Virtus Bologna
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Notable players
Marco BonamicoMarco Bonamico
Marco Bonamico is a former basketball player from Italy, who won the silver medal with his national team at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.-References:...
9 seasons: '75-'76, '77-'78, '80-'86, '88-'89 Carlo Caglieris 6 seasons: '75-'81 Pietro Generali 6 seasons: '75-'76, '78-'83 Gianni Bertolotti 5 seasons: '75-'80 Terry Driscoll
Terry Driscoll
Edward Cuthbert "Terry" Driscoll Jr. is an American former professional basketball player.A 6 ft 7 in forward, Driscoll played at Boston College in the late 1960s. He was named Most Valuable Player of the 1969 National Invitational Tournament after leading his school to the tournament final...
3 seasons: '75-'78 Eric Luc Leclerc 1 season: '75-'76 Luigi Serafini
Luigi Serafini
Luigi Serafini is an Italian artist, architect and designer. He is best known for creating the Codex Seraphinianus, an illustrated encyclopedia of imaginary things in a constructed language...
2 seasons: '75-'77 Renato Villalta
Renato Villalta
Renato Villalta is a former basketball player from Italy, who won the silver medal with his national team at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.-References:...
13 seasons: '76-'89-
Krešo ĆosićKrešimir Cosic
Krešimir Ćosić was a Croatian professional basketball player who represented Yugoslavia internationally, a member of FIBA Hall of Fame and Basketball Hall of Fame...
2 seasons: '78-'80 Jim McMillian
Jim McMillian
James M. "Jim" McMillian is a retired American professional basketball player. After starring at Thomas Jefferson High School in Brooklyn, McMillian played college basketball at Columbia University. He led Columbia to a three-year mark of 63-14, and their last NCAA Tournament appearance in 1968,...
2 seasons: '79-'81 Elvis Rolle 4 seasons: '81-'85 Jan van Breda Kolff 2 seasons: '83-'85 Augusto Binelli
Augusto Binelli
Augusto Binelli is a retired Italian basketball player. He is 2.13 m tall and he played at center position.Binelli played for Virtus Bologna from 1980 to 2000 and won 5 Italian championships , 4 Italian cups , 1 euroleague title and 1 Raimundo Saporta European Cup...
18 seasons: '80-'81, '83-'00 Roberto Brunamonti
Roberto Brunamonti
Roberto Brunamonti is a retired Italian basketball player, who won the silver medal with his national team at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, four national championships , one Italian Cup in 1984 and one Italian Supercup in 1995...
13 seasons: '83-'96 Joe Meriweather
Joe Meriweather
Joe C. Meriweather is an American former professional basketball player.A 6'10" center from Southern Illinois University, Meriweather played ten seasons in the NBA as a member of the Houston Rockets, Atlanta Hawks, New Orleans Jazz, New York Knicks, and Kansas City Kings...
1 season: '85-'86 Greg Stokes
Greg Stokes
Gregory Lewis "Greg" Stokes is a retired American professional basketball player who was selected by the Philadelphia 76ers in the 2nd round of the 1985 NBA Draft. A 6'10" forward-center from the University of Iowa, Stokes played in 2 NBA seasons for the 76ers and Sacramento Kings...
2 seasons: '86-'88-
Michael SylvesterMichael Sylvester
Michael Lane Sylvester was a lyric spinto operatic tenor.- Notes:...
3 seasons: '87-'90 Floyd Allen 1 season: '87-'88 Micheal Ray Richardson
Micheal Ray Richardson
Micheal Ray "Sugar" Richardson is an American former professional basketball player and currently the head coach of the London Lightning of the National Basketball League of Canada. Richardson played college basketball for the Montana Grizzlies...
3 seasons: '88-'91 Clemon Johnson
Clemon Johnson
Clemon Johnson is a retired American professional basketball player and the current head basketball coach at Florida A&M. Johnson was a 6'10", center who played 761 games for four teams during his 10 seasons in the National Basketball Association...
