Niners Chemnitz

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Niners Chemnitz
Founded 1999
Hall Chemnitz Arena
(5200 seats)
Homepage www.chemnitz99.de
president Dr. Micaela Schönherr
executive Director Steffen Herhold
Trainer Rodrigo Pastore
league 2nd Bundesliga ProA
2019/20: 1st place
Colours Orange / dark red / white / black

The Niners Chemnitz are the first men's team of the basketball club "Niners Chemnitz eV" from Chemnitz , Saxony , Germany . The Saxons play ProA in the 2nd basketball league .

history

The association was created in 1999 as "BV Chemnitz 99" through the merger of the associations "BG Chemnitz" and "Lok Chemnitz". In 2001, BV Chemnitz 99 began a cooperation with the Technical University of Chemnitz , which is why "TU" was added to the name. In the summer of 2002, the men's (BV TU Chemnitz 99) and women's ( ChemCats ) areas were separated. From the 99 in the club name, the nickname Niners developed over the last few years for the first men's team.

In the meantime the cooperation with the Technical University of Chemnitz has been dissolved and since the 2007/08 season the association has been called "BV Chemnitz 99" again. In the run-up to the 2008/2009 season, the business operations of the Bundesliga team were spun off into a corporation (Niners Chemnitz GmbH). Then the right to participate in the ProA was transferred to that corporation.

The Niners have been playing in the 2nd Basketball Bundesliga South since the 2002/2003 season and took 6th place in the 03/04 season and 7th place in 04/05. In the 2005/2006 season, the Chemnitz team took 3rd place.

As 5th in the final table of the 2006/2007 season they qualified for the newly created single-track ProA. In the 2007/2008 season, the team only finished 15th in the table and was thus one of two athletic relegators to the 2nd Bundesliga ProB . However, since SOBA Dragons Rhöndorf returned their ProA license to AG 2. BBL at the end of the season, they were subsequently declared a technical relegation and the license was transferred to BV Chemnitz 99. Thus, the Niners could also compete in the ProA in the 2008/2009 season, which ended in 7th place in the table. The consolidation could be continued in the 2009/2010 season, which also ended for the Niners in 7th place in the table.

The 2010/2011 season saw the best result in the club's history. Chemnitz ended the season in third place and narrowly missed promotion to the basketball league . In the summer of 2011, Felix Schreier, then 22, was appointed as the new head coach. At the time, he was the youngest head coach in the history of ProA. Schreier replaced Torsten Loibl , who looked after the team from 2002 to 2006 as well as in 2008 and in the 2010/11 season. In 2011/2012 the club was able to finish the regular season in third place in the table and thus qualify for the playoffs, where they lost 3-1 to the Düsseldorf Baskets in the quarter-finals.

In the 2012/2013 season, the team achieved the worst placement since 2008 and only reached 10th place in the end. The playoffs as the season's goal were therefore missed. Starting in 2013, an anonymous sponsor will finance three full-time young trainers for the next ten years with the sum of one million euros. In the same year the NINERS Academy was founded as a youth center.

In 2013/2014, the Chemnitz team started with seven wins and only one defeat. Nevertheless, in the end it was only enough for eleventh place and the playoffs were missed again.

In the 2014/15 season, after a season opener with one win and four defeats in October, coach Schreier was parted, and his assistant Kai Buchmann was promoted to boss. In November 2014 the club was fined for violating a license requirement with regard to the financial plan on the part of the 2nd Bundesliga, which was lifted again in January 2015. In mid-March 2015 Buchmann's term of office ended, he was replaced after slipping to the relegation ranks by the American Pete Miller , who was to act as sports director from April. The Niners finally reached 13th place in the table.

Miller then switched to the post of sporting director as planned, and the Argentine Rodrigo Pastore was hired as the new head coach at the end of May 2015 . Under his leadership, the playoffs were reached again for the first time since 2012 thanks to seventh place in the table at the end of the point round in the 2015/2016 season. There they were defeated in the first round (quarter-finals) with 0: 3 wins to the eventual champions Jena.

In April 2017, the Saxons announced the commitment of Konstantin Lwowsky , who had previously worked for years in the youth and professional area of ​​the Bundesliga club Alba Berlin . In Chemnitz, Lwowsky took over the office of sports director. In the 2016/17 season they just missed promotion to the basketball Bundesliga  : In the semi-final series against Gotha, the Chemnitz-based company had two wins, another would have been enough for promotion. However, they lost the remaining three games and thus missed participation in the final and the move to the top German division.

