BC Balkan Botevgrad

Balkan
Nickname	Зелените (The Greens)
Leagues	NBL
Founded	1947; 78 years ago (1947)
History	BC Balkan Botevgrad (1947–present)
Arena	Arena Botevgrad
Capacity	3,200
Location	Botevgrad, Bulgaria
Team colors	Green, White
President	Mihail Mihaylov
General manager	Sasho Vezenkov
Head coach	Vasil Hristov
Championships	7 Bulgarian Leagues 4 Bulgarian Cups
Website	balkan-basket.com
Home Away

BC Balkan Botevgrad (Bulgarian: БК Балкан Ботевград, romanized: BK Balkan Botevgrad) is a Bulgarian professional basketball club based in Botevgrad.^[1][2] The team is part of NBL and FIBA Europe Cup. The club has also competed in Balkan International Basketball League. They play their home matches at the Arena Botevgrad.

Honours

• National Basketball League
  • Winners (7): 1974, 1987, 1988, 1989, 2019, 2022, 2023
  • Runners-up (6): 1972, 2008, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2024
• Bulgarian Cup
  • Winners: (4) 1970, 1986, 1987, 1988
• Balkan League
  • Third place (1): 2014

Season by season

Season	Tier	League	Pos.	Bulgarian Cup	Other leagues		European competitions
2012–13	1	NBL	3rd	Quarterfinalist
2013–14	1	NBL	3rd	Semifinalist	Balkan League	3rd
2014–15	1	NBL	2nd	Quarterfinalist
2015–16	1	NBL	2nd	Semifinalist
2016–17	1	NBL	6th	Third Place
2017–18	1	NBL	2nd	Semifinalist			4 FIBA Europe Cup	RS
2018–19	1	NBL	1st	Quarterfinalists			4 FIBA Europe Cup	Top 16
2019–20	1	NBL	–	Runner-up			4 FIBA Europe Cup	RS
2020–21	1	NBL	4th	Semifinalist			4 FIBA Europe Cup	QF

Current roster

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Balkan roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. No. Nat. Name Ht. Wt. Age PG 1 Gavalyugov, Aleksandar 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) 70 kg (154 lb) 18 – (2006-01-22)22 January 2006 SG 2 Marks, Derrick 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) 90 kg (198 lb) 31 – (1993-09-14)14 September 1993 SF 3 Minkov, Kris 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) 90 kg (198 lb) 30 – (1994-12-31)31 December 1994 SF 5 Gavazov, Mihail 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) 85 kg (187 lb) 20 – (2004-08-24)24 August 2004 SG 7 Pishtikov, Iliyan 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) 71 kg (157 lb) 20 – (2004-07-28)28 July 2004 PG 8 Hristov, Zdravko 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) 104 kg (229 lb) 27 – (1997-05-25)25 May 1997 PG 10 Dukes, Kahlil 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) 80 kg (176 lb) 29 – (1995-05-17)17 May 1995 SF 11 Hubanov, Mariyan 2.00 m (6 ft 7 in) 85 kg (187 lb) 22 – (2002-11-12)12 November 2002 PG 23 Marinov, Stanimir 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) 88 kg (194 lb) 33 – (1991-09-07)7 September 1991 PG 25 Thibodeaux, Travin 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) 100 kg (220 lb) 28 – (1996-02-19)19 February 1996 SF 33 Grozev, Nikolay 2.00 m (6 ft 7 in) 90 kg (198 lb) 30 – (1994-02-17)17 February 1994 PF 34 Dimitrov, Dimitar (C) 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) 100 kg (220 lb) 31 – (1993-03-01)1 March 1993 C 41 Vutev, Denislav 2.07 m (6 ft 9 in) 105 kg (231 lb) 30 – (1994-11-14)14 November 1994	Head coach Nebojša Vidić Assistant coach(es) Petar Zlatanović Preslav Peshev Physiotherapist(s) Tsvetan Stefanov Legend (C) Team captain Injured

Players

Notable players

Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationalities not displayed.

Criteria
To appear in this section a player must have either: Set a club record or won an individual award while at the club Played at least one official international match for their national team at any time Played at least one official NBA match at any time.

• Ivan Lilov
• Stanimir Marinov
• Pavel Marinov
• Yordan Bozov
• Martin Marinov
• Dimitar Dimitrov
• Kris Minkov
• Pavlin Ivanov
• Ventsislav Petkov
• Amin Hot
• Noah Dahlman
• Dwayne Morton
• Mikael Hopkins
• Jordan Callahan
• Brandon Brown

References

1. Eurobasket.com BC Balkan Page
2. Team profile at Bgbasket.com (in Bulgarian)

External links

• Official website
• Club profile at bgbasket.com (in Bulgarian)
• Club profile at bgbasket.com (in English)