The club from the South has ceased to exist
The president Chemist and head of the Odessa Regional Basketball Federation Sergey Nazarenko spoke about the future of the team from the South.
“I can say that today the Yuzhny Chemist has actually ceased to exist for a number of reasons. But our region will not be left without basketball – we will soon prepare a letter and will be submitted as the team of the Odessa region.”
“The basis of the team will be Odessa BIPA. Accordingly, the name of the team is planned – BIPA-Odessa region. Partial funding has already been found, plus we continue to look for sponsors. Odessa region has always been considered a sports region, but now it so happened that there is actually only one football club left in team sports. Therefore, it was decided to help make a basketball team. We hope we can do it.”
“It will be a Superleague team. We would have pulled the Major League without question with Khimik or BIPA, but now we are talking about the Superleague team. So far, we are looking for sponsors by joint efforts, joining forces in Odessa, and in Yuzhny, and in other cities of the region.”
The Basketball Federation of Ukraine has approved the regulations for the upcoming 2022/23 Super League season.
The teams will play four rounds of the regular season without a playoff round. Competitions will be held in the “bubble” format and without the presence of spectators in the stands of sports halls.
Recall that in the new season of the Superleague 2022/23, Prometheus, Budivelnik, Kyiv-Basket, Zaporizhia, Cherkasy Mavpy, Stary Lutsk, Kryvbas and MBK Nikolaev confirmed their participation. Prometheus later withdrew from the championship.
The FBU is waiting for a response from two clubs – Dnipro and Khimik. Ternopil will miss the season, BC Odessa did not give a final answer, and Kharkov Sokols will spend the next season in the second division of the country.
Source: Sportarena
