VTB United League All-Star Game


The VTB United League All-Star Game is an annual basketball event that includes an exhibition game in which the best selected players of the VTB United League play against each other. The inaugural edition was organised on February 11, 2017, during the 2016–17 season.[1] The VTB All-Star Games also includes a dunk contest and a three-point contest.

Games

Year Date Arena Team 1 Score Team 2 MVP
11 February Bolshoy Ice Dome, Sochi
Russian Stars
131–121

World Stars

Andrey Vorontsevich
2018
17 February Yubileyny Sports Palace, Saint Petersburg
Russian Stars
125–124 [2]

World Stars

Sergey Karasev
2019
17 February VTB Arena, Moscow
Russian Stars
115–118 [3]

World Stars

Sergio Rodríguez
2020
16 February VTB Arena, Moscow
Russian Stars
162–164 [4]

World Stars

Alexey Shved
2021
14 February VTB Arena, Moscow
Russian Stars
183– 162 [5][6]

World Stars

Vitaly Fridzon
2022
20 February VTB Arena, Moscow
Russian Stars
121–129 [7][8]

World Stars

Mario Hezonja
2023
19 February VTB Arena, Moscow
Old School
148–140

New School

Malik Dime
2024
18 February VTB Arena, Moscow
Emil Rajković team
120–134

Xavi Pascual team

DeVaughn Akoon-Purcell
2025
16 February VTB Arena, Moscow
Hozyaeva team
124–107

Gosti team

Nikita Kurbanov

Slam-Dunk champions

Year Player Team
2017 Jānis Timma Zenit Saint Petersburg
2018 Frank Elegar Lokomotiv Kuban
2019 Vyacheslav Zaytsev Khimki Moscow
2020 Aleksandr Petenev Avtodor Saratov
2021 Tyus Battle Enisey
2022 Mario Hezonja[9] UNICS
2023 Samson Ruzhentsev Parma
2024 Jordan Skipper-Brown[10] Astana
2025 Vladislav Perevalov[11] Enisey

Three-point contest winners

Year Player Team
2017 Sergey Karasev Zenit Saint Petersburg
2018 Ryan Broekhoff Lokomotiv Kuban
2019 Vitaly Fridzon Lokomotiv Kuban
2020 Vitaly Fridzon (2) Lokomotiv Kuban
2021 Artem Komolov Nizhny Novgorod
2022 Billy Baron Zenit Saint Petersburg
2023 Dallas Moore CSKA
2024 Beau Beech Enisey
2025 Garrett Nevels Parma

Topscorers

Season Player Points Team
2017 Andrey Vorontsevich 28 PBC CSKA Moscow
2018 [12] Sergey Karasev 26 BC Zenit Saint Petersburg
2019 [13] Andrey Vorontsevich 30 PBC CSKA Moscow
2020 [14] Mike James 34 PBC CSKA Moscow
2021 [15] Vitaly Fridzon 57 BC Zenit Saint Petersburg
2022 [16] Mario Hezonja 29 UNICS Kazan
2023 [17] Andrey Martyuk 34 BC Zenit Saint Petersburg
2024 [18] DeVaughn Akoon-Purcell 44 Lokomotiv Kuban
2025 [19] DeVaughn Akoon-Purcell 22 UNICS Kazan

Players with most appearances

Player All-Star Editions MVP Notes
Nikita Kurbanov 7 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025 2025
Andrey Vorontsevich 7 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 2017
Dmitry Kulagin 5 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2024 -
Alexey Shved 4 2017, 2020, 2021, 2022 2020
Dmitry Khvostov 4 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 -
Vitaly Fridzon 4 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023 2021
Sergei Monia 4 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 -
Nando de Colo 2 2017, 2018 -

References

  1. ^ "Schedule released, includes first ever All-Star Game". Archived from the original on 2016-08-10. Retrieved 2016-08-11.
  2. ^ "2018 All-Star Game". vtb-league.
  3. ^ "2019 All-Star Game Rosters". vtb-league.
  4. ^ "2020 All-Star Game Rosters". vtb-league.
  5. ^ "2021 All-Star Game stats". vtb-league.
  6. ^ "2021 All-Star Game". vtb-league.
  7. ^ "2022 All-Star Game Rosters". vtb-league.
  8. ^ "2022 All-Star Game". eurobasket.com.
  9. ^ "2022 All-Star Game: Mario Hezonja win contest". eurohoops.
  10. ^ "Jordan Skipper-Brown won the KINOPOISK SLAM DUNK CONTEST at the All-Star Game 2024 | VTB United League - Official Website". vtb-league.com. Retrieved 14 April 2025.
  11. ^ "Vladislav Perevalov wins MATCH!TV Slam-Dunk Contest at the All-Star Game 2025 | VTB United League - Official Website". vtb-league.com. Retrieved 14 April 2025.
  12. ^ VTB 2017-18 - eurobasket.com
  13. ^ VTB 2018-19 - eurobasket.com
  14. ^ VTB 2019-20 - eurobasket.com
  15. ^ VTB 2020-21 - eurobasket.com
  16. ^ VTB 2021-22 - eurobasket.com
  17. ^ VTB 2022-23 - eurobasket.com
  18. ^ VTB 2023-24 - eurobasket.com
  19. ^ VTB 2024-25 - eurobasket.com