Current season, competition or edition: 2025 Italian Basketball Supercup | |
| Sport | Basketball |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1995 |
| No. of teams | 4 |
| Country | Italy |
| Confederation | FIBA Europe |
| Most recent champions | Olimpia Milano (6 titles) |
| Most titles | Mens Sana 1871 Olimpia Milano (6 titles) |
| Broadcaster | Eurosport[1] |
| Sponsor | Discovery+ |
| Related competitions | LBA Italian Cup |
TheItalian Basketball Supercup (Italian:Supercoppa Italiana di Pallacanestro), also known asDiscovery+ Supercoppa for sponsorship reasons,[2] is a professionalbasketballsuper cup competition. From the2020 Supercup edition, all the teams of LBA took part in the competition. Created in 1995, it is organised by theLega Basket – who run the LBA and the Italian Cup – in partnership withRCS Sport, and it traditionally opens the season.
The 2014 edition of the Supercup was played on October 4 and 5, atSassari'sPalaSerradimigni, in afinal four format.Italian League andItalian Cup runners-upMontepaschi Siena (also defending champions), did not participate, after declaring bankruptcy over the summer. Italian League championsEA7 Emporio Armani Milano, comfortably dispatchedEnel Brindisi (third in the 2014 cup), by a score of 71–59, in the first semifinal, on the back ofLinas Kleiza's andJoe Ragland's long-distance shooting (17 and 16 points respectively), in a mistake-strewn game.
The other semifinal saw cup-holdersBanco di Sardegna Sassari, have an easy 89–73 win overAcea Roma (league semifinalist), with the hosts always leading, and Sassarihead coachRomeo Sacchetti, rotating his squad.[3]
The final saw Sassari add a second title to their prior cup win, by downing Milano 96–88. TheSardinians started the game on the front foot, leading the first quarter, 29–14, while Milano struggled to score (0-for-6 from three). They continued to drive the game at the start of the second quarter, but Milano found a way back into the game, thanks to stronger defense and a stellarMarShon Brooks, to answer with a 15–0 run from, 36-18 down, with Sassari then finding their scoring shoes to finish the half 50–40. Three's from Ragland and Kleiza helped Milano claw back at the lead, but Brooks missed the shot to equalise, with the quarter ending on 72–68. Sassari would stay in front for the rest of the game, with Supercup MVPJerome Dyson entertaining the fans. Brooks led all scorers with 26 points, followed for Milano by Ragland (17) and Kleizia (16), whilst Dyson paced the winners with 25, and three other players had 14 points.[4]
The2015 edition took place inTurin'sPalaRuffini, on 26 and 27 September. It pittedBanco di Sardegna Sassari (both league and cup holders) againstGrissin Bon Reggio Emilia (league runners-up) andEA7 Emporio Armani Milano (cup finalist and league semifinalist) againstUmana Reyer Venezia (league semifinalist) in the semifinals.[5][6]
In 2000, the Supercup was organised on a bigger scale, with all but one of the Serie A andSerie A2 teams participating (Viola Reggio Calabria were caught up in a tournament in Buenos Aires), with the league and cup holders already qualified for the semifinals.The next year, the four best-ranked teams in the league took part in a Supercup final four.[7]
The 2014 edition saw the Supercup contested by four squads, with the league champion playing the runner up of the cup, and the cup winner playing the league regular season runner-up (barring that, the next best placed team in the cup and the league are chosen in that order).[8]The format was confirmed for the following editions.
In 2020 edition all the teams of LBA took part in the Supercup, due to the early conclusion of the2019–20 LBA season caused by COVID-19 pandemic. The competition consists of 4 round robin groups that qualify 4 teams to the Final Four that was held in Bologna at theSegafredo Arena.The format was confirmed for the 2021 edition, with a Final Eight in place of a Final Four.
Some observers have derided the Italian Basketball Supercup as a, "minor trophy", in contrast to theItalian Cup.[9] Journalist's such as the Corriere di Bologna's, Daniele Labanti, andPanorama's Paolo Corio, reacted to the low spectator turnout at the 2014 edition (as part of a general trend), organised inSassari, by unfavorably comparing its appeal to that of the top levelItalian league, the top level Italian Cup, and theEuroLeague (in which the home team would be involved).
The formula and venue was also criticised, with calls to organise a single final, in a city bereft of aprofessionalclub basketball (such asBari orPalermo), or even abroad, in the manner of theItalian football Supercup.[10][11]
Mens Sana are the record-holders with seven cups,Treviso andMilano follow with four titles,Virtus Bologna have participated in the most finals (11), winning the cup three times.[7]
Note: boxscores from Lega Basket (retrieved 21 September 2021)
| Rank | Club | Titles | Runner-up | Champion Years | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Mens Sana 1871 | 6 | 1 | 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011,2013 (revoked) | |
| 2. | Olimpia Milano | 6 | 3 | 2016,2017,2018,2020,2024,2025 | |
| 3. | Virtus Bologna | 4 | 8 | 1995,2021,2022,2023 | |
| 4. | Treviso | 4 | 5 | 1997, 2001, 2002, 2006 | |
| 5. | Cantù | 2 | 1 | 2003, 2012 | |
| 6. | Fortitudo Bologna | 2 | 0 | 1998, 2005 | |
| 7. | Dinamo Sassari | 2 | 1 | 2014,2019 | |
| 8. | Varese | 1 | 1 | 1999 | |
| 9. | Scaligera Verona | 1 | 0 | 1996 | |
| 10. | Virtus Roma | 1 | 0 | 2000 | |
| 11. | Reggiana | 1 | 0 | 2015 | |
| 12. | Felice Scandone | 0 | 2 | ||
| 13. | Reyer Venezia | 0 | 2 | ||
| 14. | Brescia | 0 | 2 | ||
| 15. | Torino | 0 | 1 | ||
| 16. | Victoria Libertas | 0 | 1 | ||
| 17. | Napoli | 0 | 1 |
