ASK Riga

ASK Rīga is a basketball and handball club from Riga in Latvia. It was founded in 2004.

Basketball

History

The historical ASK Riga (1931 to 1991)

From 1931 to existed in Riga a basketball team of the Army Port Association, which was one of the leading teams in the country and in the 1950s even the best teams of the Soviet Union, and hence to the best club teams in Europe. 1955 as well as 1957 and 1958 you won the championship of the Soviet Union and was then washed three times in succession from 1958 to 1960 winning the first three sweeps of the European Cup of Champions. Among the most influential figures of the crew belonged to her long-time coach Alexander Gomelski, who supervised the team from 1952 to 1964 and then another two decades for the Moscow army sports club CSKA Moscow worked. Without Gomelski, who left the club after the runner-up in 1964, to ASK could not place among the top three teams in the Soviet Union and dissolved in 1991.

BK Brocēni ( 1991-2001 )

Without immediate direct connection to the ASK was founded in the BK Brocēni in Riga in 1991. After even the local competitor of ASK, the Uptime Sports Team of VEF Riga in 1992 temporarily stopped their game operation, Brocēni was in the early years of the Latvian Basketball League without competition and won the championships from 1992 to 1999, while from 1995 onwards with the suffix ASK the old Army team. 2001 we also made a Brocēni his professional game operation after the championships had gone to the BK Ventspils in 2000 and 2001.

BK Skonto Riga (2001 to 2004)

After the end of BK Brocēni the first-class game company was continued by a department, founded in 2001 Skonto Riga in basketball in Riga. The BK discount was three times runner-up, but the BK Ventspils but could not threaten in the final matches of the national championship, which continues to win the championship this year.

BK Riga ( 2004-2006 ) / ASK Riga (2006 to 2009)

After the end of BK Skonto Riga 2004, Riga BK BK Barons Riga next to the led, founded in 1991 continues the tradition of the Riga basketball at the highest national level. 2006 was called the team in ASK Riga to and thus made ​​reference to the origins of the Army team. After the championship 2007 team lost the connection to the national peak in 2009 and reached only the sixth. At the start of the following season 2009/10 the game was shut down after the next BK BK VEF Rīga the Barons was also returned to the Latvian Basketball League.

Achievements

  • Latvian Basketball League: 2005 - 6th place
  • 2006 - 3rd place
  • 2007 - Master
  • 2005 - 5th place Division 2
  • 2006 - no entry
  • 2007 - 6th place

Handball

In 1993, the handball team was founded as an association of the national armed forces. The team won 10 times the Latvian league titles and 5 times the championship of the Baltic League Champion. The ASK also participated in the EHF Cup. Since 2002, the Aizkraukles Bank is the main sponsor of the club.

The Team ASK / AB.LV won several national tournaments and played well at the European level.

The home games are in the NBS sporta Zāle instead.

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