Basketball Club Brno (), for sponsorship reasons PUMPA BASKET 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 STAREZ ARÉNA Vododa, which has a capacity of 2,900 people.
The club owned by True Player Group with the idea to "unite the city top two youth clubs to one elite club and push the players to professional level, providing the best coaches, mentoring, nutrition programs, strength programing, rehab, etc."
History The team was a European powerhouse from 1945 through the 1960s and mid-1970s. Brno was the most successful basketball club in Czechoslovakia, winning 21 championship titles through the 1970s, and another three titles from 1994 to 1996. Brno lost two FIBA European Champion Cup finals in 1964 and 1968, both times to Spanish champions Real Madrid. The 1974 loss in the FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup final to Crvena zvezda marked the end of a golden era for the club in European competitions.
On January 25 and 26, 1969 Spartak ZJŠ Brno participated in the FIBA Intercontinental Cup at Macon, Georgia, the second time a basketball club from Czechoslovakia participated in the competition after Slavia VŠ Praha had done so in 1967. In the 1969 semifinal, Spartak beat European champions, Real Madrid but lost the final 71–84 to the Akron Goodyear Wingfoots, a basketball team of workers at the Goodyear Tire Company in Akron, Ohio.
Since 2022 Brno team participates also in the newly founded international league European North Basketball League. In the debut season Brno won 4 games out of 5 in the regular season, finishing second in the standings. Later in the Final Four Brno lost to Šiauliai team from Lithuania and won the bronze medal.
Current roster
Sponsorship names
Partly due to sponsorship reasons, the club has known several names:
Honours Total titles: 24
Domestic Czechoslovak League Winners (21): 1945–46, 1947, 1947–48, 1948*, 1948–49, 1949–50, 1950–51, 1951*, 1957–58, 1961–62, 1962–63, 1963–64, 1966–67, 1967–68, 1975–76, 1976–77, 1977–78, 1985–86, 1986–87, 1987–88, 1989–90 Czech League Winners (3): 1993–94, 1994–95, 1995–96
European EuroLeague Runners-up (2): 1963–64, 1967–68 FIBA Saporta Cup Runners-up (1): 1973–74
Worldwide FIBA Intercontinental Cup Runners-up (1): 1969
International record
Season Achievement Notes EuroLeague 1962–63 Semi-finals eliminated by Real Madrid, 79–60 (W) in Brno and 67–90 (L) in Madrid 1963–64 Final lost to Real Madrid, 110–99 (W) in Brno and 64–84 (L) in Madrid in the double finals of European Champions Cup 1964–65 Quarter-finals eliminated by Ignis Varese, 84–90 (L) in Varese and 72–67 (W) in Brno 1967–68 Final lost to Real Madrid, 95–98 in the final (Lyon) 1968–69 Semi-finals eliminated by CSKA Moscow, 66–101 (L) in Moscow and 92–83 (W) in Brno 1976–77 Semi-final group stage 6th place in group with Mobilgirgi Varese, Maccabi Tel Aviv, CSKA Moscow, Real Madrid & Maes Pils FIBA Saporta Cup 1966–67 Semi-finals eliminated by Ignis Varese, 83–84 (L) in Brno and 53–58 (L) in Varese 1972–73 Quarter-finals 3rd place in a group with Spartak Leningrad and Mobilquattro Milano 1973–74 Final lost to Crvena zvezda, 75–86 in the final (Udine) FIBA Intercontinental Cup 1969 Final lost to Akron Goodyear Wingfoots, 71–84 in the final (Macon)
The road to the great European journeys
1963–64 FIBA European Champions Cup Round Team Home Away 1st round Handelsministerium79–62105–712nd round Maccabi Tel Aviv96–5158–60Quarter-finals Steaua București104–7592–94Semi-finals OKK Beograd85–7594–103Final Real Madrid110–9964–84
1967–68 FIBA European Champions Cup Round Team Home Away 2nd round Altınordu102–6965–61Quarter-finals Real Madrid113–9778–85 Racing Bell Mechelen76–6779–80 Maccabi Tel Aviv105–7688–77Semi-finals Simmenthal Milano103–8663–64Final Real Madrid95–98
1973–74 FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup Round Team Home Away 1st round Embassy All Stars123–76103–842nd round Royal IV114–8396–94Quarter-finals Steaua București96–8664–77 Estudiantes Monteverde117–9372–74Semi-finals Saclà Asti88–7170–86Final Crvena zvezda75–86
Notable players
Jan Bobrovský (1963–1972 & 1973–1978) Zdeněk Bobrovský (1950–1951 & 1954–1968) Kamil Brabenec (1972–1982 & 1983–1988) Vlastimil Havlík (1975–1983 & 1984–1988) Zdeněk Konečný (1955–1967) František Konvička (1957–1969 & 1971–1973)
Petr Novický (1966–1974)
Vojtěch Petr (1972–1980) Vladimír Pištělák (1958–1969 & 1971–1973) Jiří "Áda" Pospíšil (1968–1974) Jaroslav Tetiva (1951–1953) Aapeli Alanen (2021)
References
External links Eurobasket.com BC Brno Page