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Wikipedia - Spirou Charleroi

Spirou Basket, commonly known simply as Spirou, is a Belgian professional basketball club that is located in Charleroi. The club competes in the BNXT League, the highest tier of basketball in Belgium. The club's home arena is the Spiroudome which can host 6,300 people.

Established in 1989, the team is named after the long-running Belgian comics magazine Spirou, the publisher of which, Dupuis, is based in Marcinelle, Charleroi.

History

Spirou Charleroi has won the Belgian League championship ten times (1996–99, 2003, 2004, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011), the Belgian Cup 5 times (1996, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2009), and the Belgian Supercup 7 times (1996, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2008, 2010).

In the 2010–11 season, Spirou made its debut in the Euroleague, the highest continental league of Europe. The following season, Spirou played in the regular season for the second time in a row.

On July 29, 2014, Jacques Stas became the new head coach of the club while his predecessor Giovanni Bozzi replaced him as team president.

Since the 2021–22 season, Spirou plays in the BNXT League, in which the national leagues of Belgium and the Netherlands have been merged.

A Spirou Charleroi belga profi kosárlabdacsapata Charleroi városában található. A csapat az ország legsikeresebbjei közé tartozik, 17 belga bajnokságot és 11 belga kupát nyert. A klub a Basketball Champions League-ben is játszik, ahol 2016-ban megnyerte a bajnokságot.

A Spirou Charleroi hazai meccseit a Spiroudome-ban játssza, amely 6300 férőhelyes. A csapat színei a sárga és a fekete.

A Spirou Charleroi egyik leghíresebb játékosa Sam Van Rossom, aki a belga válogatott tagja volt, és több európai klubban is játszott.