3 seasons: '88-'91 Lauro Bon 3 seasons: '89-'92 Claudio Coldebella 7 seasons: '89-'96 Riccardo Morandotti 7 seasons: '91-Dec '96, Jul-Nov '97 Bill Wennington
Bill Wennington
William Percey Wennington is a retired Canadian basketball player in the National Basketball Association who won three NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls. A center, he was also a member of two Canadian Olympic Basketball Teams and the 1983 World University Games team that won gold against...
2 seasons: '91-'93 Jurij Zdovc 1 season: '91-'92 Flavio Carera 6 seasons: '92-'97, '01-'02 Paolo Moretti 4 seasons: '92-'96 Giampiero Savio 1 season: '93-'94 Russ Schoene
Russ Schoene
Russ Schoene is a retired American professional basketball player and former assistant men's basketball coach at the University of Washington....
1 season: '93-'94 Alessandro Abbio
Alessandro Abbio
Alessandro Abbio is an Italian former basketball player.He competed with Italy at the 1998 FIBA World Championship and 2000 Summer Olympics. He also won the Euroleague twice in 1997-98 and 2000–01, along with Virtus Bologna.-References:...
8 seasons: '94-'02 Joe Binion
Joe Binion
Joe Binion is a retired American basketball player.He played collegiately for the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and was selected by the San Antonio Spurs in the 3rd round of the 1984 NBA Draft...
1 season: '94-'95 Arijan Komazec
Arijan Komazec
Arijan Komazec is a retired Croatian basketball player.He was a member of the Yugoslavian National Team and then the Croatian National Team after gained independence. He was a part of the Croatian team that won the Silver Medal in Barcelona during the 1992 Olympics...
2 seasons: '95-'97 Orlando Woolridge
Orlando Woolridge
Orlando Vernada Woolridge is a former professional basketball player in the NBA.- Early life and education :...
1 season: '95-'96 Zoran Savić
Zoran Savic
Zoran Savić is a retired Serbian professional basketball player. The 208 cm forward played in various European nations.-Career:...
2 seasons: '96-'98 Predrag Danilović
Predrag Danilovic
Predrag "Saša" Danilović , usually referred to in English as Sasha Danilovic , is a retired professional basketball player, considered one of the best European shooting guards during the 1990s...
6 seasons: '92-'95, '97-'00 Walter Magnifico
Walter Magnifico
Walter Magnifico is a former Italian basketball player. A 2.09 m Power Forward/Center, he spent most of his career in Scavolini Pesaro, thus becoming one of the club's emblems. While in Pesaro he led his team to a Saporta Cup in 1983, two Italian championship titles in 1988 and 1990 as well as two...
1 season: '96-'97-
Branislav PrelevićBranislav Prelevic
Branislav "Bane" Prelević is a retired Serbian-Greek professional basketball player. Prelević was born to Serbian parents in Belgrade, SR Serbia, Yugoslavia. Prelević holds Serbian-Greek dual citizenship because of having Hellenic ancestry.-PAOK BC:He started his career with Red Star Belgrade...
1 season: '96-'97 Kostas Patavoukas
Kostas Patavoukas
Kostas Patavoukas is a Greek retired professional basketball player.He started his career with Asteras Exarhion and later played for AEK BC. With AEK BC Patavoukas was a 2 time Greek Cup finalist in 1988 and 1992. He moved to Panathinaikos BC and won the Euroleague in 1996 in Paris and 2 Greek...
1 season: '96-'97 Antoine Rigaudeau
Antoine Rigaudeau
Antoine Roger Rigaudeau nicknamed Le Roi , is a retired French professional basketball player....
6 seasons: '97-'03 Alessandro Frosini
Alessandro Frosini
Alessandro Frosini is an Italian basketball player with Juvecaserta Basket. He is also a member of the Italian national basketball team. He has won the Euroleague twice in 1997-98 and 2000-01, along with Virtus Bologna....
6 seasons: '97-'03-
Hugo SconochiniHugo Sconochini
Hugo Ariel Sconochini is an Argentine professional basketball shooting guard and small forward....