In the 2018/19 season, the Saxons set a new club record when they won the first nine games of the season. In mid-November 2018, the association was in the press worldwide when Chancellor Angela Merkel attended a training session for two youth teams together with Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer and Lord Mayor Barbara Ludwig as part of a visit to Chemnitz on November 16, 2018 . The Saxons finished the 2018/19 points round as first in the table. In the semi-final series, the Saxons met Hamburg , where they had to admit defeat in the last and decisive game in their own hall with 72:78, thus missing the athletic promotion to the Bundesliga.

In the 2019/20 season, the team won 22 games in a row, setting a new league record before losing to Paderborn in early March 2020. At the time the 2019/20 season was canceled (due to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus ), the people of Chemnitz were in first place in the 2nd Bundesliga ProA, so they were granted the right to promotion to the Bundesliga. With an average of 3516 spectators per home game, the team posted the highest value in the league in 2019/20.

Squad

NINERS Chemnitz squad for the 2019/2020 season
Attention: The squad information is out of date!
(current season: 2020/2021)
player
No. Nat. Surname birth size info Last club
Guards ( PG , SG )
1 United StatesUnited States Chris Carter 05/07/1992 1.93 m SC Rasta Vechta
2 United StatesUnited States Terrell Harris 09/25/1993 1.93 m Rostock Seawolves
3 GermanyGermany Malte Ziegenhagen 04/08/1991 1.93 m (C)Captain of the crew medi bayreuth
4th United StatesUnited States Virgil Matthews 07/17/1983 1.91 m Nuremberg Falcons
Forwards ( SF , PF )
6th GermanyGermany Luis Figge 06/02/1997 1.97 m Basketball Löwen Braunschweig
7th GermanyGermany Jonas Richter 07/02/1997 2.05 m NINERS Academy
8th GermanyGermany Jan Niklas Wimberg 02/11/1996 2.06 m Polar bears Bremerhaven
9 GermanyGermany Dominique Johnson 08/04/1992 1.94 m PS Karlsruhe Lions
14th United StatesUnited States Ivan Elliott 03/11/1986 2.03 m MHP giant Ludwigsburg
15th GermanyGermany Leon Hoppe 05/01/2000 1.95 m DL NINERS Academy
Center ( C )
17th GermanyGermany Robin Lodders 11/30/1994 2.05 m ETB Wohnbau Baskets Essen
Trainer
Nat. Surname position
ArgentinaArgentina Rodrigo Pastore Head coach
ItalyItaly Francesco Briguglio Assistant coach
United StatesUnited States Steven Hutchinson Assistant coach
GermanyGermany Michael Wende Assistant coach
Legend
Abbr. meaning
(C)Captain of the crew Team captain
DL Double license
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Team homepage
League homepage
As of September 18, 2019

successes

  • 2001/2002 season - Promotion to the 2nd Basketball Bundesliga South
  • 2006/2007 season - qualification for the 2nd national basketball league - ProA
  • 2011/2012 season - qualification for the first playoffs in the ProA
  • 2015/2016 season - qualification for the playoffs in the ProA
  • 2018/2019 season - champions of the point round
  • 2019/2020 season - first in the table if the season is canceled

Coach chronicle

Term of office Surname
1999-2000 GermanyGermany Torsten Loibl
2000-2001 United StatesUnited States Colby Matney
2001-2002 United StatesUnited States Mike Taylor
2002-2006 GermanyGermany Torsten Loibl
2006–03 / 2007 United StatesUnited States Mike Smith
03/2007-04/2007 CroatiaCroatia Toni Radić
07/2007–11/2007 SpainSpain Mauricio Parra
11/2007–12/2007 GermanyGermany Jens Künze
12 / 2007-2008 United StatesUnited States Bill Magarity
2008–12 / 2008 GermanyGermany Torsten Loibl
01 / 2009-2010 FinlandFinland Anton Mirolybov
2010-2011 GermanyGermany Torsten Loibl
2011-10 / 2014 GermanyGermany Felix Schreier
10/2014–03/2015 GermanyGermany Kai Buchmann
03/2015–05/2015 United StatesUnited States Pete Miller
since 07/2015 ArgentinaArgentinaItalyItaly Rodrigo Pastore

Venue and fans

The club's cheerleaders

The Niners played their home games in the Richard-Hartmann-Halle in Chemnitz until 2019, which was opened on August 16, 2002 and offers space for 2,632 spectators (seats and standing). The construction costs amounted to around 10 million euros.

The statistics say that the games of BV Chemnitz 99 are among the most popular in the ProA. In the 2006/07 season, the previous record number of spectators in the Hartmannhalle in Chemnitz was achieved on January 6, 2007, when 3010 spectators flocked to the Richard-Hartmann-Halle for the East Derby against Science City Jena . In the 2011/12 season, around 2,600 people came to the hall for the game against FC Bayern Munich , which was the highest occupancy in many years.

