The Russian Basketball Cup is the primary professional national domestic basketball cup competition of Russia.
History 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 YearWinnerRunner-upSemifinalistsCityMVP1999–2000Lokomotiv Mineralnye VodySpartak Saint PetersburgUral Great (3rd) Dinamo-Avtodor Volgograd (4th)Sochi 2002–03UNICSCSKA MoscowUral Great KhimkiEkaterinburg 2003–04Ural GreatCSKA MoscowUNICS (3rd) Khimki (4th)Perm 2004–05CSKA MoscowUNICSDynamo Moscow (3rd) Khimki (4th) Moscow 2005–06CSKA MoscowKhimkiUNICS (3rd) Triumph Lyubertsy (4th)Khimki Theo Papaloukas2006–07CSKA MoscowUNICSDynamo Moscow Triumph LyubertsyKazan Alexey Savrasenko2007–08KhimkiCSKA MoscowUNICS Dynamo MoscowVidnoye Maciej Lampe2008–09UNICSDynamo MoscowCSKA Moscow (3rd) Triumph Lyubertsy (4th)Lyubertsy Krešimir Lončar 2009–10CSKA MoscowUNICSSpartak Saint Petersburg (3rd) Khimki (4th)Moscow Victor Khryapa2010–11Spartak Saint PetersburgNizhny NovgorodEnisey Krasnoyarsk (3rd) Lokomotiv Kuban (4th)Krasnoyarsk Pero Antić 2011–12Krasnye KryliaSpartak PrimoryeSpartak Saint Petersburg (3rd) Ural Ekaterinburg (4th)Samara Brion Rush 2012–13Krasnye KryliaSpartak Saint PetersburgSpartak Primorye (3rd) Enisey Krasnoyarsk (4th)Vladivostok Aaron Miles 2013–14UNICSLokomotiv KubanKhimki Krasny OktyabrKazan, Krasnodar Drew Goudelock2014–15 NovosibirskDynamo MoscowSpartak Primorye (3rd) Krasnye Krylia (4th)Novosibirsk Sergey Tokarev2015–16ParmaZenit Saint PetersburgTemp-SUMZ-UGMK (3rd) Samara (4th)Moscow Alexander Vinnik2016–17NovosibirskSakhalin Parma (3rd) Temp-SUMZ-UGMK (4th)Ekaterinburg Sergey Tokarev (2)2017–18Lokomotiv KubanNizhny Novgorod Novosibirsk (3rd) Irkut (4th)Krasnodar Dmitry Kulagin2018–19ParmaNizhny Novgorod Novosibirsk (3rd) Spartak Saint Petersburg (4th)Nizhny Novgorod Alexander Platunov2019–20SamaraTemp-SUMZ-UGMK Vostok-65 (3rd) Uralmash (4th)Samara, Revda Vladimir Pichurkov2020–21Temp-SUMZ-UGMKVostok-65 Samara (3rd)Kupol-Rodniki (4th)Revda, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Viktor Zaryazhko2021–22SamaraTemp-SUMZ-UGMK Runa (3rd)Novosibirsk (4th)Samara, Revda Maxim Sheleketo2022–23Nizhny NovgorodZenit Saint PetersburgMBA Moscow (3rd)Khimki (4th)Saint Petersburg Trent Frazier2023–24Zenit Saint PetersburgNizhny NovgorodUralmash Yekaterinburg (3rd)MBA Moscow (4th)Yekaterinburg Trent Frazier (2)2024–25Uralmash Yekaterinburg Nizhny NovgorodMBA Moscow (3rd)Khimki (4th)Nizhny Novgorod Hayden Dalton
Performance by club
Club Winners Runners-up Winning years Runner-up years CSKA Moscow43 2004–05, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2009–10 2002–03, 2003–04, 2007–08 UNICS33 2002–03, 2008–09, 2013–14 2004–05, 2006–07, 2009–10 Lokomotiv Kuban21 1999–00, 2017–18 2013–14 Krasnye Krylia2– 2011–12, 2012–13 Novosibirsk2– 2014–15, 2016–17 Parma Basket2– 2015–16, 2018–19 Samara2– 2019–20, 2021–22 Nizhny Novgorod15 2022–23 2010–11, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2023–24, 2024–25 Temp-SUMZ-UGMK12 2020–21 2019–20, 2021–22 Spartak Saint Petersburg12 2010–11 1999–00, 2012–13 Zenit Saint Petersburg12 2023–24 2015–16, 2022–23 Khimki11 2007–08 2005–06 Ural Great1– 2003–04 Uralmash Yekaterinburg1– 2024–25 Dynamo Moscow–2 2008-09, 2014–15 Spartak Primorye–1 2011–12 Sakhalin–1 2016–17 Vostok-65–1 2020–21
Predecessor competition USSR Cup: (1949–1987)
See also Russian Professional Championship: (1991–present) Russian Super League 1: (1992–present) Russian Professional League: (2010–2013) VTB United League: (2008–present) USSR Cup: (1949–1987) USSR Premier League: (1923–1992) Russian basketball league system Basketball in Russia
References
External links Russian Basketball Federation Official Site