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Bulgaria

Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

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Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

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Pleven

Pleven is the seventh most populous city in Bulgaria. Located in the northern part of the country, it is the administrative centre of Pleven Province, as well as of the subordinate Pleven municipality...

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History

Founded in 1947, Spartak has been 2 times champions of Bulgaria and 1 time Bulgarian Cup winners. They play their home matches at the Balkanstroy Hall. The team is a regular first league participant.
Spartak Pleven has 13 seasons in the European club competitions since their international promotion in 1983. The club from the Northern Bulgarian city of Pleven has glorious victories over basketball giants like Real Madrid, Partizan Belgrade, Besiktas, Benfica, etc.
Spartak Pleven was eliminated by the Turkish Antalya Basket in their 2008/2009 FIBA Eurochallenge campaign.

Honours

• Bulgarian Championship
  National Basketball League (Bulgaria)
  The Bulgarian National Basketball League is the highest professional basketball league in Bulgaria. It was founded in the year 2008. Previously, it was called the Bulgarian A Division...
  
  
• Winners: 1995, 1996
• Runners-up: 1989
• Bronze medalist: 1983, 1987, 1992, 1994

• Bulgarian Cup
• Winners: 1996
• Runners-up: 1994, 1995
• Bronze medalist: 2006, 2009

External links

• Official website
• Spartak Pleven at BulgarianBasket.com