Sabah Basketball Club, also known simply as Sabah BC or Sabah, is an Azerbaijani professional basketball team based in Baku. Founded in 2022, as a team affiliated to the Sabah FC football team, they joined the Azerbaijan Basketball League (ABL) in the 2022–23 season. They won the national championship in their debut season.
As champions, they entered the 2023–24 FIBA Europe Cup qualifying rounds, as the first Azerbaijani team to play in a European competition in 18 years (after Gala Baku in 2005). Following three wins in the qualifying tournament in Skopje, Sabah qualified for the regular season.
Boban Mitev was appointed as Sabah's new head coach in August 2023. On 26 January 2024 he was replaced by Rimas Kurtinaitis.
Honours Azerbaijan Basketball League Winners (4): 2022–23, 2023–24, 2024–25, 2025–26
Players
Current roster
Head coaches Elshan Yusubov: 2022–2023 Boban Mitev: 2023–2024 Rimas Kurtinaitis: 2024–2026 Lazar Spasić: 2026–present
References
External links
Sabah BK at Eurobasket.com