BC UNICS

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BC UNICS (

2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.^[1]

Their home arena is Basket-Hall Kazan.

History

1991-1999

UNICS was established in 1991. Though officially the club's men's professional club was founded in 1991 (when it first began to play in the lowest level of the national pro leagues), UNICS traces its origins back to

USSR student championships from 1957. Because of this, the name 'UNICS' is an abbreviation – UNIversity, Culture, Sport.^{[citation needed}

]

Between 1994 and 1997, UNICS secured a berth in Russia's first division. In 1997, UNICS was promoted to the

Russian Basketball Super League A, which was at the time the top-tier level Russian league. A year later, Yevgeny Bogachev, the chairman of the National Bank of the Tatarstan, became the president of the club.^{[citation needed}

]

2000-2019

The team placed second to

Russian League finals, losing against CSKA.^{[citation needed}

]

In the 2007–08 season, UNICS made it to the ULEB Cup (now called EuroCup) Final Eight, but fell to

Cajasol Sevilla, in the title game. Marko Popović had a EuroCup Finals record of 11 assists, to lead UNICS to the title. In the Russian League, UNICS had a 21–6 record, to finish the regular season atop the standings, but then went out in the playoff semifinals, after a five-game duel against BC Khimki. The club then competed in the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague in the following season.^{[citation needed]} It made its EuroLeague debut in the 2011–12 season. In the Russian League it finished first at the end of the regular season, and reached the playoff semifinals.^{[citation needed}

]

2020-present

G League team.^[2] Similarly, Americans Isaiah Canaan, John Brown, and John Holland left the team after the invasion.^[3]

On February 28, 2022,

2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.^[1]

VTB League.^{[citation needed}

]

Honours

Domestic competitions

VTB United League

Champions (1): 2023

Russian Cups

Champions (3): 2003, 2009, 2014

European competitions

EuroCup

Champions (1): 2011

EuroChallenge

Champions (1): 2004

North European League

Champions (1): 2003

Season by season

Season	Tier	Division	Pos.	Russian Cup	European competitions		Other competitions
1997–98	1	Superleague A	7th		3 Korać Cup	GS
1998–99	1	Superleague A	5th		2 Saporta Cup	R32
1999–00	1	Superleague A	3rd		3 Korać Cup	EF
2000–01	1	Superleague A	2nd		2 Saporta Cup	SF
2001–02	1	Superleague A	2nd		2 Saporta Cup	QF
2002–03	1	Superleague A	3rd	Winner	3 FIBA Champions Cup	QF	NEBL	C
2003–04	1	Superleague A	2nd	Third place	3 FIBA Europe League	C
2004–05	1	Superleague A	3rd	Runner-up	3 FIBA Europe League	QF
2005–06	1	Superleague A	4th	Third place	2 ULEB Cup	EF
2006–07	1	Superleague A	2nd	Runner-up	2 ULEB Cup	QF
2007–08	1	Superleague A	6th	Semifinals	2 ULEB Cup	QF
2008–09	1	Superleague A	3rd	Winner	2 Eurocup	T16
2009–10	1	Superleague A	3rd	Runner-up	2 Eurocup	T16	United League	RU
2010–11	1	PBL	3rd		1 Euroleague	QR2	United League	3rd
2010–11	1	PBL	3rd		2 Eurocup	C	United League	3rd
2011–12	1	PBL	5th		1 Euroleague	QF	United League	RU
2012–13	1	PBL	6th		1 Euroleague	QR2	United League	QF
2012–13	1	PBL	6th		2 Eurocup	QF	United League	QF
2013–14	1	VTB United League	3rd	Winner	2 Eurocup	RU
2014–15	1	VTB United League	6th	Second qualifying	1 Euroleague	RS
2014–15	1	VTB United League	6th	Second qualifying	2 Eurocup	SF
2015–16	1	VTB United League	2nd	First qualifying	2 Eurocup	EF
2016–17	1	VTB United League	5th	Round of 64	1 EuroLeague	RS
2017–18	1	VTB United League	4th		2 EuroCup	QF
2018–19	1	VTB United League	3rd	First round	2 EuroCup	SF
2019–20	1	VTB United League	4th		2 EuroCup	R16
2020–21	1	VTB United League	2nd		2 EuroCup	RU
2021–22	1	VTB United League	3rd		1 EuroLeague	SP	United League Supercup	3rd
2022–23	1	VTB United League	1st				United League Supercup	7th

