USSR Basketball Cup

USSR Basketball Cup
SportBasketball
Founded1949
Ceased1987
Country Soviet Union
Last
champion(s)
Spartak Leningrad
(2nd title)
Most titlesDinamo Tbilisi
CSKA Moscow
(3 titles both)
Related
competitions
USSR Premier League

The USSR Basketball Cup, or Soviet Union Basketball Cup, was the national basketball cup competition of the former Soviet Union. The first USSR Cup was held in the year 1949, and the last one was held in the year 1987. The competition was not held every year, as it was only contested 11 times between the years 1949 and 1987. However, it was initially held every year between 1949 and 1953.[citation needed]

The last team to win the cup was Spartak Leningrad, in 1987.[1]