Victoria Libertas was officially founded in 1946 and had its best seasons during the 1980s. After being among the top teams in Italy for decades, Victoria Libertas under the name Scavolini Pesaro, won its first important trophy the
1982–83 FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup, rival the historic French club of
ASVEL. Also Scavolini, participated in consecutive lost finals in
1985–86 against the title holder
FC Barcelona and in
1986–87 against
Cibona. Since then,
Italian League was won twice (in 1988 and 1990), and the
Italian Cup was also won twice (in 1985 and 1992). Scavolini participated in
1990–91 FIBA European Champions Cup, and managed to play in the semi-final of the
Final Four in Paris where the club eliminated by the legendary
Pop 84 (the former Jugoplastika) and ranked fourth after one more defeat in the third place game by
Maccabi Tel Aviv. The two lost finals in the
FIBA Korać Cup in
1990 (against
Ram Joventut) and in
1992 (against
il Messaggero Roma) show the dynamic of the club and at the beginning of the new decade. In recent years, Victoria Libertas was among the best European teams, having played the
Euroleague in 2001–02 and 2004–05 seasons. In 2004–05 it unexpectedly got to the Euroleague Top-8 and was defeated in the quarter finals by the eventual champion
Maccabi Tel Aviv. Furthermore, Victoria Libertas shooting guard,
Charles Smith, was honored with the first-ever Euroleague's
Alphonso Ford Top Scorer Trophy, named after the late Euroleague scoring champ who died in 2004 and who was replaced in Victoria Libertas by Smith himself.
Recent history In July 2005, as a consequence of the poor administration of the previous two seasons, Victoria Libertas failed to remain within the parameters required to join the Italian Basketball League and wound up. Pesaro's second team,
Falco Spar, agreed with former Victoria Libertas president Valter Scavolini to join forces to invest in a team to bring back Victoria Libertas to Italian First Division (
Lega Basket Serie A). The new team, named
Scavolini Gruppo Spar (or simply
Scavolini-Spar), played the 2005–06 season in the Italian Third Division (
B1). Owners' target resulted in Scavolini-Spar having large amounts of money at its disposal compared with the other teams of the league. Players from the upper divisions were enrolled, star
Carlton Myers among them, which lead the team to win the league and gain promotion to the Second Division (
LegaDue). In 2006–07 Scavolini-Spar won the LegaDue playoff series, lining up players such as Carlton Myers,
Rodney White (9th overall pick of the
2001 NBA draft),
Mindaugas Žukauskas (captain of the
Lithuanian national basketball team) and Michael Hicks (
Panamian national team star). The team was therefore promoted, for the second straight year, to play the
Lega Basket Serie A 2007–08 league. Following the 2009–10 season, Spar's secondary sponsorship contract expired. The club picked up a new secondary sponsor in Italian clothing company Siviglia, thereby changing its full sponsored name to
Scavolini Siviglia Style Pesaro (more simply
Scavolini Siviglia Pesaro). The club changed its secondary sponsorship again with the expiration of Siviglia's contract at the end of the 2011–12 season, becoming
Scavolini Banca Marche Pesaro. From the 2014–15 season the historical sponsor
Scavolini was replaced (for the first time since 1975) by the new main sponsor
Consultinvest, whereby the name of the team became
Consultinvest Pesaro. Since 2019 summer the new club naming is
Carpegna Prosciutto Basket Pesaro thanks to the relationship with the new Title Sponsor Prosciutto di Carpegna. ==Players==