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Union Basket Sport Club Wien was a professional basketball club based in Vienna, Austria. UBSC was one of the major clubs of Austrian basketball League in the post-World War II era, mainly in the seventies where the club won eight national championships and seven consecutive titles.
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The EuroLeague, known as the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague for sponsorship reasons, is a European professional basketball club competition. The league is widely recognised as the top-tier league in Europe. The league consists of 18 teams, of which 16 are given long-term licences and wild cards, making the league a semi-closed league. The league has been organized by Euroleague Basketball since its formation in 2000.
Grazer AK, founded 18 August 1902 as Grazer Athletiksport Klub, is an Austrian sports club, from the city of Graz in the federal state of Styria (Steiermark). The football section used to be one of the most popular Austrian clubs, mostly successful in the decade 1995–2005. The other sections are basketball, diving and tennis, which however all act as separate legal entities. The "GAK" football section was folded during the 2012–13 Regionalliga Mitte Season in Autumn 2012. It has since been revived and returned to Austrian Second League in 2019.
Kapfenberg[ˈkapfənbɛʁk], with around 22,609 inhabitants, is the third largest city in Styria, Austria, near Bruck an der Mur. The town's landmark is Burg Oberkapfenberg. Its main employer is the steel manufacturer Böhler.
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FC Red Bull Salzburg is an Austrian professional football club based in Wals-Siezenheim, that competes in the Austrian Bundesliga, the top flight of Austrian Football. Their home ground is the Red Bull Arena. Due to sponsorship restrictions, the club is known as FC Salzburg and wears a modified crest when playing in UEFA competitions.
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Basket Swans Gmunden is an Austrian professional basketball club that is based in Gmunden. Their home arena is Volksbank-Arena Gmunden. The club has won the Austrian Bundesliga five times; the last championship was in 2021. To add to that, the Swans have won six national Cups as well. The main sponsor of the team used to be Allianz for a long time.
Aramis Naglić is a Croatian professional basketball coach and former player who is the head coach for Vienna of the Austrian League.
Kapfenberg Bulls, also known simply as Bulls, is a professional basketball club that is based in Kapfenberg, which is a town in Styria, a state of Austria.
Wiener Athletiksport Club, also known as Wiener AC or WAC, is an Austrian sports club in Vienna. It is particularly noted for its hockey team, which was established in 1900.
Michael Alvin Maloy was an American-Austrian professional basketball player who played in the United States and in Austria.
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Raiffeisen Flyers Wels, formerly WBC Wels, is a professional basketball club based in Wels, Austria. The team plays in the Austrian Basketball League since it was founded in 2000. In 2009 the team won the Austrian national championship. The club was founded as Welser Basketball Club in 2000 through a merger of the clubs Union Wels and ABC Sparkasse Wels.
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Sportklub Niederösterreich St. Pölten, commonly known as simply SKN St. Pölten, is a basketball club based in Sankt Pölten, Austria. The club has won the Austrian championship six times, between 1993 and 1999. St. Pölten currently plays in the Superliga, the highest league in Austria.
Alpe Adria Cup is an annual professional basketball competition for clubs from Central Europe. The league comprises teams from six countries, namely Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia. It is played under the rules of FIBA.
Zdeněk Kos is a Czech former basketball player and coach. He was voted to the Czechoslovakian 20th Century Team in 2001. Kos was granted Austrian citizenship in 1996.
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Vienna DC Timberwolves is an Austrian basketball club based in Wien. Since the 2018–19 season, the Timberwolves play in the Austrian Basketball Superliga (BSL), the highest tier in Austrian basketball. The Timberwolves are three-times Austrian Second League winners.