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CSKA Moscow
Nickname	Армейцы (Army men) Кони (Horses) Красно-синие (Red-Blue)
Leagues	VTB United League EuroLeague (suspended)
Founded	23 April 1923; 101 years ago (1923-04-23)
History	PBC CSKA Moscow (1923–present)
Arena	Megasport Arena
Capacity	13,344
Location	Moscow, Russia
Team colors	Red, blue, white
President	Andrey Vatutin
Head coach	Andreas Pistiolis
Team captain	Semyon Antonov
Ownership	Norilsk Nickel
Affiliation(s)	CSKA Junior
Championships	8 EuroLeague 24 Soviet Championships 27 Russian Championships 4 Russian Cups 3 Soviet Cups 1 North European League 11 VTB United Leagues 1 VTB League Supercup
Website	https://cskabasket.ru
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PBC CSKA Moscow (Russian: ПБК ЦСКА Москва) is a Russian professional basketball team based in Moscow, Russia. The club is a member of the VTB United League, and was a member of the EuroLeague. On February 28, 2022, EuroLeague Basketball suspended all Russian teams because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

CSKA won two titles between 2006 and 2008, as well as between 2016 and 2019, in Europe's principal club competition, the EuroLeague, making the final in all seasons these years, and in total has advanced to the EuroLeague Final Four 18 times in the 21st century. CSKA is dominating in VTB United League, winning all but two titles to date. With 8 EuroLeague championships, 1 NEBL championship, 51 home league championships, 7 home cups, 1 home Supercup and 10 VTB United League titles in total, CSKA is the most successful basketball team in Russia (former Soviet Union), and is also one of the most successful basketball teams in Europe.

In EuroLeague in 2006 CSKA won its first title in a long time, defeating Maccabi Tel Aviv 73–69 in the final in Prague. Next year the team lost in the 2007 final 93–91 to Panathinaikos on the Greens' home floor, the Nikos Galis Olympic Indoor Hall in Athens. In 2008, they won a rematch of the 2006 final against Maccabi Tel Aviv 91–77 in Madrid. In 2009, they lost a rematch of the 2007 final against Panathinaikos 73–71 in Berlin. The club competed in eight consecutive EuroLeague Final Fours from 2003 to 2010, which is an all-time record. Later the team beat its own record by making it to nine consecutive Final Fours from 2012 to 2021 (with 2020 Final Four cancelled due to COVID-19 situation). CSKA then won its seventh title in 2016, after beating Fenerbahçe in the final by a score of 101–96 in overtime. The last European title up-to-date was won in 2019, when CSKA defeated Anadolu Efes in the final in Vitoria-Gasteiz.

Well-known players who have played for the club over the years include: Sergei Belov, Gennadi Volnov, Viktor Zubkov, Yuri Korneev, Vladimir Andreev, Anatoly Myshkin, Stanislav Yeryomin, Ivan Edeshko, Armenak Alachachian, Alzhan Zharmukhamedov, Heino Enden, Jaak Lipso, Sergei Tarakanov, Rimas Kurtinaitis, Vladimir Tkachenko, Sergei Bazarevich, Sasha Volkov, Andrei Kirilenko, Trajan Langdon, Darius Songaila, Gordan Giriček, Dragan Tarlać, Marcus Brown, Matjaž Smodiš, Sergei Panov, Aleksey Savrasenko, Ramūnas Šiškauskas, Theo Papaloukas, Nenad Krstić, J. R. Holden, Sasha Kaun, Miloš Teodosić, Victor Khryapa, Nando de Colo, Kyle Hines, Cory Higgins, Sergio Rodriguez and Will Clyburn. Also, Alexander Gomelsky, the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame basketball coach, worked in CSKA for more than 20 years. Nowadays, CSKA has the reputation for being one of the richest sports clubs in Europe, having been previously owned by Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, and being currently owned by Norilsk Nickel.

History

1923–1991

CSKA was founded on 29 April 1923, then known as OPPV, when on that day soldiers and sportsmen fought in football against each other for the first place of Moscow. "OPPV", which means Опытно-показательная военно-спортивная площадка всевобуча, a department in the General military education service, was the first central sports department of the Red Army. It was based on the pre-revolutionary "Community of Amateur Skiers".

