Russian Basketball Cup

The Russian Basketball Cup is the primary professional national domestic basketball cup competition of Russia.

Russian Basketball Cup
The Russian Cup trophy
SportBasketball
Founded2000
CountryRussia
Most recent
champion(s)
Zenit Saint Petersburg
(1st title)
Most titlesCSKA Moscow
(4 titles)
Related
competitions
BSL, VTB
Official websiterussiabasket.ru/competitions/1938/kubok-rossii

History

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After the cease of the USSR Basketball Cup in 1987, the Russian Federation did not launch any Cup competition in the following years despite the fact that the Russian Basketball Super League 1 had started in 1992. The first cup tournament took place in the year 2000 with the Final Four being hosted at Sochi. It was not held in the following two seasons, but it returned in 2002. Starting from the 2014-15 season most of the VTB League clubs withdrew as the Russian Federation did not allow the use of foreign players in the competition resulting in only 3 VTB teams (Khimki, Krasnye Krylia and Krasny Oktyabr) participating. BC UNICS was the last club from the VTB League to win the trophy in 2014. The last two seasons (2020-22) no VTB club applied to participate in the competition as normally two or three teams would join annually. Current holders are BC Samara.

Final Fours

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Year Winner Runner-up Semifinalists City MVP
1999–2000 Lokomotiv Mineralnye Vody Spartak Saint Petersburg Ural Great (3rd) Dinamo-Avtodor Volgograd (4th) Sochi
2002–03 UNICS CSKA Moscow Ural Great Khimki Ekaterinburg
2003–04 Ural Great CSKA Moscow UNICS (3rd) Khimki (4th) Perm
2004–05 CSKA Moscow UNICS Dynamo Moscow (3rd) Khimki (4th) Moscow
2005–06 CSKA Moscow Khimki UNICS (3rd) Triumph Lyubertsy (4th) Khimki   Theo Papaloukas
2006–07 CSKA Moscow UNICS Dynamo Moscow Triumph Lyubertsy Kazan   Alexey Savrasenko
2007–08 Khimki CSKA Moscow UNICS Dynamo Moscow Vidnoye   Maciej Lampe
2008–09 UNICS Dynamo Moscow CSKA Moscow (3rd) Triumph Lyubertsy (4th) Lyubertsy   Krešimir Lončar
2009–10 CSKA Moscow UNICS Spartak Saint Petersburg (3rd) Khimki (4th) Moscow   Victor Khryapa
2010–11[a] Spartak Saint Petersburg Nizhny Novgorod Enisey Krasnoyarsk (3rd) Lokomotiv Kuban (4th) Krasnoyarsk   Pero Antić
2011–12[b] Krasnye Krylia Spartak Primorye Spartak Saint Petersburg (3rd) Ural Ekaterinburg (4th) Samara   Brion Rush
2012–13 Krasnye Krylia Spartak Saint Petersburg Spartak Primorye (3rd) Enisey Krasnoyarsk (4th) Vladivostok   Aaron Miles
2013–14 UNICS Lokomotiv Kuban Khimki Krasny Oktyabr Kazan, Krasnodar   Drew Goudelock
2014–15[c] Novosibirsk Dynamo Moscow Spartak Primorye (3rd) Krasnye Krylia (4th) Novosibirsk   Sergey Tokarev
2015–16[c] Parma Zenit Saint Petersburg Temp-SUMZ-UGMK (3rd) Samara (4th) Moscow   Alexander Vinnik
2016–17[c] Novosibirsk Sakhalin Parma (3rd) Temp-SUMZ-UGMK (4th) Ekaterinburg   Sergey Tokarev
2017–18[c] Lokomotiv Kuban Nizhny Novgorod Novosibirsk (3rd) Irkut (4th) Krasnodar   Dmitry Kulagin
2018–19[c] Parma Nizhny Novgorod Novosibirsk (3rd) Spartak Saint Petersburg (4th) Nizhny Novgorod   Alexander Platunov
2019–20[c] Samara Temp-SUMZ-UGMK Vostok-65 (3rd) Uralmash (4th) Samara, Revda   Vladimir Pichurkov
2020–21[c] Temp-SUMZ-UGMK Vostok-65 Samara (3rd) Kupol-Rodniki (4th) Revda, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk   Viktor Zaryazhko
2021–22[c] Samara Temp-SUMZ-UGMK Runa (3rd) Novosibirsk (4th) Samara, Revda   Maxim Sheleketo
2022–23 Nizhny Novgorod Zenit Saint Petersburg MBA Moscow (3rd) Khimki (4th) Saint Petersburg   Trent Frazier
2023–24 Zenit Saint Petersburg Nizhny Novgorod Uralmash Yekaterinburg (3rd) MBA Moscow (4th) Yekaterinburg   Trent Frazier
  1. ^ In the 2010–11 season, 4 teams of the PBL did not participate in the Cup: CSKA Moscow, Dynamo Moscow, Khimki, and UNICS.[1]
  2. ^ In the 2011–12 season, 5 teams of the PBL did not participate in the Cup: CSKA Moscow, Enisey, Khimki, Lokomotiv-Kuban and UNICS.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h From the 2014–15 competition and onwards, teams were only allowed to play with Russian players; which led to the withdrawals of most of the top tier Russian teams.[2]

Performance by club

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Russian Basketball Cup 2012–2013
Club Winners Runners-up Winning years Runner-up years
  CSKA Moscow 4 3 2004–05, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2009–10 2002–03, 2003–04, 2007–08
  UNICS 3 3 2002–03, 2008–09, 2013–14 2004–05, 2006–07, 2009–10
  Lokomotiv Kuban 2 1 1999–00, 2017–18 2013–14
  Krasnye Krylia 2 2011–12, 2012–13
  Novosibirsk 2 2014–15, 2016–17
  Parma Basket 2 2015–16, 2018–19
Samara 2 2019–20, 2021–22
  Nizhny Novgorod 1 4 2022–23 2010–11, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2023–24
Temp-SUMZ-UGMK 1 2 2020–21 2019–20, 2021–22
  Spartak Saint Petersburg 1 2 2010–11 1999–00, 2012–13
  Zenit Saint Petersburg 1 2 2023–24 2015–16, 2022–23
  Khimki 1 1 2007–08 2005–06
  Ural Great 1 2003–04
  Dynamo Moscow 2 2008-09, 2014–15
  Spartak Primorye 1 2011–12
  Sakhalin 1 2016–17
Vostok-65 1 2020–21

Predecessor competition

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ Хомичюс: интерес к Кубку не пропадёт ни у команд, ни у фанатов (in Russian). Championat.ru. 29 October 2010. Retrieved 30 October 2010.
  2. ^ Европейцев: только российские баскетболисты смогут играть в Кубке России (Only Russian players can play in the Cup Competition)
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