Basketball england
| Basketball england | |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1936 |
| Board | Stewart Kellett |
| societies | 720 (status: 2004) |
| Members | 35,059 players (as of 2015) |
| Association headquarters | c / o English Institute of Sport Coleridge Road Sheffield, S9 5DA |
| Official languages) | English |
| Homepage | http://www.englandbasketball.co.uk/ |
Basketball England (until 2014: England Basketball ) is a sports association that organizes basketball for its member clubs in England . The association, which goes back to the founding of the English Basketball Association (EBBA) in 1936, represents the interests of its members on an international level in the continental association FIBA Europe and in the world association FIBA . For the interests of the British national basketball team for men and women , England Basketball and its counterparts in Scotland and Wales ceded the organization to the newly formed British Basketball Association in 2005 , in order to send a joint selection for the Olympic Games in the senior sector, where after 1948 in London 2012 hosted again. In the youth sector, the English association organizes its own selection teams that take part in FIBA Europe international competitions.
mission
"To provide an inspirational basketball experience for more people, more often."
- values
- "Ethical and Transparent"
- "Responsibility"
- "Creative"
- "Passion"
- tasks
- Organization and development of basketball in England
- Responsibility for people of all ages and abilities who want to practice the sport
- Communicating basketball standards and rules
- Provision of trainers and training opportunities
- Organization of competitions up to the National League
Club competitions
The association organizes the national basketball leagues in its area. To this end, he trains and licenses, among other things, the referees and monitors compliance with the rules with regard to the players' eligibility to play and the correctness of the competition venues. The association takes on these tasks together with the Scottish and British associations in part for competitions of the closed professional league British Basketball League .
Since the association was founded, he has also been involved in the organization of the “National Cup”, in which the English men's championship was determined until 1979. In 1972 a national league system was introduced, in which only six teams from the regional leagues initially participated. After the successful expansion of participation in "Division One" of the "National Basketball League" (NBL), a second division was introduced three years later as a hierarchically subordinate division, which was later expanded to four divisions, which are divided into regional groups are. With the introduction of the play-offs in Division One in 1979, the English champions were determined within Division One. From 1993 all divisions of the NBL introduced successive play-off finals. In the divisions there are additional league cup competitions such as the “National Trophy”, the “Patrons Cup” and the “National Shield”. 1987 saw the establishment of the closed professional league British Basketball League (BBL) by teams from Division One and a Scottish team. The "Division Two" then formed the Division One as the top division of men within England, so that initially the League Cup National Trophy was played without teams from the BBL. After an organizational change, the NBL was replaced in 2003 by the "English Basketball League" (EBL). In this episode, the BBL teams no longer took part in the National Cup, the most traditional competition. Instead, individual teams in EBL Division One were invited by the BBL to take part in their former league cup competition, the “BBL Trophy”.
In the women's division there has been a division one as a national league since 1975, which was given a "substructure" by division two a year later. Division Two has been playing in regional groups since 1999. It was not until 1981 that the National Cup was introduced, while the National Trophy, which had existed since 1979, was later restricted to women's teams outside of Division One.
The association also organizes the national final rounds and cup competitions related to England in the various age groups in the youth sector.
Selection teams
The association appoints the trainers for the national selection teams and organizes training operations and participation in international competitions. Up until 2005 there was a separate selection team in the men and women age group that took part in international competitions, although these were mostly unsuccessful and usually could not qualify for the continental or global finals of FIBA. In 2005, after the 2012 Olympic Games in the British capital, London , the English selection teams were practically dissolved and replaced by British selection teams, to which players licensed in England as well as players from Scotland and Wales are invited. For the latter, however, there are separate selection teams in the adult area, which, in addition to Gibraltar, take part in the European Championship for small countries, previously known as “Division C”. Since 2005, only the British national teams have existed for adult English players, in which they usually provide the majority of the qualified and which were previously only formed to take part in the Olympic Games. Here, too, British national teams have not been able to qualify for a final tournament and thus actual participation in the Olympic Games in the past, unless they were hosts and automatic participants in London in 1948 and 2012.
In the youth field, there are still separate national teams between the member associations of Great Britain Basketball. Here, too, English selection teams were rarely able to qualify for the finals in the competitions of FIBA Europe, provided that there were qualifying rounds in a competition. In 1995 the boys' U16 selection qualified for the final round of the “ Kadetten -EM”, in which they had to be content with the last place after defeating the Czech selection. More recently, however, they have been more successful again when both the male and female U16 teams in England rose to the so-called Division A of the European national teams. In the European championships in 2012 in this age group, however, both teams took 16th and last place and now have to qualify again for Division A, which the female U18 selection succeeded in the same year.
Web links
- England | FIBA Europe - "Homepage" of the English association within the FIBA Europe website ( English )
- FIBA Media Guide: National Federation - England - Profile of the English Association at FIBA (PDF (450 KB), English, status 2004)
Individual evidence
- ^ England Basketball: Results Archive> Introduction. (No longer available online.) England Basketball. Archived from the original on July 22, 2013 ; accessed on June 29, 2013 . 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.
- ↑ England Basketball: Senior Men - Cup Competitions. (No longer available online.) England Basketball. Archived from the original on April 2, 2013 ; accessed on June 29, 2013 (English, overview of final results). 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.
- ↑ England Basketball: Senior Women - Cup Competitions. (No longer available online.) England Basketball. Archived from the original on April 2, 2013 ; accessed on June 29, 2013 (English, overview of final results). 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.
- ↑ European Championship for Small Countries Women 2012. FIBA Europe , accessed on June 29, 2013 (English, competition overview).
- ↑ European Championship for Small Countries Men 2012. FIBA Europe , accessed on June 29, 2013 (English, competition overview).
- ↑ 1995 European Championship for Cadets. FIBA , accessed on June 29, 2013 (English, competition overview).
