Kazakhstan Basketball Cup

Kazakhstan Basketball Cup (KBC)
SportBasketball
Country Kazakhstan
ContinentFIBA Asia (Asia)
Most recent
champion(s)		BK Barsy Atyrau (2nd title)
(2022)
Most titlesBC Astana (9 titles)
Related
competitions		Kazakhstan Basketball Championship
Official websitenbf.kz (in Russian)

The Kazakhstan Basketball Cup (Кубка Казахстана по баскетболу) is the national men's professional basketball cup competition in the country of Kazakhstan. It is organised annually over a few days in a single location by the National Basketball Federation Kazakhstan. Its official designation in full is: Basketball Cup of the Republic of Kazakhstan for men's teams Кубка Республика Казахстан по баскетболу среди мужских команд).

Titles

Results

The title has been alternatively decided by round-robin or by a single final (see Format and rules).

Round robin format
Edition 1st place Points (Won/Lost) Second place Host city Date
2003[1] Otrar Almaty N/A N/A Tobol Kostanay Almaty 6–10 September
2011[2] BC Astana 8 (4/0) 7 (3/1) Barsy Atyrau Astana 18–22 December
2012[3] BC Astana 8 (4/0) 7 (3/1) Tobol Kostanay Almaty 19–24 March
2013[4] BC Astana 8 (4/0) 7 (3/1) Barsy Atyrau Atyrau 20–24 February
Single final format
Edition Champion Score Finalist Third Place Host city Date
2004[5] Astana Tigers 96 – 75 Bars Petropavl Almaty 29 October – 1 November
2005[6] Tobol Kostanay N/A Astana Tigers Almaty ?-5 October
2006[7] Astana Tigers 74 – 54 Tobol Kostanay Almaty 15–21 September
2007[8] Saba Battery 79 – 60 Astana Tigers Almaty 26 September – 2 October
2008[9] Astana Tigers 94 – 88 Tobol Kostanay Kostanay 16 September – 21 September
2009[10] Barsy Atyrau 66 – 65 Tobol Kostanay Kostanay 7–11 December
2010[11] Astana Tigers 64 – 63 Barsy Atyrau Atyrau ? – 8 October
2014[12] BC Astana 88 – 76 PBC Kapchagay Astana 27 February – 3 March
2015[13] Almatynski Legion 90 – 86 Tobol Kostanay Almaty 18–22 February
2016[14] Almatynski Legion 89 – 87 PBC Kapchagay Almaty 7–11 March
2017 BC Astana 66 – 46 Barsy Atyrau Atyrau 12 March
2018 BC Astana 72 – 61 Barsy Atyrau Atyrau
2019 BC Astana Tobol Almaty
2020[15] BC Astana 102–66 Tobol Barsy Atyrau Nur-Sultan
2021[16] BC Astana 92–66 Tobol Barsy Atyrau Shchuchinsk
2022[17] Barsy Atyrau Round-robin BC Astana Aktobe N/A

Format and rules

The cup has been alternatively played in two different formats. A round-robin format, where each team plays the others in the tournament once, with the team in possession of the best record (most points or head-to-head record) declared the winner.[4]

A finals format, the teams are separated in two groups (usually of three teams), where all teams in a group play each other. The last placed teams in each group then play for 5th place whilst the respective first and second place teams compete in the semifinals, with the winners moving on to the final, all single games.[18][19]

The cup traditionally used to open the season,[20] however from the 2012 edition it was switched nearer to the end of the season (February–March), leading to a strange situation wherein BC Astana won the cup twice in 2011–12.[21]

In the 2015 edition, teams were only allowed to field Kazakhstani players, with foreign players barred.[22]

From 2022, the cup returned to a round-robin format.[17]

History

The 2013 Cup was held on March 19–24 in Almaty between five teams. BC Astana won all four of their games to win the title.[23]

The 2014 Cup was contested between six clubs in Astana in March, BC Astana won the cup again, beating Kapshagay 88–76 in the final.[12][24]

The 2015 Cup was played from 18 to 22 February in Almaty, six teams participated, though holders BC Astana did not defend their title as they were already playing three matches (two on the road) in other competitions around that period.[25] Almatynski Legion and Tobol Kostanay met in the final,[26] with Almatynski Legion winning the title after a 90–86 victory.[13][27]

All-Cup Team

The league selects their choice of the best players at each position, forming the tournament team for each edition.

Edition Point guard Shooting guard Small forward Power forward Center
2013[28] Latvia Reinis Strupovics (Aktau) Serbia Branko Cvetković (Astana) Ukraine Dmitri Dyatlovsky (Atyrau) Kazakhstan Anton Ponomarev (Astana) United States David Simon (Astana)
2014[12] Kazakhstan Jerry Johnson (Astana) Latvia Jānis Blūms (Astana) Latvia Edgaras Želionis (Atyrau) Greece Pat Calathes (Astana) Uzbekistan Dmitri Sviridov (Kapchagay)
2015[29] Kazakhstan Berik Ismailov (Kapchagay) Kazakhstan Yuriy Kozhanov (Almaty) Kazakhstan Nikolai Bazhin (Kostanay) Kazakhstan Dmitri Gavrilov (Kapchagay) Kazakhstan Vsevolod Fadeikin (Almaty)
2016[30] Kazakhstan Shaim Kuanov (Kostanay) Kazakhstan Yuriy Kozhanov (Almaty) Kazakhstan Konstantin Dvirnyi (Kapchagay) Kazakhstan Anton Bykov (Kapchagay) Kazakhstan Mikhail Evstigneev (Atyrau)
2017 Kazakhstan Rustem Murzagaliev Kazakhstan Rustam Ergali Kazakhstan Pavel Ilyin Kazakhstan Anton Ponomarev Kazakhstan Vsevolod Fadeikin

See also

References

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