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Leagues | Georgian Super Liga |
Founded | 1934 |
Arena | Tbilisi Sports Palace |
Capacity | 10,000 |
Location | Tbilisi,Georgia |
Team colors | Blue, White |
President | Buba Kvimsadze |
Ownership | Zaza Pachulia Shio Khetsuriani |
Championships | 1EuroLeague 6Georgian Championships 4USSR Championships 3USSR Cups |
Website | bcdinamotbilisi.ge |
BC Dinamo Tbilisi (Georgian:საკალათბურთო კლუბი "დინამო") is a professionalbasketball club that is based inTbilisi, that plays in theGeorgian Superliga. It is one of the oldest and most successful basketball clubs ofGeorgia and the formerUSSR, having won numerous national titles and the1962 FIBA European Champions Cup (EuroLeague). The club's traditional colors are blue and white.
BC Dinamo was established in 1934 as the basketball division of theDynamo Sports Society. During the 1950s and the 1960s, it was one of the leading teams of the USSR. During this period, the club won theSoviet League championships 4 times, theSoviet Cup 3 times, and finished in medal positions (top 3) of the league championship a further 8 times.
In1960, Dinamo reached the final of theFIBA European Champions Cup (the predecessor of the current EuroLeague), where they were defeated byRīgas ASK in 2 games.Two years later, they once again reached the final of this competition, and on that occasion, they were crowned as Europe's best team by defeatingReal Madrid in a one-off game inGeneva. The club's coach at that time was the legendaryOtar Korkia, who had earlier starred for the club as a player, and was voted as one ofFIBA's 50 Greatest Players in 1991. Dinamo also reached the final of theFIBA Saporta Cup (FIBA's second-tier level competition) in1969, where they were defeated bySlavia VŠ Praha.
Dinamo became the very first winners of the independent Georgian championships in 1991. In total, they have won 4Superliga titles and one Georgian cup. Failure to attract major sponsorship saw the club struggle for a long spell in the 2000s. However,Bank of Georgia became the club patrons in 2011, President of the club was former National team captain Vakhtang Natsvlishvili which allowed the squad to be strengthened with foreign imports, and more ambitious targets to be established for the future. The success finally materialized in the 2013–14 season, with Dinamo making their first appearance in the play-off finals for over a decade, and winning the title in a convincing manner.
In October 2018, two-timeNBA championZaza Pachulia and former basketball playerShio Khetsuriani purchased the team.[1]
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