BC Dinamo Tbilisi
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USSR Championships 3 USSR Cups | |
Website | bcdinamotbilisi.ge |
BC Dinamo Tbilisi (
USSR, having won numerous national titles and the 1962 FIBA European Champions Cup (EuroLeague
). The club's traditional colors are blue and white.
History
BC Dinamo was established in 1934 as the basketball division of the
Soviet League championships 4 times, the Soviet Cup
3 times, and finished in medal positions (top 3) of the league championship a further 8 times.
In
FIBA European Champions Cup (the predecessor of the current EuroLeague), where they were defeated by Rīgas ASK in 2 games. Two years later, they once again reached the final of this competition, and on that occasion, they were crowned as Europe's best team by defeating Real Madrid in a one-off game in Geneva. The club's coach at that time was the legendary Otar Korkia, who had earlier starred for the club as a player, and was voted as one of FIBA's 50 Greatest Players in 1991. Dinamo also reached the final of the FIBA Saporta Cup (FIBA's second-tier level competition) in 1969, where they were defeated by Slavia VŠ Praha
.
Dinamo became the very first winners of the independent Georgian championships in 1991. In total, they have won 4
Superliga titles and one Georgian cup. Failure to attract major sponsorship saw the club struggle for a long spell in the 2000s. However, Bank of Georgia
became the club patrons in 2011, President of the club was former National team captain Vakhtang Natsvlishvili which allowed the squad to be strengthened with foreign imports, and more ambitious targets to be established for the future. The success finally materialized in the 2013–14 season, with Dinamo making their first appearance in the play-off finals for over a decade, and winning the title in a convincing manner.
In October 2018, two-time
BC Dinamo Tbilisi in international competitions
Honours
Domestic competitions
- Winners (4): 1949–50, 1952–53, 1953–54, 1967–68
- Runners-up (4): 1947, 1960, 1961, 1969
- Winners (3): 1949, 1950, 1969
- Runners-up (2): 1953, 1973
- Georgian Superliga
- Winners (6): 1990–91, 1991–92, 2002–03, 2013–14, 2016–17, 2017–18
- Runners-up (6): 1995–96, 1996–97, 2001–02, 2003–04, 2014–15, 2015–16
- Georgian Cup
- Winners (3): 2004, 2015, 2016
European competitions
Players
Current roster
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Head coaches
- / Otar Korkia
- Muhamed Thaçi
References
External links
- bcdinamotbilisi.ge სკ დინამო თბილისი, 1934 (in Georgian and English)
- Eurobasket.com Team Profile (in English)
- Superleague.ge Team Profile Archived 2016-03-08 at the Wayback Machine (in Georgian)