SC Kremikovtsi was a Bulgarian women's basketball club from the Kremikovtsi district in Sofia. It won five national championships between 1989 and 1999 [1] and appeared in the European Cup [2] and the Ronchetti Cup. [3]
Jugoslovensko sportsko društvo Partizan, commonly abbreviated as JSD Partizan, is a multi-sport club from Belgrade, Serbia. Founded on 4 October 1945, it is an umbrella organization featuring 27 clubs in 26 different sports.
CSKA was a Bulgarian sports society from Sofia, Bulgaria. CSKA stands for Central Sports Club of the Army. It was founded on 5 May 1948 as Septemvri pri CDV, after the unification of the two sports clubs from the city, Chavdar and Septemvri. Since then, the club changed its name several times before settling on CSKA in 1989.
Levski Sofia is a Bulgarian sports club based in Sofia. It was founded in 1911. The club is named after Vasil Levski, the national hero of Bulgaria.
Fenerbahçe Spor Kulübü, commonly known as Fenerbahçe or simply Fener, is a major Turkish professional multi-sport club based in the Kadıköy district of Istanbul, Turkey. Fenerbahçe is parent to a number of different competitive departments including football, basketball, volleyball, table tennis, athletics, swimming, sailing, boxing, rowing, and eSports, which have won numerous European and domestic titles over the club's history.
EuroBasket Women is a biennial international women's basketball competition held between the nations of FIBA Europe for women's national teams. EuroBasket Women is also used as a qualifying tournament for the FIBA Women's World Cup and also the Olympic Games.
BC CSKA Sofia is a Bulgarian professional basketball club based in the capital Sofia and part of the CSKA Sofia sports club.
Basketball Club Levski Sofia, simply known as Levski, is a Bulgarian professional basketball club based in the capital Sofia. It is the basketball section of Levski Sofia sports club.
Vanya Voynova ; December 27, 1934 – March 9, 1993) was a Bulgarian basketball player. She has played for Slavia Sofia from 1950 to 1968, winning the European Champions' Cup in 1959 and 1963 and Bulgarian league 12 times from 1953 to 1965. With the Bulgaria women's national basketball team, she has won silver in the 1959 World Championship, bronze in the 1964 World Championship, gold in the 1958 European Championship, silver in the 1960 European Championship and 1964 European Championship and bronze in the 1954 European Championship and 1962 European Championship. She has been inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2001 and FIBA Hall of Fame in 2007.
Galatasaray is the professional women's basketball section of Galatasaray S.K., a major sports club in Istanbul, Turkey. Galatasaray women's basketball team play matches in Ahmet Cömert Sport Hall which has a seating capacity for 2,200 spectators.
Nippon TV Tokyo Verdy Beleza is a women's football team which plays in Japan's WE League.
Basketballin Greece erupted with the win of the Greece men's national basketball team at the 1987 EuroBasket in Athens, which caused a general basketball euphoria in the country. Since then, the Greece men's national teams have achieved consistent international success, leading Greece to join Russia, Serbia, Croatia, Italy, Spain, France, and Lithuania in the circle of European basketball powers. In addition to the Greece national team's triumph in 1987, they won the gold medal at the 2005 EuroBasket, silver medals at the 1989 EuroBasket, and the 2006 FIBA World Cup, and the bronze medal at the 2009 EuroBasket.
Oscar Daniel Bezerra Schmidt, nicknamed Mão Santa, is a retired Brazilian professional basketball player. Schmidt primarily played the power forward and small forward position, was 2.06 m tall and weighed 109 kg (240 lbs). Along with his home country, Schmidt also played in Italy for JuveCaserta and Pavia, and Spain for Fórum Valladolid. He was born in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil.
Sybille Gruner was a member of the German women's national handball team between 1989 and 1995. In 1993 the team won the world championships in a very close game against Denmark. One year later, during the European championship final in Berlin, they played the Danish team again and lost.
Elitzur Ramla is a professional women's basketball team from Ramla, Israel. Ramla is one of the leading women's basketball teams in Israel. The team won the Israel Championship 12 times and the State Cup 6 times and is the first and only Israeli women's team to win the triple which they won the Eurocup Cup, the Premier League Championship, and the State Cup in the 2011 season.
Penka Stoyanova was a Bulgarian basketball player who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics and in the 1980 Summer Olympics.
USK Praha is a Czech professional women's basketball club that was founded in 1953 in the city of Prague. USK Praha plays in the Czech League, the highest competition in the Czech Republic. It is a 21-times national champion. On the international scene, the greatest success was the win of the Ronchetti Cup in the 1975/76 season, of the EuroLeague in the 2014/15 season and subsequently of the FIBA SuperCup in 2015.
Yordan Ivanov Stoykov is a Bulgarian professional football player and manager.
WBC Montana 2003 is a women's basketball club from Montana in Bulgaria. The first women's team of Montana took professional status in 1989 under the name "Sepetemvriyska Slava." In 1992 it was renamed just "Montana." The team ceased to exist in 2002 but was refounded in 2003 under the name "Montana 2003".
Al Ahly Women's Volleyball Club (Arabic: النادي الاهلي للكرة الطائرة للسيدات) is a part of Al Ahly SC club, which represents the club in Egypt and in major international volleyball competitions. The club has been based in Cairo since the 1940s.
The Seychelles Basketball League (SBL) is the premier basketball league for clubs in Seychelles. The league consist out of ten teams (in 2022).