BC Žalgiris

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Manager

Tomas Masiulis

League Position

Recent League Form ➡

Established
1944 (82 years old)

Sport
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Basketball

Venue

Žalgirio arena
(15,552 Capacity)

Former Names

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Archive
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Location
Kaunas, Lithuania

Nicknames

Competitions
Lithuanian LKL
EuroLeague Basketball

Last Edit
Ovokx: 11/Aug/26

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		Upcoming
18 Oct 26	BC ŽalgiBC Žalgiris	4:10pm	BC TauragBC Tauragė
23 Oct 26	BC ŽalgiBC Žalgiris	5:00pm	Lyon-VillLyon-Villeurbanne
25 Oct 26	BC ŽalgiBC Žalgiris	2:50pm	BC JonavaBC Jonava
28 Oct 26	Virtus PaVirtus Pallacanestro Bologna	7:30pm	BC ŽalgiBC Žalgiris
30 Oct 26	BC ŽalgiBC Žalgiris	6:00pm	KK PartizKK Partizan

		Results
16 Oct 26	BC ŽalgiBC Žalgiris	70 - 85	Anadolu EAnadolu Efes SK
13 Oct 26	Fenerbah�Fenerbahçe Basketbol	99 - 80	BC ŽalgiBC Žalgiris
11 Oct 26	BC Nevė�BC Nevėžis	76 - 80	BC ŽalgiBC Žalgiris
09 Oct 26	FC BarcelFC Barcelona Basquet	81 - 88	BC ŽalgiBC Žalgiris
04 Oct 26	BC ŽalgiBC Žalgiris	97 - 68	BC LietkaBC Lietkabelis

Description

Basketball Club Žalgiris (Lithuanian: Krepšinio klubas Žalgiris) is a professional basketball team that is based in Kaunas, Lithuania. Founded in 1944, it is one of the oldest teams in the EuroLeague and plays domestically in the Lietuvos krepšinio lyga (LKL). Žalgiris is one of 11 European clubs that hold EuroLeague A Licenses, which provide their holders with a guaranteed place in the regular-season phase of the EuroLeague. Since the 2011–12 season, Žalgiris plays its home games in the new Žalgiris Arena, built just before the EuroBasket 2011. The club's name commemorates the victorious Battle of Žalgiris (Battle of Grunwald) (both names: Žalgiris and Grunwald are translated as "green grove").

Žalgiris has featured many Lithuanian basketball legends during their history, including Arvydas Sabonis, Modestas Paulauskas and Šarūnas Jasikevičius. Eight of the thirteen Lithuanian basketball players to ever play in the National Basketball Association (NBA) have played for Žalgiris or were part of the Žalgiris youth program at one point in their careers (Arvydas Sabonis, Šarūnas Marčiulionis, Šarūnas Jasikevičius, Zydrunas Ilgauskas, Donatas Motiejūnas, Mindaugas Kuzminskas, Darius Songaila and Martynas Andriuškevičius).

The team is the most decorated Lithuanian basketball club ever, having won twenty Lithuanian championships, five Soviet championships, one European championship, and have reached the Lithuanian league finals every season in league history.