Basketball Bundesliga
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| Full name | easyCredit Basketball Bundesliga |
| Current season | 2019/20 |
| sport | basketball |
| abbreviation | BBL |
| Association | DBB , BBL GmbH, AG BBL e. V. |
| League foundation | 1966 |
| Teams | 17 (for the first time not 18, since 2006/07) |
| Title holder | Alba Berlin (9th title) |
| Record champions | Bayer Giants Leverkusen (14 titles) |
| TV partner | Telekom Entertain & Sport1 |
| Website | easycredit-bbl.de |
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The Basketball Bundesliga ( BBL ), the official sponsorship name of easyCredit Basketball Bundesliga ( easyCredit BBL ) since 2016 , is the top division in German men's basketball . It was founded in November 1964 by decision of the German Basketball Federation (DBB) and introduced for the 1966/67 season . A German men's basketball championship was played as early as 1939 and between 1947 and 1966 .
In the Bundesliga, a main round is first played in the league system , in which each of the 18 clubs competes against every other club in home and return matches. Then the eight best clubs play off the German basketball champions in play-offs . The last two teams are relegated to the ProA , which has been the second highest division below the Bundesliga since 2007.
The Bayer Giants Leverkusen , who dominated the 1970s and 1990s in particular, are the record champions with 14 titles . The current master is Alba Berlin .
history
Prehistory and foundation (1939–1966)
A German basketball championship was played for the first time in 1939 in a two-day tournament between the four best of the 19 Gaumeisters in Hamburg . The Air Force Sports Club Spandau became the first German basketball champion . During the Second World War , however, basketball operations largely ceased and did not resume until 1947, when Wolfgang Kraft founded the “German Central Committee for Basketball” working group. In the same year the first post-war champion, MTSV Schwabing , was chosen in occupied post-war Germany with the support of the American armed forces . At the same time, the forerunner of the German Basketball Federation (DBB), the "Society for the Promotion of Basketball" was founded, which took the place of the working group. The top division was the four-division league (divided into the seasons North , West , Southwest , and South ), whose champions played in a final round for the German championship. The game was severely disrupted by the restricted freedom of movement and staff worries: Officially, you were not allowed to cross the borders of the occupation zones without a permit and many teams were dependent on foreign, e.g. Latvian and Lithuanian , players who gradually returned to their homeland. The first championships were marked by the dominance of southern German teams: almost all champions between 1947 and 1962 came from Heidelberg , Munich or Stuttgart . The USC Heidelberg became the first series champion of German basketball with six championships won in a row. Only ATV Düsseldorf succeeded in breaking this early southern German dominance in 1956 with a final victory over USC Heidelberg.
The impetus for a professionalized competition was given by the chairman of the DBB's Chamber, Günter Hüffmann, with an urgent motion to the DBB Bundestag on May 23, 1964. The then DBB President Hans-Joachim Höfig also called for a league reform in the form of a Bundesliga . At the following extraordinary Bundestag in November 1964, the start of the Bundesliga was rejected as early as the 1965/66 season (34 votes in favor to 75 votes against with 19 abstentions) because the financial and organizational framework conditions were considered too uncertain for many clubs. In principle, they agreed on the establishment of a two-part Bundesliga (113 votes in favor, 15 abstentions): In the Season North should ten clubs from the top leagues North and West , in the Season South ten clubs from the top leagues Southwest and South play. Each top division was awarded five places in the Bundesliga. At the Bundestag in June 1965 it was finally decided that the order of placement in the previous league seasons was decisive for the qualification of the Bundesliga.
The first years (1966–1975)
The first season of 1966/67 began on October 1, 1966, three years after the German Bundesliga was founded . In the 1966/67 season, a DBB cup competition was also established. In the first final of the basketball Bundesliga, MTV 1846 Gießen , led by the Hungarian Laszlo Lakfalvi , beat VfL Osnabrück with 85:73 and thus became the first BBL champions. The newly founded league was subsequently well received by clubs, players and spectators: In the finale of the 1967/68 season between MTV Gießen and VfL Osnabrück, a new edition of last year's final , 2,000 spectators saw Gießen defend its championship title (79: 69). The dominant players in the Giessen team were Holger Geschwindner , Klaus Jungnickel and Bernd Röder . The introduction of a single-track Bundesliga was rejected by a large majority at the DBB Bundestag in 1968.
