Olimpia Milano

Olimpia was founded in 1930, by Milan businessman Adolfo Bogoncelli. The team regularly won the LEGA Basket Serie A championship of Italian basketball in the 1950s and the 1960s, with players including Gabriele Vianello, Sandro Riminucci, Gianfranco Pieri, and Bill Bradley. In the 1970s, three teams were fighting across Europe for supremacy: Olimpia Milano, Ignis Varese, and Real Madrid. Pallacanestro Varese and Olimpia Milano were arch-rivals, as the two cities are 25 miles (40 km) apart. While Milano was a frequent Italian League champion, they were unable to win the prestigious FIBA European Champions Cup.

Late in the 1970s, the quality of the club declined, but Olimpia Milano still managed to win a FIBA Cup Winners' Cup. In the second half of the 1970s, the team signed several good players, including the Boselli twins (Franco and Dino), Mike Sylvester, Chas Menatti, Dino Meneghin, Mike D'Antoni, John Gianelli, Roberto Premier. Bob McAdoo, Joe Barry Carroll, Russ Schoene, Antoine Carr, and Mike Brown. American head coach Dan Peterson led the team back to prominence.

In the 1980s, the team was sold to the Gabetti family. During this time, they qualified for nine Serie A championships finals, winning five, with the 1987 team winning the Serie A title, the 1986–87 FIBA European Champions Cup (won also in 1988: both finals were won against Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv), the Italian Cup and the 1987 FIBA Club World Cup. This gave the club the coveted "Triple Crown" and the even rarer "Quadruple Crown".

Led by point guard Sasha Djordjević, the team won another FIBA Korać Cup in 1993. Bepi Stefanel purchased the team franchise in 1994, and signed-up notable European players like Dejan Bodiroga, Gregor Fučka, Sandro De Pol, and Nando Gentile. In 1996, the team won the Italian Cup and its 25th Italian National Championship, celebrating the 60th anniversary of the club.

Team management was inconsistent, as ownership groups from 1998 to 2004. Players of the team included Warren Kidd, Hugo Sconochini, Claudio Coldebella and Petar Naumoski. In 2005, owner Corbelli, which bought the club in 2002, from Sergio Tacchini, was flanked by Adriano Galliani (Managing Director of Italian Football club A.C. Milan), Massimo Moratti (President of rival club Internazionale), NBA star Kobe Bryant, and stylist Giorgio Armani, as sponsor with the Armani Jeans brand. After difficult years, led by coach Lino Lardo, Olimpia reached the national championship Finals, finally being beaten by Climamio Bologna.

On January 25, 2006, in the midst of a disappointing season in the EuroLeague and domestically, Djordjevic was named as the team's new coach. He left as coach after the 2006–07 season, but not before securing Olimpia a berth in the 2007–08 Euroleague.

In 2008, Giorgio Armani bought the team from Giorgio Corbelli, standing as the only owner, entirely changing the management structure, naming Livio Proli as president, and Lucio Zanca as general manager. Piero Bucchi was chosen to coach the new team, leading Olimpia twice to second place in LEGA Basket, being defeated by Montepaschi Siena in both cases.

Alessandro Gentile

In January 2011, after 23 years, coach Dan Peterson came back from retirement to replace Piero Bucchi as head coach. However, his stint at Olimpia Milano this time was quite short: after failing to reach the championship Finals, on June 9, Olimpia Milano announced Sergio Scariolo as new head coach for the 2011–12 season. The first player signed for the 2011–12 season was Omar Cook, an American-born play maker, who had played the previous season with Power Electronics Valencia. Due to the NBA lockout, Danilo Gallinari went back to his alma mater, playing 15 games (8 in the Italian League, 7 in EuroLeague): he left the team in December. Sergio Scariolo was replaced by Luca Banchi at the beginning of the 2013–14 season, and the team brought from Montepaschi Siena: David Moss, Kristjan Kangur, and Daniel Hackett.

