11 [lower-alpha 1] Spartak Saint Petersburg Nizhny Novgorod Enisey Krasnoyarsk (3rd) Lokomotiv Kuban (4th) Krasnoyarsk Flag of North Macedonia.svg Pero Antić
2011–12 [lower-alpha 2] Krasnye Krylia Spartak Primorye Spartak Saint Petersburg (3rd) Ural Ekaterinburg (4th) Samara Flag of the United States.svg Brion Rush
2012–13 Krasnye Krylia Spartak Saint Petersburg Spartak Primorye (3rd) Enisey Krasnoyarsk (4th) Vladivostok Flag of the United States.svg Aaron Miles
2013–14 UNICS Lokomotiv Kuban Khimki Krasny Oktyabr Kazan, Krasnodar Flag of the United States.svg Drew Goudelock
2014–15 [lower-alpha 3] Novosibirsk Dynamo Moscow Spartak Primorye (3rd) Krasnye Krylia (4th) Novosibirsk Flag of Russia.svg Sergey Tokarev
2015–16 [lower-alpha 3] Parma Zenit Saint Petersburg Temp-SUMZ-UGMK (3rd) Samara (4th) Moscow Flag of Russia.svg Alexander Vinnik
2016–17 [lower-alpha 3] Novosibirsk Sakhalin Parma (3rd) Temp-SUMZ-UGMK (4th) Ekaterinburg Flag of Russia.svg Sergey Tokarev
2017–18 [lower-alpha 3] Lokomotiv Kuban Nizhny Novgorod Novosibirsk (3rd) Irkut (4th) Krasnodar Flag of Russia.svg Dmitry Kulagin
2018–19 [lower-alpha 3] Parma Nizhny Novgorod Novosibirsk (3rd) Spartak Saint Petersburg (4th) Nizhny Novgorod Flag of Russia.svg Alexander Platunov
2019–20 [lower-alpha 3] Samara Temp-SUMZ-UGMK Vostok-65 (3rd) Uralmash (4th) Samara, Revda Flag of Russia.svg Vladimir Pichurkov
2020–21 [lower-alpha 3] Temp-SUMZ-UGMK Vostok-65 Samara (3rd) Kupol-Rodniki (4th) Revda, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Flag of Russia.svg Viktor Zaryazhko
2021–22 [lower-alpha 3] Samara Temp-SUMZ-UGMK Runa (3rd) Novosibirsk (4th) Samara, Revda Flag of Russia.svg Maxim Sheleketo
2022–23 Nizhny Novgorod Zenit Saint Petersburg MBA Moscow (3rd) Khimki (4th) Saint Petersburg Flag of the United States.svg Trent Frazier
2023–24 Zenit Saint Petersburg Nizhny Novgorod Uralmash Yekaterinburg (3rd) MBA Moscow (4th) Yekaterinburg Flag of the United States.svg Trent Frazier
  1. In the 2010–11 season, 4 teams of the PBL did not participate in the Cup: CSKA Moscow, Dynamo Moscow, Khimki, and UNICS. [1]
  2. In the 2011–12 season, 5 teams of the PBL did not participate in the Cup: CSKA Moscow, Enisey, Khimki, Lokomotiv-Kuban and UNICS.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 From the 2014–15 competition and onwards, teams were only allowed to play with Russian players; which led to the withdrawals of most of the top tier Russian teams. [2]

Performance by club

Russian Basketball Cup 2012-2013 Kubok Rossii po basketbolu 2012-2013.jpg
Russian Basketball Cup 2012–2013
ClubWinnersRunners-upWinning yearsRunner-up years
600px blu e rosso con stella.png CSKA Moscow 432004–05, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2009–102002–03, 2003–04, 2007–08
600px Verde e Bianco (Strisce Orizzontali).png UNICS 332002–03, 2008–09, 2013–14 2004–05, 2006–07, 2009–10
600px Rosso e Verde.png Lokomotiv Kuban 211999–00, 2017–18 2013–14
600px vertical HEX-B70038 White.svg Krasnye Krylia 22011–12, 2012–13
600px HEX-1372AC White.svg Novosibirsk 2 2014–15, 2016–17
Bianco e Nero.svg Parma Basket 22015–16, 2018–19
Samara 22019–20, 2021–22
Bianco e Nero.svg Nizhny Novgorod 142022–232010–11, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2023–24
Temp-SUMZ-UGMK 122020–212019–20, 2021–22
600px Bianco Rosso e Bianco.png Spartak Saint Petersburg 122010–111999–00, 2012–13
600px Blue HEX-243785 HEX-008ED1 White.svg Zenit Saint Petersburg 122023–242015–16, 2022–23
600px Blu e Giallo2.png Khimki 112007–082005–06
600px Arancione con banda Bianca e Blu.png Ural Great 12003–04
600px Azzurro scuro bordato con D azzurro.png Dynamo Moscow 22008-09, 2014–15
Bisection vertical White HEX-FF0000.svg Spartak Primorye 12011–12
600px HEX-1372AC White.svg Sakhalin 12016–17
Vostok-65 12020–21

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References

  1. Хомичюс: интерес к Кубку не пропадёт ни у команд, ни у фанатов (in Russian). Championat.ru. 29 October 2010. Retrieved 30 October 2010.
  2. Европейцев: только российские баскетболисты смогут играть в Кубке России (Only Russian players can play in the Cup Competition)