In the following season there were numerous staff absences , especially in the southern season , which is why the Heidelberg trainer Hannes Neumann even had to act as player-trainer at times . For the third time in a row, Gießen and Osnabrück faced each other in the final. Osnabrück, however, denied the Hessen the third championship in a row (76:69) and won the German championship as the second club in BBL history. At the same time, this season also represented a turning point, as TuS 04 Leverkusen, a club that was promoted to the Bundesliga, which should be one of the most successful clubs in German basketball history. Already in the first season the Rhinelander achieved second place in the north table. Only the Giessen could stop them in the semi-finals. But already in the 1969/70 season , the team managed by Günter Hagedorn and the newly signed national players Jochen Pollex and Norbert Thimm to beat the Giessener in the final (76:73) and celebrate the first championship. This was achieved within a perfect season , without a single defeat. By winning the cup in the same year, the first double in German basketball history was won. In the following two seasons, the “Giant from the Rhine” won the championship for themselves, again in 1971 together with the trophy; In 1972 the DBB forbade the Leverkusenern to play in the cup due to their dominance. In contrast to this success story, there are clubs that had to withdraw from gaming operations in the early stages of the league due to financial and organizational difficulties (ATV Düsseldorf 1970; PSV Grünweiß Frankfurt 1971). The 1972/73 season should be more balanced again: Leverkusen, weakened by the departure of their top performers Pollex ( SSV Hagen ) and Thimm ( Real Madrid ), were eliminated in the semifinals against eventual champions USC Heidelberg. This won the final series against MTV Gießen only by a narrow margin. The first leg ended in a draw 70:70, and the second leg had to go into extra time, until Heidelberg finally triumphed 71:70.
In 1974, the Bundestag in Cologne resolved to introduce the single-track Bundesliga with just three votes against. At the same time, the two-part 2. Bundesliga, with ten teams each, was to serve as a professional base from the 1975/76 season . In fact, the single-track Bundesliga was already adopted by a large majority at an ordinary Bundestag in 1969, and a newly introduced regional league was to be introduced as an intermediate league . However, the Hessian Basketball Association submitted an urgent motion to the Bundestag in 1970, whereby the two-part Bundesliga was retained and the Oberliga continued to represent the second highest division. In May 1971, the Regionalliga was introduced, the Oberliga was from now on only the third division.
An application for approval of jersey advertising , as allowed in the Bundesliga since 1973 and explicitly prohibited in the BBL since 1968, was granted in 1974, but advertising was banned again in 1975. There were two premieres in the 1973/74 season: On the one hand, SSV Hagen celebrated its first championship, and on the other hand, there was the BBL's first coaching dismissal in Heidelberg with the kicking out of master coach Dick Stewart . The last season of the two-part Bundesliga was won again by MTV Giessen.
Professionalization (1975–1989)
In 1975 the single-track 1st Bundesliga and the two-tier 2nd Bundesliga started. In the same year, the DBB signed a contract with the European Professional Basketball League . With the Munich Eagles, Germany provided a team in this competition that was discontinued after only one season.
The Bundesliga was still very popular: a total of over 100,000 spectators attended the 90 games of the 1975/76 season , the games of 1. FC Bamberg were attended by an average of 2,000 fans per game, and almost 2,500 people stayed for the last game of the season against Leverkusen ASV Cologne . In the following years no club was able to gain dominance. With USC Heidelberg ( 1977 ), VfL Osnabrück ( 1978 ), Leverkusen ( 1979 ) and SSC Göttingen ( 1980 ), four different clubs won the championship in four years. In 1980, USC Heidelberg was the first Bundesliga champion to descend from the BBL.
This was an indication of a generation change in the league. Dominating players like Pollex, Thimm or Gießen's Hans Georg Heß ended their careers and paved the way for new players and clubs. In 1981 and 1982 the BSC Saturn Cologne was able to outdo the competition and take the championship shield. In the following season, the Cologne team was aiming for the third championship in a row: Sponsored by the entrepreneur Friedrich Wilhelm Waffenschmidt , a record budget of 500,000 DM was raised , seven German national players were in the squad. Nevertheless, the ASC Göttingen managed to pass the final round and celebrate the second championship. In 1984 the final was repeated directly. Again the Lower Saxony went out of the hall as winners. Until the end of the decade, the championships were characterized by the three-way battle between Leverkusen, Cologne and Bayreuth . Initially, Leverkusen, which was now sponsored by Bayer AG , was able to build on its old success and secure the championships in 1985 and 1986 . The title then went to Cologne in 1987 and 1988 , until finally the BG Bayreuth became champions for the first time in 1989 and brought the championship to southern Germany for the first time since 1977.
The end of the 1980s have also had initial success in the European Cup German Bundesliga: Cologne occupied in FIBA Europe Champions Cup in 1988 to sixth place, Leverkusen reached in the same year the semifinals of the FIBA Europe Cup Winners' Cup .
Leverkusen and Berlin dominance (1989-2003)
The first half of the 90s was determined by the Bayer Giants Leverkusen, the "giants from the Rhine", under coach Dirk Bauermann : between 1990 and 1996 the club won seven German championships in a row (more than any club before) and was four times successful in the cup. Two of the championships ( 1992 and 1994 ) go without a single defeat during the play-offs. This makes Leverkusen the most successful German basketball team with three play-off sweeps (the first in 1970), a total of 14 championships and 10 cup wins. On the 13th match day of the 1996/97 season Mike Jackel from TTL Bamberg scored his 10,000 point. To date, he leads the BBL's scorer list with 10,783 points.