4 seasons: '97-'01-
Radoslav Nesterovic 2 seasons: '97-'99 John AmaechiJohn Amaechi
John Uzoma Ekwugha Amaechi OBE is a retired American-born British basketball player who currently works as a psychologist, educator and political activist in Europe and the United States....
1 season: '97-'98 Zarko Paspalj
Žarko Paspalj
Žarko Paspalj is a retired Serbian professional basketball player and current sports administrator...
1 seasons: '98-'99
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David AndersenDavid Andersen
David Emil Andersen is an Australian professional basketball player. He also holds a Danish passport...
4 seasons: '99-'03 Saulius Štombergas
Saulius Štombergas
Saulius Štombergas is a retired Lithuanian basketball player for the Lithuanian men's national basketball team....
1 season: '99-'00 Nikos Ekonomou
Nikos Ekonomou
Nikos Ekonomou is a retired Greek professional basketball player. He was a power forward, who played for many teams in his career. He also runs Basket4All, a basketball camp for young children.- Basketball career :...
1 season: '99-'00 Matjaž Smodiš
Matjaž Smodiš
Matjaž Smodiš is a Slovenian professional basketball player. He is currently playing for KK Cedevita in Croatia.-Pro career:...
3 seasons: '00-'03-
Emanuel Ginóbili 2 seasons: '00-'02- Marko JarićMarko Jaric
Marko Jarić is a Serbian professional basketball player. He is married to Brazilian model Adriana Lima.-Pro career:...
2 seasons: '00-'02 Rashard Griffith
Rashard Griffith
Rashard Nathan Griffith is an American professional basketball player. Griffith, a native of Chicago, Illinois, starred for the nationally ranked King Jaguars of the Chicago Public League, where he was part of a "twin towers," as King, coached by Landon Cox, had 7'2" Thomas Hamilton and the 7'0"...
2 seasons: '00-'02 Erick Dial 1 season: '02-'03 Charlie Bell
Charlie Bell (basketball)
Charlie Will Bell III is an American professional basketball guard for the Golden State Warriors of the NBA.-Career:He began playing basketball at Flint Southwestern Academy High School, and had an excellent college career at Michigan State University, appearing in three NCAA Final Fours, and...
1 season: '02-'03-
German Scarone 1 season: '02-'03 Dejan KoturovićDejan Koturovic
Dejan Koturović is a retired Serbian professional basketball center. He helped Yugoslavia to gold at EuroBasket 1995 and the 2002 FIBA World Championship.-External links:* at acb.com* at legabasket.it* at euroleague.net...
1 season: '02-'03 Ruslan Avleev
Ruslan Avleev
Ruslan Avleev is a former Russian professional basketball 6'6" power forward of Tatar ethnicity. Started his career as a pro in 1995 with BK EVRAZ...
1 season: '02-'03 Samuele Podestà 2 seasons: '03-'05 Anthony Williams 1 season: '03-'04 Vonteego Cummings
Vonteego Cummings
Vonteego Marfeek Cummings is an American professional basketball player. He is a 1.91 m combo guard who has played in the National Basketball Association during his career. He has also had a successful career in Europe where he has played in several different countries...
1 season: '03-'04 A. J. Guyton
A. J. Guyton
Arthur James Guyton is an American former professional basketball player. He was selected by the Chicago Bulls in the 2nd round in the 2000 NBA Draft, and played collegiately at Indiana University, where he was named Big Ten Co-MVP and first team all-American during his senior year, averaging...
1 season: '04-'05 Bennett Davison 1 season: '04-'05 Corey Brewer
Corey L. Brewer
Corey Lavelle Brewer is an American professional basketball player, currently playing in Europe....
1 season: '04-'05 Christian Drejer
Christian Drejer
Christian Drejer is a retired Danish professional basketball player who in March 2008 was released from his contract with Virtus Roma and is a former player of SISU Copenhagen, the Florida Gators, Winterthur FCB and Virtus Bologna.He was also a Danish national team player...
