| Umana Reyer Venezia | |||
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| Nickname | Orogranata | ||
| Leagues | LBA EuroCup | ||
| Founded | 1925; 100 years ago (1925) | ||
| Arena | Palasport Giuseppe Taliercio | ||
| Capacity | 3,509 | ||
| Location | Venice,Italy | ||
| Team colors | Garnet Red, Gold, White | ||
| President | Federico Casarin | ||
| Head coach | Neven Spahija | ||
| Ownership | Luigi Brugnaro | ||
| Championships | 1FIBA Europe Cup 4Italian Leagues 1Italian Cup | ||
| Website | reyer.it | ||
S.S.P. Reyer Venezia Mestre, commonly known asReyer Venezia or simplyReyer, is an Italian professionalbasketball club that is based inVenice,Veneto. The club currently plays in theLega Basket Serie A (LBA), thehighest tier of basketball inItaly, as well as theEuroCup. Reyer operates both men's and women's professional teams, both playing in their respective first divisions as of the 2017–18 season. The men's team has been crowned the Italian champions four times, as they won theLBA in 1942, 1943, 2017 and 2019.
The team was founded in 1872 as gymnastics clubSocietà Sportiva Costantino Reyer, by the gymnastics teacher Peter Gallo inVenice. The basketball section was founded in 1925. In the 1941–42 and 1942–43 season, Reyer won back-to-back Italian league titles. In 1944, the team also won the Italian championship, but the victory was not approved by the Italian Federation.
The club, under the nameCarrera Venezia, participated in the1980–81 FIBA Korać Cup and managed to reach the final where the club was defeated 104–105 byJoventut Freixenet that took place inPalau Blaugrana,Barcelona at March 19.
In 2006–07, Reyer was the amateur champion of Italy, and promoted to theLegaDue. In the 2010–11 season, the team finally promoted back to theLega Basket Serie A.
In the2016–17 season, Reyer reached the LBA Finals for the first time since 1944.[1] Reyer claimed its third national championship on 20 June 2017, after beatingTrento 4–2 in the series.[2] Reyer also played in theBasketball Champions League that season and advanced to theFinal Four, where the team finished in fourth place.[3]
In the 2017–18 season, coming off of its national championship, Venezia participated in itssecond straight Champions League season. In Group C, Reyer finished in the sixth-place after holding an 8–6 record. The team was transferred to theFIBA Europe Cup for the play-offs, where it beatEgis Körmend,Nizhny Novgorod andDonar in order to reach theFinals. In the Finals, Reyer faced fellow Italian sideSidigas Avellino. Reyer won the finals 158–148 on aggregate, and on 2 May 2018 the club won the FIBA Europe Cup, its first ever European trophy.[4]
On 22 June 2019 Umana Reyer Venezia won their 4th Italian league title by beatingBanco di Sardegna Sassari in game 7 of theLBA finals.[5]
On 16 February 2020 Venezia went to win its firstItalian Cup ever by beatingHappy Casa Brindisi 73–67 in theFinals in theAdriatic Arena ofPesaro.[6]
Total titles: 4
Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility atFIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationalities not displayed.
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(colours:Italian or homegrown players;foreign players;young players)
Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility atFIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationalities not displayed.
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To appear in this section a player must have either:
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Gabriele Vianello(1956–57; 1967–72)
Nemanja Đurić(1967–68)
Steve Hawes(1972–74)Neal Walk(1977–78)Joe DeSantis(1979–80)Scott Lloyd(1979–80)Dražen Dalipagić(1980–81; 1985–88)Spencer Haywood(1980–81)Sidney Wicks(1981–82)Bruce Seals(1981–82)Ratko Radovanović(1986–90)Steve Burtt(1995–96)
Kristaps Janičenoks(2008–10)Alvin Young(2010–13)
Yakhouba Diawara(2012–13)Tomas Ress(2014–2018)Phil Goss(2014–16)
Hrvoje Perić(2013–2018)
Mike Bramos(2015–2023)
Melvin Ejim(2016–2017)
MarQuez Haynes(2016–2019)
Esteban Batista(2017)
Gediminas Orelik(2017–2018)Martynas Echodas(2021–2022)
Tarik Phillip(2021–2022)
/Bruno Cerella(2017–2022)
/Ousman Krubally| Season | Tier | League | Pos. | Italian Cup | European competitions | |
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| 2010–11 | 2 | LegaDue | 2nd | |||
| 2011–12 | 1 | Serie A | 7th | |||
| 2012–13 | 1 | Serie A | 8th | |||
| 2013–14 | 1 | Serie A | 11th | |||
| 2014–15 | 1 | Serie A | 4th | Quarterfinalist | ||
| 2015–16 | 1 | Serie A | 4th | Quarterfinalist | 2Eurocup | L32 |
| 2016–17 | 1 | LBA | 1st | Quarterfinalist | 3Champions League | 4th |
| 2017–18 | 1 | LBA | 3rd | Quarterfinalist | 3Champions League | RS |
| 4FIBA Europe Cup | C | |||||
| 2018–19 | 1 | LBA | 1st | Quarterfinalist | 3Champions League | T16 |
| 2019–20 | 1 | LBA | 7th | Champion | 2EuroCup | QF |
| 2020–21 | 1 | LBA | 4th | Quarterfinalist | 2Eurocup | RS |
| 2021–22 | 1 | LBA | 6th | 2Eurocup | T16 | |
| 2022–23 | 1 | LBA | 4th | Quarterfinalist | 2Eurocup | T8 |
| 2023–24 | 1 | LBA | 4th | Quarterfinalist | 2Eurocup | RS |
| 2024–25 | 1 | LBA | 8th | 2Eurocup | EF | |
Source:Eurobasket.com
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Throughout the years, due to sponsorship, the club has been known as :