After reunification in 1990, it was also important to integrate the clubs from the former GDR major league into the nationwide game operations. Similar to the clubs of the former football and handball top leagues , the initial idea was to integrate the best clubs of the German Basketball Association into the Bundesliga. However, this idea was discarded after the second half of the round HSG TU Magdeburg lost significantly to the bottom of the Bundesliga in the 1989/90 season , TV Langen . Magdeburg and the BSG AdW Berlin (as a syndicate with the Berlin Turnerschaft ) were accordingly integrated into the 2nd basketball league in 1991/92 , the remaining GDR upper division into the respective regional leagues .
The national dominance of Leverkusen was followed seamlessly by the rise of another club: Alba Berlin . The club, which has belonged to the league as DTV Charlottenburg or BG Charlottenburg since 1981 and has had the name of the main sponsor Alba Group in the club name since 1991 , was already at the top of the national league in previous years (vice championships 1985 , 1991 , 1992 , 1995 and 1996 ) and played in the Korać Cup since 1990 . In 1995 , the club succeeded in winning this competition as the first German club, which was also the first ever European Cup victory for a German team. So it was Berlin that broke Leverkusen's dominance in 1997 with a double win. Until 2003 , the Albatross won every German championship and thus set the Leverkusen record of seven consecutive championships. At the same time, they won the German Cup three more times (1999, 2002 and 2003).
The south dominates (since 2003)
The winning streak of the Berliners ended abruptly in the 2003/04 season when they were eliminated in the semi-finals of the play-offs against GHP Bamberg . Bamberg, on the other hand, lost to the Skyliners Frankfurt in the final in an exciting series of finals: In the first four games, no club was able to win their home games until the Frankfurters finally won the fifth game in their own hall. In the same season, the Mitteldeutsche Basketball Club won the FIBA Europe Cup Men , which was the second European title win by a German team. In the following season there was a repetition of the composition in the BBL final. This time both teams were able to win all their home games - Bamberg won the first championship in the club's history. In the following four years the championship went to four different teams: RheinEnergie Cologne ( 2006 ), Bamberg ( 2007 ), Alba Berlin ( 2008 ) and EWE Baskets Oldenburg ( 2009 ). Bamberg then rose to the absolute top of the national league: between 2010 and 2017 they won seven championships, four of which were doubles ( 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2017 ). In the same period, two other German teams won (lower-class) European competitions: BG Göttingen won the EuroChallenge ( 2010 ) and the Fraport Skyliners won the FIBA Europe Cup ( 2016 ).
Bamberg's championship series could only be interrupted by FC Bayern Munich , a founding member of the league and, since 2011, the Bundesliga club again. In 2014 the team won the first championship in the club's history. In 2018 and 2019 , Bayern were able to win the championship. Commentators saw Bayern's sporting and financial dominance as the “dawning of a new era” and an emerging dominance in the league. In the 2018/19 season , the newly promoted SC Rasta Vechta caused a special surprise when they secured home rights in the play-offs and only failed in the semi-finals against Munich. At the European level, Alba Berlin ( EuroCup ), Brose Bamberg ( Champions League ) and S.Oliver Würzburg ( FIBA Europe Cup ) each reached the final or final tournament of their competition, but one title was not achieved. After the end of the season in which the Eisbären Bremerhaven and Science City Jena were relegated, the Nürnberg Falcons, who had risen in sport, were refused their license. An appeal by the club before the BBL arbitration tribunal was unsuccessful, which is why the 2019/20 season will be held for the first time with only 17 teams. No use was made of the opening of a wildcard process with which the league could have been increased.
In the time since the beginning of the 21st century , audience interest in the Bundesliga has increased. While in the 2004/05 season there were still almost 3400 spectators per game, in 2016/17 it was over 4500. The clubs’s financial strength also increased between 2005 and 2015 by 187 percent to 97 million euros . In contrast, the number of clubs that had to relegate from the league due to financial problems increased. Both traditional clubs such as Brandt Hagen (2004), the German record champions Bayer Giants Leverkusen (2008), the last remaining BBL founding member Gießen 46ers (2013), the Artland Dragons (2015) or Phoenix Hagen (2017) and "newer" teams such as the Mitteldeutsche BC (2004), the Giants Nördlingen or the Cologne 99ers (both 2009) were affected by this.
Mode and Orientation
Game mode
A Bundesliga season begins on July 1st and ends on June 30th, with games usually running from the end of September to the beginning of June. A season is divided into several sub-competitions: During the main round , the 18 Bundesliga clubs play against each other in a round trip. The eight best-placed league participants in the main round (in the event of a tie, the direct comparison counts first, then the total basket ratio) qualify for a play-off section. The play-offs are played in best-of-five mode, the better-placed team in the main round receives home rights in the first, third and (possibly) fifth game. The winners of the first and second play-off rounds will eventually advance to the final round. The team that is the first to achieve three wins there becomes German champions and is first place of the season, while the losing team is runner-up and runner-up. The last two teams placed in the main round are determined to be relegated to the ProA , while the ProA champion and runner-up are allowed to move up to the BBL.
