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BK Asowmasch Mariupol (Ukrainian баскетбольний клуб Азовмаш Маріуполь; Russian БК " Азовмаш » Мариупол ) is a Ukrainian professional basketball club from Mariupol. The club currently plays in the Ukrainian Superleague. In addition to the Ukrainian championship of the club playing in the ULEB Eurocup and in the VTB. The greatest sporting achievement was reaching the finals of the FIBA EuroCup 2007 compared CB Girona.

History

After the war, first the local sporting clubs SK Azov and SK Asowstal participated at regional and national level championship games in basketball, was the leading basketball club in the region Mariupol in the 1970s, the SK Nowator. The team was led by Valentin Roma Nets, which should be a determining personality for basketball in Mariupol in the following years. On August 22, 1991, the new club now Asowmasch was entered in the Register of Associations as an independent association under the Ukrainian independence. Since 2000, Alexander Savchuk president of the association as well as the engineering group of the same name. After two Cup triumph in 2001 and 2002 they won the first time in 2003, the Ukrainian National Championship that could defend each six times successfully until 2005. Only in 2011 had to return it to BK Budiwelnik Kiev, with which one is most successful club of Ukraine together with seven league titles the title. During this time they won in 2006 and 2008 and 2009, three other national league and cup doubles. In 2007 they reached the final, which was lost against the Spanish representatives and host Akasvasyu Girona in the third-tier European club competition FIBA EuroCup. In the season 2010/11 Asowmasch reached the semifinals in the VTB United League which was lost to PBK CSKA Moscow with 57:69.

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