Aris BC
Aris BC is the basketball club of Aris Athletic Club, based in Thessaloniki, Greece.
History
Aris BC were founded in 1922 and won their first Greek Championship just 8 years later. Many years would pass before Aris would make their permanent mark on the Greek and European basketball: In 1979 Aris won their second championship. At the same time, a new star appeared in the NCAA in the USA. His name: Nikos Galis. There was a mad scramble among Greek basketball clubs to sign the young Greek-American. Galis decided to sign with the champions of Greece.
The next few years transformed Aris into a powerhouse in Greek and European basketball and earned the yellow-black team the nickname "Emperor". Aris won 8 championships (including 7 in a row), 4 domestic doubles (championship and cup) and made 3 consecutive appearances in Euroleague Final Four. The Aris team of the 1980s has subsequently been named "The best club ever, in any sport".
Championships
Greek Cup
European Cup-Winners Cup
European Korac Cup
European Champions Cup
Players
1930s
1970s
- Tasos Spartalis
- Diamantis Skondras
- Vasilis Paramanidis
- Stavros Cholopoulos
- Charis Papageorgiou
- Stratos Vamvakoudis
- Dimitris Nastos
- Vangelis Alexandris
- Stelios Kalantidis
- Dionysis Ananiadis
1980s
- Nikos Galis
- Panagiotis Giannakis
- Nikos Philippou
- Michalis Romanidis
- Giorgos Doxakis
- Michalis Yiannouzakos
- Grigoris Christofakis
- Nikos Tsachtanis
- Tasos Tsitakis
- Vasilis Lypiridis
- Lefteris Subotic
- Dimitris Kokolakis
- Petros Stamatis
- Michalis Misounoff
1990s
- Zarko Paspalj
- Panagiotis Liadelis
- Nasos Galakteros
- Kenneth Anderson
- Miroslav Pecarski
- Yiannis Sioutis
- Igor Moraitis
- Dinos Angelidis
- Roy Tarpley
- Giorgos Gasparis
- Theodosis Paralikas
- Vangelis Vourtzoumis
- Tzanis Stavrakopoulos
- Alexis Papadakos
- Jose Ortiz
- Giorgos Sigalas
2000s
- Willie Solomon
- Nestor Kommatos
- Yiannis Lappas
- Yiannis Gagaloudis
- Ryan Stack
- Miroslav Raicevic
- Feodor Lichkolitov
Coaches
- Yiannis Ioannidis
- Dusan Ivkovic
- Lazaro Lesic
- Steve Yiantzoglou
- Michalis Kyritsis
- Memos Ioannou
- Efthimis Kioumourtzoglou
- Zvi Sherf
- Vlado Djurovic
- Soulis Markopoulos
- Christos Magotsios
- Dragan Sakota
- Vangelis Alexandris
- Charles Barton