The game mode was subject to sometimes drastic changes. In the first season of 1966/67 , 10 teams each, divided into two divisions North and South, first played in the league system, which was followed by the play-offs (semi-finals best-of-three , finals as a single game) of the two best clubs. The two worst-placed clubs in each group relegated to the regional league (then the second highest league). So it was played until the 1969/70 season. The 1970/71 season was a sharp break, as the last four clubs automatically relegated in the course of a league downsizing. At the same time, an intermediate round (in two groups) was created for the four best-placed clubs in each group, and the winners of the intermediate round then played the German championship in best-of-three mode . From the 1971/72 season only 8 teams played in the two groups. Once again, the two worst-placed teams were relegated and the four best-placed clubs competed in the intermediate round. The two best-placed clubs in each group in the intermediate round then played the semi-finals and final of the championship. In the 1973/74 season , the relegation mode was changed, the four worst-placed clubs in each group now competed in a relegation round to avoid relegation.
The next big reform was the introduction of the single-track Bundesliga 1975/76 , which lasted for the next 15 years. Initially, the league consisted of 10 clubs, the two last places were automatically relegated to the new 2nd basketball league , the first place in the league became champions. From the following season there were relegation rounds again, in which in the first year of the introduction, in addition to the four worst-placed Bundesliga teams, the best-placed second division teams in each group took part, and final rounds for the German championship. In the final rounds, the six best clubs in the main round played again in the league for the German championship. While initially the best placed team in the intermediate round was champions, a final game between first and second placed was introduced in 1982/83 . For the 1983/84 season a geographically divided intermediate round was introduced, the two best teams of which competed against each other in two play-off rounds. In 1985/86 the league was increased to 12 teams and a play-off series of the eight best-placed teams was introduced.
In 1990 they returned to the two-part Bundesliga in the groups North and South . Six teams played in each group. The best four clubs in each group then played in play-offs for the German championship, the worst two in each group together in playdowns for relegation. In the 1995/96 season there was another switch to the single-track Bundesliga, which was also increased to 14 clubs. In 1998 the play-off mode was changed: now the twelve best-placed teams played against each other, whereby the four best-placed clubs in the main round were automatically set for the second round. This mode was abandoned in 1999 and the previous mode was reverted to. From the 2003/04 season , 16 teams took part in the basketball Bundesliga. The increase was carried out with a wildcard rule, in which the two best second division clubs rose regularly, but no club had to relegate to the second national leagues. In this season, the relegation round was also abolished, the two worst clubs in the main round were now relegated automatically. For the 2006/07 season the number of participants was increased to 18 teams; as in 2003 there was a wildcard rule. At the same time the 2nd Bundesliga was reformed, the ProA and ProB now formed the substructure of the first division.
The point system used to determine the table in league games has also been changed again and again. In the early years of the league, a win 2-0, a defeat 0-2 and a draw 1-1 gave points. There was no extension at that time and was only introduced in 1975 together with the single-track Bundesliga. This rule remained stable for a long time until it was changed in the 2009/10 season . The previously empty losing team was now credited one point, the winning team two points as before. However, due to strong criticism, this regulation was lifted from the 2011/12 season .
Rules and Referees
Games in the BBL are played according to the official FIBA rules and rule changes are included in the rules. For example , the three-point line was introduced in 1984/85 . For the 2014/15 season , video evidence , the Instant Replay System (IRS), was introduced, with the help of which referees can check contentious scenes directly on screens.
A game in the BBL is led by three referees and a commissioner. To lead a Bundesliga game, a referee requires a level A referee license and must have been appointed to the A-team. The public announcement of which trio of referees will whistle for a game is only made shortly before the start of the game in order to prevent the clubs from exerting influence. In contrast to soccer referees, with the exception of Robert Lottermoser, all BBL referees are amateurs who only receive an allowance for the whistle of the games. So far there have been a total of four female referees in the BBL: Silvia Otto (1974–1982), Petra Kremer (2006–2011), Anne Panther (for the first time in 2009, regularly since 2011) and Danjana Rey (since 2018). The performance of the referees during the games is assessed by 10 referee coaches. After the games, they go through the game with the referees and discuss the work in the team and the individual performance of the referees with them.
Admission requirements
In order to be granted a license that entitles the holder to participate in the basketball league, sporting, economic and structural requirements must be met. The most important are (status: 2017/18 season ):
- Athletic qualification via the ProA
- Budget of at least 2 million euros (one-off 1.6 million euros for newcomers)
- Venue with a capacity of at least 3,000 seats
- Youth program in accordance with the youth promotion guidelines of the BBL (e.g. participation in the youth basketball league and youth basketball league )
Over the years, the demands on the clubs have gradually increased. Before the 2017/18 season, there was a minimum budget of 1 million euros; from the 2019/20 season onwards , all clubs, including promoted clubs, must have a budget of at least 3 million euros.
