Neptūnas (basketball club)
| Neptūnas Klaipėda | |||
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| Leagues |
LKL Champions League |
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| Founded | 1964 | ||
| History |
Klaipėdos Neptūnas' 1964–present |
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| Arena | Švyturio Arena | ||
| Capacity | 6,000 | ||
| Location | Klaipėda, Lithuania | ||
| Team colors | Blue and white |
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| President | Valentinas Greičiūnas | ||
| Team manager | Osvaldas Kurauskas | ||
| Head coach | Dainius Adomaitis | ||
| Championships |
2 Lithuanian Basketball League  1 Lithuanian Basketball League 
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| Retired numbers | 2 (7, 11) | ||
| Website | bcneptunas.lt | ||
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BC Neptūnas (Lithuanian: Krepšinio klubas Neptūnas) is a basketball club from Klaipėda, Lithuania participating in the Lithuanian Basketball League and internationally in the Champions League. It was founded in 1962 under the name BC Maistas (English: Food) and in 1964, BC Maistas's name was changed to BC Neptūnas. The club carries the name of the Roman sea god Neptune. Neptūnas participated in the 2014–15 Euroleague season and is only the third Lithuanian club to participate in the premier European basketball league, after Žalgiris and Lietuvos rytas.
In 1966 Neptūnas won the Žalgiris friendship championship and next year with the same roster became runners-up.
Since 1970 there have been many changes in the team: coaches and players left the team and were replaced with new team members, so the team didn't achieve better results. In 1975 Klaipėda's community decided to change the team from its foundations based on people from Klaipėda and the Samogitia region, who also finished studies in the cities of Vilnius and Kaunas. There were young and prospective players, whose energy helped to reach better results in a period of two years, including 3rd place in Lithuanian Spartakiada; in 1981 and 1982 they became runners-up of newspaper Sport's championship, and also in 1983 they became champions of the Soviet Union Professional Union championship.
The Lithuanian Basketball Association was founded in 1993, when eight of the strongest Lithuanian basketball clubs' officials met with the representatives of the Šarūnas Marčiulionis basketball fund. Neptūnas was among that eight. This association would soon announce their basketball league that would start in the upcoming fall.
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