Kolossos Rodou B.C.

Kolossos H Hotels
Leagues	GBL Greek Cup BCL
Founded	1963; 61 years ago (1963)
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.

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.

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.

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]

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.

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

Kolossos Rodou roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. No. Nat. 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

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

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

• Official website (in Greek)
• Eurobasket.com Team Page