AS Vicenza

AS Vicenza
Leagues	Serie B
Founded	1958
Arena	PalaLaghetto
Location	Vicenza, Italy
Team colors	White and red
President	Mario Bedin
Head coach	Loris Gorlin
Championships	5 European Cups 1 Ronchetti Cup 12 Italian Championships
Website	asvicenza.it
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Associazione Sportiva Vicenza is an Italian women's basketball team from Vicenza. Founded in 1958, the team reached Serie A in 1963 and two years later it won the first of its twelve Italian Championships. The team dominated the championship in the second half of the 1960s.^[1]

The 1970s were unsuccessful, but the following decade marked the club's golden era, with Vicenza appearing in seven European Cup finals in a row between 1983 and 1989. The team defeated twice Agon 08 Düsseldorf and Dynamo Novosibirsk and once 18-times champion Daugava Riga to win five European Cups, including four consecutive titles. As of 2012 Vicenza remains the competition's most successful team from Western Europe.^[2]

The 1989 lost final to Jedinstvo Tuzla was Vicenza's last appearance in the European Cup, but the team still enjoyed a last European success in 1992, winning the Ronchetti Cup. However, the team declined throughout the 1990s and became a yo-yo club, being relegated to Serie A1 in 1996, 2000, 2003 and 2006. The situation worsened critically in 2007 with the team being relegated to 4th-tier Serie C after ending last and receiving an additional relegation for financial trouble. Since 2009 the team has played in 3rd-tier Serie B, most recently ending 7th.

Titles

• 5 European Cups (1983, 1985 — 1988)
• 1 Ronchetti Cup (1992)
• 12 Italian Championships (1965 — 1969, 1982 — 1988)

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