USSR Premier Basketball League


USSR Premier Basketball League


The USSR Premier Basketball League, or Soviet Union Premier Basketball League (also called Supreme League), was the first-tier men's professional basketball league in the former Soviet Union. The league existed from 1923 to 1991, as the top professional basketball league of the Soviet Union, and from 1991 to 1992, as the top professional basketball league of the CIS. In the years 1924, 1928, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1956, 1959, 1963, and 1967, the league was contested by city teams, regional teams, and state national teams, rather than individual sports clubs.

CSKA Moscow was the league's most successful club, having won the league's championship 24 times, including winning 9 consecutive championships, from 1976 to 1984. The league featured the players of the senior men's Soviet Union national basketball team. The league exists in a similar format today, as the VTB United League. Although, the VTB United League can include clubs from countries that were not a part of the Soviet Union.

USSR League history

  • 1923–24 to 1935–36  Soviet Union Regional League
  • 1936–37 to 1990–91  Soviet Union National League
  • ......1991 to 1992......  CIS National League

Title holders

League medalists

  • Most championships won: CSKA Mosow: 24
  • Most consecutive championships won: CSKA Moscow: 9 (1976–1984)

Titles by club

Titles by Republic

Soviet basketball clubs in European and worldwide competitions

Historical players

  • By Former Soviet Federation places of birth:

Historical coaches

  • By Former Soviet Federation places of birth:

Armenian SSR:

  • Armenak Alachachian
  • Stepan Spandaryan

Georgian SSR:

  • Otar Korkia

Lithuanian SSR:

  • Vladas Garastas

Russian SFSR:

  • Sergei Belov
  • Alexander Gomelsky
  • Vladimir Kondrashin
  • Vladimir Obuchov
  • Yuri Selikhov
  • Pavel Tsetlin
  • Konstantin Travin

The lineups and rosters of the USSR League champions

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Successor leagues

  • Russian Super League 1 (1st-tier): (1992–2010)
  • Russian Professional League: (2010–2013)
  • VTB United League: (2008–present)

See also

  • Russian Professional Championship: (1991–present)
  • Russian Super League 1: (1992–present)
  • Russian Professional League: (2010–2013)
  • Russian Cup: (1999–present)
  • VTB United League: (2008–present)
  • USSR Cup: (1949–1987)
  • Russian basketball league system
  • Basketball in Russia

References

External links


Text submitted to CC-BY-SA license. Source: USSR Premier Basketball League by Wikipedia (Historical)



 




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