Khimik Yuzhny
Khimik Yuzhny
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Wikipedia - BC Khimik
Khimik Yuzhne (Ukrainian: Хімік Южне) is a Ukrainian professional basketball club that is based in Yuzhne. The club plays in the Ukrainian Basketball SuperLeague. In 2006, the club reached the final of the EuroCup Challenge, where they were defeated by Ural Great Perm.
History
The team was founded in 2001 as BC Khimik. In the first season of the club, the team immediately finished in fourth place in the Ukrainian Basketball SuperLeague. In the 2014–15 season, Khimik won its first national championship after going undefeated in the entire season. In the regular season, Khimik finished 30–0 and in the Playoffs the team won all its six games. In 2016, Khimik repeated as national champions - winning the Ukrainian SL Favorit Sport (one of the two Ukrainian top tier basketball leagues).
In the 2018–19 season, Khimik won its third domestic championship.
Khimik Yuzhny deltar i det ukrainska basketmästerskapet och i Baltic Basketball League. Klubben har vunnit det ukrainska mästerskapet två gånger, 2009 och 2011, och har vunnit Baltic Basketball League en gång, 2018.
Några av klubbens mest kända spelare genom tiderna är Serhiy Lishchuk, Volodymyr Gerun och Viacheslav Kravtsov.
Khimik Yuzhny är en av de mest framgångsrika basketklubbarna i Ukraina, och är kända för sitt starka lag och sina entusiastiska fans.