Lugano Tigers

2011/12: 1st place

The Lugano Tigers are a Swiss basketball club based in Lugano in the Swiss canton of Ticino. The successful men's team plays in the A- series of the top domestic league championship national basketball league.

History

The club was founded under the name FV Lugano in 1981 as a fusion of club Federale Lugano and Viganello basket, which had been very successful in the 1970s and together the four Swiss championships and five cup wins Swiss had won. In the first year succeeded in 1982 another Cup victory. Then were other songs profits.

1999 Named one in Lugano Snakes around and won another championship in 2000, after which the same in the newly established ULEB Euro League 2000 /01 took. At the top next to the Suproleague European club level you won in the first round at least three wins in ten games, but just missed out on participating in the knockout stages of this competition. At national level, followed in 2001 and 2002, two double success. 2003, however, the club was liquidated financially at the end and had to.

In 2003, we therefore acquired the license from AB Viganello, the successor organization of Viganello Basket, and entered into the sequence as Lugano Tigers. In 2006 they won the championship again and after the championship success of 2010, the 2010/11 season we qualified for the first time back for a round of a major European club competition. In third-tier Euro Challenge competition but you dropped out after the first round, while a further one DoubleClick won at the national level, which could be repeated in the following season 2011/12.

Known player

  • United States it: Tom Scheffler 1982/1983, 1985/1986
  • United States / Switzerland it: Michael Polite 1996-2003
  • United States it: Todd Mitchell 1998/1999
  • Serbia it: Nikola Dačević 1999/2000, 2001-2004,
  • United States it: Derell Washington 1999/2000
  • Switzerland it: Harold Mrazek 1999-2001
  • Switzerland it: Patrick Koller 1999-2001
  • Switzerland it: Norbert Valis 1999-2001
  • United States it: Lee Matthews 2000/2001
  • United States it: Spencer Dunkley 2000/2001
  • United States it: Rashid Atkins 2001/2002
  • United States / Slovakia Peter Lisicky 2001/2002
  • Slovenia / Italy Marko Verginella 2002/2003, 2009
  • Serbia / Switzerland Dušan Mlađan 2002-2005, since 2008
  • Argentina / Italy Rodrigo Pastore 2005/2006
  • Serbia Andrija Crnogorac 2005-2008, since 2011
  • United States Brian Brown 2010
  • Israel / Germany Alon Stein 2010
  • United States Sean Finn 2010/2011
  • Swiss basketball club
  • Sport ( Lugano)
Ligue Nationale de Basketball (Switzerland) 2000–01 Euroleague FIBA SuproLeague Double (association football) EuroChallenge Ryan Richards Nick George (basketball)
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