| Victoria Libertas Pesaro | ||||
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| Nickname | VL Vuelle | |||
| Leagues | Serie A2 | |||
| Founded | 1 July 1946; 79 years ago (1946-07-01) | |||
| History | Victoria Pesaro (1946–1965) U.S. Victoria Libertas Pesaro (1965–2006) U.S. Vuelle Pallacanestro (2006–2007) U.S. Victoria Libertas Pallacanestro (2007–present) | |||
| Arena | Vitrifrigo Arena | |||
| Capacity | 10,323 | |||
| Location | Pesaro,Marche, Italy | |||
| Team colors | Red and White | |||
| President | Ario Costa | |||
| Head coach | Spiro Leka | |||
| Championships | 2Italian Leagues 2Italian Cups 1Saporta Cup | |||
| Website | Official Site | |||
Victoria Libertas (also known as "VL" or in ItalianVuelle), full nameUnione Sportiva Victoria Libertas Pallacanestro, is a professionalbasketball team that is based inPesaro, Italy. The club competes in the second level Italian professional basketball league, theSerie A2. It was commonly known across Europe asScavolini Pesaro, from the name of its historical main sponsor Scavolini (from 1975 to 2014), an Italian kitchen and bathroom products designer and manufacturer, whose co-founder Valter Scavolini was formerly club president. For past club sponsorship names, seethe list below.
Victoria Libertas was officially founded in 1946 and had its best seasons during the 1980s. After being among the top teams in Italy for decades, Victoria Libertas under the name Scavolini Pesaro, won its first important trophy the1982–83 FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup, rival the historic French club ofASVEL. Also Scavolini, participated in consecutive lost finals in1985–86 against the title holderFC Barcelona and in1986–87 againstCibona. Since then,Italian League was won twice (in 1988 and 1990), and theItalian Cup was also won twice (in 1985 and 1992). Scavolini participated in1990–91 FIBA European Champions Cup, and managed to play in the semi-final of theFinal Four in Paris where the club eliminated by the legendaryPop 84 (the former Jugoplastika) and ranked fourth after one more defeat in the third place game byMaccabi Tel Aviv. The two lost finals in theFIBA Korać Cup in1990 (againstRam Joventut) and in1992 (againstil Messaggero Roma) show the dynamic of the club and at the beginning of the new decade.
In recent years, Victoria Libertas was among the best European teams, having played theEuroleague in 2001–02 and 2004–05 seasons. In 2004–05 it unexpectedly got to the Euroleague Top-8 and was defeated in the quarter finals by the eventual championMaccabi Tel Aviv. Furthermore, Victoria Libertas shooting guard,Charles Smith, was honored with the first-ever Euroleague'sAlphonso Ford Top Scorer Trophy,[1] named after the late Euroleague scoring champ who died in 2004 and who was replaced in Victoria Libertas by Smith himself.
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In July 2005, as a consequence of the poor administration of the previous two seasons, Victoria Libertas failed to remain within the parameters required to join the Italian Basketball League and wound up. Pesaro's second team,Falco Spar, agreed with former Victoria Libertas president Valter Scavolini to join forces to invest in a team to bring back Victoria Libertas to Italian First Division (Lega Basket Serie A).
The new team, namedScavolini Gruppo Spar (or simplyScavolini-Spar), played the 2005–06 season in the Italian Third Division (B1). Owners' target resulted in Scavolini-Spar having large amounts of money at its disposal compared with the other teams of the league. Players from the upper divisions were enrolled, starCarlton Myers among them, which lead the team to win the league and gain promotion to the Second Division (LegaDue).
In 2006–07 Scavolini-Spar won the LegaDue playoff series, lining up players such as Carlton Myers,Rodney White (9th overall pick of the2001 NBA draft),Mindaugas Žukauskas (captain of theLithuanian national basketball team) and Michael Hicks (Panamian national team star). The team was therefore promoted, for the second straight year, to play theLega Basket Serie A 2007–08 league.
Following the 2009–10 season, Spar's secondary sponsorship contract expired. The club picked up a new secondary sponsor in Italian clothing company Siviglia, thereby changing its full sponsored name toScavolini Siviglia Style Pesaro (more simplyScavolini Siviglia Pesaro). The club changed its secondary sponsorship again with the expiration of Siviglia's contract at the end of the 2011–12 season, becomingScavolini Banca Marche Pesaro.
From the 2014–15 season the historical sponsorScavolini was replaced (for the first time since 1975) by the new main sponsorConsultinvest, whereby the name of the team becameConsultinvest Pesaro. Since 2019 summer the new club naming isCarpegna Prosciutto Basket Pesaro thanks to the relationship with the new Title Sponsor Prosciutto di Carpegna.