Organizer and name sponsoring
| Period | Name designation |
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| 1966-1992 | Basketball Bundesliga |
| 1992-1997 | Veltins Basketball Bundesliga |
| 1997-2000 | Basketball Bundesliga |
| 2000-2003 | s.Oliver Basketball Bundesliga |
| 2003-2009 | Basketball Bundesliga |
| 2009-2016 | Beko Basketball Bundesliga |
| 2016– | easyCredit Basketball Bundesliga |
Until the 1997/98 season , the Bundesliga was organized directly by the German Basketball Association (DBB), before Basketball Bundesliga GmbH, founded in 1996, took over the organization. The clubs hold 74% and the DBB 26% in the company. In 2011, the league and clubs jointly developed a model in which the goals for the further development of the league were set. Accordingly, the league should become more professional and attractive and be the best league in Europe by 2020.
Since 1992, companies have repeatedly appeared as name sponsors of the league. It all started with the Veltins Brewery , which gave the league its name in 1992, but terminated the contract without notice in September 1996, as it had been proven for the company that individual clubs had violated the competition clause. Between 2000 and 2003 the league operated as the s.Oliver Basketball Bundesliga , after which it remained without a sponsor for a few years. It was not until 2009 that Beko Germany secured the naming rights to the league. The league has been called easyCredit Basketball Bundesliga since 2016 . The current name sponsorship contract runs until the 2020/21 season .
Logo of the BBL from 2003 to 2009
Logo of the BBL from 2010 to 2014
Logo of the BBL from 2014 to 2016
societies
Previous clubs in the Basketball Bundesliga
A total of 82 clubs (as of the 2018/19 season ) have played in the basketball Bundesliga so far, some under different names. A complete list can be found in the article List of German basketball teams . At the moment, the Gießen 46ers are the longest- serving team in the league with 51 seasons in the upper house, while the Rockets from Gotha (promotion to the 2017/18 season ) represent the league's youngest addition. The only clubs that were founding members of the Bundesliga in the 1966/67 season and still (or again) play in the BBL are the Gießen 46ers, FC Bayern Munich and EWE Baskets Oldenburg .
Many of the Bundesliga clubs come from university cities that often do not have high-quality teams in other sports or were located near American military bases , such as. B. Bamberg , Giessen or Würzburg . For this reason, a large part of the Bundesliga clubs came from smaller cities; The TV Kirchheimbolanden comes with Kirchheimbolanden , a health resort near Kaiserslautern with almost 8000 inhabitants, from the smallest community to date. In contrast, there are clubs from major cities such as Alba Berlin , the Skyliners Frankfurt or the basketball department of FC Bayern Munich . The largest cities that have not yet provided a Bundesliga team include Leipzig , Bremen and Dresden . With five independent teams, Düsseldorf has so far provided the largest number of Bundesliga clubs, followed by Munich with four.
For the 2018/19 season, most Bundesliga clubs are concentrating on central Germany and Franconia as well as southern Germany . With Science City Jena and Central German BC , two clubs from the area of the former GDR play in the Bundesliga (only the wolves from Weißenfels and their predecessor club SSV Einheit Weißenfels , however, played in the GDR upper league , while the club was founded in Jena in the 90s lag). At the same time, this season, with the Telekom Baskets from Bonn, only one club comes from North Rhine-Westphalia .
No Bundesliga team has come from four federal states: Brandenburg , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Saarland and Schleswig-Holstein .
Clubs of the Bundesliga season 2020/21
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Teams of the Basketball Bundesliga 2020/21
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Titles and honors
Bundesliga champions
The German champions have been determined by the basketball league since the 1966/67 season . In the 54 Bundesliga seasons to date, a total of 14 different clubs have won the championship title. The Bayer Giants Leverkusen team , which won seven titles in a row from 1990 to 1996, is the record champions and most successful with 14 titles . Otherwise only Alba Berlin succeeded , which was also successful seven times from 1997 to 2003. A club may for won Bundesliga championships (but not for Cup wins, championships, before taking the BBL or GDR championships) champion stars wear on the front of the jersey (one to three championships: a star, four to six championships: two stars, seven to nine championships: three stars; ten to twelve championships: four stars; from 13 championships: five stars).
| rank | society | title | year | Champion title among others as |
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| 1 | Bayer Giants Leverkusen | 14th | 1970, 1971, 1972, 1976, 1979, 1985, 1986, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996 | TuS 04 Leverkusen, TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen |
| 2 | Brose Bamberg | 9 | 2005, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017 | GHP Bamberg, Brose Baskets |
| Alba Berlin | 9 | 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2008, 2020 | - | |
| 4th | Casting 46ers | 4th | 1967, 1968, 1975, 1978 | MTV 1846 Giessen |
| BSC Saturn Cologne | 4th | 1981, 1982, 1987, 1988 | - | |
| 6th | ASC 1846 Göttingen | 3 | 1980, 1983, 1984 | SSC Göttingen |
| FC Bayern Munich | 3 | 2014, 2018, 2019 | - | |
| 8th | USC Heidelberg | 2 | 1973, 1977 | - |
| 9 | VfL Osnabrück | 1 | 1969 | - |
| Brandt Hagen | 1 | 1974 | SSV Hagen | |
| medi bayreuth | 1 | 1989 | Steiner Bayreuth | |
| Skyliners Frankfurt | 1 | 2004 | Opel Skyliners Frankfurt | |
| Cologne 99ers | 1 | 2006 | RheinEnergie Cologne | |
| EWE Baskets Oldenburg | 1 | 2009 | - |
Cup winners
The German Cup winner has also been determined since 1967 . This happened from 1967 to 2010 in the DBB Cup , in which the clubs of the first and second Bundesliga as well as teams that were able to qualify through the cup competitions of the regional associations took part. In 2010, the DBB Cup was held for the last time, without the participation of the first division clubs, and was replaced by a league cup , the BBL Cup , in which no lower-class teams participate. Its first edition also took place in 2010, which is why there were two German Cup winners this year. The Top Four , which has been held since 1993, marks the end of the cup competition . The winner of this tournament becomes a cup winner. Towards the end of the 2017/18 season, a reform of the cup mode for the 2018/19 season was announced. The top four has been abolished and instead the 16 teams that played in the previous season in the BBL compete against each other in a knockout system .