The first success of the basketball department came at the 1924 Soviet League championship, which was played between cities, not clubs. Two more titles followed in 1928 and 1935. In 1938, the Soviet League championship was played between clubs, and CSKA under the name CDKA (Центральный дом Красной Армии, Central House of the Red Army) debuted there. Stalin's son, Vasily, then founded the club VVS MVO (Военно-Воздушные Силы Московского Военного Округа), with CDKA merging with it. By the end of the Great Patriotic War, CSKA established itself as one of the most respected Soviet basketball teams.

In 1953 and 1954, the club was renamed CDSA (Центральный дом Советской Армии, Central House of the Soviet Army), between 1955 and 1960, it was known as CSK MO, and finally in 1960, it received its current name CSKA (Центральный спортивный клуб Армии, Central Sports Club of the Army).

CSKA won the FIBA European Champions Cup (now called EuroLeague) title, in 1961, 1963, 1969, and 1971. They also won the Soviet League championship 24 times (1945, 1960–1962, 1964–1966, 1969–1974, 1976–1984, 1988, and 1990).

1992–2008

CSKA won the Russian League title every year from 1992 through 2000, and every year from 2003 to 2008. CSKA also made the 1996 EuroLeague Final Four. They also made the 2001 SuproLeague Final Four, the 2003 EuroLeague Final Four, the 2004 EuroLeague Final Four and the 2005 EuroLeague Final Four, before finally winning the EuroLeague championship at the 2006 EuroLeague Final Four.

In the 2004–05 season, CSKA eventually lost in the semifinals on their home court to Spanish League club TAU Cerámica, and to Panathinaikos, of the Greek League, in the third-place game. That sent them to the 2nd grade teams in the EuroLeague draw. That same year they also lost a game in the finals series of the Russian League, but they eventually got the Russian League crown.

In 2006, CSKA qualified for the 2004–05 EuroLeague Top 16, by finishing third in their group. They finished at the top of their Top 16 group, being denied a perfect record at Tau, in their final game. CSKA entered the 2006 EuroLeague Final Four on a roll, as the only club to sweep their best-of-three quarterfinal series, by defeating Turkish Super League power Efes Pilsen. They defeated Barça in the EuroLeague semis, before defeating the high-powered offense of Maccabi Tel Aviv, of the Israeli Basketball Super League, in the final, on April 30, even though the overall record of Maccabi's games with CSKA Moscow favored the Israeli club.

The following year, they faced Panathinaikos in the final, on the Greek team's home floor, OAKA Indoor Hall, which had been designated more than a year earlier as the site for that year's Final Four. Panathinaikos won. In 2008, their EuroLeague championship win at the 2008 EuroLeague Final Four, put them in sole possession of second place for overall top-tier level European-wide titles. On October 14, 2008, the team played an NBA preseason game against the Toronto Raptors, at Air Canada Centre, in Toronto.

2009–2021

CSKA won the Russian League title every year from 2009 through 2018, continuing to add to their streak of consecutive Russian League titles won every year since 2003 overall. Since the foundation of the VTB United League in 2008, CSKA has dominated the league, winning the title in 10 of its first 11 seasons (2010, 2012–2019, 2021), excluding the league's Promotional Cup in 2008.

EuroLeague success, however, continued to elude the team. From 2009, CSKA had played in the Final Four every single year except 2011. However, CSKA suffered multiple heartbreaks. CSKA struggled, in particular playing Olympiacos, who beat CSKA in the EuroLeague finals in 2012, and eliminated CSKA in 2013 and 2015. In 2014, CSKA lost a shocker to Maccabi Tel Aviv. CSKA won 3rd place in 2010, 2013 and 2015.

In the 2015–16 season, CSKA won its 7th EuroLeague championship. At the Berlin Final Four, CSKA Moscow defeated Fenerbahçe, by a score of 101–96, after overtime. The star player of CSKA was Nando de Colo, who was named both the season EuroLeague MVP, and the EuroLeague Final Four MVP. In 2016–2017, CSKA reached the Final Four again, but once again lost to Olympiacos in the semifinals. CSKA beat Real Madrid to win 3rd place.

In 2017-18 season CSKA finished with a 24–6 record. Qualifying to the Final Four, however, CSKA suffered a complete fiasco - losing to Real Madrid in the semifinals, and to BC Žalgiris in the 3rd place game. In the VTB United League, CSKA secured their 9th title after defeating Khimki 95:84 in the 2018 Final Four.

