BC Borisfen

Borisfen
Borisfen
Nickname	Knights
Leagues	Belarusian Premier League; FIBA Europe Cup; European North Basketball League
Founded	3 September 2010; 11 years ago
History	BC Borisfen; 2010–present
Arena	Olympic Stadium
Location	Mogilev, Belarus
President	Andrey Nikolaevich Kotov
Head coach	Andrey Krivonos
Website	bcborisfen.by
Home	Away

BC Borisfen, also known as Borisfen Mogilev (in Belarusian: Барысфэн Магілёў; in Russian: Борисфен Могилёв), is a Belarusian basketball club based in Mogilev. It plays in the Belarusian Premier League^[1] and European North Basketball League

History[]

The club was established on 3 September 2010.^[2] The club was founded after BC Temp-OSHVSM disappeared from the highest Belarusian basketball league. Vladimir Ivanovich became both coach and director of the club.^{[citation needed]}

In 2011, Borisfen played in the Belarusian Second League for one season.^{[citation needed]}

In the 2016–17 season, Borisfen made its debut in the Baltic Basketball League. Domestically, in 2018 and 2019, Borisfen finished as runners-up behind BC Tsmoki-Minsk.^[3] In the 2019–20 season, Borisfen made its debut in a European competition, playing in the qualifying rounds of the FIBA Europe Cup.^[4] The team lost to BC Dnipro.^{[citation needed]}

Borisfen qualified for the regular season of the 2020–21 FIBA Europe Cup.^[5], but due to the discovery of COVID-19 in one of the members of the delegation, the team was unable to participate in the games and was sent to quarantine.^{[citation needed]}

In 2021, in the fourth match in the final series, BC Borisfen lost to BC Tsmoki-Minsk by a score 52:85. Thus, BC Borisfen - four-time vice-champion of the Belarusian Basketball Championship. Also, on July 16, it became known that several players left the team, namely: Dupree McBrayer, Darol Hernandez-Zinenko, Tywain МcКee, Brooks DeBisschop and Anton Zaretsky.

In the 2021/2022 season, the club planned to compete in the newly formed European Northern League, where the opponents would also be: Anwil Wloclawek, , BK Liepaja, Enisey Krasnoyarsk, BK Siauliai, and BC Valmiera GLASS VIA^{[citation needed]}

European record[]

Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away
2019–20	FIBA Europe Cup	Qualifying round	Dnipro	76–101	81–71
2020–21	FIBA Europe Cup	Regular season	Donar	DNP¹
			Heroes Den Bosch
			Parma

^1 Borisfen withdrew from the 2020–21 FIBA Europe Cup after players on the team were diagnosed with COVID-19.

Players[]

Current roster[]

BC Borisfen roster

Players

Coaches

Pos.	Nat.	Name
2	PF	Marcanvis Hymon
5	SG	Artem Malkov
8	SG	Dmitriy Bezruchenko
9	PG	Sergey Tatur
10	C	Vlad Moroz
11	PF	Artem Sekushenko
13	PF	Andrey Ageenko
14	F	Denis Pastukhov
15	SG	Vlad Mikulski
21	C	Alexander Kopachev
22	PG	Vyacheslav Korzh (C)
48	C	Pavel Karasevich
71	F	Ilya Sharipov
88	PG	Alexander Kharkevich
	SG	Tavin Cummings