Fribourg Olympic Basket

Fribourg Olympic
Leagues Swiss Basketball League
Champions League
Founded 27 April 1961 (1961-04-27)
Arena Salle Saint-Léonard
Capacity 2,850
Location Fribourg, Switzerland
President Philippe de Gottrau
Head coach Petar Aleksić
2017–18 position SBL, 1st of 12
Website Link
Uniforms

Fribourg Olympic Basket, commonly known as Fribourg Olympic, is a Swiss professional basketball club based in Fribourg, and a seventeen-time Swiss champion. Due to sponsorship reasons, the former name of the club was Benetton Fribourg. Olympic plays in the Salle Saint-Léonard , which has a capacity of 2,850 people.

History

Fribourg Olympic played seven times the old EuroLeague as Swiss champions. In all that time, the club only qualified two times for the second round by winning their previous series.

In 2007, Fribourg Olympic played the 2007–08 ULEB Cup regular season, but ended in the last position of their group.

In 2016, Fribourg won its first Swiss Basketball League title since eight years. In the 2017–18 season, Fribourg won its seventeenth national title. Following its title, the club made its debut in the qualifying rounds of the Basketball Champions League (BCL), finally reaching, on 4 October 2018, the regular season[1] after beating in three qualifying rounds, in order Avtodor Saratov, Donar and Sakarya BB.

Honours

Swiss Basketball League
  • Champions (17): 1966, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1985, 1992, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2007, 2008, 2016, 2018
    • Runners-up (17): 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1972, 1976, 1977, 1983, 1989, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2010, 2011
Swiss Cup
  • Winners (8): 1967, 1976, 1978, 1997, 1998, 2007, 2016, 2018
Swiss League Cup
  • Winners (5): 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2018

Roster

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

Fribourg Olympic roster
PlayersCoaches
Pos.No.Nat.Name
PG 4 Switzerland Jeremy Jaunin
F 5 Switzerland Florian Steinmann
PF 6 Switzerland Paul Gravet
G/F 7 Switzerland Dusan Mladjan
G/F 12 Switzerland Thomas Jurkovitz
F/C 13 Senegal Babacar Toure
G 16 Switzerland Victor Desponds
F 21 Switzerland Kevin Madiamba
G 32 United States Justin Roberson
F 50 United States Andre Williamson
G 88 United States Chad Timberlake
F 99 Switzerland Natan Jurkovitz
Head coach

Bosnia and Herzegovina Petar Aleksic

Assistant coach(es)

Switzerland Andrej Stimac

Legend
  • (C) Team captain
  • Injured
Updated: 24 September 2018

Notable players

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

  • Switzerland Vladimir Buscaglia
  • Switzerland Arnaud Cotture
  • Switzerland Eric Fongue
  • Switzerland Jonathan Kazadi
  • Switzerland Roberto Kovac
  • Switzerland Marko Mladan
  • Switzerland Westher Molteni
  • Switzerland Oliver Vogt
  • Jamaica Ronald Yates
  • Montenegro Slobodan Miljanic
  • New Zealand Brendon Polyblank
  • United States Dave Esterkamp
  • United States Andre Williamson
  • United States Derek Wright

Head coaches

  • France Damien Leyrolles

References

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