Iraklio B.C.

Iraklio OAA B.C., also known simply as Iraklio, or Heraklion, is a Greek professional basketball club that is based in the city of Heraklion, on the island of Crete, in Greece. It is a department of the Heraklion Tennis and Team Sports Club, a multi-sport club established in Heraklion in 1928. The club's basketball department was founded in 1968, and currently competes in the Cretan Basket League, hosting its home games at the Heraklion Indoor Sports Arena, a multi-purpose indoor arena with a capacity of 5,500 spectators. Irakleio is considered the most successful basketball club in Heraklion, being the sole club to have represented the city in the top-tier Greek Basket League, as well as the most successful club on the island of Crete, at least until the rise of the Rethymno Cretan Kings in the early 2010s. Iraklio OAA further administers competitive departments for tennis, table tennis and chess.

History

Creation Iraklio OAA was established in 1928, primarily operating as a tennis club. In 1968, under president Giorgos Deligiannakis, the club decided to expand its activities thus founding team sports departments for basketball and volleyball, reinstating its defunct table tennis department, as well as establishing competitive chess and bridge departments. The first coach of the basketball department was Michalis Dardantakis, who was replaced by Kostas Rigas shortly thereafter. In 1973, Iraklio was promoted to the Greek B Basket League, where it kept playing for 5 straight seasons, until 1978, when it was relegated to the local Cretan Championship. Throughout the season, Iraklio won only 7 games, six of which during the First Round, while going on a 13-game losing streak which spanned from 13 December 2003 to 2 May 2004. At the end of the season, the club tied in 12th place with Ionikos Nea Filadelfeia, both having 33 points on the Table, yet Iraklio was eventually relegated in head-to-head ranking (having lost to Ionikos 94−87 in overtime). ==Arenas==

Arenas

Irakleio previously used the 1,500 seat Lido Indoor Hall as its home arena. It currently uses the 5,500 seat Heraklion Indoor Sports Arena as its home arena. The 2,400 seat TEI Indoor Sports Hall is also available for the club to use, if needed. ==Titles and honors==

Titles and honors

• Greek 2nd Division Champion (1): • 1997 ==Roster==

Roster

{{Basketball roster header|team=Iraklio B.C. == Notable players==

Notable players

Greece: • Marios Batis • Christos Charissis • Georgios Gasparis • Fotis Katsikaris • Jon Korfas • Nikos Liakopoulos • Dimitris Lolas • Christos Myriounis • Alfa Ntiallo • Pete Papachronis • Argiris Papapetrou • Ioannis Sioutis • Vangelis Sklavos Europe: • Frederick Forte Africa: • Samir Gouda USA: • Doremus Bennerman • Willie Burton • James Forrest • Derrick Hamilton • Antonio Harvey • Oliver Miller • Dyron Nix • Jimmy Oliver • Richard Rellford • Carl Thomas Rest of Americas: • Andrés Guibert • José Piculín Ortiz == Head coaches==

Head coaches

• Vojislav Vezović • Georgios Kalafatakis • Vangelis Alexandris • Georgios Bartzokas ==References==

Source: Wikipedia ↗

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