The team coached by Mihai Silvăşan achieved the triple competition this year: the national title, the Cup and the Romanian Supercup. U BT Cluj prevailed 3-1 in the final against CSM Oradea.
In front of 10,000 fans, the titular champion won “by a whisker” (74-72, 33-36 at halftime), today (Wednesday, June 3), the 4th match against its traditional rival.
The main scorers of the game were Russell 23 points, Molinar 17p, Creek 10p respectively, Bropleh 16p, Nzekwesi 15p and Richard 12p.
In the previous matches of the final, the results were 84-87, 88-83 and 103-78.
The 11th national title for Cluj
The two teams played the men’s National Basketball League final for the 5th time in the last 6 years. And the previous finals were won by U BT Cluj: 4-2 in 2022/2023, 4-1 in 2023/2024 and 3-2 in 2024/2025.
This is the title with the number 11 for the formations from Cluj (after those of 1992, 1993, 1996 for the University of Cluj, 2011 for U Mobitelco Cluj, 2017 and 2021-2025 for U BT Cluj), as many having Asesoft Ploiești. On the first two places are Dinamo Bucharest – 22 titles and Steaua Bucharest – 21. CSM Oradea won the championship 3 times (2016, 2018 and 2019).
Craiova won the bronze medal
The coach of Oradea, Cristi Achim, announced that this championship was the last in which he was on the technical bench (he was from 2009, being the longest in office in the National League) and that he will take over a position in the management of the club.
The bronze medal was won, for the first time, by SCMU Craiova, 2-1 “on aggregate” (94-102, 101-62, 105-101), with Dinamo Bucharest.
