Sabah BC explained

Location:	Baku, Azerbaijan
Color1:	black
Color2:	pink
League:	Azerbaijan Basketball League
Sabah
Coach:	Rimas Kurtinaitis
History:	Sabah BK 2022–present
Championships:	1 (2023)

Sabah Basketball Club, also known simply as Sabah BC or Sabah, is an Azerbaijani professional basketball team based in Baku. Founded in 2022, as a team affiliated to the Sabah FC football team, they joined the Azerbaijan Basketball League (ABL) in the 2022–23 season.^[1] They won the national championship in their debut season.

As champions, they entered the 2023–24 FIBA Europe Cup qualifying rounds,^[2] as the first Azerbaijani team to play in a European competition in 18 years (after Gala Baku in 2005).^[3] Following three wins in the qualifying tournament in Skopje, Sabah qualified for the regular season.

Boban Mitev was appointed as Sabah's new head coach in August 2023.^[4] On 26 January 2024 he was replaced by Rimas Kurtinaitis.^[5]

Honours

Azerbaijan Basketball League

Winners (1): 2022–23

Players

See main article: category.

Current roster

References

Web site: Eurobasket . Sabah BK Baku basketball, News, Roster, Rumors, Stats, Awards, Transactions, Details-eurobasket . 2023-08-12 . Eurobasket LLC.
Web site: FIBA Europe Cup clubs and Qualifiers format revealed for 2023–24 season . 2023-07-20 . FIBA.basketball . en.
Web site: 2023-10-02 . Confident victory from "Sabah" . 2023-10-09 . İdman və Biz . en.
Web site: Фидан . Коминовски . 2023-08-01 . Boban Mitev is the new coach of the champion of Azerbaijan – Sloboden Pechat . 2023-08-12 . Слободен печат . en.
Web site: 2024-01-26. Kurtinaitis treniruos Azerbaidžano čempionus. 2024-01-29. basketnews.lt.