{{Infobox basketball club | name = Borisfen | color1 =white | color2 =#1E6A60 | color3 = <!-- or | colour3 = --> | logo =BC Borisfen logo.png | nickname =Knights | leagues = Belarusian Premier League<br>FIBA Europe Cup (suspended) <br>European North Basketball League (suspended) | conference = | division = | founded = {{Start date and age|df=y|2010|9|3}} | dissolved = <!-- or | folded = --> | history ='''BC Borisfen'''<br>2010–present | arena =Olympic Stadium | capacity =1500 | location =Mogilev, Belarus | colors = <!-- or | colours = --> | current = | sponsor = | media = | president =Andrey Nikolaevich Kotov | vice-presidents = | manager = | coach = Andrey Krivonos | captain = | ownership = | championships = | conf_champs = | div_champs = | season =2024/2025 | position =4 | website ={{URL|http://bcborisfen.by/}} | 1_body =1E6A60 | 1_pattern_b =_basket_with_white | 1_shorts = 1E6A60 | 1_pattern_s = | 2_body = 1E6A60 | 2_pattern_b =_basket_in_white | 2_shorts = | 2_pattern_s = }} '''BC Borisfen''', also known as '''Borisfen Mogilev''' (in Belarusian: ''Барысфэн Магілёў;'' in Russian: ''Борисфен Могилёв''), is a Belarusian basketball club based in Mogilev. It plays in the Belarusian Premier League<ref>{{cite web|url=https://basketball.eurobasket.com/teamDetails.asp?id=1011&SectionName=Belarus&TeamName=COR-Borisfen-Mogilev|title=COR-Borisfen Mogilev|work=www.eurobasket.com|accessdate=18 July 2019|archive-date=18 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190718234320/https://basketball.eurobasket.com/teamDetails.asp%3Fid%3D1011%26SectionName%3DBelarus%26TeamName%3DCOR-Borisfen-Mogilev|url-status=dead}}</ref> and played in the European North Basketball League until it was suspended.
==History== The club was established on 3 September 2010.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://bcborisfen.by/?page_id=166|title= ИСТОРИЯ|publisher=BC Borisfen|accessdate=27 August 2020}}</ref> The club was founded after BC Temp-OSHVSM disappeared from the highest Belarusian basketball league.{{citation needed|date=March 2022}} In 2011, Borisfen played in the Belarusian Second League for one season.{{citation needed|date=March 2022}}
In the 2016–17 season, Borisfen made its debut in the Baltic Basketball League. Domestically, in 2018 and 2019, Borisfen finished as runners-up behind BC Tsmoki-Minsk.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://basketball.eurobasket.com/teamDetails.asp?id=1011&SectionName=Belarus&TeamName=COR-Borisfen-Mogilev&Page=5|title=History|work=www.eurobasket.com|accessdate=18 July 2019|archive-date=17 May 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200517034324/https://basketball.eurobasket.com/teamDetails.asp?id=1011&SectionName=Belarus&TeamName=COR-Borisfen-Mogilev&Page=5|url-status=dead}}</ref> In the 2019–20 season, Borisfen made its debut in a European competition, playing in the qualifying rounds of the FIBA Europe Cup.<ref name="Teams">{{cite web|url=http://www.fiba.basketball/europecup/19-20/news/22-clubs-register-for-2019-20-fiba-europe-cup|publisher=FIBA Europe|date=23 July 2019|title=22 clubs register for 2019-20 FIBA Europe Cup}}</ref> The team lost to BC Dnipro.{{citation needed|date=March 2022}}
Borisfen qualified for the regular season of the 2020–21 FIBA Europe Cup.,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fiba.basketball/news/teams-registered-for-fiba-europe-cup-season-2020-21-confirmed|publisher=FIBA Europe|date=12 August 2020|title=Teams registered for FIBA Europe Cup season 2020-21 confirmed}}</ref> but due to the discovery of COVID-19 in one of the members of the delegation, the team was unable to participate in the games and was sent to quarantine.{{citation needed|date=March 2022}}
In 2021, in the fourth match in the final series, BC Borisfen lost to BC Tsmoki-Minsk by a score 52:85. Thus, BC Borisfen - four-time vice-champion of the Belarusian Basketball Championship. Also, on July 16, it became known that several players left the team, namely: Dupree McBrayer, Darol Hernandez-Zinenko, Tywain МcКee, Brooks DeBisschop and Anton Zaretsky.