The team reached the quarterfinals of EuroLeague, 16 years after its last appearance, but the team lost against the eventual league champions, Maccabi Electra. The team finished in the 1st position the LEGA Basket regular season, and in the 7th game of the playoff's finals, Olimpia won its 26th Italian League championship title, its first after 18 years. Alessandro Gentile, the captain of Olimpia, was named MVP of the finals.

On 29 June 2017 Simone Pianigiani was hired as the new head coach and on June 15, 2018, Milano went to win his 28th title by beating Dolomiti Energia Trento in game 6 of the 2018 LBA Finals.[3]

On June 11, 2019, legend Ettore Messina signed a deal as the new head coach of the club and president of all basketball operations for the following three seasons.[4]

• Italian League

Winners (28): 1935–36, 1936–37, 1937–38, 1938–39, 1949–50, 1950–51, 1951–52, 1952–53, 1953–54, 1956–57, 1957–58, 1958–59, 1959–60, 1961–62, 1962–63, 1964–65, 1965–66, 1966–67, 1971–72, 1981–82, 1984–85, 1985–86, 1986–87, 1988–89, 1995–96, 2013–14, 2015–16, 2017–18

Runners-up (18): 1934, 1940–41, 1955–56, 1963–64, 1968–69, 1969–70, 1970–71, 1972–73, 1973–74, 1978–79, 1982–83, 1983–84, 1987–88, 1990–91, 2004–05, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2011–12

• Italian Cup

Winners (6): 1971–72, 1985–86, 1986–87, 1995–96, 2015–16, 2016–17

Runners-up (2): 1969–70, 2014–15

• Italian Supercup

Winners (4): 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020

Runners-up (3): 1996, 2014, 2015

• EuroLeague

Winners (3): 1965–66, 1986–87, 1987–88

Runners-up (2): 1966–67, 1982–83

Semifinalists (3): 1963–64, 1967–68, 1972–73, 1985–86

3rd place (1): 1991–92

Final Four (4): 1966, 1967, 1988, 1992

• FIBA Saporta Cup (defunct)

Winners (3): 1970–71, 1971–72, 1975–76

Runners-up (2): 1983–84, 1997–98

Semifinalists (1): 1976–77

• FIBA Korać Cup (defunct)

Winners (2): 1984–85, 1992–93

Runners-up (2): 1994–95, 1995–96

Semifinalists (3): 1977–78, 1988–89, 1993–94

• European Basketball Club Super Cup (semi-official, defunct)

3rd place (2): 1985, 1989

4th place (2): 1986, 1987

• Latin Cup (defunct)

Winners (1): 1966

Runners-up (1): 1953

• FIBA Intercontinental Cup

Winners (1): 1987

3rd place (2): 1967, 1968

• McDonald's Championship (defunct)

3rd place (2): 1987, 1989

• Triple Crown

Winners (1): 1986–87

• Small Triple Crown

Winners (1): 1971–72

• Castellanza, Italy Invitational Game

Winners (1): 2007

• Memoriale di Tulio Rochlitzer

Winners (1): 2007

• Torneo Caorle

Winners (2): 2007, 2011

• Reggio Emilia, Italy Invitational Game

Winners (1): 2008

• Torneo Lombardia

Winners (2): 2009, 2016

• Torneo Castelleto Ticino

Winners (3): 2009, 2018, 2019

• Verona, Italy Invitational Game

Winners (1): 2011

• Trofeo de Ejea de los Caballeros

Winners (1): 2011

• Belgrade, Serbia Invitational Game

Winners (1): 2014

• Torneo del Circuito della Valtellina

Winners (1): 2014

• Trofeo Memorial Gianni Brusinelli

Winners (1): 2016

• Torneo Lovari

Winners (1): 2017

• Torneo Lucca

Winners (1): 2019

• Milan, Italy Invitational Game

Winners (1): 2019