Fribourg Olympic Basket

History

Fribourg Olympic competed in seven seasons of the original version of the EuroLeague, the top-level European competition, when it was run by FIBA, due to being the Swiss League champions. In all those seasons, the club only qualified two times for the competition's second round, by winning their previous series. In 2007, Fribourg Olympic competed in the European-wide secondary competition, the 2007–08 ULEB Cup regular season, but they ended up in the last position of their group.

In the 2015–16 season, Fribourg won its first Swiss Basketball League (SBL) title in eight years. In the 2017–18 season, Fribourg won its seventeenth Swiss national title. Following that domestic title, the club made its debut in the qualifying rounds of the European secondary level FIBA Basketball Champions League (BCL). On 4 October 2018, they eventually qualified to the competition's regular season phase, after winning three successive qualifying rounds against Avtodor Saratov, Donar, and Sakarya.

Arena

Fribourg Olympic plays its home games at the Salle Saint-Léonard arena, which has a seating capacity of 2,850 people.

Honours and titles

;Swiss Basketball League

• Champions (22): 1966, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1985, 1992, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2007, 2008, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
  • Runners-up (17): 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1972, 1976, 1977, 1983, 1989, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2010, 2011 ;Swiss Cup
• Winners (12): 1967, 1976, 1978, 1997, 1998, 2007, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024 ;Swiss League Cup
• Winners (8): 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2024

Roster

• BEL Thibaut Petit
• ISR Aner Lev Ron
• CAN Emerson Thomas

Notable players

• SUI Vladimir Buscaglia
• SUI Arnaud Cotture
• SUI Eric Fongue
• SUI Jérémy Jaunin
• SUI Jonathan Kazadi
• SUI Roberto Kovac
• SUI Kevin Madiamba
• SUI Vigdon Memishi
• SUI Marko Mladan
• SUI Westher Molteni
• SUI Florian Steinmann
• SUI Oliver Vogt
• SUI Robert Zinn
• FIN Ville Kaunisto
• SEN Babacar Touré
• USA Greg Howard
• USA Arizona Reid
• USA Chad Timberlake
• USA Cornell Warner
• USA Derek Wright
• USA Clint Chapman
• USA Ken Johnson}}

Head coaches

• Ed Klimkowski
• Petar Aleksic

References

References

1. "Qualification Round 3, Gameday 2 - Round up".
2. (15 June 2020). "Jeremy Jaunin: "Si on peut sortir les Lions, on ne va pas se gêner…"". [[Tribune de Genève]].
3. "Historique et palmarès".