Kolossos Rodou B.C.

Kolossos H Hotels
Kolossos H Hotels
Leagues	GBL; Greek Cup; BCL
Founded	1963; 61 years ago
History	Kolossos Rodou B.C.; (1963–present)
Arena	Kallithea Palais des Sports
Capacity	3,400
Location	Rhodes, Greece
Team colors	White and Cyan;
Main sponsor	H Hotels Collection
President	Michalis Kokkinos
Head coach	Giorgos Sigalas
Team captain	Sotiris Billis
Championships	1 Greek 2nd Division ;
Website	kolossosbc.gr
Home	Away

Kolossos Rodou B.C. (Greek: Κολοσσός Ρόδου K.A.E.), known as Kolossos H Hotels for sponsorship reasons, is a Greek professional basketball team that is located on the island of Rhodes, in Rhodes City. Kolossos currently plays in the top-tier level of Greek professional basketball, the Greek League. The club was founded in 1963, and also initially featured sports like volleyball and judo in the early 1980s.^[1] Today, the focus of the Greek athletic club is on the franchise's men's basketball department.

History

Early years

Due to geographical isolation, and very small financial abilities for most of the club's history, the basketball team was not able to compete at a high level for many years, and was not funded properly. Kolossos was the first Greek basketball team located in the Aegean Sea region.

Rise

In 2000, the fate of the team finally changed, when Kostas Kostaridis became the new team President, and took over the reins of the club.^[2] Kostaridis changed almost the entire club management, and stated that it was the immediate goal of the team to rise from the 3rd-tier level Greek B League, to the 2nd-tier level Greek A2 League, and subsequently, the team did begin to rise up through Greece's club basketball league system.

In 2003, head coach Vassilis Fragkias joined the team, and the ascent up into the Greek A2 League division commenced. In the 2004–05 season, Kolossos won the championship of the Greek A2 League, and was therefore automatically promoted up into the top-tier level Greek League, the highest professional basketball league in Greece.

Merger with Holargos

In the 2018–19 Greek Basketball League season, Kolossos finished in last place in the league. The team was thus facing relegation down to the second-tier level Greek A2 League. However, Kolossos merged with Holargos, and gained their rights to play in the top-tier level Greek League, in the following 2019–20 Greek Basketball League season.^[3]

Arenas

Through the 2018–19 season, Kolossos played its domestic Greek Basketball League games at the 1,242 seat Venetokleio Indoor Hall. Prior to the 2019–20 season, Kolossos moved into the 1,400 seat^[4] Palais des Sports.^[5] The arena's seating capacity was increased to 3,400 people, so that Kolossos could play its home games there, while competing in the European secondary level FIBA Champions League competition.

Season by season

Season	Tier	Division	Pos.	W–L	Greek Cup
2009–10	1	Basket League	6th	14–14
2010–11	1	Basket League	8th	12–14	Quarterfinalist
2011–12	1	Basket League	4th	22–13
2012–13	1	Basket League	10th	8–18
2013–14	1	Basket League	10th	10–16
2014–15	1	Basket League	7th	14–15
2015–16	1	Basket League	7th	11–17
2016–17	1	Basket League	7th	14–15	Quarterfinalist
2017–18	1	Basket League	8th	11–17	Quarterfinalist
2018–19	1	Basket League	13th	5–21	Quarterfinalist
2019–20	1	Basket League	9th	8–12
2020–21	1	Basket League	7th	8–16	Quarterfinalist

Honours and titles

Greek 2nd Division
- Champion (1): 2004–05
Mavroskoufia Basketball Tournament
- Winner (2): 2016, 2019 (shared)