Players

Current roster

Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationality not displayed.

UNICS roster

Players

Coaches

Pos.	No.	Name	Ht.		Age
PG	1	Dimitrijević, Nenad	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)		26 – (1998-02-23)23 February 1998
C	3	Reynolds, Jalen	2.08 m (6 ft 10 in)		31 – (1992-12-30)30 December 1992
SG	4	Komolov, Artem	1.94 m (6 ft 4 in)		30 – (1993-06-01)1 June 1993
SG	5	Kulagin, Dmitrii	1.97 m (6 ft 6 in)		31 – (1992-07-01)1 July 1992
PF	7	Labeyrie, Louis	2.08 m (6 ft 10 in)		32 – (1992-02-11)11 February 1992
PG	8	Zaytsev, Vyacheslav	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)		34 – (1989-08-28)28 August 1989
PG	9	Knight, Marcos	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)		34 – (1989-09-24)24 September 1989
F	13	Tikhonenko, Mark	2.08 m (6 ft 10 in)		26 – (1998-03-13)13 March 1998
C	21	Bako, Ismaël	2.06 m (6 ft 9 in)		28 – (1995-10-10)10 October 1995
F	22	Stulenkov, Alexandr	2.08 m (6 ft 10 in)		31 – (1992-08-09)9 August 1992
G	24	Kolesnikov, Evgeny	1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)		28 – (1995-12-26)26 December 1995
F	25	Odinokov, Vladislav	2.02 m (6 ft 8 in)		24 – (2000-03-22)22 March 2000
C	31	Lazarev, Ivan	2.10 m (6 ft 11 in)		33 – (1991-01-31)31 January 1991
SG	32	Green, Erick	1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)	83 kg (183 lb)	32 – (1991-05-09)9 May 1991

Head coach

Velimir Perasović

Assistant coach(es)

Djordje Varagic
Artur Bigeev
Milan Karakas

Team manager

Mikhail Kolesnikov

Legend

(C) Team captain
Injured

Roster

Updated: July 25, 2023

Depth chart

Pos.	Starting 5	Bench 1	Bench 2
C	Ismaël Bako	Jalen Reynolds	Ivan Lazarev
PF	Louis Labeyrie	Aleksandr Stulenkov	Mark Tikhonenko
SF	Dmitry Kulagin	Artem Komolov	Vladislav Odinokov
SG	Marcos Knight	Erick Green	Evgeny Kolesnikov
PG	Nenad Dimitrijević	Vyacheslav Zaytsev

Notable players

Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationality 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.

bold – FIBA World and FIBA Europe champions and medalists

Russian

Ruslan Avleev (1997–01, 04–06) – 301 games, 19.2 ppg;
Petr Samoylenko (1998–07, 08–13) – 774 games, 5.8 ppg;
Alexander Petrenko (1999–00) – 58 games, 13.2 ppg;
Evgeniy Pashutin (2000–02) – 86 games, 8.5 ppg;
Valentin Kubrakov (2000–02, 03–04) – 121 games, 8.5 ppg;
Igor Kudelin (2002–03, 06–07) – 35 games, 8.1 ppg;
Sergei Chikalkin (2002–03, 05–09) – 187 games, 10.6 ppg;
Andrei Fetisov (2002–03) – 20 games, 6.2 ppg;
Viktor Keirou
(2003–05, 07–08) – 83 games, 5.4 ppg;
Vadim Panin (2006–07) – 35 games, 6.1 ppg;
Dmitri Sokolov (2006–09) – 128 games, 6.8 ppg;
Nikolay Padius (2007–08, 10–11) – 59 games, 5.3 ppg;
Fedor Likholitov (2009–10) – 10 games, 2.5 ppg;
Zakhar Pashutin (2010–12) – 102 games, 4.3 ppg;
Aleksey Savrasenko (2011–12) – 56 games, 4.6 ppg;
Nikita Shabalkin (2012–13) – 28 games, 6.3 ppg;
Egor Koulechov (2020–21)

