Sabah BC
Basketball team in Baku, Azerbaijan
Sabah Basketball Club, also known simply as Sabah BC or Sabah, is an Azerbaijani professional basketball team based in Baku. Founded in 2022, as a team affiliated to the Sabah FC football team, they joined the Azerbaijan Basketball League (ABL) in the 2022-23 season. They won the national championship in their debut season.
As champions, they entered the 2023-24 FIBA Europe Cup qualifying rounds, as the first Azerbaijani team to play in a European competition in 18 years (after Gala Baku in 2005). Following three wins in the qualifying tournament in Skopje, Sabah qualified for the regular season.
Boban Mitev was appointed as Sabah's new head coach in August 2023. On 26 January 2024 he was replaced by Rimas Kurtinaitis.
01Honours
- Winners (4): 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25, 2025-26
02Players
Current roster
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03Head coaches
- Elshan Yusubov: 2022-2023
- Boban Mitev: 2023-2024
- Rimas Kurtinaitis: 2024-2026
- Lazar Spasić: 2026-present
Sources and credits
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- Sabah BC logo.png by Unknown author, Fair use
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