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Xanthi B.C.

basketball team in Xanthi, Greece

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ3561365
Source-derived summary

Xanthi B.C. (Greek: Αθλητικός Σύλλογος Ξάνθη) was a Greek professional basketball club that is located in Western Thrace, Xanthi, Greece. Xanthi competed in the Greek 2nd Division.

History

Xanthi competed in the 2nd-tier level Greek 2nd Division, and then merged with Koroivos in 2010. Koroivos then took over Xanthi's place in the Greek 2nd Division in the following season.

After Koroivos took Xanthi's place in the Greek 2nd Division, Xanthi was then relegated down to the 5th-tier level league in Greece, due to the club's financial problems.

The club then merged with A.P.S. Aspida Xanthi for the 2010–11 season.

Arena

The club's home arena is Xanthi Arena. Its capacity is 5,000.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2010—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Xanthi, basketball and team is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from Xanthi B.C.” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.