Basketball in Austria

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The sport of basketball is still a fringe sport in Austria and has not had any noteworthy successes in previous international comparative matches, either at association or club level. Basketball competitions have been played in Austria since 1936. The Austrian Basketball Association (ÖBV) was founded in 1948 and joined the international basketball association FIBA . The ÖBV has been a member of the European basketball league association ULEB since October 2002 , which includes 16 professional leagues .

National competitions

ABL, men's championship

The basketball league was introduced in the 1946/1947 season . The league was originally run by the Austrian Basketball Association, and has existed as a separate club since 1998.

Nine teams are currently participating in the Austrian Basketball Bundesliga (ABL). Three teams are currently from Styria ( UBSC Graz , Kapfenberg Bulls , Panthers Fürstenfeld ), two each from Upper Austria ( Gmunden , WBC Wels ) and Lower Austria ( Dukes Klosterneuburg , Traiskirchen Lions ) and one team each from Burgenland ( Oberwart Gunners ) and Vienna ( BC Vienna ). The men's basketball championship has been held since 1947. The record champions UBSC Vienna won the title 11 times. Since the 2008/09 season, the league has been known as the Admiral Basketball Bundesliga (ABL) after its main sponsor . The pay-TV channel Sky will broadcast one ABL game per round up to the 2018/19 season.

The teams from Kapfenberg and Gmunden have been the defining teams in the last 16 years with four title wins. The WBC Wels won the title for the first time in 2009. The Austrian Basketball Bundesliga supported the Movember campaign in November 2015 to collect donations for the research and prevention of prostate cancer and other health problems in men. Romed Vieider , Christoph Nagler, Terrence Ayree, Fabricio Vay or Paul Radakovics were among the players who had joined the campaign. The ABL invited all fans to follow suit. In April 2016, the Güssing Knights , the champions of the 2015/16 season, had their Bundesliga license withdrawn for financial reasons. Reigning champions are currently the Oberwart Gunners, who celebrated their second championship title after the 2011/12 season. In September 2016, reforms of the Bundesliga were presented, which Karl Schweitzer , President of the ABL, presented as pointing the way for Austrian basketball.

Since the 1996/97 season, an under-22 competition has been held parallel to the men's Bundesliga. After four championship titles in a row by the U22 team from Traiskirchen Lions , the Güssing Knights were able to secure the title for the first time in 2009 .

Cup competition

The Austrian Cup was first played in 1994. The cup has been named the Chevrolet Cup after its main sponsor Chevrolet since the 2004/05 season , in 2015 and 2016 the cup was named after the sponsor Flyeralarm, in the 2017 Crypto Market Cup. The Swans Gmunden (6) won the most cups, followed by the Oberwart Gunners with four cup wins. The reigning cup winners are the Kapfenberg Bulls, who achieved their third cup victory in 2017. In the Basketball Supercup , the Austrian basketball champion plays against the Austrian cup winner . The Supercup has been played since 2002. The Swans Gmunden have won the Supercup 7 times so far (Bulls Kapfenberg 3x, Dukes Klosterneuburg 2x and once each the Fürstenfeld Panthers, BC Vienna and WBSC Wels).

AWBL, women's championship

The Austrian women's basketball championship is played in the Austrian Women Basketball League (AWBL). After the preliminary round in Pool A + Pool B, the AH1 - Main Round 1 follows. The best four teams qualify for the play-off. The semi-finals and finals are each played in the "best of five" mode. In the 2016/17 season, six teams are playing for the women's championship. The defining team for the past ten years have been the Flying Foxes .

The women's second division will be played in three regional preliminary rounds (west, south, east) as well as a main round and a final four .

Title holder

Master of the Lords

The most successful teams are:

BC Vienna (2013), WBC Wels (2009), Panthers Fürstenfeld (2008), Basket Flyers Vienna (1992), Union Kuenring (1966), Wiener Sportklub (1951), Post SV Wien (1950) and Admira were each Austrian champion (1949), WAC (1947).

International competitions

World Championship and Olympic Games

The Austrian men's national team has never been able to qualify for a World Cup or Olympic Games since it was founded .

European Championship

The Austrian men's national team last took part in the finals of the European basketball championship in 1977 . The outstanding player at that time was Erich Tecka .

In the summer of 2006 and 2007 graduated from Austria the European Championship qualifier in 2007 in the Division B . The targeted promotion to Division A could not be achieved.

ULEB Euroleague

The ULEB Euroleague is the highest European competition with currently 24 participants. Austrian teams are not represented due to their insufficient strength.

