BC Borisfen

Borisfen

Nickname

Knights

Leagues

Belarusian Premier League
FIBA Europe Cup (suspended)
European North Basketball League (suspended)

Founded

3 September 2010; 13 years ago

History

BC Borisfen
2010–present

Arena

Olympic Stadium

Location

Mogilev, Belarus

President

Andrey Nikolaevich Kotov

Head coach

Andrey Krivonos

Website

bcborisfen.by

Home

Away

BC Borisfen, also known as Borisfen Mogilev (in Belarusian: Барысфэн Магілёў; in Russian: Борисфен Могилёв), is a Belarusian basketball club based in Mogilev. It plays in the Belarusian Premier League^[1] and played in the European North Basketball League until it was suspended.

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History

The club was established on 3 September 2010.^[2] The club was founded after BC Temp-OSHVSM disappeared from the highest Belarusian basketball league.^{[citation needed]} In 2011, Borisfen played in the Belarusian Second League for one season.^{[citation needed]}

In the 2016–17 season, Borisfen made its debut in the Baltic Basketball League. Domestically, in 2018 and 2019, Borisfen finished as runners-up behind BC Tsmoki-Minsk.^[3] In the 2019–20 season, Borisfen made its debut in a European competition, playing in the qualifying rounds of the FIBA Europe Cup.^[4] The team lost to BC Dnipro.^{[citation needed]}

Borisfen qualified for the regular season of the 2020–21 FIBA Europe Cup.,^[5] but due to the discovery of COVID-19 in one of the members of the delegation, the team was unable to participate in the games and was sent to quarantine.^{[citation needed]}

In 2021, in the fourth match in the final series, BC Borisfen lost to BC Tsmoki-Minsk by a score 52:85. Thus, BC Borisfen - four-time vice-champion of the Belarusian Basketball Championship. Also, on July 16, it became known that several players left the team, namely: Dupree McBrayer, Darol Hernandez-Zinenko, Tywain МcКee, Brooks DeBisschop and Anton Zaretsky.

In the 2021/2022 season, the club planned to compete in the newly formed European Northern League, where the opponents would also be: Anwil Wloclawek, Basket Brno, BK Liepaja, Enisey Krasnoyarsk, BK Siauliai, Tartu Ulikool Maks and Moorits and BC Valmiera GLASS VIA^{[citation needed]}. The European North Basketball League has excluded BC Borisfen and BC Enisey from the competition from March 1, 2022 due to the war against Ukraine.

European record

Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away
2019–20	FIBA Europe Cup	Qualifying round	Dnipro	76–101	81–71
2020–21	FIBA Europe Cup	Regular season	Donar	DNP¹
			Heroes Den Bosch
			Parma

^1 Borisfen withdrew from the 2020–21 FIBA Europe Cup after players on the team were diagnosed with COVID-19.

Players

Current roster

BC Borisfen roster

Players

Coaches

Pos.	No.	Nat.	Name
2	BLR	SG	Daniil Gorbachevsky
4	BLR	PF	Maxim Lyutych
5	USA	SG	Demetrius Lake
7	RUS	F	Vadim Balyakin
12	BLR	PG	Dmitriy Bezruchenko
13	BLR	PF	Andrey Ageenko
14	NED	C	Deion Bute
17	BLR	SG	Ilya Polonevich
21	BLR	C	Alexander Kopachev
35	USA	PF	Juran Ligond
41	BLR	PG	Anton Shchurko
73	BLR	SG	Artem Malkov (C)
77	BLR	PG	Yegor Yuriev