USSR Basketball Cup
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 1949 and 1987. However, it was initially held every year between 1949 and 1953.
The last team to win the cup was Spartak Leningrad, in 1987.
Title holders
- 1948–49 Dinamo Tbilisi
- 1949–50 Dinamo Tbilisi
- 1950–51 Georgian Soviet [Socialist Republic|Georgian SSR Team]
- 1951–52 Dinamo Riga
- 1952–53 Žalgiris
- 1953–68 Not held
- 1968–69 Dinamo Tbilisi
- 1969–71 Not held
- 1971–72 PBC [CSKA Moscow|CSKA Moscow]
- 1972–73 CSKA Moscow
- 1973–77 Not held
- 1977–78 Spartak Leningrad
- 1978–81 Not held
- 1981–82 CSKA Moscow
- 1982–84 Not held
- 1984–85 Shakhtar Donetsk.
- 1985–86
- 1986–87 Spartak Leningrad
- 1987–92 Not held
The finals