Enisey Krasnoyarsk
Wikipedia - BC Enisey
BC Yenisey (Russian: БК Енисей) is a Russian professional basketball team from the city of Krasnoyarsk, Siberia. Since the 2011–12 season, Enisey plays in the VTB United League. The team colors are blue and white. Its full name is Basketball Club Enisey Krasnoyarsk Krai.
History
Yenisey Krasnoyarsk was founded as Polytechnic, and played its games at the Krasnoyarsk State Technical University. The team started off in the lower leagues of the Soviet Union, and its best achievement was winning the USSR Cup for teams in Siberia in 1988. In the 1997–98 season, the team played at the highest Russian level for the first time, when it played in the Russian Super League 1. However, the club was relegated immediately, and the next comeback of the club to Russian the highest level was in 2007, when the team was promoted again.[]
In the 2009–10 season, Enisey made its first appearance in a European-wide competition, when it competed in the FIBA EuroChallenge. In the 2015–16 season, Yenisey had a chance to win a European trophy, after it had reached the 2016 FIBA Europe Cup Final Four. After two losses, Enisey finished in fourth place.
Enisey har vundet det russiske mesterskab en gang i 2011 og har også vundet det russiske cup to gange i 2011 og 2013.
Klubben ejes af En +, et russisk energiselskab. Holdets hjemmearena er Ivan Yarygin Sports Palace, der har en kapacitet på 4.000 tilskuere.
Eniseys træner er Oleg Okulov, som har været i klubben siden 2019. Nogle af de mest fremtrædende spillere i holdets historie er:
* Dmitry Kulagin
* Sergey Bykov
* Evgeny Kolesnikov
* Henry Dugat
* Egor Vyaltsev
Enisey er et stærkt hold i den russiske superliga og har altid været en af favoritterne til at vinde mesterskabet. Holdet spiller en hurtig og angribende spillestil og er kendt for sin stærke holdsammenhæng.