Fribourg Olympic Basket
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.
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| Leagues | Swiss Basketball League | ||
| Founded | 27 April 1961 | ||
| 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 | ||
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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
- Champions (18): 1966, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1985, 1992, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2007, 2008, 2016, 2018, 2019
- 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
- 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.
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Notable players
Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationality not displayed.
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Head coaches
