BC Brno


Basketball Club Brno, for sponsorship reasons egoé Brno, is a Czech professional basketball club based in the city of Brno. The team plays in the Czech National Basketball League – the highest competition in the Czech Republic.
Home games of Brno are played in the Sportovní hala Sokola Brno, which has a capacity of 1,100 people.

History

After 1945, Brno is the most successful basketball club in Czechoslovakia when it won 21 championship titles. Three more titles then, joined the club in 1994–1996.
A European powerhouse during the 1960s and until the mid '70s, they lost two FIBA European Champion Cup finals in 1964 and 1968, twice against the Spanish Real Madrid. In 1974, the loss in the FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup final against Crvena zvezda meant the end of a golden era for the club in the European competitions.
In January 1969 Spartak ZJŠ Brno participated in the FIBA Intercontinental Cup at Macon, Georgia and reached the final where it lost 71–84 to American Akron Goodyear Wingfoots, a basketball team by workers at the Goodyear Tire Company in Akron, Ohio. In the semifinal, Spartak beat European champions, Real Madrid.

Sponsorship names

Partly due to sponsorship reasons, the club has known several names:

Honours

Total titles: 24

Domestic

Czechoslovak League
Czech League
EuroLeague
FIBA Saporta Cup
FIBA Intercontinental Cup

The road to the great European journeys

1963–64 FIBA European Champions Cup
RoundTeam Home Away
1st round Handelsministerium79–62105–71
2nd round Maccabi Tel Aviv96–5158–60
Quarter-finals Steaua București104–7592–94
Semi-finals OKK Beograd85–7594–103
Final Real Madrid110–9964–84

1967–68 FIBA European Champions Cup
1973–74 FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup

Notable players