Basketball club Caucasus International University, representing capital Tbilisi, is the first club from Georgia to play in the European North Basketball league. Georgia has a long basketball tradition. Armia Tbilisi, later re-established as Mgzavrebi Tbilisi, was the first team outside Moscow and Saint Petersburg to win the Soviet Union championship in 1944 and 1946. Dinamo Tbilisi did the same in 1950, 1953, 1954 and 1968. On June 29, 1962, Dinamo Tbilisi won the European Ch

The most ambitious basketball club from Switzerland – Pully Lausanne Foxes – joins the European North Basketball league for the first time. Switzerland has played and continues to play a big part in international basketball. On June 18, 1932, eight national federations – Argentina, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Portugal, Romania and Switzerland – established the International Basketball Federation, FIBA. In May 1935, Geneva hosted the first EuroBasket – a test event