Russian Basketball Cup
# Russian Basketball Cup

The Russian Basketball Cup is the primary professional national domestic basketball cup competition of Russia.

## History

After the cease of the USSR Basketball Cup in 1987, the Russian Federation did not launch any Cup competition in the following years despite the fact that the Russian Basketball Super League 1 had started in 1992. The first cup tournament took place in the year 2000 with the Final Four being hosted at Sochi. It was not held in the following two seasons, but it returned in 2002. Starting from the 2014-15 season most of the VTB League clubs withdrew as the Russian Federation did not allow the use of foreign players in the competition resulting in only 3 VTB teams (Khimki, Krasnye Krylia and Krasny Oktyabr) participating. BC UNICS was the last club from the VTB League to win the trophy in 2014. The last two seasons (2020-22) no VTB club applied to participate in the competition as normally two or three teams would join annually. Current holders are BC Samara.

## Final Fours

| Year | Winner | Runner-up | Semifinalists | Semifinalists | City | MVP |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1999–2000 | Lokomotiv Mineralnye Vody | Spartak Saint Petersburg | Ural Great (3rd) | Dinamo-Avtodor Volgograd (4th) | Sochi | — |
| 2002–03 | UNICS | CSKA Moscow | Ural Great | Khimki | Ekaterinburg | — |
| 2003–04 | Ural Great | CSKA Moscow | UNICS (3rd) | Khimki (4th) | Perm | — |
| 2004–05 | CSKA Moscow | UNICS | Dynamo Moscow (3rd) | Khimki (4th) | Moscow | — |
| 2005–06 | CSKA Moscow | Khimki | UNICS (3rd) | Triumph Lyubertsy (4th) | Khimki | Theo Papaloukas |
| 2006–07 | CSKA Moscow | UNICS | Dynamo Moscow | Triumph Lyubertsy | Kazan | Alexey Savrasenko |
| 2007–08 | Khimki | CSKA Moscow | UNICS | Dynamo Moscow | Vidnoye | Maciej Lampe |
| 2008–09 | UNICS | Dynamo Moscow | CSKA Moscow (3rd) | Triumph Lyubertsy (4th) | Lyubertsy | Krešimir Lončar |
| 2009–10 | CSKA Moscow | UNICS | Spartak Saint Petersburg (3rd) | Khimki (4th) | Moscow | Victor Khryapa |
| 2010–11 | Spartak Saint Petersburg | Nizhny Novgorod | Enisey Krasnoyarsk (3rd) | Lokomotiv Kuban (4th) | Krasnoyarsk | Pero Antić |
| 2011–12 | Krasnye Krylia | Spartak Primorye | Spartak Saint Petersburg (3rd) | Ural Ekaterinburg (4th) | Samara | Brion Rush |
| 2012–13 | Krasnye Krylia | Spartak Saint Petersburg | Spartak Primorye (3rd) | Enisey Krasnoyarsk (4th) | Vladivostok | Aaron Miles |
| 2013–14 | UNICS | Lokomotiv Kuban | Khimki | Krasny Oktyabr | Kazan, Krasnodar | Drew Goudelock |
| 2014–15 | Novosibirsk | Dynamo Moscow | Spartak Primorye (3rd) | Krasnye Krylia (4th) | Novosibirsk | Sergey Tokarev |
| 2015–16 | Parma | Zenit Saint Petersburg | Temp-SUMZ-UGMK (3rd) | Samara (4th) | Moscow | Alexander Vinnik |
| 2016–17 | Novosibirsk | Sakhalin | Parma (3rd) | Temp-SUMZ-UGMK (4th) | Ekaterinburg | Sergey Tokarev |
| 2017–18 | Lokomotiv Kuban | Nizhny Novgorod | Novosibirsk (3rd) | Irkut (4th) | Krasnodar | Dmitry Kulagin |
| 2018–19 | Parma | Nizhny Novgorod | Novosibirsk (3rd) | Spartak Saint Petersburg (4th) | Nizhny Novgorod | Alexander Platunov |
| 2019–20 | Samara | Temp-SUMZ-UGMK | Vostok-65 (3rd) | Uralmash (4th) | Samara, Revda | Vladimir Pichurkov |
| 2020–21 | Temp-SUMZ-UGMK | Vostok-65 | Samara (3rd) | Kupol-Rodniki (4th) | Revda, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk | Viktor Zaryazhko |
| 2021–22 | Samara | Temp-SUMZ-UGMK | Runa (3rd) | Novosibirsk (4th) | Samara, Revda | Maxim Sheleketo |
| 2022–23 | Nizhny Novgorod | Zenit Saint Petersburg | MBA Moscow (3rd) | Khimki (4th) | Saint Petersburg | Trent Frazier |

* ↑ In the 2010–11 season, 4 teams of the PBL did not participate in the Cup: CSKA Moscow, Dynamo Moscow, Khimki, and UNICS.
* ↑ In the 2011–12 season, 5 teams of the PBL did not participate in the Cup: CSKA Moscow, Enisey, Khimki, Lokomotiv-Kuban and UNICS.
* 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 From the 2014–15 competition and onwards, teams were only allowed to play with Russian players; which led to the withdrawals of most of the top tier Russian teams.

## Performance by club

| Club | Winners | Runners-up | Winning years | Runner-up years |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| CSKA Moscow | 4 | 3 | 2004–05, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2009–10 | 2002–03, 2003–04, 2007–08 |
| UNICS | 3 | 3 | 2002–03, 2008–09, 2013–14 | 2004–05, 2006–07, 2009–10 |
| Lokomotiv Kuban | 2 | 1 | 1999–00, 2017–18 | 2013–14 |
| Krasnye Krylia | 2 | – | 2011–12, 2012–13 | |
| Novosibirsk | 2 | – | 2014–15, 2016–17 | |
| Parma Basket | 2 | – | 2015–16, 2018–19 | |
| Samara | 2 | – | 2019–20, 2021–22 | |
| Nizhny Novgorod | 1 | 3 | 2022–23 | 2010–11, 2017–18, 2018–19 |
| Temp-SUMZ-UGMK | 1 | 2 | 2020–21 | 2019–20, 2021–22 |
| Spartak Saint Petersburg | 1 | 2 | 2010–11 | 1999–00, 2012–13 |
| Khimki | 1 | 1 | 2007–08 | 2005–06 |
| Ural Great | 1 | – | 2003–04 | |
| Dynamo Moscow | – | 2 | | 2008-09, 2014–15 |
| Zenit Saint Petersburg | – | 2 | | 2015–16, 2022–23 |
| Spartak Primorye | – | 1 | | 2011–12 |
| Sakhalin | – | 1 | | 2016–17 |
| Vostok-65 | – | 1 | | 2020–21 |