In the 2021/2022 season, the club planned to compete in the newly formed European Northern League, where the opponents would also be: Anwil Wloclawek, Basket Brno, BK Liepaja, Enisey Krasnoyarsk, BK Siauliai, Tartu Ulikool Maks and Moorits and BC Valmiera GLASS VIA{{citation needed|date=March 2022}}. The European North Basketball League has excluded BC Borisfen and BC Enisey from the competition from March 1, 2022 due to the war against Ukraine.
In the 2023/2024 season, the club won the Belarusian Cup, beating BC Minsk in the semifinals in the third overtime (108:102).<ref>{{Cite news |title=XXVII BETERA-Кубок Беларуси. За главный трофей поборются "Борисфен" и "Гродно-93" |url=https://belarus.basketball/novosti/kubok/7813-xxvii-betera-kubok-belarusi-za-glavnyj-trofej-poboryutsya-borisfen-i-grodno-93 |access-date=2024-10-13 |work=Белорусская федерация баскетбола |language=ru-ru}}</ref> and BC Grodno-93 in the finals (83:75).<ref>{{Cite news |title="Борисфен" – обладатель XXVII BETERA-Кубка Беларуси |url=https://belarus.basketball/novosti/kubok/7814-borisfen-obladatel-xxvii-betera-kubka-belarusi |access-date=2024-10-13 |work=Белорусская федерация баскетбола |language=ru-ru}}</ref> It was the first cup in Borisfen's history.
In the 2024/2025 season, the club took 3rd place in the Belarusian Cup, losing in the semifinals to BC Minsk (75:69),<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-11-23 |title="МИНСК" пробился в финал Кубка Беларуси по баскетболу, одолев "Борисфен" |url=https://belta.by/sport/view/minsk-probilsja-v-final-kubka-belarusi-po-basketbolu-odolev-borisfen-677745-2024/ |access-date=2025-06-01 |website=belta.by |language=ru-RU}}</ref> and beat Rubon (98:75).<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-11-24 |title=Баскетболисты "Гродно-93" восьмой раз выиграли Кубок Беларуси |url=https://belta.by/sport/view/basketbolisty-grodno-93-vosmoj-raz-vyigrali-kubok-belarusi-677879-2024/ |access-date=2025-06-01 |website=belta.by |language=ru-RU}}</ref> Borisfen has won the bronze medal of the Cup for the third time in its history. At the end of the regular season, having taken third place, Borysthenes confidently beat Grodno-93-GrGU in the quarterfinals of the playoffs (2:0 in the series);<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-04-26 |title=Известны все полуфиналисты мужского чемпионата Беларуси по баскетболу |url=https://belta.by/sport/view/izvestny-vse-polufinalisty-muzhskogo-chempionata-belarusi-po-basketbolu-711628-2025/ |access-date=2025-06-01 |website=belta.by |language=ru-RU}}</ref> however, they were defeated by BC Minsk (0:3 in the series)<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-05-08 |title=Баскетболистки "Горизонта" сравняли счет в финале женского чемпионата Беларуси |url=https://belta.by/sport/view/basketbolistki-gorizonta-sravnjali-schet-v-finale-zhenskogo-chempionata-belarusi-713741-2025/ |access-date=2025-06-01 |website=belta.by |language=ru-RU}}</ref> and, bringing the series for 3rd place to on the 5th match, lost to BC Rubon (2:3 in the series).<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-05-28 |title=Витебский "Рубон" стал бронзовым призером баскетбольного чемпионата Беларуси |url=https://belta.by/sport/view/vitebskij-rubon-stal-bronzovym-prizerom-basketbolnogo-chempionata-belarusi-717720-2025/ |access-date=2025-06-01 |website=belta.by |language=ru-RU}}</ref> Thus, BC Borisfen took the final fourth place and for the first time in 10 years did not appear in the top three.
