Fribourg Olympic Basket

Fribourg Olympic Basket, commonly known as Fribourg Olympic, is a Swiss professional basketball club that is based in Fribourg. Due to name sponsorship reasons, the former name of the club was Benetton Fribourg. The club is a seventeen-time Swiss Basketball League champion.

Fribourg Olympic
LeaguesSwiss Basketball League
Founded27 April 1961 (1961-04-27)
ArenaSalle Saint-Léonard
Capacity2,850
LocationFribourg, Switzerland
PresidentPhilippe de Gottrau
Head coachPetar Aleksić
2019–20 positionSBL, 1st of 12
ChampionshipsSwiss League (18)
Swiss Cup (9)
Swiss League Cup (6)
Websitefribourg-olympic.ch

History

Fribourg Olympic competed in seven seasons of the original version of the EuroLeague, the top-level European competition, when it was run by FIBA, due to being the Swiss League champions. In all those seasons, the club only qualified two times for the competition's second round, by winning their previous series. In 2007, Fribourg Olympic competed in the European-wide secondary competition, the 2007–08 ULEB Cup regular season, but they ended up in the last position of their group.

In the 2015–16 season, Fribourg won its first Swiss Basketball League (SBL) title in eight years. In the 2017–18 season, Fribourg won its seventeenth Swiss national title. Following that domestic title, the club made its debut in the qualifying rounds of the European secondary level FIBA Basketball Champions League (BCL). On 4 October 2018, they eventually qualified to the competition's regular season phase,[1] after winning three successive qualifying rounds against Avtodor Saratov, Donar, and Sakarya.

Arena

Fribourg Olympic plays its home games at the Salle Saint-Léonard arena, which has a seating capacity of 2,850 people.

Honours and titles
Swiss Basketball League
  • Champions (18): 1966, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1985, 1992, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2007, 2008, 2016, 2018, 2019
    • Runners-up (17): 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1972, 1976, 1977, 1983, 1989, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2010, 2011
Swiss Cup
  • Winners (9): 1967, 1976, 1978, 1997, 1998, 2007, 2016, 2018, 2019
Swiss League Cup
  • Winners (6): 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2018, 2020

Roster

Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationality not displayed.

Fribourg Olympic roster
PlayersCoaches
Pos.No.Nat.Name
PG 4 Jeremy Jaunin
F 5 Florian Steinmann
PF 6 Paul Gravet
G/F 7 Dusan Mladjan
G/F 12 Thomas Jurkovitz
F/C 13 Babacar Touré
G 16 Victor Desponds
F 21 Kevin Madiamba
G 32 Justin Roberson
F 50 Andre Williamson
G 88 Chad Timberlake
F 99 Natan Jurkovitz
Head coach

Petar Aleksic

Assistant coach(es)

Andrej Stimac

Legend
  • (C) Team captain
  • Injured
Updated: 24 September 2018

Notable players

Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationality not displayed.

  • Vladimir Buscaglia
  • Arnaud Cotture
  • Eric Fongue
  • Jonathan Kazadi
  • Roberto Kovac
  • Marko Mladan
  • Westher Molteni
  • Oliver Vogt
  • Ronald Yates
  • Slobodan Miljanic
  • Brendon Polyblank
  • Dave Esterkamp
  • Andre Williamson
  • Derek Wright

Head coaches
  • Damien Leyrolles

References
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