In the next season CSKA finished at the 2nd place of the regular season, securing its 17th Final Four appearance in the 21 century. In Vitoria-Gasteiz the club made a comeback during the semifinals against Real Madrid and beat Anadolu Efes in the final, achieving 8th title in club's history. CSKA also won the VTB United League, sweeping Khimki 3:0 in the finals.

There were changes in the 2019–20 season. Defending champion CSKA Moscow played steady until November, when they suffered four losses in a row, stepping down to the 6th position at worst. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, CSKA and all other teams quit playing after the 28th round; there was no winner declared. At the time of the season's stopping, CSKA was behind Khimki in the VTB standings. The tournament was also stopped with no winner being announced.

In the 2020-2021 season, CSKA again lead in the EuroLeague standings for much of the season, before repeated conflicts by Itoudis, CSKA management, and Mike James resulted in James, team leader, leaving the team in March. While losing the first place in the standings to FC Barcelona, CSKA went all the way to the EuroLeague Final Four. CSKA, however, lost to Efes in the semifinals, and were beaten by EA7 Emporio Armani Milan in the third place game, thus finishing the season in disappointing 4th place. In the VTB United League, despite finishing the regular season in just 4th place, CSKA beat Nizhny Novgorod 2-1 in the quarterfinals, regular season winners Zenit Saint Petersburg 3-1 in the semifinals, and UNICS Kazan 3-0 in the finals to win the VTB United League once again.

2022–present

In early 2022, upon the outbreak of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Tornike Shengelia from Georgia (saying: "Everyone says it was a difficult or big decision, but it was not. First of all, I felt that my family was threatened, even though the war was not in Moscow. With war you never know what will occur, one second is enough for something to happen. The first thing I wanted to do was to send my family away and then I made the decision to depart too."), Johannes Voigtmann from Germany ("I can't reconcile myself playing for a Russian team.... The Russian president is responsible for a brutal war, because of which innocent people are dying in Ukraine. Millions of people have to flee their homes, and children, in particular, are losing their homes or even their lives. I just couldn't stay in Russia and carry on as if nothing had happened...."), Gabriel Lundberg from Denmark, Marius Grigonis from Lithuania, Italian-American Daniel Hackett, and Russian-American Joel Bolomboy all left the team. Canadian-Slovenian Kevin Pangos who signed with CSKA one day before the war started never joined the team. The team informed them all that the departure means violating of their contracts and reached the agreements on terminating the contracts with all but one player, Joel Bolomboy, who was given a letter of clearance by FIBA to sign for Olympiacos Piraeus when his CSKA contract expired in summer of 2022. CSKA informed about the intention to sue Bolomboy for breaching his CSKA agreement earlier.

On February 28, 2022, EuroLeague Basketball suspended the team because of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. On March 22, 2022, CSKA, UNICS Kazan, and Zenit St. Petersburg were disqualified from the EuroLeague. In October 2022, CSKA Moscow president Andrey Vatutin said: "Owners and sponsors are in crisis and are not interested in spending big money just to participate in the VTB league – therefore the budget is reduced. We have left the international scene, so CSKA's role in world basketball is declining."

In the VTB United League, CSKA made the finals once again. Despite leading 3-1 in the finals, CSKA lost the last three games to Zenit St. Petersburg, who won the VTB title with a 4-3 series win - for the first time since 2010-2011, CSKA did not win the competition. Greek head coach Dimitrios Itoudis left the team in June 2022, immediately after losing the final game to Zenit, with one year remaining on his contract.

Home arenas

• Interior of the 5,500 seat Universal Sports Hall CSKA.
• Interior of the 13,344 seat Megasport Arena.

CSKA played all of its home games, both national domestic league games, and European league games, at the 5,500 seat Universal Sports Hall CSKA, from 1979 to 2015. They also played a home EuroLeague game at the 13,344 seat Megasport Arena, on January 23, 2008. Starting with the 2015–16 season, CSKA began regularly playing its home EuroLeague games at Megasport Arena, while still playing at CSKA Universal Sports Hall for VTB United League games. Kaliningrad's Yantarny Sports Palace was used as a substitute for their round of 16 and 17 home games during the 2019-20 EuroLeague season.

