Keravnos B.C.

Keravnos Strovolou (Greek: Γυμναστικός Σύλλογος Στροβόλου Κεραυνός ) is a Cypriot basketball club of Nicosia.

History

The club was founded in 1926, the basketball department was founded in 1964. As Keravnos Cyprus College of club founding member of the highest Cypriot league, the Division was first This was the club previously won five times, first in 1989 and most recently in 2008. Moreover, could the Club eight times to win the Cypriot Cup Basketball.

Keravnos plays since the early 1990s regularly in the European Cup with where you posted several times significant results. So you came in 1998 in the Eurocup to the Round of 32 After the surprising survive the group phase would retire there against the eventual winner of this contest, Zalgiris Kaunas, from. The team previously took part in several times Korac Cup.

In the 2000 /01 season Keravnos reached the first Cypriot team one quarterfinal in the European Cup. In the Saporta Cup the team was first second of the group, then turned off in the second round Borac Banja Luka, before the quarter-finals Pamesa Valencia was too strong.

In the 2006/07 season the team came even to the finals of the FIBA EuroCup Challenge, where it ZSK WWS Samara had to admit defeat. This was followed by participation in the Euro Challenge, in which the team but did not come through the group stage.

Hall

The club plays its home games from the comprehensive 2,000 seats Costas Papaellinas Arena.

Achievements

• 5x Cypriot Champion (1989, 1997, 2000, 2002, 2008)
• 8x Cypriot Cup winner (1989, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2010 )
• Saporta Cup quarter-finalists (2001)

Known (former) players

• Serbia Miladin Peković (2010 -)
• United States Winsome Frazier ( 2011-12 )
• Serbia Mlađen Šljivančanin ( 2010-11 )
• Greece Agamemnon Ioannou ( 2009-11 & 1997-99 )