RBC Verviers-Pepinster

2011/12: 9th place

Royal Basket Club Verviers- Pepinster is a Belgian basketball club from Pepinster in the Walloon province of Liège. The professional first team is sponsored by the telecommunications companies VOO. In the past, from 1990 to the Belgian Railways SNCB long time was title sponsor, so that the team played a long time under the name Go Pass Pepinster. Since 2001, officially the name of the next larger town of Verviers is performed in the club name. The most famous player who comes from the club, probably the most important Belgian player of the 2000s, Axel Hervelle, 2012 contributed financially and in the management of the professional game operating company of the association, as this had its financial problems is. End of March 2013 it came nevertheless as already five years earlier to a new bankruptcy petition.

History

Founded in 1938, the association is made ​​with the student number 0046 at the Belgian Basketball Federation. Only after the 25-year club anniversary awoke the ambition to also run basketball on competitive sports level. In the 1970s, the men's team rose from the fourth- highest division in the second highest in Belgium. 1985 reached the summit in the highest national league in Belgium, belonging to the first men's team ever since. First time in 1990 after qualifying for an international competition where they played under the name Go Pass Pepinster in Korać Cup. For this international competition could qualify relatively regularly in the 1990s, without that you could achieve decisive successes on a national or even international level.

In the season 1999/2000 the Croat Nikša Bavčević took over as coach and Victor Bosquin became the new President, will cause the creation of a youth center. In the following season and the 17 -year-old native of Liege Hervelle was included in the squad of the professional team. In 2001, one adjoining Verviers as a place name with the club name on. After they were still third from bottom of the top division at the end of the season 1999/2000, you could penetrate 2003 after a second place in the main round until the final series for the championship, where to but Spirou Charleroi BC defeated. A season later one could confirm the main circuit placement, but different this time already back in the play-off semi-final series for the championship of. 2004 left both coach Bavčević, who moved to the league rivals Dexia Mons- Hainaut, and the emerging Axel Hervelle, who moved to Spain to Real Madrid, the club. Thus ended a short sporting success phase of the first team, which is then placed in the back field of the first division. Twice it was in 2009 and 2012 even Table, but in the professional division of Belgium, which since 2008 includes only nine teams, away from the relegation zone.

After it was after a bankruptcy petition almost come to the resolution of the professional game operating company in 2008, it was almost five years back at a bankruptcy petition before at least the matches could be until end of season ensured.

Known player

  • England Chris Haslam 1999-2001
  • United States / Belgium Marcus Faison 2000-2002, 2011/12
  • Belgium Axel Hervelle 2000-2004
  • United States Darius Hall 2002-2004
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina Nedžad Sinanović 2003-2005
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina Aleksandar Zečević 2003-2009
  • Serbia and Montenegro Veselin Petrović 2004/ 05
  • United States Marcus Douthit 2004/ 05
  • United States Adrian Autry 2004/ 05
  • Mouhamed Saer Senegal Sené 2005/ 06
  • United States Brian Greene 2005/ 06
  • Belgium Christophe Beghin 2005-2007
  • United States / Switzerland Greg Brunner 2006/ 07
  • United States Thomas Gardner 2006/ 07
  • United States Charles Lee 2007/ 08
  • United States Stanley Burrell 2009/10
  • United States Anthony Hilliard 2009/10

Former coach

Belfius Mons-Hainaut Real Madrid Baloncesto Chris Haslam (basketball) Charles Lee (basketball) Stanley Burrell (basketball) Le Soir
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