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Levanga Hokkaido

Professional basketball team in Sapporo, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan

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Professional basketball team in Sapporo, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan

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Levanga Hokkaido
arena	Hokkai Kitayell
capacity	8,000
location	Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
colors	Chartreuse and Sapphire
president	Takehiko Orimo
sponsor	Eagle Pachinko
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Basketball Club Hokkaido Levanga Hokkaido | vice-presidents =

Levanga Hokkaido is a Japanese professional basketball team based in the city of Sapporo on the island of Hokkaido. The club was founded in 2006 as Rera Kamuy Hokkaido, this name comes from the language of the Ainu, an ethnic group indigenous to Hokkaido, and means "god of the winds". The franchise changed its name twice in 2011; the first when the club's parent company was kicked out of the league due to financial woes in the season. The team ended the season with a league-backed management group and a new moniker, calling itself Basketball Club Hokkaido. And finally, took its current name Levanga Hokkaido, in August 2011.

The team debuted in the Japan Basketball League in the 2007–2008 season and is one of only three teams in the league not owned by a major Japanese manufacturing company.

Levanga plays its home games mainly at the Hokkai Kitayell, but, as the team represents the entire Hokkaido Prefecture, also plays some home-games at the Asahikawa City General Gymnasium, Otaru City Gymnasium, Hakodate Arena, Obihiro City General Gymnasium & Kushiro Shitsugen no Kaze Arena.

The club was 200 million yen in debt in March 2017, but has since paid it off.

Honours

Continental

ABA Club Championship
- Runner-up: 2008

Roster

JPN Ryutaro Onodera JPNFuminori Aiura JPNTomohiro Takeda

Notable players

:To appear in this section a player must have either:

Set a club record or won an individual award as a professional player.
Played at least one official international match for his senior national team or one NBA game at any time.
ENG Chris Ayer
CAN Jordan Bachynski
USA Joevan Catron
USA Brian Fitzpatrick
JPN Makoto Kato (fr)
GER Tilo Klette
USA Jai Lewis
SWE Christian Maråker
JPN Keijuro Matsui
USA Daniel Miller
USA Tyler Newton
JPN Takehiko Orimo
CAN Chad Posthumus
PHI Dwight Ramos
USA Justin Reynolds
JPN Ryōta Sakurai
JPN Kohei Sekino
USA Jahmar Thorpe
USA Jerome Tillman
CAN Marc Trasolini
USA Jameel Watkins
USA Thomas Welsh
USA Greg Whittington
JPN Daiji Yamada

Coaches

Tomoya Higashino
Joe Bryant (2010–11)
Yoshinori Kaneta
Torsten Loibl
Scott Berry
Juan Manuel Hurtado Pérez (2013–14)
Kota Mizuno
José Neto
Tomohide Utsumi
Yuta Miyanaga
Kenichi Sako

Average regular season home game attendance

Practice facilities

References

Kane Kumagai, Translated by Yongdeok Cho (Noir). (2006). "Ainu for Beginners". UniLang.
(2011). "Name change". japantimes.
Hokkaido Shimbun. (6 August 2015). "債務超過解消と本拠地確保ＮＢＬ北海道、新Ｌ１部入りの鍵".
Yomiuri Shimbun. (3 March 2017). "レバンガ、２億円債務超過Ｂ１資格継続審議".
(22 November 2018). "株式会社レバンガ北海道（第8期）決算報告について".
(21 January 2020). "レバンガ北海道公式練習場契約発表会見実施のご報告".

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