Foreign

bold – former NBA players; Olympics, FIBA World and FIBA Europe champions and medalists

Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationality 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.

USA

Glen Whisby (2000–01) – 51 games, 10.4 ppg;
Anthony Bonner (2001–02) – 8 games, 14.9 ppg;
Michael McDonald (2001–02) – 45 games; 12.2 ppg;
Acie Earl (2001–02) – 30 games, 11.8 ppg;
Dickey Simpkins* (2002–03) – 38 games, 12.3 ppg;
Kebu Stewart (2002–03) – 18 games, 8.3 ppg;
LaMarr Greer (2003–04) – 41 games; 12 ppg;
Joe Ira Clark (2004–05) – 41 games, 7.8 ppg;
Paul Shirley (2004–05) – 9 games, 4.9 ppg;
Shammond Williams (2004–05) – 57 games, 17.1 ppg;
Travis Best (2005–06) – 40 games, 11.5 ppg;
Samaki Walker* (2005–06) – 4 games, 7 ppg;
Sam Clancy, Jr.
(2005–06) – 30 games, 4 ppg;
Jarod Stevenson
(2006–07) – 32 games; 10.4 ppg;
Mateen Cleaves (2006–07) – 11 games, 5 ppg;
Jerry McCullough (2006–08) – 80 games, 6.8 ppg;
Tariq Kirksay (2007–09) – 95 games, 9.3 ppg;
Joseph Forte (2007–08) – 11 games, 8.4 ppg;
Marc Jackson (2008–09) – 19 games, 6.5 ppg;
Terrell Lyday (2008–13) – 243 games, 12.2 ppg;
Ricky Minard (2010–11) – 48 games, 7.4 pts;
Kelly McCarty (2010–13) – 114 games, 9.5 ppg;
Henry Domercant (2011–12) – 58 games, 13.4 ppg;
Lynn Greer (2011–12) – 55 games, 8 ppg;
Mike Wilkinson (2011–13) – 63 games, 7.1 ppg;
Mire Chatman (2012–13) – 45 games, 8.5 ppg;
Chuck Eidson (2012–13) – 48 games, 13.6 ppg;
Drew Goudelock
(2013–14) – 46 games, 19.3 ppg;
John Holland (2020)
O. J. Mayo (2021–22) – 9 games, 7.2 ppg;

Australia

Chris Anstey (2003–05) – 93 games, 13.1 ppg;
Nathan Jawai (2011–12) – 46 games, 8.7 ppg;

