2020–21 Virtus Roma season explained

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Season:2020-21
Chrtitle:President
Chairman:Alessandro Toti
Owner:Claudio Toti
Cup2 Result:Group stage (4th of 4)

The 2020–21 season is Virtus Roma's 61st in existence and the club's 2nd consecutive season in the top tier Italian basketball.

Overview

During the summer preseason period, the team faced financial uncertainty for the coming season, but at the end, on July 31, the president Toti decided to subscribe the team to the Lega Basket Serie A.[1] Coach Piero Bucchi was confirmed and the team built in just less than a month.

Roma started the season without having a top sponsor and the lack of it brought more financial problems to deal with before the end of the year. In the month of December, Claudio Toti started looking for new owners whom to hand over the team, but no offer was officially made.[2] Finally the decision to withdraw from the Serie A was taken on December 9 and the announcement was first given from the Italian Basketball Federation.[3]

Until then Virtus Roma had played 9 games with 2 wins and was placed in the 15th place of the standing, out of 16. All the games were voided and the team was fined with 600.000 euros.[4]

Kit

Supplier: Macron

Players

Current roster

Depth chart

Squad changes

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From youth team

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Coach

Competitions

Supercup

See main article: 2020 Italian Basketball Supercup.

Serie A

See main article: 2020–21 LBA season. This was the situation before the official ban from the competition:

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Toti: 'La mia decisione per permettere a Roma di avere ancora l'opportunità di partecipare alla A' . legabasket.it . 31 July 2020 . Italian .
  2. Web site: LBA, Gandini sulla rinuncia della Virtus Roma: 'La grande passione di Claudio Toti non è bastata' . legabasket.it . 9 December 2020 . Italian .
  3. Web site: Rinuncia Virtus Roma. Una nota della FIP . fip.it . 9 December 2020 . Italian .
  4. Web site: Virtus Roma. Le decisioni del Giudice Sportivo Nazionale . fip.it . 10 December 2020 . Italian .
  5. Web site: Piero Bucchi nuovo Head Coach della Virtus Roma . legapallacanestro.com . 4 March 2018 . Italian .