Wikipedia - Basket Brno

Basketball Club Brno (Czech: Basketbalový Klub Brno), for sponsorship reasons Brno Next Generation, is a Czech professional basketball club based in the city of Brno. The team plays in the Czech National Basketball League – the highest competition in the Czech Republic.

Home games of Brno are played in the Sportovní hala Sokola Brno, which has a capacity of 1,100 people.

The club owned by True Player Group with the idea to "unite the city top two youth clubs to one elite club and push the players to professional level, providing the best coaches, mentoring, nutrition programs, strength programing, rehab, etc."

History

The team was a European powerhouse from 1945 through the 1960s and mid-1970s. Brno was the most successful basketball club in Czechoslovakia, winning 21 championship titles through the 1970s, and another three titles from 1994 to 1996. Brno lost two FIBA European Champion Cup finals in 1964 and 1968, both times to Spanish champions Real Madrid. The 1974 loss in the FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup final to Crvena zvezda marked the end of a golden era for the club in European competitions.

On January 25 and 26, 1969 Spartak ZJŠ Brno participated in the FIBA Intercontinental Cup at Macon, Georgia, the second time a basketball club from Czechoslovakia participated in the competition after Slavia VŠ Praha had done so in 1967. In the 1969 semifinal, Spartak beat European champions, Real Madrid but lost the final 71–84 to the Akron Goodyear Wingfoots, a basketball team of workers at the Goodyear Tire Company in Akron, Ohio.

Since 2022 Brno team participates also in the newly founded international league European North Basketball League. In the debut season Brno won 4 games out of 5 in the regular season, finishing second in the standings. Later in the Final Four Brno lost to Šiauliai team from Lithuania and won the bronze medal.

MMCITE Brno er et tsjekkisk basketballlag for kvinner fra Brno. Laget spiller i den tsjekkiske ligaen ŽBL og i EuroCup Women. Hjemmearenaen er Sportcentrum Vodova.

Klubben ble grunnlagt i 2007 og har vunnet den tsjekkiske ligaen syv ganger, senest i 2021. De har også vunnet den tsjekkiske cupen sju ganger, senest i 2022.

I EuroCup Women har MMCITE Brno nådd kvartfinalen to ganger, i 2016 og 2022.

Noen av de mest kjente spillerne som har spilt for MMCITE Brno er:

* Jana Veselá
* Kateřina Bartoňová
* Kateřina Elhotová
* Petra Kulichová
* Tereza Vyoralová