egoé Brno
Leagues	NBL ENBL
Founded	1926 (1926)
History	List Sokol Brno I (1926–1945) Spartak ZJŠ Brno (1945–1976) Spartak-Zbrojovka Brno (1976–1977) Zbrojovka Brno (1977–1991) BVC Bioveta Ivanovice na Hané (1991–1992) BC Brno (1992–present)
Arena	Sportovní hala Sokola Brno
Capacity	1,100
Location	Brno, Czech Republic
Championships	21 Czechoslovak Championships 3 Czech Championships
Website	www.basketbrno.cz
Home Away

Basketball Club Brno (Czech: Basketbalový Klub Brno), for sponsorship reasons Brno Next Generation, 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 Sportovní hala Sokola Brno, which has a capacity of 1,100 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."^[1]

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

BC Brno roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. No. Nat. Name PF 1 Riley, Cody 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) 26 – (1997-12-12)12 December 1997 PF 2 Stráněl, Milan Tomáš 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) 18 – (2005-10-17)17 October 2005 SF 3 Chatman, Kameron 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) 27 – (1996-06-01)1 June 1996 SF 4 Rychtecký, Matěj 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) 19 – (2004-03-08)8 March 2004 G 6 Půlpán, Marek 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) 19 – (2004-11-28)28 November 2004 SF 9 Nečas, Jakub 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) 19 – (2004-01-30)30 January 2004 PF 10 Svoboda, Šimon 2.05 m (6 ft 9 in) 19 – (2004-04-15)15 April 2004 G 11 Bálint, Richard 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in) 21 – (2002-11-08)8 November 2002 PG 12 Křivánek, Petr 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) 20 – (2003-05-18)18 May 2003 G 14 Houzar, Tomáš 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in) 21 – (2002-09-30)30 September 2002 SG 18 Půlpán, Viktor 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) 27 – (1996-08-17)17 August 1996 C 20 Puršl, Šimon 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) 26 – (1997-01-29)29 January 1997 PF 30 Djuricic, Danilo 2.04 m (6 ft 8 in) 24 – (1999-02-20)20 February 1999 C 32 Krakovič, Jakub (C) 2.05 m (6 ft 9 in) 33 – (1990-10-12)12 October 1990 PG 33 Culpepper, Randy 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) 34 – (1989-05-16)16 May 1989 PF 73 Kubin, Jaroslav 2.05 m (6 ft 9 in) 23 – (2000-08-01)1 August 2000 G 88 Dáňa, Matěj   1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) 20 – (2003-10-24)24 October 2003 PF -- Koulisianis, Joanis 2.05 m (6 ft 9 in) 18 – (2005-05-01)1 May 2005	Head coach Lubomír Růžička Assistant coach(es) Martin Vaněk Legend (C) Team captain Injured Roster Updated: January 31, 2023

Sponsorship names

Logo used from 2013 to 2018

Partly due to sponsorship reasons, the club has known several names:

Honours

Total titles: 24

International record

The road to the great European journeys

1963–64 FIBA European Champions Cup Round Team   Home     Away   1st round Handelsministerium 79–62 105–71 2nd round Maccabi Tel Aviv 96–51 58–60 Quarter-finals Steaua București 104–75 92–94 Semi-finals OKK Beograd 85–75 94–103 Final Real Madrid 110–99 64–84

1967–68 FIBA European Champions Cup Round Team   Home     Away   2nd round Altınordu 102–69 65–61 Quarter-finals Real Madrid 113–97 78–85 Racing Bell Mechelen 76–67 79–80 Maccabi Tel Aviv 105–76 88–77 Semi-finals Simmenthal Milano 103–86 63–64 Final Real Madrid 95–98

1973–74 FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup Round Team   Home     Away   1st round Embassy All Stars 123–76 103–84 2nd round Royal IV 114–83 96–94 Quarter-finals Steaua București 96–86 64–77 Estudiantes Monteverde 117–93 72–74 Semi-finals Saclà Asti 88–71 70–86 Final Crvena zvezda 75–86

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)
• Leoš Krejčí (1983–1988, 1989–1990 & 1994–1998)
• Robert Mifka (1966–1968)
• Petr Novický (1966–1974)
• Jiří Okáč (1980–1984, 1986–1990 & 2003–2004)
• Vojtěch Petr (1972–1980)
• Vladimír Pištělák (1958–1969 & 1971–1973)
• Jiří "Áda" Pospíšil (1968–1974)
• Jaroslav Tetiva (1951–1953)

References

External links

• Eurobasket.com BC Brno Page