PBC Academic
Academic Sofia | |||
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Nickname | The Students (Студентите) | ||
Leagues | NBL | ||
Founded | 1947 | ||
Dissolved | 2020 | ||
History | PBC Academic (1947–2020) | ||
Arena | Sport Complex Pravets | ||
Capacity | 550 | ||
Location | Sofia, Bulgaria | ||
Team colors | White and Red | ||
President | Valentin Zlatev | ||
Team manager | |||
Head coach | |||
Championships | 26 Bulgarian Leagues 11 Bulgarian Cups 1 Bulgarian Super Cups 1 International Students' Cup | ||
Website | [1] | ||
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PBC Academic (Bulgarian: ПБК "Академик") was a Bulgarian professional basketball club based in the capital Sofia. They played their home games at the Universiade Hall or at the Pravets sports complex.
Founded in 1947 as part of the Academic Sofia sports club, they have won the championship of Bulgaria 26 times, won the Bulgarian Cup 11 times and won the Bulgarian Super Cup 1 time. Among their international honours are two FIBA European Champions Cup finals (both lost to Rīgas ASK) in 1958 and 1959 and an International Students' Cup in 1957.
In 2000, the team were renamed Lukoil Academic as a sponsorship deal was signed with Russian oil giant Lukoil, and quickly established themselves as dominant in the Bulgarian Championship. Since then they have been a regular ULEB Cup participant, and won the FIBA Europe Regional Challenge Cup Conference South in 2003.
In September 2020, Academic withdrew from the NBL and announced that it will no longer maintain a professional team.[1]
History[]
Basketball club Academic Sofia was founded in 1947 as a part of the students' sports association Academic and during its history of more than half a century it has won a just place among the best teams in the country. Under the guidance of ones of the most experienced coaches in Bulgarian basketball - Bozhidar Takev, Veselin Temkov, Neycho Neychev, Tzvetan Zheliazkov, Petko Marinov, etc., BC Academic is 20 times republic champion and nine times winner of the Bulgarian Cup. Along with the titles in the domestic championships and tournaments, naturally comes the international recognition. The basketball players of Academic have successfully played in the tournaments for the Cup of the European champions. With the coach Bozhidar Takev they were twice finalists against Rīgas ASK in 1958 and 1959. In 1957 in Paris the team of Academic became the world's students champion. During its entire existence basketball club Academic has always been a school for the professional improvement and constructive contribution of some of the best Bulgarian basketball players. Stars like Liubomir Panov, Georgi Panov, Viktor Radev, Nikola Ilov, Mihail Semov. Petar Lazarov, Dimitar Sahanikov, Georgi Barzakov, Nikola Atanasov, Atanas Golomeev, Temelaki Dimitrov, Stefan Filipov, Slavei Raychev, Vladimir Boyanov have left their permanent marks in the history of the Bulgarian basketball.
The excellent training of the Academic players and their complete devotion to the game have always been highly evaluated by our national basketball selectionists. Direct participants in the glorious moments of the Bulgarian basketball - the fifth place at the Olympic Games in Melbourne - 1956 and the vice-champion's title at the European Championship - Sofia'57 are the national players Liubomir Panov, Georgi Panov, Viktor Radev, Nikola Ilov, Mihail Semov, Petar Lazarov.
The glorious tradition of the club was revived again in 2000 when became the main sponsor of the team. The selection of Lukoil Academic was oriented towards young and talented players, who under the clever guidance of the senior coach Petko Marinov and his assistants built the youngest team in the republican basketball. Renewed was also the work at the adolescents school of the club, from which some players have already shown considerable success at the home championships. The long-term strategy of Lukoil Academic has shown its first results already in season 2001–02. The talented players of Petko Marinov won the cup of the country and played the most attractive final in the play-offs in the championship for the last ten years. Today the name of Lukoil Academic is again a symbol of good basketball. The ambitions of the club are the republican champion's title and the good performance at the European club tournaments.
In 2018, Lukoil announced its sponsor deal with Levski Sofia, while leaving Academic with a smaller budget.[2] Consequently, Academic sent its top players to Levski.
Honours[]
Domestic competitions[]
- Winners (26): 1957, 1958, 1959, 1963, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1976, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015 , 2016, 2017
- Winners (11): 1952, 1954, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013
- Winners (1): 2016
- Runners-up (1): 2017
European competitions[]
- Winners(1): 2003
Worldwide competitions[]
- International Students' Cup
- Winners (1): 1957
Season by season[]
Season | Tier | League | Pos. | W–L | Bulgarian Cup | European competitions | ||
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2013–14 | 1 | NBL | 2nd | 2 Eurocup | RS | 4–6 | ||
2014–15 | 1 | NBL | 1st | 31–4 | Runner-up | 3 EuroChallenge | RS | 2–4 |
2015–16 | 1 | NBL | 1st | 33–2 | Runner-up | 3 FIBA Europe Cup | R2 | 5–7 |
2016–17 | 1 | NBL | 1st | 28–7 | Runner-up | 3 Champions League | QR2 | 1–1 |
4 FIBA Europe Cup | R2 | 7–5 | ||||||
2017–18 | 1 | NBL | 3 Champions League | QR3 | 2–2 | |||
4 FIBA Europe Cup | RS | 2–4 |
Current roster[]
Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationality not displayed.
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Updated: 7 January 2018 |
Notable players[]
Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationality not displayed.
Criteria |
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To appear in this section a player must have either:
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- Lyubomir Panov
- Chavdar Kostov
- Georgi Panov
- Viktor Radev
- Hristo Nikolov
- Petar Lazarov
- Nikola Atanasov
- Atanas Golomeev
- Stefan Filipov
- Slavey Raychev
- Charles Jones
- Lamont Jones
- Donta Smith
- Lamont Mack
- Dominic James
- Travis Peterson
- Antonio Burks
- Willie Deane
- Priest Lauderdale
- Bryant Smith
- Larry O'Bannon
- Dee Brown
- Taliek Brown
- Brandon Heath
- Killian Larson
- David Simon
- Anthony Beane
- Danny Gibson
- Stephen Zack
- Melsahn Basabe
- Pero Antić
- Riste Stefanov
- Gjorgji Čekovski
- Damjan Stojanovski
- Thomas Massamba
- Kenny Adeleke
- Kaspars Kambala
- Mohamed Abukar
- Kieron Achara
- Mate Skelin
- Željko Šakić
- Jure Lalić
- Nenad Čanak
- Nikola Dragović
- Bojan Popović
- Slavko Stefanović
- Branislav Ratkovica
- Saša Zagorac
- Filip Barović
Head coaches[]
References[]
- ^ "Академик А1 прекрати дейност". basketball.bg. 16 September 2020. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
- ^ "Lukoil Bulgaria is the new sponsor of Levski". Sportando.com. 2 January 2018. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
External links[]
- Lukoil Academic at Basketball-bg.com (in Bulgarian)
- Lukoil Academic at BulgarianBasket.com (in English)
- Eurobasket.com PBC Academic Lukoil Page
- Basketball teams in Bulgaria
- Basketball teams established in 1947
- Sport in Sofia
- Lukoil
- 1947 establishments in Bulgaria
- Basketball teams disestablished in 2020
- Defunct basketball teams in Bulgaria