A total of 18 different clubs have so far won a cup.
| rank | society | title | year | Cup victories among others as |
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| 1 | Bayer Giants Leverkusen | 10 | 1970, 1971, 1974, 1976, 1986, 1987, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1995 | TuS 04 Leverkusen, TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen |
| Alba Berlin | 10 | 1997, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2009, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2020 | - | |
| 3 | Brose Bamberg | 6th | 1992, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2017, 2019 | TTL basketball Bamberg, Brose Baskets |
| 4th | Casting 46ers | 3 | 1969, 1973, 1979 | MTV casting |
| BSC Saturn Cologne | 3 | 1980, 1981, 1983 | - | |
| medi bayreuth | 3 | 1988, 1989, 2010 | BG Steiner-Optik Bayreuth, Steiner Bayreuth, BBC Bayreuth | |
| Cologne 99ers | 3 | 2004, 2005, 2007 | RheinEnergie Cologne | |
| 8th | FC Bayern Munich | 2 | 1968, 2018 | - |
| Dukes Wolfenbüttel | 2 | 1972, 1982 | MTV Wolfenbüttel | |
| Brandt Hagen | 2 | 1975, 1994 | SSV Hagen | |
| USC Heidelberg | 2 | 1977, 1978 | - | |
| ASC 1846 Göttingen | 2 | 1984, 1985 | - | |
| TBB Trier | 2 | 1998, 2001 | TVG Basketball Trier, Herzogtel Trier | |
| 14th | VfL Osnabrück | 1 | 1967 | - |
| ratiopharm ulm | 1 | 1996 | SSV ratiopharm Ulm | |
| Skyliners Frankfurt | 1 | 2000 | - | |
| Artland Dragons | 1 | 2008 | - | |
| EWE Baskets Oldenburg | 1 | 2015 | - |
Champions Cup
Between 2006 and 2015, the so-called Champions Cup was held before the start of the season. The reigning champions played against the cup winners. Since the 2016/17 season the competition has been suspended due to the tight schedule of the Bundesliga clubs and was officially abolished in 2017.
| rank | society | title | year | Cup victories among others as |
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| 1 | Brose Bamberg | 5 | 2007, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015 | - |
| 2 | Alba Berlin | 3 | 2008, 2013, 2014 | - |
| 3 | Cologne 99ers | 1 | 2006 | RheinEnergie Cologne |
| EWE Baskets Oldenburg | 1 | 2009 | - |
Individual honors
The Basketball Bundesliga awards a series of awards to individual players after each season . Since the 1993/94 season a player of the year (also Most Valuable Player (MVP), English for most valuable player ) has been honored. From 1987 to 1993, the German Basketball Player of the Year award was given, although this was not limited to players from the BBL. At the BBL All-Star Game , which has been taking place on the BBL All-Star Day since 1987, the best player has been awarded the All-Star Game MVP award since 1996 . In addition to the third MVP award in the final MVPs , which has been awarded since the 2004/05 season , there are a number of other individual awards. Since the 2004/05 season, an all-first / all-second team has also been put together with the two best players in the league in each of the five game positions.
The selection for these awards is made by a panel of experts using a points system. The panel of experts consists of the 18 head coaches and team captains of the Bundesliga clubs as well as selected media representatives from all over Germany (currently around 30 sports journalists). Over the entire season, it will be scored after each game day. At the end of the season, the player with the most points won the award. A total of eight awards are currently being presented, three MVP awards and five other awards.
- Player of the Year : Regular Season MVP
- Finals MVP : MVP of the final series
- All-Star Game MVP : MVP of the All-Star Game
- Best young German player (under 22 years)
- Most Likeable Player : Most Popular Player of the Season (Pascal Roller Award)
- Coach of the year
- Best offensive player of the season
- Best defender of the season
Former awards:
- Most Improved Player : Most Improved Player of the Season (Until Season 2014/15 )
environment
reporting
Compared to football , the basketball Bundesliga only plays a subordinate role in media reception. With the Basket and the Five , which mainly report on the NBA , and the BIG , which mainly writes about basketball in Germany, there are two sports magazines who report on the basketball Bundesliga.