Before the 2025/2026 season, the team lost not only its foreign players (PJ Byrd, Abu Gbane), but also key members (Artyom Kuzmin, Kirill Sitnik), as well as "veterans" (Andrey Ageyenko, Artyom Malkov, Aleksandr Kopachyov).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sports.ru/basketball/blogs/3341659.html|title=Подерачев покидает "МИНСК", "Борисфен" прощается с половиной состава и другие новости прошедших 2-ух недель - На подборе - Блоги Sports.ru|language=ru|website=Спортс’’|access-date=2025-08-08}}</ref> Nevertheless, the roster was replenished with Kirill Shishlovsky (from "Impulse-BGUIR"),<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.instagram.com/p/DNC7lKiNdRs/?img_index=1|title=Instagram|website=www.instagram.com|access-date=2025-08-08}}</ref> Vadim Fedkin ("Cheboksary Hawks", Russian Higher League),<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.instagram.com/p/DNDWfDiNmG-/?img_index=1|title=Instagram|website=www.instagram.com|access-date=2025-08-08}}</ref> Ivan Aladko and Vladislav Mikulskiy (both - "BK Grodno-93").<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.instagram.com/p/DNFepDlNeNz/|title=Instagram|website=www.instagram.com|access-date=2025-08-08}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Instagram |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/DNOS4iwt-bR/ |access-date=2025-08-11 |website=www.instagram.com}}</ref>
==European record== {| class="wikitable" ! Season ! Competition ! Round ! Club ! Home ! Away ! |- | 2019–20 | FIBA Europe Cup | Qualifying round | {{flagicon|UKR}} Dnipro | style="text-align:center;" bgcolor=#fcc|76–101 | style="text-align:center;" bgcolor=#fcc |81–71 |17px|center |- | rowspan=3| 2020–21 | rowspan=3| FIBA Europe Cup | rowspan=3| Regular season | {{flagicon|NED}} Donar | rowspan=3 colspan=2 |{{center| DNP{{ref|1|1}}}} |rowspan=3|17px |- | {{flagicon|NED}} Heroes Den Bosch |- | {{flagicon|RUS}} Parma |} {{refbegin}} :{{note|1|1}} Borisfen withdrew from the 2020–21 FIBA Europe Cup after players on the team were diagnosed with COVID-19. {{refend}}
==Players== ===Current roster=== {{Basketball roster header |age=n |ht=n |team=BC Borisfen |wt=n |color1=white |bg1=#1E6A60 |color2=black |bg2=silver }} {{Bs player|no=2|nat=BLR|name=Daniil Gorbachevsky|pos=SG}} {{Bs player|no=6|nat=BLR|name=Uladzislau Shvakel|pos=SG}} {{Bs player|no=7|nat=BLR|name=Artem Sekushenko|pos=F}} {{Bs player|no=10|nat=BLR|name=Artem Puchko|pos=F}} {{Bs player|no=35|nat=RUS|name=Nikita Shchurat|pos=C}} {{Bs player|no=41|nat=BLR|name=Anton Shchurko|pos=PG}} {{Bs player|no=|nat=BLR|name=Kirill Shishlovsky|pos=SF}} {{Bs player|no=|nat=RUS|name=Vadim Fedkin|pos=C}} {{Bs player|no=|nat=BLR|name=Ivan Aladko|pos=SG}} {{Bs player|no=|nat=BLR|name=Vladislav Mikulskiy|pos=SG}} {{Basketball roster footer |head_coach=* {{flagicon|BLR}} Andrey Krivonos |asst_coach=* {{flagicon|BLR}} Alexander Gulyaev * {{flagicon|BLR}} Denis Pastukhov|accessdate=August 11, 2025 |roster_url=http://bcborisfen.by/?page_id=162 }}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[http://bcborisfen.by/ Official website] *[https://vk.com/bc_borisfen_official VK.com profile]
{{DEFAULTSORT:Borisfen, BC}} Category:Basketball teams in Belarus Category:Mogilev Category:Basketball teams established in 2010