Players

Roster

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Kolossos Rodou roster

Players

Coaches

Pos.	No.	Name	Ht.	Wt.	Age
SG	0	Goudelock, Andrew	1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)	92 kg (203 lb)	35 – (1988-12-07)7 December 1988
SG	1	Toney, Au'Diese	1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)	93 kg (205 lb)	24 – (1999-11-12)12 November 1999
PG	2	Nelson, Tyler	1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)	82 kg (181 lb)	29 – (1995-08-09)9 August 1995
F	3	Slaftsakis, Diamantis	2.02 m (6 ft 8 in)	88 kg (194 lb)	30 – (1994-07-27)27 July 1994
PG	6	Koloveros, Iosif	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)	84 kg (185 lb)	22 – (2002-08-28)28 August 2002
F/C	7	Tsairelis, Michalis	2.08 m (6 ft 10 in)	93 kg (205 lb)	36 – (1988-02-23)23 February 1988
F/C	8	Okoro, Francis	2.06 m (6 ft 9 in)	104 kg (229 lb)	25 – (1999-08-07)7 August 1999
G/F	9	Petropoulos, Andreas	1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)	100 kg (220 lb)	30 – (1994-02-11)11 February 1994
G/F	11	Chatzinikolas, Ioannis	1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)	88 kg (194 lb)	29 – (1995-10-07)7 October 1995
F	12	Billis, Sotiris (C)	1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)	91 kg (201 lb)	27 – (1996-11-14)14 November 1996
PF	13	Kamarianos, Nikos	2.04 m (6 ft 8 in)	93 kg (205 lb)	27 – (1997-03-21)21 March 1997
C	21	Kouroupakis, Periklis	2.07 m (6 ft 9 in)		22 – (2002-08-12)12 August 2002
F	25	Galvanini, Gabriel	2.04 m (6 ft 8 in)	103 kg (227 lb)	26 – (1998-09-11)11 September 1998
PG	32	Perrantes, London	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)	86 kg (190 lb)	30 – (1994-10-03)3 October 1994
F	33	Giakai, Pavlos	2.00 m (6 ft 7 in)		18 – (2006-08-10)10 August 2006
SF	77	Danusevičius, Paulius	2.01 m (6 ft 7 in)	105 kg (231 lb)	23 – (2001-05-08)8 May 2001

Head coach

Giorgos Sigalas

Assistant coach(es)

Thomas Nikou
Andreas Gavalas

Legend

(C) Team captain
Injured

Roster

Updated: 26 September 2024

Depth chart

Pos.	Starting 5	Bench 1	Bench 2	Bench 3	Inactive
C	Francis Okoro	Michalis Tsairelis		Periklis Kouroupakis
PF	Gabriel Galvanini	Diamantis Slaftsakis		Pavlos Giakai	Nikos Kamarianos
SF	Paulius Danusevičius	Andreas Petropoulos	Sotiris Billis	Giannis Chatzinikolas
SG	Andrew Goudelock	Au'Diese Toney
PG	London Perrantes	Tyler Nelson	Iosif Koloveros

Notable players

Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationalities not displayed.

Criteria
To appear in this section a player must have either: Set a club record or won an individual award while at the club Played at least one official international match for their national team at any time Played at least one official NBA match at any time.

Head coaches

Head Coach	Years
Charis Papazoglou	2001–2003
Vassilis Fragkias	2003–2005
Michalis Kyritsis	2005–2006
Georgios Zevgkolis	2006–2007
Vangelis Alexandris	2007–2008
Ioannis Sfairopoulos	2008–2011
Vassilis Fragkias	2011–2012
Minas Gekos	2012–2013
Vassilis Fragkias	2013
Dimitrios Priftis	2013–2014
Michalis Koutalianos	2014
Aris Lykogiannis	2014–2018
Nikos Vetoulas	2018
Kostas Flevarakis	2018–2019
Stergios Koufos	2019
Aris Lykogiannis	2019–2020

References

External links

Official website (in Greek)
Eurobasket.com Team Page

[1] Έτος Ίδρυσης 1963 (in Greek).

[2] "ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ ΣΥΛΛΟΓΟΥ {{in lang|el}}". Archived from the original on 2017-09-08. Retrieved 2017-09-07.

[3] Κολοσσός: Η συνένωση με τον Χολαργό είναι γεγονός (in Greek).

[4] ΑΦΙΕΡΩΜΑ ΣΤΟΝ ΚΟΛΟΣΣΟ H HOTELS: Νέο ξεκίνημα στη Ρόδο (in Greek).

[5] Κολοσσός: Αλλάζει έδρα τη νέα αγωνιστική περίοδο (in Greek).

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