AS Monaco Basket, commonly referred to as AS Monaco or simply Monaco, is a French-registered Monaco-based professional basketball club. They are a part of the Monaco-based multi-sports club of A.S. Monaco, which was founded in 1924, with the club's basketball section founded four years later in 1928. Monaco was the runner-up of the EuroLeague in 2025, and has won the EuroCup title in 2021. In domestic competitions, they won three French League titles, two French Cups, four Leaders Cups, and one French Supercup. They play their home games at Salle Gaston Médecin.
The club was excluded from the top division LNB Élite before the start of 2026–27 season, due to financial difficulties.https://basketball.realgm.com/wiretap/287137/AS-Monaco-Excluded-From-French-Professional-Leagues
History About four years after the parent athletic club, A.S. Monaco, was itself founded, A.S. Monaco Basket was founded in 1928. They finished as runners-up in the French top-tier level Nationale 1 (current LNB Élite) following the 1950 season, which is regarded as one of their greatest successes in their history. Monaco also won the LNB Pro B (French 2nd Division) championship in the 1973 season, with one of the greatest offenses on the European continent.
A.S. Monaco Basket joined the Nationale 1 for the 1973–74 season, where they finished in ninth place. They made their first appearance in the European 3rd-tier level FIBA Korać Cup in the 1974–75 season, where they lost in the group stage to other notable teams, such as the French League club ASVEL Basket, the Bulgarian League club Levski Sofia, and the Italian League club AMG Sebastiani Basket. They entered the same tournament again in the 1982–83 season, but lost to Dynamo Moscow in the semifinals qualification battle, in the Top 16 group stage, despite a far better finish in the tournament overall.
Entering the 1980s, Monaco was in the process of securing their title as one of the most dangerous teams in French basketball. They reached the finals game of the French Federation Cup, where they lost to Limoges CSP, by a score of 96–81. The Red and Whites also became a threat in the LNB Élite (French 1st Division), what the league had been renamed to, after former NBA player, Robert Smith, joined the team in 1985. Smith was named the 1987 French League All-Star Game MVP.
After Smith left the team, Monaco found themselves descending in the league. They were relegated to the second division LNB Pro B, later in the decade, and eventually ended up in the Nationale 1 Division. They would not return to the LNB Pro A, the highest division of basketball in France, for many years to come. In 2014, A.S. Monaco Basket was crowned the champions of the French third-tier league, the Nationale Masculine 1 (NM1), and they returned to the LNB Pro B (French 2nd Division).
In the 2014–15 season, Monaco became the French 2nd-tier LNB Pro B champions, and they were finally promoted back to the top-tier league in France, the LNB Pro A. In 2015, the Ukrainian businessman and philanthropist, Sergey Dyadechko, became the President of A.S. Monaco Basket. In the 2015–16 season, Monaco won the 2016 edition of the French Pro A League Cup, after beating Élan Chalon in the finals, by a score of 99–74. Monaco player, Jamal Shuler, was named the French Pro A Leaders Cup MVP.
In the 2016–17 season, Monaco returned to European-wide competitions, when it qualified for one of the pan-European secondary level competitions, the FIBA Basketball Champions League.Basketball Champions League meets Monaco's high standards. They finished the season in third place. In 2017, the charity fund, DSF, founded by the club's owner, Dyadechko, became a sponsor of A.S. Monaco Basket. The club also played in the FIBA Champions League, during the 2017–18 season, in which they finished in second place, after they lost to the Greek League club AEK Athens in the final, by a score of 100–94. The club won the 2017 French Pro A League Cup and the 2018 French Pro A League Cup titles. They also finished in second place in the French Pro A League, in the 2017–18 season.
In European-wide competitions, Monaco spent the next three seasons (2018–19, 2019–20, and 2020–21) playing in the other pan-European secondary level competition, the EuroCup, subsequently winning it in 2020–21. In the 2021–22 season, Monaco made its debut in the EuroLeague, the highest pan-European level. Finishing seventh in the regular season with a 15–13 record, Monaco qualified for the playoffs where they lost 2–3 to the second-seeded Olympiacos.
The following season, Monaco was eligible for another EuroLeague season because of their good performance the previous season. They made the playoffs for a second season in a row.
On April 22, 2023, Monaco won its first major trophy when it won its maiden French Basketball Cup with Monaco, after beating ASVEL in the final. Élie Okobo was the cup final's MVP after his 20-point performance. In the same 2022–23 season, Monaco reached new height on the continental level after reaching the 2023 EuroLeague Final Four after beating Maccabi Tel Aviv in the playoffs. They became the third French League club ever to reach the Final Four (after ASVEL and Limoges) and the first to do so in 26 years.
