Russian Basketball Cup

The Russian Basketball Cup is the primary professional national domestic basketball cup competition of Russia.

Russian Basketball Cup
The Russian Cup trophy
SportBasketball
Founded2000
CountryRussia
Most recent
champion(s)		Zenit Saint Petersburg
(1st title)
Most titlesCSKA Moscow
(4 titles)
Related
competitions		BSL, VTB
Official websiterussiabasket.ru/competitions/1938/kubok-rossii

History

After the cease of the USSR Basketball Cup in 1987, the Russian Federation did not launch any Cup competition in the following years despite the fact that the Russian Basketball Super League 1 had started in 1992. The first cup tournament took place in the year 2000 with the Final Four being hosted at Sochi. It was not held in the following two seasons, but it returned in 2002. Starting from the 2014-15 season most of the VTB League clubs withdrew as the Russian Federation did not allow the use of foreign players in the competition resulting in only 3 VTB teams (Khimki, Krasnye Krylia and Krasny Oktyabr) participating. BC UNICS was the last club from the VTB League to win the trophy in 2014. The last two seasons (2020-22) no VTB club applied to participate in the competition as normally two or three teams would join annually. Current holders are BC Samara.

Final Fours
Year Winner Runner-up Semifinalists City MVP
1999–2000 Lokomotiv Mineralnye Vody Spartak Saint Petersburg Ural Great (3rd)Dinamo-Avtodor Volgograd (4th) Sochi —
2002–03 UNICS CSKA Moscow Ural GreatKhimki Ekaterinburg —
2003–04 Ural Great CSKA Moscow UNICS (3rd)Khimki (4th) Perm —
2004–05 CSKA Moscow UNICS Dynamo Moscow (3rd)Khimki (4th) Moscow —
2005–06 CSKA Moscow Khimki UNICS (3rd)Triumph Lyubertsy (4th) Khimki Theo Papaloukas
2006–07 CSKA Moscow UNICS Dynamo MoscowTriumph Lyubertsy Kazan Alexey Savrasenko
2007–08 Khimki CSKA Moscow UNICSDynamo Moscow Vidnoye Maciej Lampe
2008–09 UNICS Dynamo Moscow CSKA Moscow (3rd)Triumph Lyubertsy (4th) Lyubertsy Krešimir Lončar
2009–10 CSKA Moscow UNICS Spartak Saint Petersburg (3rd)Khimki (4th) Moscow Victor Khryapa
2010–11[lower-alpha 1] Spartak Saint Petersburg Nizhny Novgorod Enisey Krasnoyarsk (3rd)Lokomotiv Kuban (4th) Krasnoyarsk Pero Antić
2011–12[lower-alpha 2] Krasnye Krylia Spartak Primorye Spartak Saint Petersburg (3rd)Ural Ekaterinburg (4th) Samara Brion Rush
2012–13 Krasnye Krylia Spartak Saint Petersburg Spartak Primorye (3rd)Enisey Krasnoyarsk (4th) Vladivostok Aaron Miles
2013–14 UNICS Lokomotiv Kuban KhimkiKrasny Oktyabr Kazan, Krasnodar Drew Goudelock
2014–15[lower-alpha 3] Novosibirsk Dynamo Moscow Spartak Primorye (3rd)Krasnye Krylia (4th) Novosibirsk Sergey Tokarev
2015–16[lower-alpha 3] Parma Zenit Saint Petersburg Temp-SUMZ-UGMK (3rd)Samara (4th) Moscow Alexander Vinnik
2016–17[lower-alpha 3] Novosibirsk SakhalinParma (3rd)Temp-SUMZ-UGMK (4th) Ekaterinburg Sergey Tokarev
2017–18[lower-alpha 3] Lokomotiv Kuban Nizhny NovgorodNovosibirsk (3rd)Irkut (4th) Krasnodar Dmitry Kulagin
2018–19[lower-alpha 3] Parma Nizhny NovgorodNovosibirsk (3rd)Spartak Saint Petersburg (4th) Nizhny Novgorod Alexander Platunov
2019–20[lower-alpha 3] Samara Temp-SUMZ-UGMKVostok-65 (3rd)Uralmash (4th) Samara, Revda Vladimir Pichurkov
2020–21[lower-alpha 3] Temp-SUMZ-UGMK Vostok-65Samara (3rd) Kupol-Rodniki (4th) Revda, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Viktor Zaryazhko
2021–22[lower-alpha 3] Samara Temp-SUMZ-UGMKRuna (3rd) Novosibirsk (4th) Samara, Revda Maxim Sheleketo
2022–23 Nizhny Novgorod Zenit Saint Petersburg MBA Moscow (3rd) Khimki (4th) Saint Petersburg Trent Frazier
2023–24 Zenit Saint Petersburg Nizhny Novgorod Uralmash Yekaterinburg (3rd) MBA Moscow (4th) Yekaterinburg Trent Frazier
  1. In the 2010–11 season, 4 teams of the PBL did not participate in the Cup: CSKA Moscow, Dynamo Moscow, Khimki, and UNICS.[1]
  2. In the 2011–12 season, 5 teams of the PBL did not participate in the Cup: CSKA Moscow, Enisey, Khimki, Lokomotiv-Kuban and UNICS.
  3. From the 2014–15 competition and onwards, teams were only allowed to play with Russian players; which led to the withdrawals of most of the top tier Russian teams.[2]

Performance by club
Club Winners Runners-up Winning years Runner-up years
CSKA Moscow 4 3 2004–05, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2009–10 2002–03, 2003–04, 2007–08
UNICS 3 3 2002–03, 2008–09, 2013–14 2004–05, 2006–07, 2009–10
Lokomotiv Kuban 2 1 1999–00, 2017–18 2013–14
Krasnye Krylia 2 – 2011–12, 2012–13
Novosibirsk 2 – 2014–15, 2016–17
Parma Basket 2 – 2015–16, 2018–19
Samara 2 – 2019–20, 2021–22
Nizhny Novgorod 1 4 2022–23 2010–11, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2023–24
Temp-SUMZ-UGMK 1 2 2020–21 2019–20, 2021–22
Spartak Saint Petersburg 1 2 2010–11 1999–00, 2012–13
Zenit Saint Petersburg 1 2 2023–24 2015–16, 2022–23
Khimki 1 1 2007–08 2005–06
Ural Great 1 – 2003–04
Dynamo Moscow – 2 2008-09, 2014–15
Spartak Primorye – 1 2011–12
Sakhalin – 1 2016–17
Vostok-65 – 1 2020–21

Predecessor competition

See also

References
  1. Хомичюс: интерес к Кубку не пропадёт ни у команд, ни у фанатов (in Russian). Championat.ru. 29 October 2010. Retrieved 30 October 2010.
  2. Европейцев: только российские баскетболисты смогут играть в Кубке России (Only Russian players can play in the Cup Competition)
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