Andrea Costa Imola

2012/13: 15th Place

Andrea Costa Imola Basket is an Italian basketball club from Imola. The association founded in 1967, is named after a native of Imola politicians Andrea Costa; However, the professional men's team will operate normally under their sponsors name. In the 2012/13 season they played under the name Aget Nature Imola in the second highest Italian league Legadue.

History

In 1986 the men's team rose to the fourth- highest division series B2 and reached was immediately awarded the championship and promotion to the Serie B1. After eight seasons they reached there in 1995 to move up to the time the second highest league series A2. After the hall PalaRuggi received no approval for second- highest division, they played in the meantime in a tent construction on the site of the Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari. Only in 2012 could return for home games in the domestic hall PalaRuggi again after adjusting the eligibility criteria of the club. After the commitment of coach Francesco Vitucci 1996, a plan for the medium-term promotion to the top flight was announced by President Gianpero Domenicali. This then succeeded after the 1997/98 season, when you in the play- offs of the series A2 was able to secure one of the two promotion places in the final series against the main round First Basket Livorno itself.

After the rise in the Lega Basket Serie A Andrea Costa Imola again had to change the venue and carried home its home games from now on in the Palacattani in neighboring Faenza. In the first Erstligaspielzeit 1998/99 was reached after the main round a ninth place, and went into a qualifying round in the play-off quarter-final series to the Italian championship one in which they lost against the main round First and regional rival Team System Bologna. The following season, they confirmed the main circular placement of the previous year, but different this time from already in the qualifying round of the play-offs. In the 2000 /01 season but the team parted from Imola only the better direct comparison from last place after the main round. As Table Penultimate then you benefited from the withdrawal of licenses for the league rivals RB Montecatini Terme and was able to once again reach the league. Coach Vitucci moved to league rivals Benetton Treviso and in the 2001/ 02 season of relegation from the top division was then no longer be avoided as Table. This also marked the end of ongoing since 1990 presidency of Gianpero Domenicali.

After relegation from Serie A in 2002 they played then in the Legadue that had the series A2 replaced in 2001 as the second- highest division and organized a league same association itself. After you had just achieved in the 2002/03 season relegated a place in the play-offs for promotion, you found yourself in the following seasons until the Season 2005/ 06 consistently on the lower places in the table at the end of the season again. 2004, 2007 and 2009 was achieved as a table next to last in the league only Lizenzentzüge other teams. After allowing the collection comparatively narrowly missed out in the Ascension Play-offs for the seasons 2009/10 and 2010/ 11, it was again in the season 2011/ 12 Table Penultimate, which in a team decreased League was not a relegation place. Although they played in the 2012/13 season again with only 15 teams, but as Table they finished this time sporting relegation zone.

Known player

  • United States Bill Jones 1995-1998
  • United States Steve Burtt sr. 1997/98
  • United States Chris Jent 1998/99
  • Italy Vincenzo Esposito 1998-2001, 2002/ 03, 2004 /05
  • Italy Maurizio Ragazzi 1999/2000
  • Bahamas Ian Lockhart 1999/2000
  • United States Brian Evans 1999/2000
  • Ivory Coast Marc M'Bahia 2000/ 01
  • United States Toby Bailey 2001/ 02
  • United States Shawn Respert 2001/ 02
  • Panama Michael Hicks 2002/ 03, 2005 /06
  • United States Bingo Merriex 2004/ 05
  • United States / Germany Chris Henry 2005/ 06
  • United States Donte Mathis 2006/ 07
  • Italy Pietro Aradori 2006/ 07
  • United States Isaiah Swann 2008/ 09
  • United States Robert Vaden 2009/10
  • United States Trent Whiting 2009-2012
  • Sweden Martin Ringström 2010/11
  • Finland Tuukka Kotti 2011/12
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