VTB United League at the last League Board approved the list of the 2022/23 season teams.
In the coming season, 12 teams will take part in the VTB United League 22/23 season: Avtodor (Saratov), Astana (Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan), Enisey (Krasnoyarsk), Zenit (St. Petersburg), Lokomotiv Kuban (Krasnodar), MBA (Moscow), Nizhny Novgorod (Nizhny Novgorod), PARMA (Perm), Samara (Samara), UNICS (Kazan), Tsmoki-Minsk (Minsk, Belarus), CSKA (Moscow).
MBA and Samara will participate in the VTB League for the first time.
MBA, Russia
City: Moscow, Russia
Founded: 2013
Team colors: red, white
Home Arena: Basket Hall Moscow (capacity — 5000 viewers).
Head Coach: Vasily Karasev
President: Tatiana Kocharyan
General manager: Igor Kocharyan
Achievements:
Major League Silver Medalists (2014)
Website: http://mbabasket.pro/
Famous players: Sergey Toropov, Andrey Sopin, Ruslan Pateev, Maksim Sheleketo, Alexei Babushkin, Makar Konovalov
Samara, Russia
City: Samara, Russia
Founded: 1976
Team colors: blue, orange, white
Home Arena: Sports Ice Hall (capacity — 5000 viewers).
Head Coach: Sergei Bazarevich
President: Kamo Pogosyan
Achievements:
Russian Championship Silver medalist (1992)
Russian Championship Bronze medalist(1993, 1997, 1998, 1999)
SuperLeague-1 Champions (2019, 2021)
Russian Cup Champions (2020, 2022)
Website: http://bcsamara.com/
Famous players: Sergei Chikalkin, Aleksandr Bashminov, Igor Grachev, Petr Samoylenko, Egor Vialtsev