On March 6, 2010, the first issue of NINERS360, the association's video magazine, was published. There are now over 100 issues that are produced by VideoVision GmbH in Chemnitz.

On December 19, 2015, the Niners played in the Chemnitz Arena for the first time . The game took place in front of a record crowd of 5,261 spectators. The Oettinger Rockets were able to prevail in the arena premiere with 79:62 against the Niners Chemnitz. From the 2019/20 season, the club will play its games in the Chemnitz Arena.

The Cheerleaders of the Niners are the Chemnitz Clovers.

Audience development in the 2nd BBL
season Average attendance /
home game
Hall
2002/03 1350 Richard Hartmann Hall
2003/04 1704
2004/05 1807
2005/06 1955
2006/07 1737
2007/08 1521
2008/09 1631
2009/10 1284
2010/11 1709
2011/12 1780
2012/13 1754
2013/14 1870
2014/15 1987
2015/16 1971
2016/17 2271
2017/18 2322
2018/19 2600
2019/20 3516 Chemnitz Arena

Outfitter

The official supplier of the Chemnitz company from 2007 to 2009 was Jako . In the 2009/2010 season Spalding outfitted the Niners. From 2010 to 2015 playing clothes as well as tracksuits, shooting shirts and other sporting goods were again provided by the Berlin company ISKAY, which had been a team supplier for many years before 2007. Owayo has been the supplier since summer 2015.

Honors

The Niners were awarded the Chemmy as “Team of the Year” in 2016, 2017 and 2018 by Chemnitz.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Chemnitzer Verlag und Druck GmbH & Co. KG: I'm not Torsten Loibl II. Accessed on January 27, 2017 .
  2. Basketball: Anonymous donation of millions for second division clubs
  3. 2. Basketball Bundesliga | NINERS CHEMNITZ leave head coach Felix Schreier on leave. Retrieved January 27, 2017 .
  4. 2. Basketball Bundesliga | Penalty NINERS CHEMNITZ as part of licensing 13/14. Retrieved April 1, 2017 .
  5. 2. Basketball Bundesliga | Penalty NINERS CHEMNITZ canceled. Retrieved April 1, 2017 .
  6. 2. Basketball Bundesliga | Pete Miller takes over NINERS coaching position from Kai Buchmann. Retrieved January 27, 2017 .
  7. 2. Basketball Bundesliga | NINERS CHEMNITZ - Rodrigo Pastore becomes the new head coach. Retrieved January 27, 2017 .
  8. Hat-trick against Chemnitz: Jena moves into the playoff semifinals - Jenaer Nachrichten . In: Jena news . ( jenaer-nachrichten.de [accessed on January 27, 2017]).
  9. NINERS Chemnitz - detail. Retrieved April 4, 2017 .
  10. DPA-RegiolineGeo: Basketball: Oettinger Rockets Gotha: Promotion in the Basketball Bundesliga. In: Focus Online . May 3, 2017, accessed October 14, 2018 .
  11. Chemnitz 99 - NINERS with a new club record. Retrieved November 18, 2018 .
  12. Stefan Locke: Among concerned citizens, in: FAZ No. 268, November 17, 2018, p. 2.
  13. Merkel's visit to Chemnitz - the Chancellor watches basketball . In: Deutschlandfunk . ( deutschlandfunk.de [accessed on November 18, 2018]).
  14. 2. Basketball Bundesliga | Table ProA. Retrieved March 30, 2019 .
  15. Liveticker: Niners miss a chance to get promoted to the basketball league | Free press - Chemnitz. Retrieved April 30, 2019 .
  16. ↑ The winning streak tears in Paderborn - Kirchheim in front of the chest. In: chemnitz99.de. Retrieved March 8, 2020 .
  17. BARMER 2. Basketball Bundesliga | Coronavirus: Game operations in the ProA and ProB will be ended prematurely. Retrieved March 18, 2020 .
  18. a b BARMER 2. Basketball Bundesliga | Audience numbers. Retrieved on March 18, 2020 (German).
  19. NINERS Chemnitz move into a new home. In: stadionwelt.de. August 16, 2019, accessed August 20, 2019 .
  20. Sport Chemmy has new owners. In: sachsen-fernsehen.de. March 12, 2017. Retrieved March 13, 2017 .
  21. Chemnitz athlete of the year honored with Chemmy. In: Freiepresse.de. May 4, 2019, accessed May 5, 2019 .