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| Rytas Vilnius | |||
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 2024–25 BC Rytas season | |||
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| Nickname | Black White Reds | ||
| Leagues | Lithuanian Basketball League Champions League | ||
| Founded | 1963 (as Statyba) ‡[1] 1997 (as BC Lietuvos rytas) | ||
| History | Statyba 1963–1997 Statyba-Lietuvos rytas 1997–1998 Lietuvos rytas 1998–2018 Rytas 2018–present | ||
| Arena | Active Vilnius Arena (LKL) Twinsbet Arena (BCL) | ||
| Capacity | 10,000[2] (Twinsbet Arena) 2,741 (Active Vilnius Arena) | ||
| Location | Vilnius, Lithuania | ||
| Team colors | Black, white, red | ||
| Team manager | Mantvydas Dabašinskas | ||
| Head coach | Giedrius Žibėnas | ||
| Ownership | Darius Gudelis (main), Vilnius City Municipality, Perlas and Norvelita[3] | ||
| Affiliation(s) | Rytas-2 (NKL) Rytas MRU (RKL) | ||
| Championships | 2 EuroCup 7 LKL 3 LKF Cup 2 King Mindaugas Cup 1 North European League 3 Baltic Championships 1 Baltic Presidents Cup 6 Lithuanian SSR League 5 Lithuanian SSR "Sports" Cup 2 USSR A class League | ||
| Retired numbers | 2 (7) (13) | ||
| Website | Official website  | ||
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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 Jeep Arena and they share the 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.
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