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Rinascita Basket Rimini (RBR), formerly known as Basket Rimini and Basket Rimini Crabs, is an Italian
basketball
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team based in
Rimini
Rimini ( , ; rgn, Rémin; la, Ariminum) is a city in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy and capital city of the Province of Rimini. It sprawls along the Adriatic Sea, on the coast between the rivers Marecchia (the ancient ''Ariminu ...
,
Emilia-Romagna
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.
From the 1978–79 to the 2010–11 season, the team continuously played in professional basketball between
Serie A1 and
Serie A2/Legadue, with one exception, the 1990–91 season (played in
Serie B1).
History
The team was officially established in 1947. As Polisportiva Libertas, they spent their first decades in the regional leagues. In 1972, the team was promoted for the first time in Serie B, the second highest league in
Italy
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at the time. It was also renamed to Basket Rimini.
In 1974,
Alberto Bucci
Alberto Bucci (25 May 1948 – 9 March 2019) was an Italian professional basketball coach who served as president of Virtus Bologna from 2016 to 2019. Having won three Italian championships and four Italian Cups, Bucci was widely considered one ...
was appointed as new head coach. During his five-year stint, he led the team from Serie D to the first historic Serie A2 participation in the 1978–79 season, that brought the first American basketball players to Rimini.
On April 8, 1984 the team was promoted to the
Serie A1, the highest-tier level of the Italian league system, where it played in the following three years, reaching the quarter-finals in 1985. After three years in Serie A2, it was relegated to Serie B, but a double promotion brought them back to Serie A1 in just two years. Part of that team was made up of the youngsters who won the junior national title in 1989 including
Carlton Myers
Carlton Ettore Francesco Myers (born 30 March 1971) is an Italian former professional basketball player that played in the Lega Basket Serie A, Italian league and the EuroLeague. Myers was initially raised in the United Kingdom. One of the best ...
, Italy's future flag-bearer at the opening ceremony of the
2000 Sydney Olympics
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.
In 1993, Basket Rimini was relegated again to Serie A2, then three times came close to return to A1, finally achieving this at the end of the 1996–97 season. Basket Rimini advanced to the Serie A1 quarter-finals in both the 1997–98 and 1998–99 seasons, qualifying for the following year's
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 ...
. With a last-place finish in the 2000–01 Serie A1, the club fell into Legadue, the new name of Serie A2. Simultaneously, Basket Rimini was renamed to Basket Rimini Crabs.
In 2011, the side was unable to participate in the Legadue due to debts, moving to the fourth-division DNB instead following the intervention of
Luciano Capicchioni
Luciano Capicchioni (14 July 1946 – 2 March 2021) was a Sammarinese-American sports agent.
Biography
As a teenager, Capicchioni moved to the United States with his father and two sisters. In 1965, he founded the cycling team at Michigan State U ...
, who already owned the team in the past. At the end of the 2017–18 season, concluded with the relegation of the first team in Serie C, Capicchioni decided to maintain only the activities of the youth teams.
In May 2020, Rinascita Basket Rimini (founded in 2018 and already operating) acquired the historical title of Basket Rimini Crabs. At that time, the team was playing in Serie B.
In the 2021–22 season, they clinched promotion to the Serie A2, ending a 10-year absence from the second flight.
Notable players
Sponsorship names
Over the years, due to sponsorship, the club has been known as:
*As Basket Rimini:
**Sarila (1972–1980)
**Sacramora (1980–1983)
**Marr (1983–1986)
**Hamby (1986–1987)
**Biklim (1987–1988)
**Marr (1988–1993)
**Olio Monini (1993–1994)
**Teamsystem (1994–1995)
**Koncret (1995–1997)
**Pepsi (1997–2000)
**Vip (2000–2001)
*As Basket Rimini Crabs:
**Conad (2001–2002)
**Vip (2002–2003)
**Conad (2003–2005)
**Coopsette (2005–2009)
**Riviera Solare (2009–2010)
**Edilizia Moderna (2010)
**Immobiliare Spiga (2010–2011)
**NTS Informatica (2015–2018)
*As Rinascita Basket Rimini:
**RivieraBanca (2020–...)
References
External links
Official websiteSerie A historical results Retrieved 9 April 2021
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1947 establishments in Italy
Basketball teams established in 1947
Basketball teams in Emilia-Romagna