Kymis B.C.
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Leagues | Greek Basketball League Greek Cup | ||
Founded | 2010 | ||
History | G.S. Kymis (2010 – present) | ||
Arena | Nikos Marinos Indoor Hall Tasos Kabouris Kanithou Indoor Hall | ||
Capacity | Nikos Marinos Hall - 1,100 Tasos Kabouris Hall - 1,620 | ||
Location | Kymi, Euboea, Greece | ||
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President | Alexandros Theodorou | ||
Head coach | Vasilis Bratsiakos | ||
Championships | 1 Greek A2 Championship (2016) 1 Greek B League South Division (Beta Ethniki) (2015) 1 Greek C League Fourth Group (Gamma Ethniki) (2014) | ||
Website | gskimis.gr | ||
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Kymis B.C., or Kymi B.C., is a Greek professional basketball club that is located in Kymi, on the island of Euboea, Greece. The club is also known as G.S. Kymis, with the club's full name being Gymnastikos Syllogos Kymis (Greek: Γυμναστικός Σύλλογος Κύμης). The club competes in the Greek Basket League. The team's emblem is the Greek Goddess Athena.
Kymis was founded in 2010, with the creation of the men's basketball section. The club began its course very strongly, and managed to achieve several league promotions, from their local regional championships, all the way up to the top-tier level Greek national league.
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(2016–present)
History
The Greek athletic club Gymnastikos Syllogos Kymis 1893, or G.S. Kymis 1893, was originally founded in the year 1893. G.S. Kymis was one of the first Greek sports clubs, and the club's gym was used to train Greek athletes that competed at the first modern Olympics in 1896. G.S. Kymis was also one of the original 28 founding clubs of the Hellenic Amateur Athletic Association (SEGAS) in 1897. In 1907, G.S. Kymis ceased operations as an active sporting club.
In 2010, an ownership group re-founded the club G.S. Kymis, as a legal continuation and rights successor of the original G.S. Kymis 1893 club. The club was re-founded using the same emblem that the original club used, the Greek Goddess Athena.
Local regional categories
At the beginning of the 2010–11 season, the club joined the 3rd class of the local regional ESKA division, and managed to directly achieve a promotion to the ESKA local regional second division. In the following season, Kymis maintained its previous season's impetus, and in the next summer, it gained another promotion to the 1st class of the local regional ESKA league.
In May 2012, the club named Vasilis Bratsiakos, as the men's team's head basketball coach. The rise of the club's status in the 1st ESKA local regional league continued the following year, when Kymis won their local regional championship against A.C. Kymi, and gained promotion to the Greek lower level national leagues.
Lower level national leagues
With Vasilis Bratsiakos as the head coach, Kymis became the champion of the 4th-tier level Greek C Basket League, finishing with 19 wins and just one defeat.
The next season, the club competed in the 3rd-tier level Greek B Basket League, and in particular, in the South Group. Continuing its upward trend, the club once again finished in the top of the final standings, having collected 24 wins and 2 losses, against 13 rivals, while maintaining an unbeaten record at home games.
A2 Basket League
In the 2015–16 season, the club competed in the 2nd-tier level Greek A2 Basket League, for the first time in its history. During the 2015 summer transfer window, Kymis managed to make some very good transfers (for that level of competition), including Stavros Toutziarakis, Ioannis Psathas, Alexandros Sigkounas, and Vaidas Kariniauskas, who was signed from the EuroLeague team Žalgiris Kaunas. This made Kymis one of the favorites to win the A2 league.
On May 21, 2016, Kymis beat their main rivals for the league's promotion, Faros Keratsiniou, by a score of 67-56, and secured their place in the top-tier level Greek Basket League for the first time in the club's history. Kymis also became the first club that had managed to get six straight promotions to higher tier leagues.[1][2]
Greek Basket League
Kymis played in the top-tier level Greek Basket League for the first time, in the 2016–17 season.
Arenas
The club normally plays its home games at the Nikos Marinos Indoor Hall, a small arena that originally had a capacity of about 500.[3] After the promotion of the club to the top-tier level Greek Basket League, Kymis began to renovate and expand the arena, in order for it to be eligible for Greek Basket League matches. The capacity of the arena will be increased from 500 to 1,100 seats.
While the Nikos Marinos Indoor Hall is being renovated, Kymis decided to play their home Greek Basket League games at the 1,620 capacity Tasos Kabouris Kanithou Indoor Hall,[4] which is also located on the island of Euboea, in Chalcis.
Season by season
Season | Tier | Division | Pos. | P/S | Greek Cup | Europe | ||
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2013–14 | C Basket League | Promoted | — | |||||
2014–15 | B Basket League | Promoted | — | |||||
2015–16 | A2 Basket League | Promoted | — |
Championships
- Total Titles: 3
- Divisional: 3
- Greek A2 League (A2 Ethniki):
- Greek B League South Division (Beta Ethniki):
- 2015
- Greek C League Fourth Group (Gamma Ethniki):
- 2014
Roster
Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationalities not displayed.
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Depth chart
Pos. | Starting 5 | Bench 1 | Bench 2 | Bench 3 |
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C | Jordan Morgan | Stavros Toutziarakis | Manolis Koukoulas | |
PF | Slaven Čupković | Alexandros Sigkounas | ||
SF | Muhammad El-Amin | Stavros Schizas | Panagiotis Katranas | |
SG | Martin Pahlmblad | Chavdar Kostov | Thanos Konstantakopoulos | |
PG | Ogo Adegboye | Dimitris Stamatis | Vangelis Tzolos |
Notable players
Nikos Marinos
Angelos Siamandouras
Markos Kolokas
Stavros Toutziarakis
Ioannis Psathas
Alexandros Sigkounas
Vangelis Tzolos
Dimitrios Stamatis
Stavros Schizas
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Etinosa Erevbenagie
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Igkor Milosevits
Slaven Čupković
Vaidas Kariniauskas
Martin Pahlmblad
Musa Abdul-Aleem
Juan'ya Green
Jordan Morgan
Muhammad El-Amin