Players

Current roster

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CSKA Moscow roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. No. Nat. Name Ht. Wt. Age SG 1 Mikhailovskii, Nikita 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) 91 kg (201 lb) 24 – (2000-09-10)10 September 2000 PG 2 Ware, Casper 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) 79 kg (174 lb) 34 – (1990-02-02)2 February 1990 C 3 Jekiri, Tonye 2.13 m (7 ft 0 in) 103 kg (227 lb) 34 – (1990-01-17)17 January 1990 SG 4 Avramović, Aleksa 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) 87 kg (192 lb) 30 – (1994-10-25)25 October 1994 C 5 Gankevich, Aleksandr 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) 101 kg (223 lb) 29 – (1995-08-05)5 August 1995 PG 6 Trimble, Melo 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) 86 kg (190 lb) 29 – (1995-02-02)2 February 1995 SG 7 Ukhov, Ivan 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) 89 kg (196 lb) 29 – (1995-09-11)11 September 1995 SF 8 Astapkovich, Anton 2.02 m (6 ft 8 in) 104 kg (229 lb) 30 – (1994-01-29)29 January 1994 PG 9 Karpenko, Vladimir 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in) 80 kg (176 lb) 24 – (2000-09-07)7 September 2000 PF 11 Antonov, Semyon (C) 2.02 m (6 ft 8 in) 104 kg (229 lb) 35 – (1989-07-18)18 July 1989 PF 15 Abdulbasirov, Ruslan 2.11 m (6 ft 11 in) 100 kg (220 lb) 31 – (1993-12-05)5 December 1993 C 17 Jean-Charles, Livio 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) 104 kg (229 lb) 31 – (1993-11-08)8 November 1993 PF 24 M'Baye, Amath 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) 102 kg (225 lb) 35 – (1989-12-14)14 December 1989 PG 32 Umrikhin, Yuriy 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) 75 kg (165 lb) 25 – (1999-06-28)28 June 1999 SF 41 Kurbanov, Nikita 2.02 m (6 ft 8 in) 105 kg (231 lb) 38 – (1986-10-05)5 October 1986	Head coach Andreas Pistiolis Assistant coach(es) Denis Godlevskiy Ioannis Gapkiadis Oleg Bartunov Legend (C) Team captain Injured Roster Updated: August 8, 2024

2024–25

Other players under contract

PF	23		Gafurov, Filipp	2.12 m (6 ft 11 in)	90 kg (198 lb)	23 – (2001-06-23)23 June 2001
SF	44		Kopantsev, Gleb	1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)	86 kg (190 lb)	24 – (2000-09-01)1 September 2000

Out on loan

SF

Samson Ruzhentsev

BC Parma (until 30 June 2025)'

Depth chart

Honours

Domestic competitions

• USSR Premier League (defunct)

Winners (24): 1944–45, 1959–60, 1960–61, 1961–62, 1963–64, 1964–65, 1965–66, 1968–69, 1969–70, 1970–71, 1971–72, 1972–73, 1973–74, 1975–76, 1976–77, 1977–78, 1978–79, 1979–80, 1980–81, 1981–82, 1982–83, 1983–84, 1987–88, 1989–90

Runners-up (11): 1945–46, 1950–51, 1952–53, 1953–54, 1954–55, 1956–57, 1957–58, 1974–75, 1984–85, 1985–86, 1986–87

• Russian League

Winners (28): 1992, 1992–93, 1993–94, 1994–95, 1995–96, 1996–97, 1997–98, 1998–99, 1999–00, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2020–21, 2023–24

Runners-up (1): 2021–22

• VTB United League

Winners (12): 2008, 2009–10, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2020–21, 2023–24

Runners-up (2): 2010–11, 2021–22

• USSR Cup (defunct)

Winners (3): 1971–72, 1972–73, 1981–82

• Russian Cup

Winners (4): 2004–05, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2009–10

Runners-up (3): 2002–03, 2003–04, 2007–08

• VTB United League Supercup

Winners (1): 2021

Runners-up (1): 2022

European competitions

• EuroLeague

Winners (8): 1960–61, 1962–63, 1968–69, 1970–71, 2005–06, 2007–08, 2015–16, 2018–19

Runners-up (6): 1964–65, 1969–70, 1972–73, 2006–07, 2008–09, 2011–12

Semifinalists (1): 1961–62

3rd place (8): 1965–66, 1976–77, 1995–96, 2003–04, 2009–10, 2012–13, 2014–15, 2016–17

4th place (8): 1982–83, 1984–85, 2000–01, 2002–03, 2004–05, 2013–14, 2017–18, 2020–21

Final Four (20): 1966, 1996, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021

• FIBA Saporta Cup (defunct)

