Alba Fehérvár

In between sat a European trophy of a different order: the Central European Basketball League, won in 2009.

The club has carried Alba Regia Építők, Albacomp, Albacomp-SZÜV and half a dozen other names since it started out in 1949. The sharpest of those turns came in 2011–12, when money ran out under the Albacomp banner and the city of Székesfehérvár stepped in, first as Albacomp Fehérvár, then, once the sponsor walked away in 2012, simply as Alba Fehérvár.

Kornél Dávid remains the name attached to the club's best years on the floor; his number 9 was retired in 2001. Ádám Hanga came up through the ranks later, spent five seasons in Alba's shirt from 2012 to 2017, and left for a path that took him to the San Antonio Spurs' draft class, a rare export for a Hungarian club to point to.

Games against Szolnoki Olaj carry the closest edge of any on Alba's calendar, sharpened by how often the two sides have ended up facing each other in league finals rather than in the ordinary run of the season. Falco KC Szombathely supplies the other fixture the crowd at the Alba Regia Sportcsarnok circles on the calendar. What Alba has not managed since 2017 is another championship: three runner-up finishes in the years either side of that title show how close the league has stayed, without the club closing it out again.