2 seasons: '05-'07 Kris Lang
Kris Lang
Kristoffer Douglas Lang is an American professional basketball player. Lang is a graduate of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Lang started 108 games during his Tar Heel career from 1998-2002. He has also played for several teams in NBA summer-league and had...
2 seasons: '05-'07 Dušan Vukčević 2 seasons: '05-'07-
David BluthenthalDavid Bluthenthal
David Blu is a 6' 7" American-Israeli professional basketball player who plays for the Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball club.He was born as David Bluthenthal. In 2010 he changed his name to David Blu .-Early life:...
1 season: '05-'06 Marko Milič
Marko Milic
Marko Milič is a Slovenian professional basketball player. Milič's father, Vladimir, was a shot putting champion in the former Yugoslavia. His mother, Metka Papler, is a former successful sportswoman of the same origin...
1 season: '05-'06 Carl English
Carl English
Carl Jerome English is a Canadian professional basketball player. He stands 6'5" tall and weighs 205 pounds and he plays at the shooting guard position. He had unsuccessful tryouts for the NBA, with the Indiana Pacers and the Seattle SuperSonics...
1 season: '05-'06 Travis Best
Travis Best
Travis Eric Best is an American former professional basketball player, who played in the NBA and in Europe.-High school career:...
1 season: '06-'07-
Vlado IlievskiVlado Ilievski
Vlado Ilievski is a Macedonian professional basketball player. He is a 1.88 m point guard who plays for Anadolu Efes.During his successful career, Ilievski played for KK Partizan, Antbirlik Antalya, FC Barcelona Bàsquet, Lottomatica Roma, VidiVici Bologna, Montepaschi Siena, Tau Cerámica, KK...
1 season: '06-'07 Andreas Glyniadakis
Andreas Glyniadakis
Andreas Glyniadakis is a Greek professional basketball player. He is a , 280 lb. center...
1 season: '06-'07 Earl Boykins
Earl Boykins
Earl Antoine Boykins is an American professional basketball player who most recently played for the Milwaukee Bucks of the NBA. Standing at 5 feet, 5 inches in height, he is the second shortest player in NBA history behind Muggsy Bogues, who was 5 feet, 3 inches tall. His NBA listed...
1 season: '08-'09
Coaches
Renzo Poluzzi - 1948-50 Dino Fontana - 1950-51 Venzo Vannini - 1951-52 Larry StrongLarry Strong
Larry Strong is an award-winning director, writer and producer. He is a graduate of Long Island University C.W. Post Campus where he majored in film and theatre. He and his partner Kevin Arbouet are noted for directing the viral video, "I Got a Crush... on Obama"...
- 1952-53 Giancarlo Marinelli
Giancarlo Marinelli
Giancarlo Marinelli was an Italian basketball player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.He was born in Bologna....
- 1953-54 Larry Strong
Larry Strong
Larry Strong is an award-winning director, writer and producer. He is a graduate of Long Island University C.W. Post Campus where he majored in film and theatre. He and his partner Kevin Arbouet are noted for directing the viral video, "I Got a Crush... on Obama"...
- 1954-55 Vittorio Tracuzzi - 1955-60 Eduard Kucharski - 1960-63 Mario Alesini - 1963-66 Jaroslav Sip - 1966-68
(incl. 4 games from the '68-'69 season) Renzo Ranuzzi - 1968-69
(18 games) Nello Paratore - 1969-70 Vittorio Tracuzzi - 1970-71
(incl. 4 games from the '71-'72 season) Nico Messina - 1971-73
(incl. 18 games from the '71-'72 season) Dan Peterson
Dan Peterson
Dan Peterson is a former American professional basketball head coach. He resigned his most recent position as the head coach of Olimpia Milano in the Italian Serie A1 after the team was eliminated in the semi-finals of the 2011 Italian league playoffs. The team has announced that he will assume...
- 1973-78 Terry Driscoll
Terry Driscoll
Edward Cuthbert "Terry" Driscoll Jr. is an American former professional basketball player.A 6 ft 7 in forward, Driscoll played at Boston College in the late 1960s. He was named Most Valuable Player of the 1969 National Invitational Tournament after leading his school to the tournament final...
