BC Statyba

This article is about the club founded in 1963 and renamed to Lietuvos Rytas in 1997. For info about de jure successor to BC Statyba, see BC Lietuvos rytas. For info about the club founded in 2011, see BC Statyba (2011).

BC Statyba
Founded	1964
Dissolved	1997
Location	Vilnius, Lithuania
Team colors	Black and White

BC Statyba was a basketball club from Vilnius. It was renamed to Lietuvos rytas in 1997.

History

During the 1963 in Lithuania's capital Vilnius first basketball club, "Žalgiris", was established. Next year it was renamed to "Plastikas". Plastikas was the basis of Statyba when it was created in 1964. In the 1965 Statyba became Žalgiris association champions, while in Lithuanian cup tournament it took third place. In 1966 Statyba became Lithuanian vice-champions. In 1967 it became representational basketball team of Vilnius, debuted in USSR A class championship and won fourth place. 1979 season was the most successful for Statyba - it won USSR Premier Basketball League's bronze medals. In 1997 Statyba was renamed to Lietuvos rytas. HoweverLietuvos rytas currently doesn't consider itself to be successor to Statyba. Because of that, in 2011, fans of old Statyba created a new team, claiming to be successor to the old Statyba.

Notable players

• Dainius Adomaitis 1993–1996
• Romanas Brazdauskis 1983–1984, 1986–1988
• Rimas Girskis 1968–1983

• Artūras Karnišovas 1987–1990
• Jonas Kazlauskas 1973–1985
• Linas Kvedaravičius 1985–1990

• Šarūnas Marčiulionis 1981–1989
• Algimantas Pavilonis 1973–1985
• Alvydas Pazdrazdis 1991–1992
• Alfredas Vainauskas 1979–1990, 1993–1995

Head coaches

• Antanas Paulauskas (1964–1975) (team founder)
• Rimantas Endrijaitis (1975–1987) (former captain)
• Rimas Girskis (1988–1990) (former captain)
• Eduardas Kairys (1990–1992) (former player)
• Rimantas Endrijaitis (1992–1994) (former captain)
• Heino Lill (1994–1995) (former assistant coach)
• Alfredas Vainauskas (1995–1997) (former player)

Achievements

• Žalgiris association
  • Champions (1): 1965
• USSR Premier League
  • Third place (1): 1979
• LKF Cup
  • Runners-up (1): 1990
• LKL
  • Third place (1): 1994
• Lithuanian basketball championship
  • Champions (5): 1972, 1973, 1975, 1981, 1984
  • Runners-up (13): 1966, 1968, 1970, 1971, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1983, 1985, 1991, 1992
• Lithuanian "Sports" Cup
  • Champions (5): 1968, 1969, 1981, 1983, 1985
  • Runners-up (2): 1984, 1992
  • Third place (2): 1965, 1982
• USSR A class
  • Champions (2): 1971, 1974
  • Runners-up (1): 1973
  • Third place (2): 1969, 1970