Fribourg Olympic Basket

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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.

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Fribourg Olympic
Fribourg Olympic logo
LeaguesSwiss Basketball League
Founded27 April 1961; 63 years ago (1961-04-27)
ArenaSalle Saint-Léonard
Capacity2,850
LocationFribourg, Switzerland
PresidentPhilippe de Gottrau
Head coachThibaut Petit
2023–24 positionSBL, 1st of 12
ChampionshipsSwiss League (22)
Swiss Cup (12)
Swiss League Cup (8)
Websitefribourg-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,[1] 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

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Perspective

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

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Fribourg Olympic roster
PlayersCoaches
Pos.No.Nat.Name
PG 2 United States Nottage, Eric 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) 30 – (1994-12-10)10 December 1994
PG 3 United States Williams, Anthony 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) 23 – (2001-08-30)30 August 2001
PF 5 Switzerland Smith, Matteo 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) 20 – (2004-12-31)31 December 2004
SG 6 Switzerland Kazadi, Jonathan 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) 33 – (1991-06-09)9 June 1991
PG 7 Switzerland France Dassin, Ugo 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) 22 – (2003-03-30)30 March 2003
SF 8 United States Nigeria Offurum, Chimezie 1.97 m (6 ft 6 in) 24 – (2000-05-21)21 May 2000
SG 12 Switzerland Dell'Acqua, Massimiliano 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) 21 – (2003-06-12)12 June 2003
PF 13 Switzerland Martin, Killian 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) 26 – (1998-04-03)3 April 1998
C 14 Senegal Sane, Cheikh 2.07 m (6 ft 9 in) 32 – (1992-05-04)4 May 1992
PF 20 Switzerland Cotture, Arnaud 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) 29 – (1995-08-09)9 August 1995
SG 24 Switzerland Croatia Kovac, Roberto 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) 34 – (1990-07-17)17 July 1990
PF 99 Switzerland Jurkovitz, Natan 2.02 m (6 ft 8 in) 29 – (1995-04-04)4 April 1995
Head coach
  • Belgium Thibaut Petit
Assistant coach(es)
  • Israel Aner Lev Ron
  • Canada Emerson Thomas

Legend
  • (C) Team captain
  • Injured Injured

Updated: March 13, 2025
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Notable players

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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.
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