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Gender:Male

Est:1963

Players:4

BC Lietuvos rytas

Also known as: Rytas

📍 Vilnius, Lithuania, Lithuania•Lithuanian LKL

ID: team_135878

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Rytas Vilnius is a professional basketball club based in Vilnius, Lithuania. They compete domestically in the Lithuanian Basketball League and the King Mindaugas Cup, while internationally in the FIBA Champions League since 2020–21. Rytas have won two EuroCup titles, seven Lithuanian League titles, five LKF / King Mindaugas Cups and three Baltic championships. The team plays its domestic home games in the Active Vilnius Arena and they share the Twinsbet (ASG) Arena with BC Wolves for their European home games. The club was founded in 1997 from another club, BC Statyba. Notable members of the club include Šarūnas Marčiulionis, Šarūnas Jasikevičius, Ramūnas Šiškauskas, Arvydas Macijauskas, Jonas Valančiūnas, Martynas Gecevičius, Renaldas Seibutis, Simas Jasaitis, Robertas Javtokas, Darius Songaila, Marijonas Petravičius, Rimantas Kaukėnas, Rimas Kurtinaitis, Gintaras Einikis, Deividas Sirvydis, Rokas Giedraitis, Artūras Gudaitis, Ąžuolas Tubelis. The team's farm club Rytas-2 is used for the development of young players and plays in the second-tier NKL.

City:Vilnius, Lithuania

Country:Lithuania

Stadium:Active Vilnius Arena

Capacity:2,500

Home Venue

Active Vilnius Arena

Capacity:2,500

Location:Vilnius, Lithuania

Lietuvos rytas Arena is a 2,500-seat basketball arena in Vilnius, Lithuania, built next to Siemens Arena. Lietuvos rytas Vilnius play the Lithuanian Basketball League's home matches in the arena. More important or highly anticipated matches in the LKL, as well as all home fixtures in European competitions (such as the EuroLeague or EuroCup), are played in the Siemens Arena. Women basketball team Kibirkštis Vilnius also plays in Lietuvos Rytas arena. Past tenants include now dissolved Lithuanian and European women's basketball powerhouse Teo and Lietuvos Rytas daughter club Perlas Vilnius. In 2014, its capacity was expanded from 1,700 seats to 2,500 seats with the aim to host EuroCup games.