Sopron Basket is a Hungarian

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club from Sopron. Founded in 1921 as the women's section of Soproni VSE, it has played in the Hungarian National Championship since 1986. It plays its home games in the Aréna Sopron. Sopron won its first national championship in 1993, making its debut in the Euroleague the following season. Settled in the top positions, the team played in subsequent years the

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, which it won in 1998 beating ASPTT Aix-en-Provence. As of 2011 Sopron remains the only Hungarian women's basketball team that has won an international competition since the fall of

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. The following year Sopron won its second championship, which marked its return to the Euroleague, which it has played every year since. The team has won four more championships since 2002, three of them between 2007 and 2011. In

2009 File:2009 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The vertical stabilizer of Air France Flight 447 is pulled out from the Atlantic Ocean; Barack Obama becomes the first African American to become President of the United States; 2009 Iran ...

it reached the Euroleague's Final Four after beating

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and Bourges Basket in the knockout stages, ending 4th after losing to CB Avenida and

UMMC Ekaterinburg BC Ekaterinburg (russian: БК «УГМК») is a Russian women's basketball team based in Yekaterinburg competing in the Russian Premier League, and until February 2022 in FIBA Europe's EuroLeague Women. In reaction to the 2022 Russian inv ...

. Sopron won its first-ever EuroLeague championship in

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Honours

Titles

* 1 EuroLeague Women ( 2021–22) * 1

(1998) * 15 Hungarian Leagues (1993, 1999, 2002, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022) * 10 Hungarian Cups (2007, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021)

Record in European competitions

* EuroLeague **

1994 File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which Sinking of the MS Estonia, sank in ...

: 1st Preliminary Round **

2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ...

: Quarter-Finals **

2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...

: Quarter-Finals **

2002 File:2002 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her daughter Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon die; East Timor gains East Timor independence, indepe ...

: Quarter-Finals **

2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an epidemic in China, and was a precursor to SARS-CoV-2; A des ...

: Quarter-Finals **

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...

: Round of 16 **

2005 File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris was discovered in ...

: Round of 16 **

2006 File:2006 Events Collage V1.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2006 Winter Olympics open in Turin; Twitter is founded and launched by Jack Dorsey; The Nintendo Wii is released; Montenegro 2006 Montenegrin independence referendum, votes to declare ...

: Quarter-Finals **

2007 File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple's first iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakistani Prime Minister of Pakistan, Pr ...

: Quarter-Finals **

2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ...

: Round of 16 **

: 4th **

2010 File:2010 Events Collage New.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2010 Chile earthquake was one of the strongest recorded in history; The Eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland disrupts air travel in Europe; A scene from the opening ceremony of ...

: Group Stage (4/6) **

2011 File:2011 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: a protester partaking in Occupy Wall Street heralds the beginning of the Occupy movement; protests against Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, who was killed that October; a young man celebrate ...

: Round of 16 **

2012 File:2012 Events Collage V3.png, From left, clockwise: The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia lies capsized after the Costa Concordia disaster; Damage to Casino Pier in Seaside Heights, New Jersey as a result of Hurricane Sandy; People gather ...

: Group Stage (4/8) **

2013 File:2013 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: Edward Snowden becomes internationally famous for leaking classified NSA wiretapping information; Typhoon Haiyan kills over 6,000 in the Philippines and Southeast Asia; The Dhaka garment fact ...

: Group Stage (3/9) **

2014 File:2014 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Stocking up supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Western African Ebola virus epidemic; Citizens examining the ruins after the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping; Bundles of wat ...

: Round of 16 **

2016 File:2016 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt; the impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff; Damaged houses during the 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh ...

: Group Stage (1/13) **

2017 File:2017 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The War Against ISIS at the Battle of Mosul (2016-2017); aftermath of the Manchester Arena bombing; The Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017 ("Great American Eclipse"); North Korea tests a ser ...

: Group Stage (4/10) **

2018 File:2018 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in PyeongChang, South Korea; Protests erupt following the Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi; March for Our Lives protests take place across the United ...

: Runners-up **

2019 File:2019 collage v1.png, From top left, clockwise: Hong Kong protests turn to widespread riots and civil disobedience; House of Representatives votes to adopt articles of impeachment against Donald Trump; CRISPR gene editing first used to experim ...

: 4th **

2020 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of events, COVID- ...

: Group Stage (6/8) **

2021 File:2021 collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: the James Webb Space Telescope was launched in 2021; Protesters in Yangon, Myanmar following the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, coup d'état; A civil demonstration against the October–November 2021 ...

: 4th **

: Champion *

** 1995: Group Stage (4/4) ** 1996: 3rd Preliminary Round ** 1997: Quarter-Finals ** 1998: Champion ** 1999: Quarter-Finals

Current squad

Team roster

:''Roster for the 2017–18 season'' * Guards ** .78 Virág Weninger **

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Yvonne Turner ** .78 Zsófia Fegyverneky ** .84

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Ángela Salvadores Ángela Salvadores Álvarez (born 10 March 1997) is a Spanish basketball player for Galician team Durán Maquinaria Ensino. She played for Duke Blue Devils during the 2015–16 season. Club career Early years Salvadores started playing basketb ...

* Forwards ** .88 Aleksandra Crvendakić ** .83 Dalma Czukor ** .91 Tina Jovanović ** .68 Dominika Böröndy ** .90

Jelena Milovanović Jelena Brooks (; sr-cyr, Јелена Брукс, ; born April 28, 1989) is a Serbian professional women's basketball player for UNIQA Sopron. Standing at , she plays at the power forward position. She also represents the Serbian national baske ...

** .90 Patrícia Bakó *

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** .93 Alaina Denise Coates ** .10

Bernadett Határ Bernadett Határ (born August 24, 1994) is a Hungarian basketball player for Sopron Basket of the EuroLeague Women, Indiana Fever of the WNBA, and the Hungarian national team. She participated at the EuroBasket Women 2015 and EuroBasket Women ...

** .88 Danielle Page

Technical staff

* Head Coach:

Roberto Íñiguez Roberto Íñiguez de Heredia Santamaria, (born 5 September 1967) is a former Spanish basketball player and the current head coach of Çukurova Basketbol. Iñiguez spent most of his career with Valencia BC. He played for Saski Baskonia, Valencia ...

* Assistant Coach: Carlos Cantero * Fitness Coach: Alberto Pacheco * Physiotherapist: Angel Lopez * Team Doctor: György Sztancs, MD

References

External links

*
Profile
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