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The Italian basketball champions are the annual winners of the highest basketball competition in Italy. The winner of the Lega Basket Serie A (LBA) is crowned Italian champion. Olimpia Milano hold the record for the most championships with 28.
From 2017 to 2018 season, Italian Basketball Federation would allow LBA clubs to rejoin EuroCup. There will be at least six teams in Europe. One in EuroLeague (Olimpia Milano directly enter the EuroLeague as licensed club), two in EuroCup (but they are negotiating with ECA for a third spot) and three in Basketball Champions League. [21]
The Italian squad in 1939. The first match of the Italian national basketball team was played on 4 April 1926 in Milan, and it ended with a victory over France 23–17. Italy's first participation in the Olympic Games was at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, placing seventh out of twenty-one teams.
The Lega Basket A (officially: Lega Società di Pallacanestro Serie A, [1] [2] English: Basket League) is the organizing body, as delegated by the Italian Basketball Federation, of the top division of Italian professional men's basketball league, the Serie A (English: Basket League A Series). It is composed of the clubs that participate in the ...
While Milano was a frequent Italian League champion, they were unable to win again the prestigious FIBA European Champions Cup. Late in the 1970s, the quality of the club declined, but Olimpia Milano still managed to win a FIBA Cup Winners' Cup. In 1973, Simmenthal brand leaves Olimpia jersey after 17 years and 10 Italian League Championships.
The 2024 Italian Basketball Cup, known as the Frecciarossa Final Eight 2024 for sponsorship reasons, [1] was the 48th edition of Italy's national cup tournament. The competition was managed by the Lega Basket for LBA clubs.
List of Italian basketball champions; M. Mens Sana 1871 Basket in international competitions; R. Pietro Reverberi; U. Italy men's national under-19 basketball team
Simmenthal Milano was also the first Italian men's basketball club that won a European-wide competition trophy, the FIBA European Champions Cup (EuroLeague), in 1966, when the club beat Slavia VŠ Praha in the Finals that took place in Bologna, Italy. For the next four decades, Italian basketball club teams dominated in European basketball ...