BK Jēkabpils are a professional basketball club based in Jēkabpils, Latvia, playing in the Latvian Basketball League and Baltic Basketball League. It was founded in 2012 and since then the club is playing in LBL higher division. The club's home arena is the Jēkabpils Sporta nams.
In its first season the club entered the Latvian Basketball League playoff quarterfinals, which they lost to Barons kvartāls team. Already in the next 2013–2014th season the club had even greater success with their coach Igors Miglinieks to win LBL bronze medals."Jēkabpils" notur uzvaru Jūrmalā un iegūst LBL bronzu In their third season Jēkabpils outplayed Liepāja/Triobet and the second year in a row obtained LBL bronze."Jēkabpils" apspēlē Liepāju un otro gadu pēc kārtas iegūst LBL bronzu
Currently, there is another club in the city, Jēkabpils BA.
Season by season SeasonLeaguePos.Baltic League2012–13 LBL5th 2013–14 LBL3rd Round of 162014–15 LBL3rd Round of 162015–16 LBL7th Quarterfinalist2016–17 LBL5th Round of 162017–18 LBL7thSeasonLeaguePos.LEBL2018–19 LBL8th 15th
Coaches Edgars Teteris (2012–2014) Igors Miglinieks (2014) Edmunds Valeiko (2014–2015) Igors Miglinieks (2015–2016) Rūdolfs Rozītis (2016–2017) Sandis Buškevics (2017–2018) Marko Zarkovič (2018–2019) Agris Galvanovskis (2019–2021) Artūrs Brūniņš (2021–2022)
Notable players Aigars Vītols Michal Hlebowicki Rinalds Sirsniņš Mārtiņš Kravčenko Pāvels Veselovs Andrejs Šeļakovs Povilas Čukinas Rihards Kuksiks Dovydas Redikas Jurijs Aleksejevs
References
External links Official website