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Total titles: 5
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| EuroLeague | |||
| 1988–89 | Quarter-finals | 6th place in a group withMaccabi Tel Aviv,FC Barcelona,Jugoplastika,Aris,Limoges,CSKA Moscow andNashua EBBC | |
| 1990–91 | Final Four | 4th place in Paris, lost toPop 84 87–93 in the semi-final, lost toMaccabi Tel Aviv 81–83 in the 3rd place game | |
| 1992–93 | Quarter-finals | eliminated 2-1 byBenetton Treviso, 94-92 (W) inPesaro, 94-101 (L) and 58-77 (L) inTreviso | |
| 1994–95 | Quarter-finals | eliminated 2-1 byLimoges, 68-55 (W) inPesaro, 66-79 (L) and 72-82 (L) inLimoges | |
| 2000–01 | Quarter-finals | eliminated 2-0 byMaccabi Tel Aviv, 69-80 (L) inTel Aviv and 77-84 (L) inPesaro | |
| 2004–05 | Quarter-finals | eliminated 2-0 byMaccabi Tel Aviv, 60-88 (L) inTel Aviv and 100-103 (L) inPesaro | |
| FIBA Saporta Cup | |||
| 1982–83 | Champions | defeatedASVEL 111–99 in the final ofEuropean Cup Winners' Cup inPalma de Mallorca | |
| 1983–84 | Semi-finals | eliminated bySimac Milano, 76–78 (L) inPesaro and 80-90 (L) inMilan | |
| 1985–86 | Final | lost toFC Barcelona 86–101 in the final (Caserta) | |
| 1986–87 | Final | lost toCibona 74–89 in the final (Novi Sad) | |
| 1987–88 | Semi-finals | eliminated byLimoges, 86–102 (L) inLimoges and 93-91 (W) inPesaro | |
| FIBA Korać Cup | |||
| 1989–90 | Final | lost toRam Joventut, 98–99 (L) inPesaro and 86-96 (L) inBadalona in the double finals ofKorać Cup | |
| 1991–92 | Final | lost toil Messaggero Roma, 94–94 (D) in Rome and 86-99 (L) inPesaro in the double finals ofKorać Cup | |
| 1993–94 | Quarter-finals | eliminated byPAOK Bravo, 82-66 (W) inPesaro and 58-96 (L) inThessaloniki | |
| 1995–96 | Quarter-finals | eliminated byTeamsystem Bologna, 81-84 (L) inPesaro and 89-100 (L) inBologna | |
| FIBA EuroChallenge | |||
| 2009–10 | Final Four | 4th place inGöttingen, lost toKrasnye Krylya Samara 70–73 in the semi-final, lost toChorale Roanne 80–86 in the 3rd place game | |
| McDonald's Championship | |||
| 1988 | 4th | 4th place inMadrid, lost toReal Madrid 96–108 in the semi-final, lost toYugoslavia 91–100 in the 3rd place game | |
| 1990 | 4th | 4th place inBarcelona, lost toNew York Knicks 115–119 in the semi-final, lost toFC Barcelona 105–106 in the 3rd place game | |
In 1996 Victoria Libertas moved from the historic "hangar"arena into the newBPA Palas arena (today:Vitrifrigo Arena) which now hosts its home games. Drawing large audiences from nearby towns and the wholeMarche region, in mid 2000s Victoria Libertas was among the top tenbasketball teams in Europe for average attendance.
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Sandro Dell'Agnello2 seasons: '94-'96Paolo Conti5 seasons: '95-'00Ario Costa12 seasons: '84-'96Franco BertiniVincenzo Esposito2 seasons: '96-'98Andrea Gracis11 seasons: '83-'94Walter Magnifico19 seasons: '80-'96, '98-'01Sandro RiminucciAntonello Riva2 seasons: '94-'96
Mike Sylvester6 season: '80-'86Renzo Vecchiato2 seasons: '87-'89
Jason Smith1 season: '01
Peter Guarasci3 seasons: '96-'99
Andrés Guibert1 season: '97-'98
Henri Drell3 seasons: '19-'22
Hanno Möttölä1 season: '04-'05Teemu Rannikko2 seasons: '03-'05
Yann Bonato1 season: '97-'98
Robert Archibald1 season: '04-'05
Mindaugas Žukauskas 3 seasons: '06-'09Tautvydas Lydeka 3 seasons: '10-'12 – '15-'16Simas Jasaitis1 season: '16-'17Donatas Zavackas1 season: '16-'17Egidijus Mockevičius2 season: '18-'19 – '23-'24
Miroslav Berić2 seasons: '01-'03Aleksandar Đorđević2 seasons: '03-'05
Marko Milič2 seasons: '03-'05Marko Tušek2 seasons: '00-'02
Željko Jerkov1 seasons: '82-'83Dragan Kićanović2 seasons: '81-'83Aleksandar Petrović1 season: '87-'88Greg Ballard1 season: '87-'88Joseph Blair2 seasons: '99-'00, '01-'02Myron Brown1 season: '98-'99Melvin Booker4 seasons: '97-'98, '99-'02Darwin Cook3 seasons: '87-'88, '89-'91Lloyd Daniels1 season: '95-'96Tony Dawson1 season: '98-'99Todd Day1 season: '97-'98Darren Daye5 seasons: '87-'92Larry Drew1 season: '88-'89Alphonso Ford†1 season: '03-'04Corey Gaines1 season: '94-'95Dean Garrett2 seasons: '93-'95Chris Gatling1 season: '02-'03DeMarco Johnson2 seasons: '00-'02George McCloud1 season: '93-'94Aaron McGhee1 season: '02-'03Scoonie Penn1 season: '04-'05Norm Richardson1 season: '02-'03Charles Smith1 season: '04-'05Kevin Thompson2 seasons: '95-'97James White1 season: '11-'12Rodney White1 season: '06-'07Haywoode Workman2 seasons: '91-'93Austin Daye1 season: '15-'16Petar Skansi2 seasons: '81-'82, '82-'83Aleksandar Nikolić1 season: '83-'84Don Casey1 season: '84-'85[2]Valerio Bianchini5 seasons: '87-'88, '88-'89, '93-'94, '94-'95, '95-'96Sergio Scariolo2 seasons: '89-'90, '90-'91Duško Vujošević1 season: '97-'98Marco Crespi2 seasons: '02-'03, '04-'05Piero Bucchi1 season: '16-17
Spiro Leka 1 season'17-'18Massimo Galli 1 season'18-'19Matteo Boniciolli 1 season'19Federico Perego 1 season'19-presentIn the past, due to sponsorship deals, it has also been known as:[3]