- 1978-80 Ettore Zuccheri - 1980-81
(23 games) Renzo Ranuzzi - 1981
(18 games from the '80-'81 season) Aleksandar Nikolić
Aleksandar Nikolic
Aleksandar "Aca" Nikolić was a renowned Bosnian Serb basketball player and coach from Yugoslavia. He is considered to be so instrumental and important to the game's development in the country that he is often referred to as the Father of Yugoslav basketball...
- 1981-82 George Bisacca
George Bisacca
-Coaching career:Bisacca was the head coach of the Fairfield Stags men's basketball team coach for 11 seasons from 1958 to 1968 where he compiled a 151-87 record....
- 1982
(11 games from the '82-'83 season) Mauro Di Vincenzo - 1982-83
(24 games) Alberto Bucci - 1983-85 Alessandro Gamba - 1985-87 Krešimir Ćosić
Krešimir Cosic
Krešimir Ćosić was a Croatian professional basketball player who represented Yugoslavia internationally, a member of FIBA Hall of Fame and Basketball Hall of Fame...
- 1987-88 Bob Hill
Bob Hill
Robert W. Hill is an American basketball coach. Hill grew up in Mount Sterling, Ohio moving to Worthington, Ohio for high school. Upon graduating from high School, Hill entered Bowling Green State University. Hill is currently the head coach of the Tokyo Apache in Japan...
- 1988-89 Ettore Messina
Ettore Messina
Ettore Messina is an Italian professional basketball coach currently working as a consultant for Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association. He has won 4 Euroleague championships as a head coach...
- 1989-93 Alberto Bucci - 1993-97
(incl. 23 games from the '96-'97 season) Lino Frattin - 1997
(11 games from the '96-'97 season) Ettore Messina
Ettore Messina
Ettore Messina is an Italian professional basketball coach currently working as a consultant for Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association. He has won 4 Euroleague championships as a head coach...
- 1997-02
(replaced for two games in '01-'02
by
Giordano Consolini) Bogdan TanjevićBogdan Tanjevic
Bogdan Tanjević is an ex-Yugoslav, naturalized Italian, Bosnian, and Turkish basketball coach last managed Turkish national basketball team between 2004-10 and Fenerbahçe Ülker between 2007-10...
- 2002
(14 games from the '02-'03 season) Valerio Bianchini - 2002-03
(20 games) Giampiero Ticchi - 2003 Alberto Bucci - 2003-04 Giordano Consolini - 2004-05 Zare Markovski - 2005-07 Stefano Pillastrini - 2007 Renato Pasquali - 2008 Matteo Boniciolli - 2008-09 Lino Lardo - 2009–11 Alessandro Finelli - 2011-present
Sponsorship names
Through the years, due to sponsorship deals, it has been also known as:- No name sponsorship (1945–53)
- Minganti (1953–58)
- Oransoda (1958–60)
- Idrolitina (1960–61)
- No name sponsorship (1961–62)
- Knorr (1962–65)
- Candy (1965–69)
- No name sponsorship (1969–70)
- Norda (1970–74)
- Sinudyne (1974–80)
- Granarolo (1983–86)
- Dietor (1986–88)
- Knorr (1988–93)
- Buckler (1993–96)
- KinderKinder ChocolateKinder Chocolate is a confectionery product of the Italian chocolate manufacturer Ferrero SpA; it is known in Germany as Kinderschokolade. The German offspring of Ferrero SpA, Ferrero oHG mbH, also formerly known as Assia GmbH, founded in 1956, introduced Kinderschokolade to the German market in...
(1996-02) - No name sponsorship (2002–03)
- Carisbo Virtus (2003–04)
- Caffè Maxim (2004–05)
- VidiVici (2005–07)
- La Fortezza (Serie A), VidiVici (EuroLeague) (2007–08)
- La Fortezza (Serie A), Virtus BolognaFiere (EuroChallenge) (2008–09)
- Canadian Solar (2009–10)