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Fribourg Olympic Basket, commonly known as Fribourg Olympic, is a Swiss professional basketball club that is based in Fribourg. Due to name sponsorship reasons, the former name of the club was Benetton Fribourg. The club is a seventeen-time Swiss Basketball League champion.

History

Fribourg Olympic competed in seven seasons of the original version of the EuroLeague, the top-level European competition, when it was run by FIBA, due to being the Swiss League champions. In all those seasons, the club only qualified two times for the competition's second round, by winning their previous series. In 2007, Fribourg Olympic competed in the European-wide secondary competition, the 2007–08 ULEB Cup regular season, but they ended up in the last position of their group.

In the 2015–16 season, Fribourg won its first Swiss Basketball League (SBL) title in eight years. In the 2017–18 season, Fribourg won its seventeenth Swiss national title. Following that domestic title, the club made its debut in the qualifying rounds of the European secondary level FIBA Basketball Champions League (BCL). On 4 October 2018, they eventually qualified to the competition's regular season phase, after winning three successive qualifying rounds against Avtodor Saratov, Donar, and Sakarya.

Fribourg Olympic Basket to szwajcarski klub koszykarski z siedzibą we Fryburgu. Został założony w 1932 roku i gra w Swiss Basketball League, najwyższej klasie rozgrywek koszykówki w Szwajcarii.

Fribourg Olympic Basket jest jednym z najbardziej utytułowanych klubów w kraju, wygrywając 19 mistrzostw Szwajcarii i 14 Pucharów Szwajcarii. Reprezentował także Szwajcarię w kilku rozgrywkach europejskich, takich jak FIBA Europe Cup i FIBA Basketball Champions League.

Klub jest znany z silnego programu juniorskiego, który wyprodukował wielu utalentowanych graczy, którzy grali w Szwajcarskiej Lidze Koszykówki, a nawet w NBA. Fribourg Olympic Basket jest również znany z oddanej bazy fanów, która tworzy wyjątkową atmosferę podczas meczów domowych w hali Saint-Léonard.