Sport | Basketball |
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Founded | 1949 |
Ceased | 1987 |
Country | ![]() |
Last champion(s) | Spartak Leningrad (2nd title) |
Most titles | Dinamo Tbilisi CSKA Moscow (3 titles both) |
Related competitions | USSR Premier League |
The USSR Basketball Cup, or Soviet Union Basketball Cup, was the national basketball cup competition of the former Soviet Union. The first USSR Cup was held in the year 1949, and the last one was held in the year 1987. The competition was not held every year, as it was only contested 11 times between the years 1949 and 1987. However, it was initially held every year between 1949 and 1953.[citation needed]
The last team to win the cup was Spartak Leningrad, in 1987.[1]