Eurocup

The ULEB Eurocup is the second highest European competition. Austria was represented in Group E in the 2007/08 season by the reigning champions Allianz Swans Gmunden .
With 5 wins and 5 defeats the Swans reached the 3rd place in the group and thus the promotion to the 1/16 final. For Gmunden this meant the greatest international success in the club's history.

FIBA EuroChallenge

The third highest European competition is the FIBA EuroChallenge . In the seasons 2005/06 and 2008/09 which took Allianz Swans Gmunden part in this competition, but left each without a win in the first round off. The WBC Wels achieved three wins in the six preliminary round games in the 2009/10 season , but that was not enough for promotion.

In the 2013/14 season , BC Vienna was allowed to try its hand at the EuroChallenge . After just one win, it was also the last stop for the Viennese in the preliminary round.

The greatest success of an Austrian team in the Euro Challenge could Güssing Knights in the season 2014/15 retract. The Güssing Knights finished their first round group after 2 victories over Universitatea Cluj from Romania and Atomerőmű SE from Hungary on the second place behind Trabzonspor in Turkey and qualified by the second round. There they got to do with Uşak Sportif again with a Turkish team. The other teams in the group were Le Mans Sarthe Basket and JSF Nanterre from the strong French league . The Knights finally finished the group after two home wins over Le Mans and Uşak Sportif in 3rd place and were eliminated from the competition, with the last group game against Nanterre still having the opportunity to qualify for the quarter-finals with a win. However, the game was lost with 62:82.

Easter tournament

Basketball Vienna , also known as the Easter tournament, is an important international youth basketball tournament that has been held annually in Vienna over Easter since April 1990.

Basketball in the Austrian media

Basketball plays a subordinate role in the Austrian mass media . Daily newspapers report on games in the men's (ABL) and women's (AWBL) Bundesliga. The pay-TV channel Sky will broadcast one ABL game per round up to the 2018/19 season.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of the Flying Foxes SVS Post. In: www.flyingfoxes.at. Retrieved March 7, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Austria at FIBA , accessed on February 26, 2017.
  3. ↑ Teams of the Austrian Basketball Bundesliga season 2016/17. In: www.oebl.at. Retrieved February 26, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Vinzenz Winter: Start of the ADMIRAL Basketball Bundesliga with many innovations. (No longer available online.) In: www.oebl.com. Archived from the original on February 27, 2017 ; accessed on February 26, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.oebl.at
  5. ↑ Austrian League joins Movember campaign (english). In: www.uleb.com. Retrieved February 26, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Christopher Käferle: magnofit Güssing Knights license is withdrawn. (No longer available online.) In: www.oebl.at. Archived from the original on October 13, 2016 ; accessed on February 26, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.oebl.at
  7. ↑ It is done! The Redwell Gunners are champions again! In: www.gunners.at. Retrieved February 26, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Vinzenz Winter: Start of the ADMIRAL Basketball Bundesliga with many innovations. (No longer available online.) In: www.oebl.at. Archived from the original on February 27, 2017 ; accessed on February 26, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.oebl.at
  9. ↑ The FLYERALARM CUP is now being played in the ABL! (No longer available online.) In: www.oebl.at. Archived from the original on March 16, 2017 ; accessed on March 16, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / oebl.at
  10. ↑ Vinzenz Winter: CRYPTO MARKET CUP FINAL-4 IN OBERWART. (No longer available online.) In: www.oebl.at. Archived from the original on March 16, 2017 ; accessed on March 16, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / oebl.at
  11. ^ History of the cup winners. (No longer available online.) In: www.oebl.at. Archived from the original on March 16, 2017 ; accessed on March 16, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / oebl.at
  12. ↑ Christopher Käferle: ece bulls Kapfenberg are cup winners 2017. (No longer available online.) In: www.oebl.at. Archived from the original on March 27, 2017 ; accessed on March 26, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / oebl.at
  13. ↑ The previous winners of the Supercup. (No longer available online.) In: www.oebl.at. Archived from the original on May 14, 2017 ; accessed on March 16, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / oebl.at
  14. ^ Austrian Women Basketball League. In: www.awbl.at. Retrieved March 7, 2017 .
  15. ↑ AWBL teams in the 2016/17 season. In: www.awbl.at. Retrieved March 7, 2017 .
  16. ↑ History of the AWBL Champions. In: www.awbl.at. Retrieved March 7, 2017 .
  17. ↑ Homepage ABL, Master List of Men ( Memento of the original from March 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 7, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.oebl.at
  18. ↑ Vinzenz Winter: Start of the ADMIRAL Basketball Bundesliga with many innovations. (No longer available online.) In: www.oebl.com. Archived from the original on February 27, 2017 ; accessed on February 26, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.oebl.at

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