In the 2024–25 season, the Vassilis Spanoulis-coached team made it to the EuroLeague Final Four, and advanced to the final after upsetting first-seed Olympiacos. Monaco became the first French team in 32 years to play in the final of the European highest level league, and only the second team to reach the stage, following Limoges CSP in the 1992–93 FIBA European League. In the championship game, the Roca Team eventually lost to Fenerbahçe.
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Monaco was originally supposed to play its 2021–22 EuroLeague games in the 5,249 seat Azur Arena, which is located nearby in Antibes. The decision was later overturned, and the team instead played in its usual home arena in Monaco.
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Players
Honours and other achievements Honours Type Competition Titles SeasonsInternationalEuroCup12020–21DomesticFrench League32022–23, 2023–24, 2025–26French Cup22022–23, 2025–26French League Cup 42016, 2017, 2018, 2026French Supercup1 2025
Other Achievements International competitions EuroLeague Runners-up (1): 2024–25 Third place (1): 2022–23 EuroCup Champions (1): 2020–21 FIBA Champions League Runners-up (1): 2017–18 Third place (1): 2016–17
Domestic competitions French League Champions (3): 2022–23, 2023–24, 2025–26 Runners-up (5): 1949–50, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2021–22, 2024–25 French Cup Champions (2): 2022–23, 2025–26 Runners-up (1): 1982–83 French League Cup Champions (4): 2016, 2017, 2018, 2026 Runners-up (1): 2025 French Supercup Champions (1): 2025 French Pro B Champions (2): 1972–73, 2014–15 French NM1 Champions (1): 2013–14
Other competitions Berlin, Germany Invitational Game Winners (1): 2019
Season by season SeasonTierDivisionFrench CupLeaders CupEuropean competitions2008–09 4 NM2 2009–10 4 NM2 2010–11 4 NM2 2011–12 4 NM2Round of 44 2012–13 3 NM1Round of 40 2013–14 3 NM1 1stRound of 44 2014–15 2 Pro B 1stRound of 16 2015–16 1 Pro A 3rdQuarterfinalsChampion 2016–17 1 Pro A 5thQuarterfinalsChampion 3 Champions League 17–42017–18 1 Pro A2nd QuarterfinalsChampion 3 Champions League 17–42018–19 1 Pro A2nd Round of 16 2 EuroCup 9–72019–20 1 Pro A– – Semifinalist 2 EuroCup 10–62020–21 1 Pro A 4th Quarterfinalist 2 EuroCup 17–62021–22 1 Pro A2nd Semifinalist 1 EuroLeague 17–162022–23 1 Pro A 1st Champion Quarterfinalist 1 EuroLeague 25–162023–24 1 Élite 1st Semifinalist Semifinalist 1 EuroLeague 25–142024–25 1 Élite2nd Semifinalist Runner-up 1 EuroLeague 25–162025–26 1 Élite 1st Champion Champion 1 EuroLeague 23–20
Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe.
Notable players
France: Georgy Adams Cyril Akpomedah Éric Beugnot Petr Cornelie Moustapha Fall Damien Inglis Mouhammadou Jaiteh Paul Lacombe Yoan Makoundou Elie Okobo Yakuba Ouattara Jean Perniceni Amara Sy Philip Szanyiel / Terry Tarpey Kim Tillie Ali Traoré Léo Westermann
Europe: / Nick Calathes Georgios Papagiannis Danilo Anđušić Ivan Buva Damjan Rudež Elmedin Kikanović Donatas Motiejūnas Aaron Cel Kyrylo Fesenko Sergii Gladyr
United States: Dwayne Bacon / Dee Bost John Brown Eric Buckner / Nik Caner-Medley / Anthony Clemmons Norris Cole D.J. Cooper Aaron Craft / Brandon Davies Chris Evans Rob Gray / Donta Hall Mike James / Jarrod Jones Dru Joyce / Paris Lee Jordan Loyd Darrel Mitchell / Derek Needham / DeMarcus Nelson J.J. O'Brien Gerald Robinson Jamal Shuler Robert Smith Mike Stewart / Will Thomas Kemba Walker / Zack Wright
Rest of Americas & Oceania & Middle East: Dylan Ennis Khadeen Carrington Adrian Uter Brock Motum
Africa: Ibrahima Fall Faye Mehdi Hafsi Derrick Obasohan
Head coaches
Head CoachYears Bill Sweek Jean-Pierre Baldwin Philippe Beorchia Claude Palanca Stéphane Dao Georgy Adams Jean-Michel Sénégal Savo Vučević Philippe Beorchia Zvezdan Mitrović Sašo Filipovski Saša Obradović Zvezdan Mitrović Saša Obradović Vassilis Spanoulis Sergiy Gladyr Manuchar Markoishvili
References
External links
A.S. Monaco Basket at Eurobasket.com