The company creating the new Vilnius basketball club "Basketball Holding Company“ (BHC) applied to the Lithuanian Basketball League (LKL). In an official letter, BHC says it is considering various ways to enter the LKL, and therefore asks for specific requirements that the new team should meet.
"We are currently analyzing the situation and considering several possible ways to create a team that can play in the Lithuanian Basketball League (LKL). One of the possible ways known to us is commercial, when a candidate basketball club that meets certain league requirements becomes an official member of the LKL. In addressing you with this request, we kindly ask you to specify what specific actions we must perform and what conditions we must meet in order to become an LKL team in this commercial way," the BHC letter reads.
Acting president of the future basketball club Rimantas Kaukėnas is happy with the opportunity to return to his hometown and revealed that the new team will create an international community, so Lithuania will not be limited.
"I am very happy that I will be able to continue working in my hometown and I can confirm that we will have a new basketball team in Vilnius in the near future. Our goal is to have a team that regularly plays in the highest Lithuanian and European basketball leagues and to create all kinds of value for both the Lithuanian state and the international club community," said R. Kaukėnas.
"We are creating not only a new team, but also the international basketball community, which we will invite to contribute both to the club's creation decisions and to its management processes. We intend to reach international markets by exporting basketball, and we will improve the experience of basketball in the Lithuanian market with the help of the most innovative technologies that we will install in the arena during the reconstruction," added Rimantas Kaukėnas, president of the future Vilnius club.
The home field of the future club will be the newly opened Vilnius "Avia Solutions Group" arena, which will become the most advanced and largest in the Baltic States: it will accommodate up to 16,5 thousand people during a basketball match. spectators, and during concerts it will be able to accommodate up to 20 thousand. people.
