Dinamo Sassari

Dinamo Sassari
Polisportiva Dinamo, commonly known as Dinamo Sassari and currently known as Dinamo Banco di Sardegna Sassari for sponsorship reasons, is an Italian professional basketball club that is based in Sassari, Sardinia. They are the 2018–19 European Cup Champions. The club plays in the Italian LBA, the highest level club competition in Italian professional basketball.
Dinamo was founded in 1960, and in the past, due to sponsorship deals, has also been known as Banco Popolare Sassari (1989–90). The club plays in the Serie A (the highest level for the men's basketball competitions in Italy), since 2010.
Dinamo Sassari is notable for being the club in Italian professional basketball to have made the impressive score of 158 points scored in a single game (with no overtimes), during the 1994–95 Serie A2 regular season, versus Pallacanestro Pavia (91); which is the highest score ever made by any club in Italy.
History
In 1994–95, the Dinamo team scored 158 points in a regular season game without overtimes against Pavia.
In 2010, Dinamo promoted to the Serie A, when it beat Prima Veroli in the Finals of the Playoffs.
In 2012, the club made its debut in Europe, when it played in the EuroCup regular season. The 2013–14 season was one of the most historic ever for the club. Banco di Sardegna Sassari won the Italian Cup, the team's first trophy. Dinamo's star player Travis Diener was named Italian Cup MVP. Later in the season Drake Diener – Travis' cousin – was named Italian League MVP. Dinamo also played in the EuroCup once again, and reached the eight-finals this time around.
Despite the third place and elimination in the Italian League semifinals in 2014, Dinamo was invited to play in the 2014–15 EuroLeague season. After Montepaschi Siena, runner-up in the Italian league, resigned the club received a B license.
In the 2014–15 season, Dinamo won its first Italian League championship. In Game 7 of the Italian League Finals, Sassari won 73–75, on the road against Reggio Emilia. Because of this, Dinamo returned to the EuroLeague in 2015. It was eliminated in the regular season and after transferring to the EuroCup it was eliminated in the round of 32.
In 2017, Dinamo reached the final of the Italian Cup, where it lost to Olimpia Milano. This season the club also made its debut in the Basketball Champions League and made the quarter-finals in its inaugural season. In the LBA, the team finished in the fifth place.
In the 2018–19 season, Dinamo played in the second qualifying round of FIBA Europe Cup. Here, it beat Benfica from Portugal to advance to the regular season. After advancing past the second round as well, Dinamo beat ZZ Leiden, Pınar Karşıyaka and Hapoel Holon. Thus, it qualified for the 2019 FIBA Europe Cup Finals where Dinamo faced German side s.Oliver Würzburg. On 1 May 2019, Sassari won the FIBA Europe Cup after defeating Würzburg in the second leg of the finals. It was the team's first European title.
In 2019 Sassari reached the LBA Finals for the second time in club history, four years since its championship. Dinamo was defeated by Umana Reyer Venezia in Game 7, losing the series 3–4.
Honours
Total titles: 6
Domestic competitions
Italian League
Winners (1): 2014–15
Runners-up (1): 2018–19
Italian Cup
Winners (2): 2014, 2015
Runners-up (1): 2017
Italian Supercup
Winners (2): 2014, 2019
European competitions
FIBA Europe Cup
Winners (1): 2018–19
Other competitions
Varallo Sesia, Italy Invitational Game
Winners (1): 2011
Torneo Città di Cagliari
Runners-up (1): 2011
Torneo Geovillage
Winners (2): 2014, 2015
Nuoro, Italy Invitational Game
Winners (2): 2014, 2015
Runners-up (1): 2018
Sassari, Italy Invitational Game
Winners (1): 2014
Wroclaw, Poland Invitational Game
Runners-up (1): 2014
Torneo de Città di Sassari
Runners-up (1): 2015
Trofeo Meridiana
Winners (1): 2015
Olbia, Italy Invitational Game
Winners (1): 2016
Cagliari, Italy Invitational Game
Winners (1): 2018
Saturnia, Italy Invitational Game
Winners (1): 2019
Season by season
Players
Retired numbers
Current roster
Depth chart
See also
S.E.F. Torres 1903
Torres Calcio Femminile
U.S.D. Latte Dolce
References
External links
Official site
Eurobasket.com Team Page
Sassari
Sassari
Sport in Sardinia
EuroLeague clubs