Basketball Bundesliga 2019/20

Basketball Bundesliga 2019/20
Duration		September 24, 2019 - June 28, 2020
Order of execution		54th season
organizer		BBL GmbH
Number of teams		initially 17, later 10
Main round
Play-offs
German champions		Alba Berlin
Runner-up		MHP giant Ludwigsburg
Finals - MVP		Marcos Knight
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ProA 2019/20 ↓

The Basketball Bundesliga season 2019/20 (officially easyCredit Basketball Bundesliga ) was the 54th season of the top German division in men's basketball . The league began on September 24, 2019 with the 1st match day and ended after a Corona- related interruption with subsequent change of its operation to a tournament mode on June 28, 2020.

General

• With the Hamburg Towers only one team rose to the top division. The Nürnberg Falcons BC , who were also athletically qualified, were refused a license for the highest German division due to the lack of economic performance and a venue that did not meet the league requirements. This means that only 17 teams played in the first basketball league in the 2019/20 season.
• As in the previous season, all league games and the games in the new cup mode were broadcast by Magenta Sport ( live and on-demand ).
• Again there was an international break .
• An All-Star-Day did not take place in the 2019/20 season due to the tight schedule.
• On March 12, 2020, the season was completely suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic . This presented many of the clubs with existence-threatening difficulties, as the income is mainly based on the ticket sales. At the beginning of May 2020, Munich was selected as the venue for the season-end tournament. Ten teams announced that they wanted to take part in the tournament. The ending of the previously interrupted main round was waived, the relegation rule was suspended.

International competitions

This season, two German teams competed in the EuroLeague , Berlin and Munich .

competition	German participants
EuroLeague 2019/20	FC Bayern Munich , Alba Berlin
EuroCup 2019/20	ratiopharm Ulm , EWE Baskets Oldenburg
Basketball Champions League 2019/20	Brose Bamberg , SC Rasta Vechta , Telekom Baskets Bonn (qualification)
FIBA Europe Cup 2019/20	Medi Bayreuth

Teams

Brose Bamberg medi bayreuth Alba Berlin Telekom Baskets Bonn Löwen Braunschweig Hamburg Towers HAKRO Merlins Crailsheim Fraport Skyliners Casting 46ers BG Göttingen Central German BC MHP giant Ludwigsburg FC Bayern Munich EWE Baskets Oldenburg ratiopharm ulm RASTA Vechta s.Oliver Würzburg

Teams of the Basketball Bundesliga 2019/20

team	city	Hall	Places
Brose Bamberg	Bamberg	Brose Arena	6,150
Medi Bayreuth	Bayreuth	Upper Franconia Hall	3,300
Alba Berlin	Berlin	Mercedes-Benz Arena	14,500
Telekom Baskets Bonn	Bonn	Telekom Dome	6,000
Löwen Braunschweig	Braunschweig	Volkswagen hall	3,603
Crailsheim Merlins	Crailsheim	Arena Hohenlohe	3,200
Fraport Skyliners	Frankfurt a. M.	Fraport Arena	5,002
Casting 46ers	to water	Gießen-Ost sports hall	3,752
BG Göttingen	Goettingen	Sparkassen-Arena	3,447
Hamburg Towers	Hamburg	Edel-optics.de arena	3,400
MHP giant Ludwigsburg	Ludwigsburg	MHPArena	4,200
FC Bayern Munich	Munich	Audi Dome	6,594
EWE Baskets Oldenburg	Oldenburg	EWE Arena	6,200
ratiopharm ulm	Ulm	Ratiopharm Arena	6,200
SC Rasta Vechta	Vechta	Rasta Dome	3,140
Central German basketball club	Weissenfels	Weißenfels town hall	3,000
s.Oliver Würzburg	Wurzburg	s.Oliver Arena	3,140

table

The following parts of this section seem since May 20, 2020 out of date to be : Playoffs are already or is already the master fixed?
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	= Play-off places (places 1 to 8)
	= Relegation place (place 17)

• In the event of a tie, the direct comparison decides
• Status: March 15, 2020
• in brackets: M = champions of the previous season / P = cup winners of the previous season / A = promoted players for this season / T = tournament participation

# team Victories Defeats Points baskets 1 FC Bayern Munich (M, T) 19th 2 38: 4 1788: 1555 2 MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg (T) 17th 4th 34: 8 1816: 1655 3 HAKRO Merlins Crailsheim (T) 15th 6th 30:12 1890: 1772 4th Alba Berlin (T) 14th 5 28:10 1774: 1551 5 EWE Baskets Oldenburg (T) 13 7th 26:14 1687: 1663 6th SC Rasta Vechta (T) 12 9 24:18 1695: 1718 7th Brose Bamberg (P, T) 12 9 24:18 1734: 1648 8th s.Oliver Würzburg 11 10 22:20 1755: 1785 9 BG Göttingen (T) 11 10 22:20 1727: 1788 10 ratiopharm Ulm (T) 10 10 20:20 1748: 1709 11 Löwen Braunschweig 9 11 18:22 1791: 1831 12 medi Bayreuth 9 12 18:24 1811: 1811 13 Casting 46ers 6th 14th 12:28 1694: 1785 14th Fraport Skyliners (T) 6th 15th 12:30 1579: 1692 15th Telekom Baskets Bonn 4th 16 8:32 1687: 1824 16 Central German BC 3 17th 6:34 1791: 1949 17th Hamburg Towers (A) 3 17th 6:34 1624: 1855

Web links

• easyCredit Basketball Bundesliga - Website of the Basketball Bundesliga
• Magenta Sport / Basketball - Homepage of the BBL streaming portal at Telekom Entertain

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Due to the restrictions in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic , game operations were interrupted in March 2020 and resumed in June in a modified form in a tournament mode with only 10 teams.
2. ↑ Niklas Benter: Basketball Bundesliga also paused. In: NWZ Online. March 13, 2020, accessed March 15, 2020 . 
3. ^ Anne Armbrecht and Marco Fuchs: The basketball team is about existence. In: Spiegel.de. March 11, 2020, accessed March 15, 2020 . 
4. ↑ easyCredit - PM venue. Retrieved May 7, 2020 . 
5. ↑ easyCredit - PM season continuation. Retrieved May 7, 2020 . 
6. ↑ From Bayern game EWE Arena with 6,200 seats. Retrieved October 3, 2019 .