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Academic Sofia
Nickname	The Students (Студентите)
Leagues	NBL FIBA Europe Cup
Founded	1947; 72 years ago (1947)
History	PBC Academic (1947–present)
Arena	Sport Complex Pravets
Capacity	550
Location	Sofia, Bulgaria
Team colors	White and Red
President	Valentin Zlatev
Team manager	Rumen Guninsky
Head coach	Georgi Davidov
Championships	26 Bulgarian Leagues 11 Bulgarian Cups 1 International Students' Cup
Website	http://www.lukoilacademic.bg/
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PBC Academic (Bulgarian: ПБК "Академик") is a Bulgarian professional basketball club based in the capital Sofia. They play their home games at the Universiade Hall or at the Pravets sports complex.

Founded in 1947 as part of the Academic Sofia sports club, they have won the championship of Bulgaria 25 times and won the Bulgarian Cup 11 times. Among their international honours are two FIBA European Champions Cup finals (both lost to Rīgas ASK) in 1958 and 1959 and an International Students' Cup in 1957.

In 2000, the team were renamed Lukoil Academic as a sponsorship deal was signed with Russian oil giant Lukoil, and quickly established themselves as dominant in the Bulgarian Championship. Since then they have been a regular ULEB Cup participant, and won the FIBA Europe Regional Challenge Cup Conference South in 2003.

History

Basketball club Academic Sofia was founded in 1947 as a part of the students' sports association Academic and during its history of more than half a century it has won a just place among the best teams in the country. Under the guidance of ones of the most experienced coaches in Bulgarian basketball - Bozhidar Takev, Veselin Temkov, Neycho Neychev, Tzvetan Zheliazkov, Petko Marinov, etc., BC Academic is 20 times republic champion and nine times winner of the Bulgarian Cup. Along with the titles in the domestic championships and tournaments, naturally comes the international recognition. The basketball players of Academic have successfully played in the tournaments for the Cup of the European champions. With the coach Bozhidar Takev they were twice finalists against Rīgas ASK in 1958 and 1959. In 1957 in Paris the team of Academic became the world's students champion. During its entire existence basketball club Academic has always been a school for the professional improvement and constructive contribution of some of the best Bulgarian basketball players. Stars like Liubomir Panov, Georgi Panov, Viktor Radev, Nikola Ilov, Mihail Semov. Petar Lazarov, Dimitar Sahanikov, Georgi Barzakov, Nikola Atanasov, Atanas Golomeev, Temelaki Dimitrov, Stefan Filipov, Slavei Raychev, Vladimir Boyanov have left their permanent marks in the history of the Bulgarian basketball.

The excellent training of the Academic players and their complete devotion to the game have always been highly evaluated by our national basketball selectionists. Direct participants in the glorious moments of the Bulgarian basketball - the fifth place at the Olympic Games in Melbourne - 1956 and the vice-champion's title at the European Championship - Sofia'57 are the national players Liubomir Panov, Georgi Panov, Viktor Radev, Nikola Ilov, Mihail Semov, Petar Lazarov.

The glorious tradition of the club was revived again in 2000 when Lukoil Bulgaria became the main sponsor of the team. The selection of Lukoil Academic was oriented towards young and talented players, who under the clever guidance of the senior coach Petko Marinov and his assistants built the youngest team in the republican basketball. Renewed was also the work at the adolescents school of the club, from which some players have already shown considerable success at the home championships. The long-term strategy of Lukoil Academic has shown its first results already in season 2001–02. The talented players of Petko Marinov won the cup of the country and played the most attractive final in the play-offs in the championship for the last ten years. Today the name of Lukoil Academic is again a symbol of good basketball. The ambitions of the club are the republican champion's title and the good performance at the European club tournaments.

In 2018, Lukoil announced its sponsor deal with Levski Sofia, while leaving Academic with a smaller budget.^[1] Consequently, Academic sent its top players to Levski.

