Aquila Basket Trento
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| Leagues | LBA | ||
| Founded | 1995 | ||
| Arena | PalaTrento | ||
| Capacity | 4,360 | ||
| Location | Trent, Trentino, Italy | ||
| Team colors | White and Black | ||
| President | Luigi Longhi | ||
| Team manager | Salvatore Trainotti | ||
| Head coach | Maurizio Buscaglia | ||
| Championships |
1 DNA Gold 2014 1 LegaDue Cup 2013 |
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| Website | aquilabasket.it | ||
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Aquila Basket Trento, also known for sponsorship reasons as Dolomiti Energia Trento, is an Italian professional basketball club based in Trent, Trentino.
It was founded in 1995 as an amalgamation of two local clubs, going from the amateur divisions to the first division LBA in less than a decade. It plays in the LBA as of the 2016-17 season.
Aquila Basket Trento was founded in 1995 from the merger of two clubs playing the seventh tier Serie D, Dolomiti Sport B.C. Trento and Pallacanestro Villazzano, under the impetus of their respective presidents; Gianni Brusinelli and Marco Angelini. In 2000, Giovanni Zobele became club president and the same season Aquila Basket was promoted to the Serie C2, later moving up to the Serie C1 in 2002.
Long serving coach Maurizio Buscaglia was nominated before the 2003-04 season, he would help the club win the C1 the next season to be promoted to the fourth Serie B2, adding the C1 Cup with a 77-68 win over Navarra Ferentino. Staying there for four years, it lost the promotion playoffs on game 5 in 2005-06, with Buscaglia leaving the following season. Trento won the 2007-08 regular season but could not obtain promotion to the Divisione Nazionale A until buying Lumezzane's sporting rights in 2009.
For the club's first season in the third division, Vincenzo Esposito – notable for his playing career - was chosen for the coaching job, leading the club to the ninth place. Buscaglia returned to Trento in 2010, guiding the side to eighth in the league, though that meant it had to play in the relegation playoffs as the league was contracting, with their subsequent loss condemning them to relegation. However, Trento - having earlier confirmed Busacaglia - was granted a wildcard by the league to stay at that level.
On 18 January 2012, Luigi Longhi replaced Zobele as president. In the course of the same 2011-12 season, Trento earned a promotion to the LegaDue after beating BLS Chieti on 27 May 2012 to win the semifinals series 3-1, they went on to win the league outright after toppling Ferentino in the final. Trento adapted quickly to the professional second division, lifting the LegaDue Cup – organised in the PalaTrento - by beating Pistoia 84-76 in the final, also reaching the promotion playoffs that same season. In 2013-14 it went one better, finishing the regular season in first place before downing Agrigento (3-0) Torino (3-2) and finally Capo d'Orlando (3-0) to earn a historic promotion to the first division Serie A.
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