Dinamo Sassari
Nickname	Banco (Bank) Biancoblu (White-Blues) Giganti (Giants)
Leagues	LBA Champions League
Founded	23 April 1960 (1960-04-23)
History	Dinamo Sassari (1960–present)
Arena	Palasport Roberta Serradimigni
Capacity	5,000
Location	Sassari, Italy
Team colors	White, blue
Main sponsor	Banco di Sardegna
President	Stefano Sardara
Team manager	Federico Pasquini
Head coach	Piero Bucchi
Team captain	Giacomo Devecchi
Ownership	Polisportiva Dinamo s.r.l.
Championships	1 FIBA Europe Cup 1 Serie A 2 Italian Cup 2 Italian SuperCup
Retired numbers	2 (12, 12)
Website	dinamobasket.com
Serie A Home Serie A Away Champions League Home Champions League Away Supercup Home Supercup Away

Polisportiva Dinamo, commonly known as Dinamo Sassari and currently known as Dinamo Banco di Sardegna Sassari for sponsorship reasons, is an Italian professional basketball club that is based in Sassari, Sardinia. They are the 2018–19 European Cup Champions.^[1] The club plays in the Italian LBA, the highest level club competition in Italian professional basketball.

Dinamo was founded in 1960, and in the past, due to sponsorship deals, has also been known as Banco Popolare Sassari (1989–90). The club plays in the Serie A (the highest level for the men's basketball competitions in Italy), since 2010.

Dinamo Sassari is notable for being the club in Italian professional basketball to have made the impressive score of 158 points scored in a single game (with no overtimes), during the 1994–95 Serie A2 regular season, versus Pallacanestro Pavia (91);^[2] which is the highest score ever made by any club in Italy.

The Palasport Roberta Serradimigni, home arena of Dinamo

History

In 1994–95, the Dinamo team scored 158 points in a regular season game without overtimes against Pavia.

In 2010, Dinamo promoted to the Serie A, when it beat Prima Veroli in the Finals of the Playoffs.

In 2012, the club made its debut in Europe, when it played in the EuroCup regular season. The 2013–14 season was one of the most historic ever for the club. Banco di Sardegna Sassari won the Italian Cup, the team's first trophy. Dinamo's star player Travis Diener was named Italian Cup MVP. Later in the season Drake Diener – Travis' cousin – was named Italian League MVP. Dinamo also played in the EuroCup once again, and reached the eight-finals this time around.

Despite the third place and elimination in the Italian League semifinals in 2014, Dinamo was invited to play in the 2014–15 EuroLeague season. After Montepaschi Siena, runner-up in the Italian league, resigned the club received a B license.

In the 2014–15 season, Dinamo won its first Italian League championship. In Game 7 of the Italian League Finals, Sassari won 73–75, on the road against Reggio Emilia.^[3] Because of this, Dinamo returned to the EuroLeague in 2015. It was eliminated in the regular season and after transferring to the EuroCup it was eliminated in the round of 32.

The tip off of the first leg of the 2019 FIBA Europe Cup Finals

In 2017, Dinamo reached the final of the Italian Cup, where it lost to Olimpia Milano. This season the club also made its debut in the Basketball Champions League and made the quarter-finals in its inaugural season. In the LBA, the team finished in the fifth place.

In the 2018–19 season, Dinamo played in the second qualifying round of FIBA Europe Cup. Here, it beat Benfica from Portugal to advance to the regular season. After advancing past the second round as well, Dinamo beat ZZ Leiden, Pınar Karşıyaka and Hapoel Holon. Thus, it qualified for the 2019 FIBA Europe Cup Finals where Dinamo faced German side s.Oliver Würzburg. On 1 May 2019, Sassari won the FIBA Europe Cup after defeating Würzburg in the second leg of the finals.^[4] It was the team's first European title.

In 2019 Sassari reached the LBA Finals for the second time in club history, four years since its championship. Dinamo was defeated by Umana Reyer Venezia in Game 7, losing the series 3–4.^[5]

Honours

Total titles: 6

Season by season

Players

Retired numbers

The American naturalized-Italian guard Travis Diener was the second player to have his number retired by Dinamo

Dinamo Sassari retired numbers
No	Nat.	Player	Position	Tenure
12		Emanuele Rotondo	G	1991–2007
12		Travis Diener	G	2010–2014

Current roster

Banco di Sardegna Sassari roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. No. Nat. Name Ht. Wt. Age PG 5 Tyree, Breein 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) 88 kg (194 lb) 26 – (1998-01-13)13 January 1998 SG 6 Krušlin, Filip 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) 94 kg (207 lb) 34 – (1989-03-18)18 March 1989 F 9 Treier, Kaspar 2.04 m (6 ft 8 in) 105 kg (231 lb) 24 – (1999-09-19)19 September 1999 G 10 Chessa, Massimo 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) 80 kg (176 lb) 35 – (1988-04-30)30 April 1988 SG 13 Raspino, Tommaso 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) 91 kg (201 lb) 34 – (1989-04-11)11 April 1989 F 20 Bendžius, Eimantas 2.07 m (6 ft 9 in) 102 kg (225 lb) 33 – (1990-04-23)23 April 1990 C 21 Gandini, Luca 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) 110 kg (243 lb) 38 – (1985-11-07)7 November 1985 G 22 Gentile, Stefano 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) 94 kg (207 lb) 34 – (1989-09-20)20 September 1989 F/C 25 Diop, Ousmane 2.04 m (6 ft 8 in) 100 kg (220 lb) 23 – (2000-02-19)19 February 2000 PF 26 Gombauld, Stephane 2.05 m (6 ft 9 in) 88 kg (194 lb) 26 – (1997-03-05)5 March 1997 F 33 Charalampopoulos, Vassilis 2.04 m (6 ft 8 in) 109 kg (240 lb) 27 – (1997-01-06)6 January 1997	Head coach Piero Bucchi Assistant coach(es) Giacomo Baioni Giorgio Gerosa Legend (C) Team captain Injured Roster Updated: July 22, 2023

Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationality not displayed.

See also

• S.E.F. Torres 1903
• Torres Calcio Femminile
• U.S.D. Latte Dolce

References

External links

• Official site (in Italian)
• Eurobasket.com Team Page