Fribourg Olympic Basket

Fribourg Olympic Basket, commonly known as Fribourg Olympic, is a Swiss professional basketball club that is based in Fribourg. Due to name sponsorship reasons, the former name of the club was Benetton Fribourg. The club is a seventeen-time Swiss Basketball League champion.

Fribourg Olympic
Leagues	Swiss Basketball League FIBA Europe Cup
Founded	27 April 1961 (1961-04-27)
Arena	Salle Saint-Léonard
Capacity	2,850
Location	Fribourg, Switzerland
President	Philippe de Gottrau
Head coach	Thibaut Petit
2023–24 position	SBL, 1st of 12
Championships	Swiss League (22) Swiss Cup (12) Swiss League Cup (8)
Website	fribourg-olympic.ch
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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

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

Fribourg Olympic roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. No. Nat. Name PG 2 Nottage, Eric 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) PG 3 Williams, Anthony 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) PF 5 Smith, Matteo 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) SG 6 Kazadi, Jonathan 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) PG 7 Dassin, Ugo 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) SF 8 Offurum, Chimezie 1.97 m (6 ft 6 in) SG 12 Dell'Acqua, Massimiliano 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) PF 13 Martin, Killian 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) C 14 Sane, Cheikh 2.07 m (6 ft 9 in) PF 20 Cotture, Arnaud 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) SG 24 Kovac, Roberto 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) PF 99 Jurkovitz, Natan 2.02 m (6 ft 8 in)	Head coach Thibaut Petit Assistant coach(es) Aner Lev Ron Emerson Thomas Legend (C) Team captain Injured Roster Updated: October 13, 2024

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.

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

Head coaches

• Ed Klimkowski
• Petar Aleksic

External links

• Fribourg Olympic Website (French)
• Presentation at EuroBasket.com