Russian Basketball Cup

The Russian Cup trophy

Sport| Basketball
Founded| 2000
Country| Russia
Most recent
champion(s)| Zenit Saint Petersburg
(1st title)
Most titles| CSKA Moscow
(4 titles)
Related
competitions| BSL, VTB
Official website| russiabasket.ru/competitions/1938/kubok-rossii

The Russian Basketball Cup is the primary professional national domestic basketball cup competition of Russia.

## History

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After the cease of the USSR Basketball Cup in 1987, the Russian Federation did not launch any Cup competition in the following years despite the fact that the Russian Basketball Super League 1 had started in 1992. The first cup tournament took place in the year 2000 with the Final Four being hosted at Sochi. It was not held in the following two seasons, but it returned in 2002. Starting from the 2014-15 season most of the VTB League clubs withdrew as the Russian Federation did not allow the use of foreign players in the competition resulting in only 3 VTB teams (Khimki, Krasnye Krylia and Krasny Oktyabr) participating. BC UNICS was the last club from the VTB League to win the trophy in 2014. The last two seasons (2020-22) no VTB club applied to participate in the competition as normally two or three teams would join annually. Current holders are BC Samara.

## Final Fours

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Year  | Winner  | Runner-up  | Semifinalists  | City  | MVP

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1999–2000  | Lokomotiv Mineralnye Vody | Spartak Saint Petersburg | Ural Great (3rd) | Dinamo-Avtodor Volgograd (4th) | Sochi | —
2002–03  | UNICS | CSKA Moscow | Ural Great | Khimki | Ekaterinburg | —
2003–04  | Ural Great | CSKA Moscow | UNICS (3rd) | Khimki (4th) | Perm | —
2004–05  | CSKA Moscow | UNICS | Dynamo Moscow (3rd) | Khimki (4th) | Moscow | —
2005–06  | CSKA Moscow | Khimki | UNICS (3rd) | Triumph Lyubertsy (4th) | Khimki |  Theo Papaloukas
2006–07  | CSKA Moscow | UNICS | Dynamo Moscow | Triumph Lyubertsy | Kazan |  Alexey Savrasenko
2007–08  | Khimki | CSKA Moscow | UNICS | Dynamo Moscow | Vidnoye |  Maciej Lampe
2008–09  | UNICS | Dynamo Moscow | CSKA Moscow (3rd) | Triumph Lyubertsy (4th) | Lyubertsy |  Krešimir Lončar
2009–10  | CSKA Moscow | UNICS | Spartak Saint Petersburg (3rd) | Khimki (4th) | Moscow |  Victor Khryapa
2010–11[a] | Spartak Saint Petersburg | Nizhny Novgorod | Enisey Krasnoyarsk (3rd) | Lokomotiv Kuban (4th) | Krasnoyarsk |  Pero Antić
2011–12[b] | Krasnye Krylia | Spartak Primorye | Spartak Saint Petersburg (3rd) | Ural Ekaterinburg (4th) | Samara |  Brion Rush
2012–13  | Krasnye Krylia | Spartak Saint Petersburg | Spartak Primorye (3rd) | Enisey Krasnoyarsk (4th) | Vladivostok |  Aaron Miles
2013–14 | UNICS | Lokomotiv Kuban | Khimki | Krasny Oktyabr | Kazan, Krasnodar |  Drew Goudelock
2014–15[c] | Novosibirsk | Dynamo Moscow | Spartak Primorye (3rd) | Krasnye Krylia (4th) | Novosibirsk |  Sergey Tokarev
2015–16[c] | Parma | Zenit Saint Petersburg | Temp-SUMZ-UGMK (3rd) | Samara (4th) | Moscow |  Alexander Vinnik
2016–17[c] | Novosibirsk | Sakhalin | Parma (3rd) | Temp-SUMZ-UGMK (4th) | Ekaterinburg |  Sergey Tokarev
2017–18[c] | Lokomotiv Kuban | Nizhny Novgorod | Novosibirsk (3rd) | Irkut (4th) | Krasnodar |  Dmitry Kulagin
2018–19[c] | Parma | Nizhny Novgorod | Novosibirsk (3rd) | Spartak Saint Petersburg (4th) | Nizhny Novgorod |  Alexander Platunov
2019–20[c] | Samara | Temp-SUMZ-UGMK | Vostok-65 (3rd) | Uralmash (4th) | Samara, Revda |  Vladimir Pichurkov
2020–21[c] | Temp-SUMZ-UGMK | Vostok-65 | Samara (3rd) | Kupol-Rodniki (4th) | Revda, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk |  Viktor Zaryazhko
2021–22[c] | Samara | Temp-SUMZ-UGMK | Runa (3rd) | Novosibirsk (4th) | Samara, Revda |  Maxim Sheleketo
2022–23  | Nizhny Novgorod | Zenit Saint Petersburg | MBA Moscow (3rd) | Khimki (4th) | Saint Petersburg |  Trent Frazier
2023–24  | Zenit Saint Petersburg | Nizhny Novgorod | Uralmash Yekaterinburg (3rd) | MBA Moscow (4th) | Yekaterinburg |  Trent Frazier

