Pallacanestro Milano 1958

Pallacanestro Milano 1958
Leagues Serie C Regionale (5th)
Founded 1955
History Pallacanestro Milano 1958
1958–present
Arena Forza e Coraggio Sports Center, Milan
Location Milan, Italy
Team colors White and blue
         
President Italy Daniele Cattaneo
Head coach Italy Daniele Cattaneo
Website PallacanestroMilano.it

Pallacanestro Milano 1958 is an Italian amateur basketball club based in Milan. Following an uninterrupted presence in the top tier Serie A from 1964 to 1980, the club fell down the divisions and plays in the fifth division amateur Serie C Regionale, Girone B as of the 2014-15 season.

For past club sponsorship names see sponsorship names.

History

Pallacanestro Milano was founded in 1955 by Valentino Milanaccio in order for his son and his friends from the San Gioachimo oratory to play basketball. From 1955 to 1957 it participated in the leagues of the Centro Sportivo Italiano, a christian sporting organisation, winning the national title in 1956. The 1957-58 season saw the club join the Italian basketball federation and play in the Promozione (the fifth of the six divisions that made up the Italian basketball league system at the time). Successive promotions saw it reach the first division Serie A by 1964.[1]

Its heyday started in the second part of the 1960s and lasted through the 1970s where the "Other Milan" played impassioned derbies against the more prestigious Olimpia Milano, with Pallacanestro Milano the only Milan side in the Serie A during the 1976-77 season after Olimpia's relegation.[2]

Pallacanestro Milano would stay in the top division until 1980, after which it would be relegated a number of times and progress down the league pyramid, with the national titles conquered by the youth sides a meager consolation. A new ownership from 1998 managed to rebuild the side from a perilous situation (no youth sector after a breakup, only three players affiliated to the club) with three consecutive playoff appearances but without being able to return the side to the national divisions.[1]

Notable players

1970s

1960s

Notable coaches

Sponsorship names

References

  1. 1 2 "Dal 1958 in campo" [On the court since 1958]. PallacanestroMilano.it (in Italian). Retrieved 22 August 2015.
  2. ↑ "Nel segno di Jura" [With the mark of Jura]. Mediaset.it (in Italian). 23 May 2011. Retrieved 22 August 2015.
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