Honours

Domestic competitions

• Bulgarian League

Winners (26): 1957, 1958, 1959, 1963, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1976, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015 , 2016, 2017

• Bulgarian Cup

Winners (11): 1952, 1954, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013

• Bulgarian Basketball Super Cup

Winners (1): 2016

Runners-up (1): 2017

European competitions

• EuroLeague

Runners-up (2): 1958, 1958–59

• FIBA Europe Conference South

Winners(1): 2003

Worldwide competitions

• International Students' Cup

Winners (1): 1957

Season by season

Current roster

PBC Lukoil Academic roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. No. Nat. Name Ht. Wt. Age PG 7000500000000000000♠5 Dimitrov, Lachezar 7000187000000000000♠1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) 7001800000000000000♠80 kg (176 lb) 19 – (1999-08-17)17 August 1999 G/F 7000800000000000000♠8 Alipiev, Ivan (C) 7000200000000000000♠2.00 m (6 ft 7 in) 7001840000000000000♠84 kg (185 lb) 19 – (1999-07-28)28 July 1999 SG 7001200000000000000♠20 Lekov, Nikolay 7000193000000000000♠1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) 7001840000000000000♠84 kg (185 lb) 20 – (1998-03-26)26 March 1998 F/C 7001110000000000000♠11 Mihaylov, Nikolay 7000204000000000000♠2.04 m (6 ft 8 in) 7001900000000000000♠90 kg (198 lb) 18 – (2000-08-15)15 August 2000 F 7001100000000000000♠10 Milov, Aleksandar 7000198000000000000♠1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) 7001810000000000000♠81 kg (179 lb) 23 – (1995-10-15)15 October 1995 G/F 7001250000000000000♠25 Marinov, Marin 7000202000000000000♠2.02 m (6 ft 8 in) 7001900000000000000♠90 kg (198 lb) 18 – (2000-08-09)9 August 2000 F/C 7001410000000000000♠41 Krastanov, Krastan 7000206000000000000♠2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) 19 – (1999-10-06)6 October 1999 SG 7000300000000000000♠3 Penchev, Kamen 18 – (2000-07-10)10 July 2000 PG 7000400000000000000♠4 Damyanov, Georgi 19 – (1999-12-03)3 December 1999 SG 7000600000000000000♠6 Lachezarov, Kostadin 18 – (2000-11-08)8 November 2000 G/F 7000700000000000000♠7 Dimitrov, Krasimir 7000195000000000000♠1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) 7001850000000000000♠85 kg (187 lb) 21 – (1998-02-03)3 February 1998 PF 7000900000000000000♠9 Chernokozhev, Tsvetomir 7000206000000000000♠2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) 7001930000000000000♠93 kg (205 lb) 18 – (2000-06-01)1 June 2000 PG 7001120000000000000♠12 Ivanov, Nikolay 7000180000000000000♠1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) 18 – (2001-02-03)3 February 2001 PF 7001140000000000000♠14 Mirchev, Mario 7000204000000000000♠2.04 m (6 ft 8 in) 7001940000000000000♠94 kg (207 lb) 20 – (1999-03-18)18 March 1999	Head coach Georgi Davidov Assistant coach(es) Ivan Ivanov Yordan Yankov Strength & conditioning coach(es) Saša Jakovljević Physiotherapist(s) Vasil Vasilev Legend (C) Team captain Injured Roster Updated: 7 January 2018

Notable players

Notable coaches

• 
  Bozhidar Takev
  


• 
  Veselin Temkov
  


• 
  Neycho Neychev
  


• 
  Tsvetan Zhelyazkov
  


• 
  Petko Marinov
  


• 
  Željko Lukajić
  


• 
  Marin Dokuzovski
  

References

External links

• 
  Official website (in Bulgarian) (in English)
  


• 
  Lukoil Academic at Basketball-bg.com (in Bulgarian)
  


• 
  Lukoil Academic at BulgarianBasket.com (in English)
  


• Eurobasket.com PBC Academic Lukoil Page