Pallacanestro Femminile Schio, also known as Beretta Famila Schio for sponsorship reasons, is an Italian women's

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 ...

team based in

Schio Schio is a town and comune in the province of Vicenza (region of Veneto, northern Italy) situated north of Vicenza and east of the Lake Garda. It is surrounded by the Little Dolomites (Italian Prealps) and Mount Pasubio. History Its name comes f ...

that competes in

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 ...

. Founded in 1973, Schio enjoyed its first successes between 1996 and 2002, winning two national cups and the two last editions of the

Ronchetti Cup The Ronchetti Cup (called till 1996 ''European Cup Liliana Ronchetti'') was an annual women’s basketball European club competition held by FIBA between the years 1972 and 2002. It was the second competition in European basketball, after the Euro ...

in 2001 and 2002. In 2005 the team won its first national championship, which they successfully defended the following year, to attain its first double. In 2008 Schio won the

EuroCup Women The EuroCup Women (officially ''FIBA EuroCup Women'') is the second-level basketball competition with teams from associate members of FIBA Europe. It succeeds the Ronchetti Cup. System of competition As for the EuroLeague Women, the EuroCup had ...

in addition to the national championship, and in 2011 it won its second national double. Schio has played in the EuroLeague Women since the mid-2000s, reaching the 2012 edition's Final Eight after beating defending champion Perfumerías Avenida.Profile
in FIBA Europe's website The team's president since 1987 is Marcello Cestaro, owner of the supermarket chain Famila. The team is co-sponsored by sausage brand Fratelli Beretta.

Honours

Domestic

** Winners (11): 2004–05, 2005–06, 2007–08, 2010–11, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2021–22 * Coppa Italia ** Winners (13): 1996, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2022 * Supercoppa Italiana ** Winners (13): 2005, 2006, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022

International

** Winners (2): 2000–01, 2001–02 *

** Winners (1): 2007–08

References

External links

Official website

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