President of the VTB United League Sergei Kushchenko told that the Turk “Fenerbahce ” And “Besiktas are serious about participating in the Russian Basketball Super League Cup.
On Friday, the VTB United League announced that Fenerbahce and Besiktas will participate in Super Bowl 2023. Six Russian teams will also participate in the tournament: UNICS, Lokomotiv-Kuban, CSKA, Zenit, Pari Nizhny Novgorod and MBA.
— The Super Cup is the first official tournament of the new 2023/24 United League season. And we are ready to announce two foreign participants in the upcoming Super Cup – these are well-known Turkish clubs Fenerbahce and Besiktas. Thus, in the new format of the tournament, which will be held from September 21 to 24 at the VTB Arena, six of the best teams in the league according to the results of last season and two Turkish clubs will perform.
Fenerbahce is a permanent member of the Euroleague with a huge fan base, it is one of the strongest clubs in Europe, managed by the most winning VTB League coach Dimitris Itoudis, who worked at CSKA from 2014 to 2022. Besiktas is a Eurocup member club, which is also very well known to everyone on the international scene. We hope everyone in Moscow at the VTB Arena will see and hear the famous Turkish fans who still actively support their teams on the road.
Last year, Serbian clubs Mega and Partizan with legendary coach Zeljko Obradovic became participants in the Super Cup, for which we thank them very much. This year, the level of foreign teams is at least not worse – Turkish Fenerbahce and Besiktas carefully plan their pre-season schedule and consider our tournament an important part of the preparation for the Euroleague, Eurocup and national championships, – Kushchenko told .
The 2023 Super Cup matches will take place from September 21-24 in Moscow at the VTB Arena.
Source : MatchTV
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