In 1992, Sportkanal broadcast 25 games live for the first time. Despite the victory of the national basketball team at the European basketball championship in 1993 , media interest in the league did not initially grow in the mid-1990s. It was only towards the end of the decade that league games were broadcast on television again, this time on free TV on DSF (until the 2003/04 season ). Until 2003 the basketball league was also part of ran - Sat.1 basketball on Sat.1 . Then, the transferred Pay TV transmitter premiere from season 2004/05 , since 2007 the league ran on sportdigital . At the beginning of the 2009/10 season , Sport1 (before 2010: DSF ) was again a TV partner of the Basketball Bundesliga. The contract was extended by two years in August 2012 and stipulated that Sport1 should produce at least 50 games, of which at least 40 should be broadcast live on free-to-air television. In addition to games in the main round, the contract also included selected games from the play-off rounds, all final games, as well as the Top Four , the annual Allstar Game and the Champions Cup . A live game was usually broadcast on Saturday evening. These games were also streamed on the Sport1 website and were broadcast live or with a time delay on the Sport1 + pay-TV branch . In addition, a new partner was won with kabel eins for the 2012/13 season , who broadcast up to ten games live on free TV on Sundays and also on the online platforms of MyVideo and ran . The focus was mainly on the games of FC Bayern Munich . In the 2013/14 season , some selected games were also broadcast on the radio on Sport1.FM .
| season | Total audience | source |
|---|---|---|
| 2015/16 | 4.1 million | |
| 2016/17 | 6.0 million | |
| 2017/18 | 7.5 million | |
| 2018/19 | 8.0 million |
In June 2014, it became known that Deutsche Telekom had acquired the national and international broadcasting rights from the 2014/15 season up to and including the 2017/18 season . The offer is called Magenta Sport and provides all league games, play-off matches as well as the Top Four, Allstar Day, Champions Cup and Cup qualifiers live in HD and as video-on-demand . The games can be accessed via Telekom Entertain as well as on the PC and via the app on smartphones and tablets . The service is "free of charge" for Telekom customers, and monthly and season passes are available for non-Telekom customers. The free TV partner of Deutsche Telekom was the broadcaster Sport1, which showed 34 games in the main round and 14 games in the play-offs. Furthermore, ARD and ZDF were won as free TV partners. Both TV channels showed match reports from the league and the BBL Cup final live. Towards the end of the 2017/18 season, it was agreed to continue the cooperation between Telekom and BBL up to and including the 2022/23 season . Telekom also received the image rights for the new cup mode.
Broadcasts of the basketball Bundesliga on free TV often only achieve below-average audience ratings. With almost one million viewers per broadcast, ran - Sat.1 Basketball achieved fewer than the comparable broadcasts for the Bundesliga in 2002 . Between 2009 and 2012, an average of 100,000 viewers followed the broadcasts on Sport1, with up to 600,000 watching the final series. In the following years, too, the average number of viewers was not significantly higher than between 80,000 and approx. 200,000. Almost 16,000 viewers watched a game of the 2016/17 season on Telekom Sport , just below the average for the German Ice Hockey League , with a total of 160,000 subscribers to the service. For the 2018/19 season , the total number of viewers for the service reached the previous record of almost 8 million viewers. Please note that games in the EuroLeague , the EuroCup and the national basketball team are also included.
Audience numbers
| Main round | Season (main round and playoffs) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| season | All in all | Games | ⌀ | development | Capacity (⌀) | workload | All in all | Games | ⌀ |
| 2004/05 | - | 240 | - | - | - | - | 919.125 | 270 | 3,404 |
| 2005/06 | - | 240 | - | - | 4,238 | 84.5% | 977.046 | 270 | 3,619 |
| 2006/07 | - | 306 | - | - | 4,617 | 74.8% | 1,160,931 | 336 | 3,455 |
| 2007/08 | - | 306 | - | - | 4,254 | 84.1% | 1,198,325 | 335 | 3,577 |
| 2008/09 | - | 306 | - | - | 4,725 | 82.0% | 1,294,045 | 335 | 3,874 |
| 2009/10 | - | 306 | - | - | 4,792 | 81.1% | 1,302,350 | 335 | 3,888 |
| 2010/11 | - | 306 | 3.813 | - | 4,892 | 82.8% | 1,365,058 | 337 | 4,051 |
| 2011/12 | 1,322,605 | 306 | 4,322 | + 13.4% | 5,173 | 85.5% | 1,463,802 | 331 | 4,422 |
| 2012/13 | 1.312.909 | 306 | 4,291 | - 0.7% | 5,353 | 86.1% | 1,481,324 | 334 | 4,435 |
| 2013/14 | 1,375,179 | 306 | 4,494 | + 0.7% | 5,275 | 89.2% | 1,575,581 | 337 | 4,675 |
| 2014/15 | 1,355,923 | 306 | 4,431 | - 1.4% | 5,279 | 88.2% | 1,554,835 | 334 | 4,655 |
| 2015/16 | 1,348,842 | 306 | 4,408 | - 0.5% | 5,185 | 87.1% | 1,494,995 | 331 | 4,517 |
| 2016/17 | 1,251,862 | 283 | 4,424 | + 0.4% | 5,148 | 88.8% | 1,422,569 | 311 | 4,574 |
| 2017/18 | 1,286,859 | 306 | 4,205 | - 5.0% | 4,949 | 89.0% | 1,470,818 | 334 | 4,404 |
| 2018/19 | 1,281,826 | 306 | 4.189 | - 0.4% | 4,906 | 85.4% | 1,422,087 | 328 | 4,336 |
| 2019/20 | 730.787 | 174 | 4,200 | + 0.3% | 4,694 | 89.5% | 730.787 | 174 | 4,200 |
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Records
player
Since the beginning of the 1975/76 season , the points scored by the players have been recorded in the former central organ of the DBB , the basketball newspaper . Since the 1998/99 season , the other statistical values have also been digitally recorded and collected. The specified time periods refer to the time that the players have played or are still playing in the BBL. Players in bold are still active.
