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Fribourg Olympic Basket

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Fribourg Olympic
Fribourg Olympic logo
LeaguesSwiss Basketball League
FIBA Europe Cup
Founded27 April 1961; 63 years ago (1961-04-27)
ArenaSalle Saint-Léonard
Capacity2,850
LocationFribourg, Switzerland
PresidentPhilippe de Gottrau
Head coachThibaut Petit
2023–24 positionSBL, 1st of 12
ChampionshipsSwiss League (22)
Swiss Cup (12)
Swiss League Cup (8)
Websitefribourg-olympic.ch

Fribourg Olympic Basket, commonly known as Fribourg Olympic, is a Swiss professional basketball club that is based in Fribourg. Due to name sponsorship reasons, the former name of the club was Benetton Fribourg. The club is a seventeen-time Swiss Basketball League champion.

History

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Fribourg Olympic competed in seven seasons of the original version of the EuroLeague, the top-level European competition, when it was run by FIBA, due to being the Swiss League champions. In all those seasons, the club only qualified two times for the competition's second round, by winning their previous series. In 2007, Fribourg Olympic competed in the European-wide secondary competition, the 2007–08 ULEB Cup regular season, but they ended up in the last position of their group.

In the 2015–16 season, Fribourg won its first Swiss Basketball League (SBL) title in eight years. In the 2017–18 season, Fribourg won its seventeenth Swiss national title. Following that domestic title, the club made its debut in the qualifying rounds of the European secondary level FIBA Basketball Champions League (BCL). On 4 October 2018, they eventually qualified to the competition's regular season phase,[1] after winning three successive qualifying rounds against Avtodor Saratov, Donar, and Sakarya.

Arena

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Fribourg Olympic plays its home games at the Salle Saint-Léonard arena, which has a seating capacity of 2,850 people.

Honours and titles

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Swiss Basketball League
  • Champions (22): 1966, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1985, 1992, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2007, 2008, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
    • Runners-up (17): 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1972, 1976, 1977, 1983, 1989, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2010, 2011
Swiss Cup
  • Winners (12): 1967, 1976, 1978, 1997, 1998, 2007, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024
Swiss League Cup
  • Winners (8): 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2024

Roster

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Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationalities not displayed.

Fribourg Olympic roster
Players Coaches
Pos. No. Nat. Name
PG 2 United States Nottage, Eric 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)
PG 3 United States Williams, Anthony 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
PF 5 Switzerland Smith, Matteo 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in)
SG 6 Switzerland Kazadi, Jonathan 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)
PG 7 Switzerland France Dassin, Ugo 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
SF 8 United States Nigeria Offurum, Chimezie 1.97 m (6 ft 6 in)
SG 12 Switzerland Dell'Acqua, Massimiliano 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
PF 13 Switzerland Martin, Killian 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in)
C 14 Senegal Sane, Cheikh 2.07 m (6 ft 9 in)
PF 20 Switzerland Cotture, Arnaud 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in)
SG 24 Switzerland Croatia Kovac, Roberto 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
PF 99 Switzerland Jurkovitz, Natan 2.02 m (6 ft 8 in)
Head coach
  • Belgium Thibaut Petit
Assistant coach(es)
  • Israel Aner Lev Ron
  • Canada Emerson Thomas
Legend
  • (C) Team captain
  • Injured Injured
Updated: October 13, 2024

Notable players

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Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationalities not displayed.

Criteria

To appear in this section a player must have either:

  • Set a club record or won an individual award while at the club
  • Played at least one official international match for their national team at any time
  • Played at least one official NBA match at any time.

Head coaches

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References

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  1. ^ "Qualification Round 3, Gameday 2 - Round up".
  2. ^ "Jeremy Jaunin: "Si on peut sortir les Lions, on ne va pas se gêner…"". Tribune de Genève (in French). 15 June 2020. Retrieved 30 April 2021.
  3. ^ "Historique et palmarès". Fribourg Olympic Basket (in French). Retrieved 2022-02-22.
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