RBC Cologne 99ers
| RBC Cologne 99ers | |
| Founded | 2008 |
| Hall | Sports hall at Bergischer Ring Bergischer Ring 40, 51063 Cologne |
| Homepage | www.koeln99ers.de |
| Trainer | Mat Foden |
| league |
RBBL |
| Colours | Red White |
The RBC Cologne 99ers eV is a German wheelchair basketball club from Cologne .
Since it was founded in 2008, it has been represented in the first and second RBBL ( wheelchair basketball Bundesliga ). 2008 with four, since the 2010/2011 season five teams have started in all five performance classes offered in NRW. The club is the largest wheelchair basketball club in Germany.
history
An era comes to an end
The roots of the RBC Cologne lie with the Wheelchair Sports Club (RSC) Cologne. In the years 2001 to 2005 this recorded a strong increase in membership, so that a second and third wheelchair basketball team could be sent into the sporting competition.
The basketball players quickly became the largest and financially strongest division of the RSC. The desire for greater professionalism, especially after promotion to the 1st wheelchair basketball league in 2006, could not be fulfilled within the predominantly popular sports club RSC Cologne, which is why it was decided to found a club of its own.
With the end of the 2007/2008 season, the promotion of the second team to the 2nd North Wheelchair Basketball Bundesliga was confirmed.
In the run-up to the founding of the association, discussions were held with various other associations in order to gain ideas and advice as well as possible cooperation partners. The talks with the professionals of the Cologne 99ers were the most successful and at the same time promised the greatest success in the start-up.
When the club was founded in the summer of 2008, an almost 40-year era of wheelchair basketball at RSC Cologne came to an end.
The RBC is born
The around 50 former members now founded the RBC Cologne 99ers, a registered and non-profit association. This concluded a cooperation with the professional basketball players of the Cologne 99ers as well as with the "pedestrian" basketball club SG Cologne 99ers. Together they formed the CSoB (Cologne School of Basketball). The CSoB had more than 800 members and thus became the largest German basketball club, which aimed to target young people and, above all, to support socially disadvantaged young people. In the 2008/2009 season, the Cologne Rollis started their league game operations under the name "Köln 99ers" and played a league game in red and white for the first time on October 4, 2008. The new colors seemed to inspire, because for the first time in a long time the game against ASV Bonn could be won.
At the same time, the increase in members continued. With the founding of the new club, a fourth team was created as the first German wheelchair basketball club. She should go to the start in the newly introduced Landesliga West. Overall, the season was very positive for all teams and ended for the first team in the first round of the European Cup.
Bankruptcy of the professionals
The first insolvency application of the professionals of the Cologne 99ers 2008 could still be averted, but on July 10th, 2009 the Köln 99ers Basketball GmbH again filed for insolvency at the Cologne District Court. Since the RBC was already an independent club, the bankruptcy of the professionals did not affect it financially. Of course, the situation was difficult because shortly after the start-up an important cooperation partner and consultant was no longer available. But the SG also survived the bankruptcy proceedings and so the cooperation could continue without the professionals.
today
In the 2010/2011 season, RBC Cologne succeeded for the first time in filling every league offered in NRW with a team. This was preceded by the establishment of a fifth team. And already in the so-called "pre-season" it became clear that this new team will have more than 15 players. In 2019, RBC Cologne had to relegate to the second Bundesliga for the first time .
Seasons, teams and successes at a glance
Before 2008
(as RSC Cologne)
2002
- RSC Cologne - Region Cup Winner West
2003
- RSC Cologne - Promotion to the 2nd RBBL North
- Establishing a second team (OL)
2005
- RSC Cologne 2 - Promotion to RL West
- Foundation of a third team (OL)
2006
- RSC Köln 1 - Promotion to the 1st RBBL (undefeated / for the first time since 1988)
2007
- RSC Köln 1 - Reaching the quarter-finals of the DRS Cup
- RSC Köln 2 - Regionspokalsieger West (award of the sports plaque of the city of Cologne)
2008
- RSC Cologne 2 - Promotion to the 2nd RBBL North
2008/2009
- Foundation of the RBC Cologne 99ers eV
- Creation of a fourth team (LL)
- Participation in league operations with four teams:
- 1. RBBL
- 2. RBBL North
- Orienteering west
- LL West (West)
- Participation in the first round of the European Cup
- Organization of the 3-nation tournament of the women's national teams of Germany, Canada and Great Britain
2009/2010
- Foundation of a fifth team (LL)
- Participation in league operations with five teams:
- 1. RBBL
- 2. RBBL North
- Orienteering west
- LL West (West)
- LL West (West)
- Cologne 99ers I: Reaching the quarter-finals of the DRS Cup
- Organization of the performance camp "Camp with Pat" under the direction of Patrick Anderson
2010/2011
- Participation in league operations with five teams:
- 1. RBBL
- 2. RBBL North
- RL West
- Orienteering west
- LL West (West)
- Cologne 99ers III: Winning the Regionspokals West (award of the sports badge of the city of Cologne)
- Organizer of an IWBF Euroleague preliminary round in March 2011
Others
From 2003 to 2008 the club organized the international “kick-off tournament” (up to 2008 still as RSC Cologne). Since 2009 the tournament has been called the “TOP END® Challenge”.
Data for the "TOP END® Challenge 2010":
- 20 teams from 4 nations (including 5 Cologne teams!) In 3 performance classes, 57 games over 2 days, countless helpers (included: cup game and referee training)
Known players
- Marina Mohnen (German national player and multiple Paralympic participant)
"Tiger Rollis" fan club
The TigerRollis are the 1st official fan club of the RBC Köln99ers. Particularly after the bankruptcy of the “runners basketball players”, parts of the Flying Flönz fan club, which had more than 135 members and was founded in 2006, also began to get involved with the RBC. The "drummers" quickly became a familiar backdrop at home games and were also involved in other ways in the club. The fan club is now also organizing regular trips away to support the Cologne 99ers abroad.
In 2010 a new name was needed to underline the membership of the wheelchair basketball players. In the summer there was then a vote, whereby the name "TigerRollies" prevailed. The new fan club in no way replaces the Flying Flönz, but rather should be seen as a supplement.
Web links
- https://www.koeln99ers.de (homepage of the association)
- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClJxFYTNrZbhRdMg5dSTYRg (YouTube)
- https://www.instagram.com/rbckoeln99ers (Instagram)
- https://www.facebook.com/koeln99ers/ (Facebook)
- https://twitter.com/rbckoeln99ers (Twitter)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Wheelchair basketball players found RBC Cologne 99ers (www.rbc-koeln99ers.de, August 6, 2008)
- ↑ Wheelchair basketball in Germany more and more professional (www.Kobe8.de, August 4, 2008) ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Cologne 99ers largest basketball club in Germany (www.rbc-koeln99ers.de, January 13, 2009)
- ↑ "Cologne School of Basketball" at the start (Kölner Wochenspiegel September 24, 2008) ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Successful season under a new name -Ein Rückblick- (www.rbc-koeln99ers.de, May 16, 2009)
- ↑ Press release of July 17th, 2009 ( Memento of the original of September 26th, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ↑ TOP END® Challenge (www.rbc-koeln99ers.de, "TOP END Challenge")
- ↑ TOP END Challenge 2010 again a great success! (www.rbc-koeln99ers.de, September 20, 2010)
- ↑ Founding / Members (www.flying-flönz.de) ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Flying Flönz (www.rbc-koeln99ers.de, November 5, 2008)