1. ^ In the 2010–11 season, 4 teams of the PBL did not participate in the Cup: CSKA Moscow, Dynamo Moscow, Khimki, and UNICS.[1]
2. ^ In the 2011–12 season, 5 teams of the PBL did not participate in the Cup: CSKA Moscow, Enisey, Khimki, Lokomotiv-Kuban and UNICS.
3. ^ a b c d e f g h From the 2014–15 competition and onwards, teams were only allowed to play with Russian players; which led to the withdrawals of most of the top tier Russian teams.[2]

## Performance by club

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Russian Basketball Cup 2012–2013 Club  | Winners  | Runners-up  | Winning years  | Runner-up years

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CSKA Moscow | 4 | 3  | 2004–05, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2009–10  | 2002–03, 2003–04, 2007–08
UNICS | 3 | 3  | 2002–03, 2008–09, 2013–14 | 2004–05, 2006–07, 2009–10
Lokomotiv Kuban | 2 | 1  | 1999–00, 2017–18  | 2013–14
Krasnye Krylia | 2 | –  | 2011–12, 2012–13  |
Novosibirsk | 2 | –  | 2014–15, 2016–17  |
Parma Basket | 2 | –  | 2015–16, 2018–19  |
Samara | 2 | –  | 2019–20, 2021–22  |
Nizhny Novgorod | 1 | 4  | 2022–23  | 2010–11, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2023–24
Temp-SUMZ-UGMK | 1 | 2  | 2020–21  | 2019–20, 2021–22
Spartak Saint Petersburg | 1 | 2  | 2010–11  | 1999–00, 2012–13
Zenit Saint Petersburg | 1 | 2  | 2023–24  | 2015–16, 2022–23
Khimki | 1 | 1  | 2007–08  | 2005–06
Ural Great | 1 | –  | 2003–04  |
Dynamo Moscow | –  | 2  |  | 2008-09, 2014–15
Spartak Primorye | –  | 1  |  | 2011–12
Sakhalin | –  | 1  |  | 2016–17
Vostok-65 | –  | 1  |  | 2020–21

## Predecessor competition

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* USSR Cup: (1949–1987)

## See also

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* Russian Professional Championship: (1991–present)
* Russian Super League 1: (1992–present)
* Russian Professional League: (2010–2013)
* VTB United League: (2008–present)
* USSR Cup: (1949–1987)
* USSR Premier League: (1923–1992)
* Russian basketball league system
* Basketball in Russia

## References

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1. ^ Хомичюс: интерес к Кубку не пропадёт ни у команд, ни у фанатов (in Russian). Championat.ru. 29 October 2010. Retrieved 30 October 2010.
2. ^ Европейцев: только российские баскетболисты смогут играть в Кубке России (Only Russian players can play in the Cup Competition)

## External links

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* Russian Basketball Federation Official Site

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Basketball in Russia

General topics|

* Russian Basketball Federation
* Russian basketball league system
* Russian Professional Basketball Championship
* Russian Gold Basket Awards
* PBL Awards
* Russian clubs in international competitions
* Soviet clubs in international competitions

National teams|

| Men|

* Russia
* Russia U20
* Russia U19
* Russia U17
* Soviet Union (defunct)

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Women|

* Russia
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* Russia U19
* Russia U17
* Soviet Union (defunct)

League competitions|

| Men|

* VTB United League
* Russian Super League 1
* Russian Higher League
* Russian Under-23 Youth League
* Russian 1 League
* Russian Professional Basketball League (defunct)
* Soviet Union Premier League (defunct)

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Women|

* Russian Women's Premier League
* Russian Women's Super League
* Russian Women's Higher League
* Soviet Union Women's Premier League (defunct)

Cup competitions|

| Men|

* Russian Cup
* Soviet Union Cup (defunct)

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Women|

* Russian Women's Cup
* Soviet Union Women's Cup (defunct)

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Men's basketball cup competitions in Europe

Continental cups|

| Current|

* EuroLeague
* EuroCup
* Basketball Champions League
* FIBA Europe Cup

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Defunct|

* EuroChallenge
* EuroCup Challenge
* Korać Cup
* Latin Cup
* Saporta Cup
* Super Cup

National Federation cups|

| Current|

* Albania
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Defunct|

* Lithuania
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National League cups|

| Current|

* France
* 1st
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* Iceland
* Israel
* 1st
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* Portugal
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Defunct|

* Iceland
* Spain
* 2nd

National supercups|

* Adriatic
* Albania
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* Austria
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See also|

* BBL Cup Winners' Cup
* BeNeLux Cup
* Gomelsky Cup

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