BC Espoir Fukash is a Congolese

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team based in Kinshasa. The team plays in the Liprobakin, Kinshasa's premier basketball league. The team has won the Kinshasa title one time in 2021, and have won the Congolese Cup in 2021. Espoir Fukash played in the

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(BAL) during the 2022 season

History

Created in 2019, Espoir reached the final of the Ligue Provinciale de Kinshasa for the first time in 2020. However, the team lost to BC Terreur. The following season, the team won their first regional championship. In October 2021, Espoir Fukash won the Congolese Cup, their first national trophy in club history. As such, they qualified for the

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. They won their first international game, on 30 October 2021, over

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with 102–49. On December 15, Espoir qualified for the

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after eliminating Mali's AS Police in the semi-finals, winning after overtime. As such, the team becomes the first club from the Democratic Republic of the Congo to play in the BAL. In the 2022 BAL Nile Conference, Espoir was coached by DR Congo-native

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. On April 20, 2022, the team captured its first BAL victory after beating Cape Town Tigers after overtime. Fukash finished in the sixth and last place with a 1–4 record.

Honours

Coupe du Congo *Winners (1): 2021 Liprobakin *Champions (1): 2021 **''Runner-up (1):'' 2020

Players

Current roster

The following is the Espoir Fukash roster for the

group phase.

Season by season

References

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