Semifinalists (2): 1985–86, 1986–87

• FIBA Korać Cup (defunct)

Semifinalists (1): 1989–90

• European Super Cup (semi-official, defunct)

3rd place (1): 1988

Other competitions

• FIBA International Christmas Tournament (friendly, defunct)

Winners (1): 1998

• VTB United League Promo-Cup

Winners (1): 2008

• Gomelsky Cup

Winners (10): 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020

Runners-up (2): 2009, 2017

• Moscow tournament

Winners (1): 2006

• Cologne tournament

Runners-up (1): 2006

• Gloria Cup

Winners (2): 2014, 2019

Runners-up (1): 2018

• Zadar Basketball Tournament

Runners-up (2): 2017, 2018

• Vladimir Kondrashin and Alexander Belov Tournament

Winners (6): 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010

Runners-up (2): 2021, 2022

• Nikos Galis Cup

Runners-up (1): 2014

• Venice, Italy Invitational Game

Winners (1): 2008

• Verona, Italy Invitational Game

Winners (1): 2008

• Rossiiskie Zheleznye Dorogi Cup

Winners (1): 2011

• Trofeo Città di Caserta

Winners (1): 2011

• Moderna, Italy Invitational Game

Winners (1): 2012

• Siena, Italy Invitational Game

Winners (1): 2013

• Bologna, Italy Invitational Game

Winners (1): 2013

• Patras, Greece Invitational Game

Winners (1): 2014

• Moscow, Russia Invitational Game

Winners (5): 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020

• Çankaya, Turkey Invitational Game

Winners (1): 2015

• Konya, Turkey Invitational Game

Winners (1): 2015

• Thessaloniki, Greece Invitational Game

Winners (1): 2016

• Shenzhen, China Invitational Game

Winners (1): 2016

• Belek, Turkey Invitational Game

Winners (1): 2019

• Neva Cup

Winners (1): 2020

• Neofytos Chandriotis

Winners (1): 2021

Regional competitions

• North European League (defunct)

Winners (1): 1999–00

Individual club awards

• Double

Winners (7): 1971–72, 1972–73, 1981–82, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2009–10

• Triple Crown

Winners (1): 2005–06

Season by season

Notable players

• Sasha Kaun
• Andrei Kirilenko
• Ramūnas Šiškauskas
• Victor Khryapa

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

Albania

• Dallas Moore

Armenia

• Armenak Alachachian

Argentina

• Rubén Wolkowyski

Australia

• David Andersen

Belarus

• Ivan Edeshko

Belgium

• Tomas Van Den Spiegel

Bosnia and Herzegovina

• Alec Peters

Canada

• Kevin Pangos

Croatia

• Vladan Alanović
• Gordan Giriček
• Zoran Planinić
• Josko Poljak
• Mate Skelin

Cuba

• Howard Sant-Roos

Denmark

• Gabriel Lundberg

Estonia

• Jaak Lipso
• Heino Enden
• Martin Müürsepp
• Tiit Sokk

France

• Nando de Colo
• Léo Westermann
• Livio Jean-Charles
• Amath M'Baye

Germany

• Johannes Voigtmann

Georgia

• Manuchar Markoishvili
• Tornike Shengelia

Great Britain

• Pops Mensah-Bonsu
• Joel Freeland

Greece

• Dimos Dikoudis
• Nikos Chatzivrettas
• Kosta Koufos
• Theo Papaloukas
• Nikos Zisis

Italy

• Daniel Hackett

Kazakhstan

• Alzhan Zharmukhamedov

Latvia

• Juris Umbraško
• Raimonds Miglinieks
• Gundars Vētra
• Jānis Strēlnieks

Lithuania

• Gintaras Einikis
• Marius Grigonis
• Rimas Kurtinaitis
• Darjuš Lavrinovič
• Ramūnas Šiškauskas
• Darius Songaila

Nigeria

• Michael Eric
• Julius Nwosu
• Tonye Jekiri

Russia

• Evgeny Alekseev
• Vladimir Andreev
• Sergei Bazarevich
• Sergei Belov
• Yuri Korneev
• Valery Miloserdov
• Anatoly Myshkin
• Viktor Pankrashkin
• Sergei Tarakanov
• Valeri Tikhonenko
• Vladimir Tkachenko
• Gennadi Volnov
• Stanislav Yeryomin
• Viktor Zubkov
• Ruslan Avleev
• Aleksandr Bashminov
• Dmitri Domani
• Vitaly Fridzon
• Vasily Karasev
• Sasha Kaun
• Victor Khryapa
• Andrei Kirilenko
• Evgeni Kisurin
• Igor Kudelin
• Nikita Kurbanov
• Sergei Monia
• Nikita Morgunov
• Sergei Panov
• Zakhar Pashutin
• Anton Ponkrashov
• Alexey Savrasenko
• Alexey Shved
• Dmitri Sokolov
• Vitaly Nosov
• Victor Keyru
• Andrey Vorontsevich
• Aleksei Zozulin

