Libertas Pallacanestro Asti was a professional basketball club based in
Asti
Asti ( , , ; pms, Ast ) is a ''comune'' of 74,348 inhabitants (1-1-2021) located in the Piedmont region of northwestern Italy, about east of Turin in the plain of the Tanaro River. It is the capital of the province of Asti and it is deemed t ...
, Italy.
History
Libertas Asti was founded in 1954 and under the sponsorship of Saclà, passed from Serie D to Serie A in five years with the Hungarian coach Lajos Tóth. In the first participation in the
premier league of the 1972–73 Serie A Saclà Asti was ranked in eighth place, also it reached the final of the
Italian Cup and defeated by
Ignis Varese
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For past club sp ...
, and getting access to the
FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup. In the 1973–74 season, due to the unavailability of a gambling facility approved for the Cup Winners' Cup, Saclà played its home games at
PalaRuffini of
Turin, finishing in sixth place. The shame season the club played in the
1973–74 FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup and reached to play in the semifinals where it excluded by the
Czech powerhouse
Spartak ZJŠ Brno
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(86–70 win in Turin, 71–88 defeat in
Brno
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).
[http://www.linguasport.com/baloncesto/internacional/clubes/c2/c2_e.htm/ 1973–74 FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup]
At the end of the season, remaining the unavailability of a suitable arena, Libertas established a twinning agreement with Auxilium Torino presided over by Fr. Gino Borgogno (accepted by the League to the Championship of Basketball Series A2 of the new institution), with which they moved into Turin-based club the best elements of the first team (as Dante Anconetani, John Laing, Alberto embattled, Brown Edge, Romeo Sacchetti, etc.), the coach Lajos Tóth, the managerial staff and Saclà sponsors, while Charlie Caglieris, considered the " flag "of the team, was sold for budgetary reasons to
Fortitudo Bologna. The club Asti then decided to give up the Series A1 and the Series B share with a team mainly made up of players from the youth sector of the
Auxilium Torino.
After just one year in Serie B the company disbanded (1976).
Honours
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Italian Cup
: ''Runners-up (1)'': 1972–73
In European and worldwide competitions
Match table
References
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1954 establishments in Italy
Asti
Basketball teams established in 1954
Basketball teams in Piedmont
Defunct basketball teams in Italy
Basketball teams disestablished in 1976
1976 disestablishments in Italy