BC Chernihiv
Ukrainian professional basketball club
BC Chernihiv (Ukrainian: БК Чернігів), is a Ukrainian professional basketball club based in Chernihiv, Ukraine. The club plays in the Ukrainian Higher League.
History
BC Chernihiv started in the third season of the Ukrainian Men's First League in its history. In Kyiv, Igor Sachenko's team met with the capital's Predators.
In 2012, BC "Chernihiv" was the winner of the Cup of Chernihiv region in 2012 in basketball among men's teams and the forward of the winners Alexander Gorbachenko was recognized as the best player of the cup.
In 2015, the club won the Dmytro Chabanyuk Memorial, which took place in Chernihiv. He has also repeatedly participated in the championships of the Chernihiv region. In the same year the team become the winner of the Cup of Chernihiv region in basketball and the player of BC Chernihiv, Denis Solodovnikov was elected Best Player.
In the 2017/18 season, the club applied to participate in the Ukrainian men's basketball championship in the First League (the third strongest division of Ukrainian basketball), which broke the almost 15-year break in the performances of teams from Chernihiv region at the All-Ukrainian level.
The team was led by 29-year-old Oleksandr Khomenko, who previously coached the basketball club "North", which plays in the championship of the Chernihiv region.
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