Serbia

• Zoran Erceg
• Boban Marjanović
• Nenad Krstić
• Ivan Radenović
• Dragan Tarlać
• Vladimir Micov
• Miloš Teodosić
• Nikola Milutinov

Slovenia

• Erazem Lorbek
• Matjaž Smodiš

Spain

• Sergio Rodríguez

Sweden

• Jonas Jerebko

Turkey

• Mirsad Türkcan

Ukraine

• Joel Bolomboy
• Viacheslav Kravtsov
• Alexander Belostenny
• Sergei Kovalenko
• Anatolij Kovtun
• Sasha Volkov

United States

• Victor Alexander
• James Augustine
• Ron Baker
• Marcus Brown
• Dionte Christmas
• Will Clyburn
• Patrick Eddie
• Chuck Evans
• Kenneth Faried
• Allerik Freeman
• Jamont Gordon
• Marcus Goree
• Antonio Granger
• Cory Higgins
• Darrun Hilliard
• Kyle Hines
• J. R. Holden
• Othello Hunter
• Aaron Jackson
• Mike James
• Trajan Langdon
• Rusty LaRue
• Curtis McCants
• Sammy Mejia
• Terence Morris
• Drew Nicholas
• Demetris Nichols
• Jeremy Pargo
• Roy Rogers
• Victor Rudd
• Melo Trimble
• Casper Ware
• Marcus Webb
• Sonny Weems
• David Vanterpool

Venezuela

• Óscar Torres

Team captains

Team Captain	Years As Team Captain
Evgeny Alekseev	1944–1953
Arkady Bochkaryov	1954–1960
Armenak Alachachian	1960–1966
Gennadi Volnov	1966–1970
Sergei Belov	1970–1980
Stanislav Yeryomin	1980–1985
Sergei Tarakanov	1985–1990
Viktor Berezhniy	1990–1991
Aleksandr Gusev	1991–1992
Maksim Astanin	1992–1994
Andrei Kornev	1994–1997
Valeri Tikhonenko	1997–2000
Igor Kudelin	2000–2001
Dmitri Domani	2001–2002
Evgeniy Pashutin	2002–2003
Sergei Panov	2003–2006
Zakhar Pashutin	2006–2008
Matjaž Smodiš	2008–2009
Victor Khryapa	2009–2018
Kyle Hines	2018–2020
Nikita Kurbanov	2020–2023
Semyon Antonov	2023–present

CSKA Moscow Basketball Club Hall of Fame

Player	Jersey Number	Date Honored
Vadim Kapranov	#8
Yuri Korneev	#11
Evgeniy Kovalenko	#14
Aleksandr Kulkov	#4
Andrey Lopatov	#8
Valery Miloserdov	#6
Yuri Selikhov	#6
Vladimir Tkachenko	#11
Aleksandr Travin	#9
Viktor Zubkov	#7
Gennadi Volnov	#13	26 November 2011
Sergei Belov	#10	11 August 2012
Ivan Edeshko	#9	11 August 2012
Alzhan Zharmukhamedov	#7	11 August 2012
Armenak Alachachian	#6	28 March 2013
Vladimir Andreev	#15	28 March 2013
Anatoly Astakhov	#5	28 March 2013
Arkady Bochkaryov	#8	15 November 2013
Mikhail Semyonov	#10	15 November 2013
Anatoly Myshkin	#12	16 April 2014
Stanislav Yeryomin	#4	16 April 2014
Viktor Pankrashkin	#12	3 April 2015
Sergei Tarakanov	#6	3 April 2015