Europe

D'or Fischer
Slobodan Šljivančanin (1998–00) – 117 games, 10 ppg;
Branislav Vićentić (2001–02) – 29 games, 10.4 ppg;
Oliver Popović (2001–03) – 80 games, 14.6 ppg;
Damir Mršić (2002–03) – 31 games, 7.7 ppg;
Eurelijus Žukauskas (2002–04) – 78 games, 10 ppg;
Martin Müürsepp (2001–02, 03–04, 05–06) – 86 games, 11.3 ppg;
Saulius Štombergas (2003–04, 05–07, 09–10) – 144 games, 11 ppg;
Stevan Nađfeji (2004–05) – 40 games, 7.4 ppg;
Kaspars Kambala (2004–05) – 54 games, 14.5 ppg;
Kšyštof Lavrinovič (2005–07) – 78 games, 12.7 ppg;
Darjuš Lavrinovič (2006–08) – 68 games, 12.9 ppg;
Duško Savanović (2006–08) – 71 games, 10.3 ppg;
Marko Tušek (2007–08) – 36 games, 10.1 ppg;
Krešimir Lončar (2008–10) – 114 games, 11.8 ppg;
Marko Popović
(2008–11) – 142 games, 13.9 ppg;
Vladimir Veremeenko (2008–13) – 249 games, 8.8 ppg;
Maciej Lampe (2009–11) – 96 games, 15.9 ppg;
Hasan Rizvić (2010–11) – 64 games, 5.4 ppg;
Slavko Vraneš (2010–11) – 39 games, 2.6 ppg;
Boštjan Nachbar (2011–12) – 22 games, 3.6 ppg;
Ian Vougioukas (2012–13) – 47 games, 10.9 ppg;
Kostas Kaimakoglou (2012–2021) – 37 games, 12.5 ppg;
Artūras Milaknis (2015–16);
Nenad Dimitrijević (2022–23) – VTB United League playoffs MVP;

Maurice Ndour

Milan Gurović (2004) and Hüseyin Beşok (2005) shortly were under contract with UNICS Kazan, but never played a single game for the team.

(*) former NBA champions

Head coaches

bold – Olympics, FIBA World and FIBA Europe champions and medalists

Stanislav Eremin
– 2000–06;
Antanas Sireika – 2006–08;
Aco Petrović – 2008–09;
Valdemaras Chomičius – 2009–10;
Evgeniy Pashutin – 2010–12;
Aco Petrović – 2012–2013
Stanislav Eremin – 2013;
Andrea Trinchieri – 2013–2014
Argiris Pedoulakis – 2014–2014 ^[4]^[5]

Evgeniy Pashutin – 2014–2017
Dimitrios Priftis – 2017–2021
Velimir Perasović – 2021–

References

^ ^a ^b "EuroLeague suspended Russian teams". basketnews.com.
^ ^a ^b "Unics Kazan reportedly suing Jarrell Brantley for $250,000". Eurohoops. March 4, 2022.
^ "More than 50 people. Which of the foreigners left the Russian sports clubs :: Football :: RBC Sport". March 5, 2022. Archived from the original on March 5, 2022. Retrieved March 5, 2022.
^ "Unics Kazan tabs Pedoulakis for bench". Archived from the original on 2014-10-06. Retrieved 2014-11-28.
^ "Unics releases Pedoulakis, welcomes back Pashutin". Archived from the original on 2014-12-04. Retrieved 2014-11-28.

External links

Official Site (in Russian)
Eurobasket.com Team Info

[auto-1] "EuroLeague suspended Russian teams". basketnews.com.

[auto1-2] "Unics Kazan reportedly suing Jarrell Brantley for $250,000". Eurohoops. March 4, 2022.

[3] "More than 50 people. Which of the foreigners left the Russian sports clubs :: Football :: RBC Sport". March 5, 2022. Archived from the original on March 5, 2022. Retrieved March 5, 2022.

[4] "Unics Kazan tabs Pedoulakis for bench". Archived from the original on 2014-10-06. Retrieved 2014-11-28.

[5] "Unics releases Pedoulakis, welcomes back Pashutin". Archived from the original on 2014-12-04. Retrieved 2014-11-28.

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v t e UNICS current roster
0 Polstyanov 1 Dimitrijević 3 Reynolds 4 Macon 7 Labeyrie 8 Zaytsev 11 Ilintsky 12 Zhbanov 28 Razumov 30 Kulagin 32 Hunter 33 Vorontsevich 35 Zabelin 61 Tkachenko Bako
Head coach: Perasović Assistant coaches: Kaimakoglou Varagic Bigeev Karakas