Triple doubles are very rare in the BBL . Only nine players have done this since 1998. Drew Barry was the first player to do so on May 27, 2001 in the qualifying round for the play-offs against the BJC Hamburg Tigers . Denis Wucherer repeated this feat (on April 17, 2004 in the game against BG Iceline Karlsruhe ) (37 points, 13 rebounds and 10 assists). Directly in the following first play-off game against Alba Berlin, he managed to play a triple-double again. Wucherer held the league record for almost 15 years with two trible doubles until Rašid Mahalbašić also scored his second triple double on April 20, 2019. The opponent in the game was, of all people , S.Oliver Würzburg , where Wucherer acted as coach. On April 30, 2019, Mahalbašić became the sole record holder in this category with his third triple-double. Only a few weeks later he scored his fourth triple-double in the playoff quarter-final series against Bonn on May 21.
| rank | player | Societies) | Date, opponent, statistics (point rebound assists) | number |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
 Rašid Mahalbašić
|
EWE Baskets Oldenburg |
|
4th |
| 2 |
 Denis Usurer
|
Bayer Giants Leverkusen |
|
2 |
| 3 |
 Igor Perović
|
Walter Tigers Tubingen | on April 21, 2007 against EWE Baskets Oldenburg : 22-10-10 | 1 |
 Zack Whiting
|
Bayer Giants Leverkusen | on April 23, 2008 against the LTi Gießen 46ers : 13-10-10 | 1 | |
|
Louis Campbell
|
Polar bears Bremerhaven | on May 1, 2010 against the Artland Dragons : 12-11-10 | 1 | |
|
Nick Weiler-Babb
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MHP giant Ludwigsburg | on October 5, 2019 against Telekom Baskets Bonn : 10-11-12 | 1 | |
|
John Bryant
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Casting 46ers | on December 7, 2019 against s.Oliver Würzburg : 19-10-12 | 1 | |
|
Luke Sikma
|
Alba Berlin | on June 15, 2020 against MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg : 15-10-10 | 1 | |
|
Drew Barry
|
Brandt Hagen | on May 27, 2001 against BJC Hamburg Tigers : 19-10-10 | 1 | |
| As of June 16, 2020 | ||||
Clubs and games
- Highest number of Bundesliga seasons
- Giessen 46ers: 51
- Highest number of title wins
- Bayer Giants Leverkusen: 14
- Fewest number of defeats in one season
- Bayer Giants Leverkusen: 0 ( 1969/70 )
- Highest basket difference in a main round
- Bayer Giants Leverkusen: +750 ( 1969/70 )
- Lowest basket difference in a main round
- TV Kirchheimbolanden: -532 ( 1969/70 )
- Longest winning streak
- in one season: ratiopharm Ulm: 27 games ( 2016/17 )
- Across all seasons: Alba Berlin: 32 games (from April 28, 2000 to April 7, 2001)
- Highest number of spectators in a game
- Telekom Baskets Bonn - Alba Berlin: 18,506 ( Kölnarena , April 7, 2000)
- Biggest home win (since 1998)
- Alba Berlin - Basket Bayreuth: 106: 43 (January 16, 1999)
- Biggest away win (since 1998)
- Central German BC - Bayer Giants Leverkusen: 51: 108 (October 7, 2001)
- Games with the most total points
- HerzogTel Trier - TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen: 128: 133 (December 12, 1999)
- Games with the fewest total points
- Brose Baskets - RheinEnergie Cologne: 50:33 (March 25, 2007)
literature
- Dino Reisner: 40 years of the Basketball Bundesliga. Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2006, ISBN 3-86680-014-2 .
- Basketball Bundesliga GmbH (Ed.): 50 years of the Basketball Bundesliga. The workshop GmbH. 1st edition. Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-7307-0242-0 .
- Manfred Ströher: 66 years after the zero hour . Ed .: German Basketball Association. Hagen 2015.
Web links
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