WBC Slavia Sofia is a

Bulgaria Bulgaria (; bg, България, Bǎlgariya), officially the Republic of Bulgaria,, ) is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern flank of the Balkans, and is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Macedon ...

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Slavia Sofia PFC Slavia Sofia ( bg, ПФК Славия София) is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Sofia, which currently competes in the top tier of the Bulgarian football league system, the First League. Slavia's home ground ...

sport society. Men's basketball team of

is not active. Slavia Sofia was an early powerhouse of Bulgarian women's basketball, winning 12 national championships between 1953 and 1965. In 1959 it won the inaugural edition of the

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, and in 1965 it won its second title, becoming the only team to knock out Daugava Riga in the competition between 1960 and 1975. It also reached the finals in 1960 and 1965. However, since 1965 the team has not won any additional championships. Its major international success in subsequent years was reaching the

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's semifinals in 1980. Slavia briefly returned to the national elite in the first half of the 2000s, winning three national championships between 2002 and 2004, and appearing in the new

FIBA Eurocup FIBA EuroChallenge (called the FIBA Europe League in 2003–05, and FIBA EuroCup in 2005–08) was the 3rd-tier level transnational men's professional continental club basketball competition in Europe, from 2003 to 2015. It was organized and run ...

. However, it subsequently declined. As of the end of 2011-2012 season it is last in the national championship, losing quarterfinal playoff series against ex-champion Neftochimik with 2:1.Profile
in Eurobasket.com Slavia has won a record 33 honours: 3 NBL titles and 2 Bulgarian Cups/Men/ & 15 Bulgarian championships, 11 Bulgarian Cups and 2 European Cups/Women/. International titles won by the club are: 2 EuroLeague Women in 1939 & 1963.

Honours

Men

* National Basketball League **Winners (3): 1952, 1953, 1997 *

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**Winners: (2) 1959, 1997

Women

* European Cups: (2) 1959, 1963 ** Runners-up (2): 1960, 1965 * Bulgarian Leagues (15): 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 2002, 2003, 2004 ** Runners-up (9): 1945, 1952, 1960, 1966, 1968, 1971, 1992, 1999, 2000 * Bulgarian Cups (11): 1952, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1966, 1970, 1971, 1992, 2000, 2001, 2003 ** Runners-up (5): 1954, 1975,1992, 2000, 2002

References

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