Festeggiamenti Alma Pallacanestro Trieste

Pallacanestro Trieste 2004 is an Italian professional

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club based in

Trieste Trieste ( , ; sl, Trst ; german: Triest ) is a city and seaport in northeastern Italy. It is the capital city, and largest city, of the autonomous region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, one of two autonomous regions which are not subdivided into prov ...

. They play in the

Lega Basket Serie A The Lega Basket Serie A (LBA) is a professional men's club basketball league that has been organised in Italy since 1920. Serie A is organised by Lega Basket, which is regulated by the Italian Basketball Federation (FIP). It is the highest-tier ...

(LBA) since the 2018–19 season. The Allianz Dome serves as the club's home arena.

History

A number of

teams had played in the first division Serie A, the most successful of which was Società Ginnastica Triestina (from the 1930s to the 1960s) that won several national championships in the 1930s and 1940s. Three other top division Trieste sides were Lega Nazionale Trieste (1949-1951), San Giusto Trieste (1948-1949) and Polizia Civile Trieste (1949-1950). Pallacanestro Trieste was established in 1975, it played in the top tier

Serie A The Serie A (), also called Serie A TIM for national sponsorship with TIM, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and the winner is awarded the Scudetto and the Cop ...

from 1982 to 1986, 1990 to 1997 and again from 1999 to 2004, with a best result of third in 1994. That same year, it reached the

FIBA Korać Cup The FIBA Korać Cup was an annual basketball club competition held by FIBA between the 1971–72 and 2001–02 seasons. It was the third-tier level club competition in European basketball, after the FIBA European Champions' Cup (later renamed th ...

final. The next season saw the team reaching the Italian Cup final. After the 2003-04 season, the club went bankrupt and was relegated to the lower divisions. After many years spent between the third and fourth division, in 2010 Eugenio Dalmasson was appointed Head Coach. Finally in 2012, the team reached the promotion to the second division with a win against Chieti in an epic game-5 in front of 6000 people. On June 16, 2018, Trieste won the 2017–18 Serie A2 season after beating Novipiù Casale Monferrato at game 3 of league's playoffs, and returned in LBA, the highest-tier of the Italian basketball league system after 14 years of absence. On June 26, 2018, Luigi Scavone, the main owner of the title sponsor ''Alma Agenzia per il lavoro'', became new president of Trieste, while the former president Gianluca Mauro became new CEO of the club. On May 7, 2019, Gianluca Mauro became again president and CEO of the club looking for new sponsorship. On November 29, 2019, the insurance company Allianz, became new title sponsor and main sponsor of Pallacanestro Trieste for the following three seasons. This sponsorship lapsed at the end of the 2021-2022 season.

Players

Current roster

Depth chart

Honours

Domestic competitions

* Italian League : Winners (5): 1930, 1932, 1934, 1939–40, 1940–41 ''(as Gimnastica Triestina)'' : 3rd place (1): 1993–94 * Italian Cup : Runners-up (1): 1995 * Serie A2 Basket : Winners (1): 2017–18 * Serie B1 north east division : Winners (1): 2011–12

European competitions

(defunct) : Runners-up (1): 1993–94

Other competitions

FIBA International Christmas Tournament FIBA International Christmas Tournament also known as the Christmas Tournament (''Torneo de Navidad'') was a men's basketball international friendly competition at the club level (and in some editions with national teams), organized by FIBA at its ...

(defunct) : Runners-up (1):

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Notable players

Sponsorship names

In the past, due to sponsorship deals, it has also been known as: * Pallacanestro Trieste (2022 - )

Kit manufacturer

* 2017–2018: Macron * 2018–2022: Adidas * 2022–present: MacronMacron sponsor tecnico di Alma Pallacanestro Trieste
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References

External links

* {{Lega Basket Serie A 1975 establishments in Italy Basketball teams established in 1975 Basketball teams in Italy EuroLeague clubs EuroLeague-winning clubs Sport in Friuli-Venezia Giulia Sport in Trieste