Sabah BC

Sabah
Sabah logo
LeagueAzerbaijan Basketball League
Champions League
Founded1 September 2022 (2022-09-01)
HistorySabah BK
2022–present
LocationBaku, Azerbaijan
Head coachRimas Kurtinaitis
Championships3 Azerbaijan Basketball League

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.[1] They won the national championship in their debut season.[2]

As champions, they entered the 2023–24 FIBA Europe Cup qualifying rounds,[3] as the first Azerbaijani team to play in a European competition in 18 years (after Gala Baku in 2005).[4] 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.[5] On 26 January 2024 he was replaced by Rimas Kurtinaitis.[6]

Honours

Azerbaijan Basketball League

  • Winners (2): 2022–23, 2023–24, 2024-25

Players

Current roster

Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationalities not displayed.

Sabah BK roster
Players Coaches
Pos. No. Nat. Name Ht. Age
G 3 United States Gravett, Hassani 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) 29 – (1996-07-16)16 July 1996
C 12 United States Baldwin, Deandre 2.07 m (6 ft 9 in) 28 – (1996-10-04)4 October 1996
SG 14 Azerbaijan Poladkhanli, Endar 2.00 m (6 ft 7 in) 26 – (1998-10-12)12 October 1998
C 15 Latvia Čavars, Klāvs 2.08 m (6 ft 10 in) 29 – (1996-02-11)11 February 1996
PF 17 Ukraine Voinalovych, Andrii 2.05 m (6 ft 9 in) 25 – (1999-12-11)11 December 1999
SG 21 Azerbaijan Mammadov, Alikamran 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) 19 – (2006-07-14)14 July 2006
PF 26 Latvia Butjankovs, Artjoms 2.02 m (6 ft 8 in) 33 – (1991-08-26)26 August 1991
SF 41 Azerbaijan Guliyev, Ramiz 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) 23 – (2002-01-01)1 January 2002
PG 77 Azerbaijan Shirzadov, Shirzad 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) 25 – (2000-05-30)30 May 2000
PG Azerbaijan Mammadov, Kamran 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) 25 – (2000-05-03)3 May 2000
F/C France Pansa, Jean-Marc 2.08 m (6 ft 10 in) 28 – (1997-08-20)20 August 1997
G United States Nichols, David 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) 29 – (1996-03-26)26 March 1996
SF United States Jordan, Keith 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) 27 – (1998-03-25)25 March 1998
F/C United States Tillman, Justin 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) 29 – (1996-02-02)2 February 1996
C Azerbaijan Galfanov, Huseyn 2.10 m (6 ft 11 in) 17 – (2008-03-01)1 March 2008
Head coach
Assistant coach(es)
  • Lithuania Aurimas Jasilionis
  • Serbia Goran Miljevic
Legend
  • (C) Team captain
  • Injured Injured
Updated: November 3, 2024

References

  1. ^ Eurobasket. "Sabah BK Baku basketball, News, Roster, Rumors, Stats, Awards, Transactions, Details-eurobasket". Eurobasket LLC. Retrieved 12 August 2023.
  2. ^ "Baku Sabah - Basketball - BetsAPI". betsapi.com. Retrieved 13 August 2025.
  3. ^ "FIBA Europe Cup clubs and Qualifiers format revealed for 2023–24 season". FIBA.basketball. Retrieved 20 July 2023.
  4. ^ "Confident victory from "Sabah"". İdman və Biz. 2 October 2023. Retrieved 9 October 2023.
  5. ^ Фидан, Коминовски (1 August 2023). "Boban Mitev is the new coach of the champion of Azerbaijan – Sloboden Pechat". Слободен печат. Retrieved 12 August 2023.
  6. ^ "Kurtinaitis treniruos Azerbaidžano čempionus". basketnews.lt. 26 January 2024. Retrieved 29 January 2024.
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