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Royal Basketball Club Pepinster is a
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basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...
club that is located in the
Verviers Verviers (; wa, Vervî) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Liège, Belgium. The municipality consists of the following districts: Ensival, Heusy, Lambermont, Petit-Rechain, Stembert, and Verviers. It is also ...
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Pepinster Pepinster ( or ) is a Municipalities of Belgium, municipality of Wallonia located in the Liège Province, province of Liège, Belgium. On 1 January 2006 Pepinster had a total population of 9,560. The total area is 24.79 km2 which gives a pop ...
area of
Liège Province Liège (; wa, Lîdje ; nl, Luik ; german: Lüttich ) is the easternmost province of the Wallonia region of Belgium. Liège Province is the only Belgian province that has borders with three countries. It borders (clockwise from the north) the Du ...
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Belgium Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to th ...
. The club currently competes in the Belgian Fifth Division, the fifth tier of Belgian basketball. Before, the team used to be a regular participant of the
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. The team club plays its home games at the 4,000 seat
Hall du Paire Hall du Paire is a multi-purpose arena in Pepinster, Belgium. Hall du Paire holds 4,000 people and opened in 2006. It hosts the home games of the RBC Verviers-Pepinster professional basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two team ...
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History

Verviers-Pepinster was the runner-up of the
Belgian League The Belgian Pro League,(officially the Jupiler Pro League due to sponsorship reasons with Jupiler), is the top league competition for association football clubs in Belgium. Contested by 18 clubs since the 2020–21 Belgian First Division A, 2020 ...
twice: in 2003 and 2014. The club also won the
Belgian Cup The Belgian Cup (french: link=no, Coupe de Belgique; nl, Beker van België []; german: link=no, Belgischer Fußballpokal) is the main Single-elimination tournament, knockout association football, football competition in Belgium, run by the Belgia ...
in 1980, and the Belgian Supercup in 2003. On 29 June 2016, it was announced that the club would leave the
Belgian League The Belgian Pro League,(officially the Jupiler Pro League due to sponsorship reasons with Jupiler), is the top league competition for association football clubs in Belgium. Contested by 18 clubs since the 2020–21 Belgian First Division A, 2020 ...
, due to a lack of budget.


Honors and titles

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Belgian Cup The Belgian Cup (french: link=no, Coupe de Belgique; nl, Beker van België []; german: link=no, Belgischer Fußballpokal) is the main Single-elimination tournament, knockout association football, football competition in Belgium, run by the Belgia ...
**Winners (1): 1979–80 * Belgian Supercup **Winners (1): 2003


Season by season


Notable players


Head coaches


Sponsorship names

Due to sponsorship reasons, the club has been known as: *Go Pass Verviers-Pepinster (1995–1996) *VOO Verviers-Pepinster (2007–2013) *VOO Wolves Verviers-Pepinster (2013–2015)


Logos

VOO Wolves logo.png, The logo of the VOO Wolves (2013–2015)


References


External links


Official Site

Eurobasket.com Team Page
{{Ethias League Basketball teams in Belgium Basketball teams established in 1938 Sport in Liège Province Pepinster Verviers