The Olympic Champion and former CSKA player Valeriy Tikhonenko took the Head Coach position in summer and started the formation of a new roster.
The Moscow team has signed the NBA-experienced American guard Rusty LaRue and the Latvian guard Juris Umbrasko. Members of the Russian National Team Andrei Fetisov and Nikita Morgunov have also joined the Russian Champions as well as experienced American center Roy Rogers.
However there will be some familiar faces in the line-up. The Lithuanian center Gintaras Einikis, who won the Bronze Medal in Sydney Olympics and the Croatian guard Vladan Alanovic have extended their contracts. The new Russian basketball's sensation Andrei Kirilenko has also decided to stay in CSKA for at least one more year, though Utah Jazz scouts have kept inviting him to the NBA.

One of the oldest clubs in Russia CSKA was founded in 1924.
Starting with the first title of the Soviet Union Champions in 1945, CSKA was always among the leaders and dominated in the Soviet Union by winning 27 times from 1945 up to 1992 (till the Russian Superleague was founded).
Since 1992 CSKA has been winning the streak by taking 8 titles in a row and has never lost the Superleague Championship series. The club also won European Champions Cup for four times (the latest one in 1971). Over the years the club has brought up a number of the Olympic and World Champions, such as Sergei Kovalenko, Sergei Belov, Alexander Volkov, Sergei Tarakanov, Victor Pankrashkin, Igor Miglinieks and many others.