Head coaches

Head Coach	Years
Victor Grigoriev	1937–1948
Konstantin Travin	1948–1952
Evgeny Alekseev	1953–1959, 1960–1966
Vasily Kolpakov	1959–1960
Armenak Alachachian	1968–1970
Alexander Gomelsky	1970–1979, 1985–1986
Yuri Selikhov	1980–1981, 1982–1985, 1986–1989
Sergei Belov	1981–1982, 1989–1990
Ivan Edeshko	1990–1992
Stanislav Yeryomin	1992–2000
Valeri Tikhonenko	2000–2002
Dušan Ivković	2002–2005
Ettore Messina	2005–2009, 2012–2014
Evgeniy Pashutin	2009–2010
Duško Vujošević	2010
Dmitry Shakulin	2010–2011
Jonas Kazlauskas	2011–2012
Dimitrios Itoudis	2014–2022
Emil Rajković	2022–2024
Andreas Pistiolis	2024–present

• Alexander Gomelsky, the Father of Soviet and Russian basketball
• Dušan Ivković, EuroLeague coaching legend
• Ettore Messina, one of the 50 Greatest EuroLeague Contributors
• Dimitrios Itoudis, two-time EuroLeague champion

Matches against NBA teams

Los Angeles Clippers

75–94

CSKA Moscow

Universal Sports Hall CSKA, Moscow

Philadelphia 76ers

85–71

CSKA Moscow

Kölnarena, Cologne

Orlando Magic

94–66

CSKA Moscow

Amway Arena, Orlando, Florida

Toronto Raptors

86–78

CSKA Moscow

Air Canada Centre, Toronto

Miami Heat

96–85

CSKA Moscow

American Airlines Arena, Miami

Oklahoma City Thunder

97–89

CSKA Moscow

Ford Center, Oklahoma City

Cleveland Cavaliers

87–90

CSKA Moscow

Quicken Loans Arena, Cleveland

Minnesota Timberwolves

106–108

CSKA Moscow

Target Center, Minneapolis

San Antonio Spurs

95–93

CSKA Moscow

AT&T Center, San Antonio

See also

• 2007–08 PBC CSKA Moscow season

References

1. The club's full name is Professional Basketball Club Central Sport Club (Klub) of the Army Moscow, which is abbreviated as PBC CSKA Moscow
2. ^ Burks, Tosten; Woo, Jeremy (2015-08-04). "Follow the Bouncing Ball". Grantland. Retrieved 2015-08-04.
3. "Championship Game: Fenerbahce Istanbul 96-101 CSKA Moscow". Euroleague.net. Retrieved 25 March 2018.
4. "A Russian owner in NBA: Tycoon buying NJ Nets". San Diego Union-Tribune. September 23, 2009.
5. Schwirtz, Michael; Kramer, Andrew E. (September 25, 2009). "Moscow Basketball Team Thrived Under Nets' Prospective Owner" – via NYTimes.com.
6. ^ "История клуба". cska.ru.
7. "History & Awards". Archived from the original on 2016-07-22. Retrieved 2017-03-05.
8. "CSKA Moscow claims its seventh Euroleague crown after OT thriller". Euroleague. 15 May 2016.
9. "2015-16 Euroleague MVP: Nando De Colo, CSKA Moscow | Euroleague". Euroleague Basketball.
10. "Latest News | Euroleague". Euroleague Basketball.
11. "Voigtmann: 'I can't imagine myself playing for a Russian team in this situation'". basketnews.com.
12. "Tornike Shengelia: 'I wasn't the same player, the same person in CSKA'". BasketNews. March 24, 2022.
13. "5 CSKA Moscow players leave team for war between Russia, Ukraine". www.aa.com.tr.
14. Amico, Sam (March 1, 2022). "FIBA Suspends All Russian Teams, Officials From Competition".
15. "CSKA intends to sue basketball player Bolomboy who joined Olympiacos". Sportish. July 6, 2022.
16. "EuroLeague suspended Russian teams". basketnews.com.
17. "Andrey Vatutin: "CSKA's role in world basketball is declining. We are ready to help Bodiroga"". Eurohoops. October 19, 2022.
18. Barclay, Ryan (June 5, 2022). "Itoudis leaves CSKA after losing the VTB against Pascual's Zenit".
19. "CSKA to play a couple of EuroLeague home games at Kaliningrad". Eurohoops. 2019-09-23. Retrieved 2020-03-24.

External links

• Official website (in Russian and English)
• EuroLeague Profile

• PBC CSKA Moscow
• Basketball teams in Russia
• Basketball teams established in 1923
• EuroLeague clubs
• EuroLeague-winning clubs
• Basketball teams in the Soviet Union
• CSKA Moscow
• VTB United League teams