First ENBL team from Switzerland: bienvenue, Pully Lausanne Foxes!

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 preceding the first Olympic basketball tournament a year later.

FIBA headquarters are located at the Patrick Baumann House of Basketball in Mies, a few kilometers north of Geneva.

The headquarters were based in Geneva until 1956 and then again from 2002.

A lesser known fact – on March 12, 2025, Nyon Basket Feminin won the European Women`s Basketball league – a tournament ran by the ENBL team from 2015.

Pully Lausanne Foxes were born in 2017 after a merger of two emblematic clubs from the Lausanne region: Pully Basket, founded in 1951, and BBC Lausanne, founded in 1929.

Together: they united decades of basketball heritage under one shared identity: the Foxes.

Pully Basket won four Swiss championships in 1986, 1987, 1989 and 1990.

The trophy case includes five consecutive Swiss Cups, 1988-1992.

Pully Basket participated at the 1982-1983 Korač Cup, meeting Sparta Bertrange from Luxembourg and the Croatian club KK Zadar from then Yugoslavia.

Four years later Pully Basket entered the FIBA European Champions Cup – a predecessor of Euroleague.

The biggest international win in club`s history was registered in the autumn of 1990 when Pully Basket won the first qualifying game against Maccabi Tel Aviv, 95-92.

This year marks a return of the club to the international competitions for the first time since 1992.

With close to 400 licensed young players and around 20 youth teams, Pully Lausannne Foxes runs one of the largest youth basketball movements in Switzerland.

The development of the young talents have been rewarded with the Swiss Olympic CPE label (Promotion of young talent).

The junior team won the U18 Patrick Baumann Swiss Cup in 2025 and 2026.

The goal is clear: to rebuild the glorious era of Swiss basketball, the way Pully Basket once did in its time.

The club plays its home games at the Salle Omnisport Arnold Reymond arena with a seating capacity of 1 500.

Lausanne is located on the northern shore of the magnificent Lake Geneva | Lac Léman.

The French speaking city – halfway between the Jura mountains and the Alps – is officially recognized as the Olympic Capital.

The International Olympic Committee headquarters are located at the Olympic House.

Lausanne is also the home of the Olympic Museum as well as numerous international sports federations.

Geneva Airport (GVA) is located 60 kilometers from Lausanne, while Zurich Airport (ZRH) is 230 kilometers away.

Club's website: www.foxesbasketball.ch 

Credit: Pully Lausanne Foxes