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BK Ventspils is a professional basketball club that is located in Ventspils, Latvia. The club competes in the Latvian-Estonian Basketball League.
During that championship run Ventspils also had great performances in European competitions. In the 2002–03 season Ventspils reached FIBA Champions Cup Final Four, where they finished third. In the 2003–04 season Ventspils debuted in the ULEB Cup competition, making eighthfinals. In the 2004–05 ULEB Cup season, Ventspils reached new heights and missed semifinals after, losing by one point in two game series against KK Hemofarm. Before the 2009–10 season, Ventspils participated in the EuroLeague Qualifying round, becoming the first Latvian team to do so.
Ventspils has been a team for many players to establish themselves on the European stage, such as Mire Chatman, Marijonas Petravičius, Jānis Blūms, Brent Wright, and others, who later had successful careers at the EuroLeague level.
In 2013, BK Ventspils became the first Latvian club to have won the Baltic Basketball League, after winning the first leg by a score of 69:91, BC Prienai - BK Ventspils : 69:91 (Match report) ScoresPro.com and losing the second, by a score of just 70:73, BK Ventspils - BC Prienai : 70:73 (Match report) ScoresPro.com in the finals against BC Prienai, from Lithuania. In the following season, BK Ventspils won their first Latvian League title since 2009, becoming the champions of the 2014 Latvian Basketball League campaign.
| 1993–94 | LBL | 7th | ||||
| 1994–95 | LBL | 6th | ||||
| 1995–96 | LBL | 3rd | ||||
| 1996–97 | LBL | 4th | ||||
| 1997–98 | LBL | 2nd | ||||
| 1998–99 | LBL | 2nd | ||||
| 1999–00 | LBL | 1st | ||||
| 2000–01 | LBL | 1st | ||||
| 2001–02 | LBL | 1st | 3rd | |||
| 2002–03 | LBL | 1st | 3rd | |||
| 2003–04 | LBL | 1st | ||||
| 2004–05 | LBL | 1st | Elite Division | 4th | QF | |
| 2005–06 | LBL | 1st | Elite Division | 5th | ||
| 2006–07 | LBL | 2nd | Elite Division | 3rd | ||
| 2007–08 | LBL | 3rd | Elite Division | 6th | ||
| 2008–09 | LBL | 1st | Elite Division | 7th | ||
| 2009–10 | LBL | 3rd | Elite Division | 4th | ||
| 2010–11 | LBL | 2nd | Elite Division | 4th | QF | |
| 2011–12 | LBL | 2nd | Elite Division | 6th | ||
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| 2012–13 | LBL | 2nd | Champion | |||
| 2013–14 | LBL | 1st | Quarterfinalist | |||
| 2014–15 | LBL | 2nd | Runner-up | |||
| 2015–16 | LBL | 3rd | ||||
| 2016–17 | LBL | 2nd | ||||
| 2017–18 | LBL | 1st | ||||
| 2018–19 | LBL | 2nd | Lat-Est BL | 1st | ||
| 2019–20 | LBL | 3rd | Lat-Est BL | |||
| 2020–21 | LBL | 2nd | Lat-Est BL | 6th | ||
| 2024-25 | Latvian League Runner-up | Latvian–Estonian League Quarterfinals | do not participate | Latvian Cup Runner-up | Gints Fogels |
| 2024-25 season roster | ||||
| Pos. | Starting 5 | Bench 1 | Bench 2 | Reserves |
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| PF | ||||
| SF | #51 Kārlis Šķiliņš | |||
| SG | #69 Roberts Prūsis | |||
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