Ratiopharm Ulm

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Ratiopharm Ulm
Logo of ratiopharm Ulm
Nickname Uuulmer
Founded 2001
Hall Ratiopharm-Arena
(6,200 seats)
Homepage www.basketball-ulm.com
executive Director Thomas Stoll , Andreas Oettel
Trainer Jaka Lakovič
league BBL Men
2018/19 : 6th place
  NBBL U 19
2015/16: 2nd place
  JBBL U 16
2015/16: 3rd place
Colours black / white / orange
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Ratiopharm Ulm ( proper spelling in lower case) is a German basketball club that currently plays in the 1st basketball league and emerged in 2001 from the sports club SSV Ulm 1846 . The club's home games are played in the Ratiopharm Arena . The main sponsor is the pharmaceutical company Ratiopharm , which has its headquarters in Ulm.

history

The team last appeared under the name SSV ratiopharm Ulm in the 2000/01 season, when it was still under the umbrella club of SSV Ulm 1846. In the course of the financial situation and the increasing independence of the club, the basketball club was spun off and with the re-establishment of Basketball Ulm / Alb-Donau GmbH (later BBU'01 GmbH) by Thomas Stoll , Andreas Oettel , Ralf Buck and Werner Sailer from scratch on restructured. While Buck and Sailer left later, Stoll and Oettel became the builders of the upswing in Ulm basketball in the years that followed. Since the 2001 season the name of the team playing in the 2nd basketball league at that time has been Ratiopharm Ulm.

2005/2006 season: Promotion to the Bundesliga

The return to the basketball league succeeded in 2006. With only one defeat, the club was able to prevail against the direct competitor Science City Jena .

2008/2009 season: First playoff participation in 10 years

Since the promotion, the team has been able to establish itself safely in the midfield of the league and even managed to get into the play-offs of the main round in the 2008/09 season . This was the first participation in the finals in ten years.

2011/2012 season: ratiopharm Arena and participation in the finals

With the greatest upheaval of the club in the 2011/12 season, which was associated with the move to the Ratiopharm Arena and was also accompanied by a change of coach, the team managed to complete the main round as runners-up and the subsequent playoffs as runners-up. Coach Thorsten Leibenath and his team were also able to achieve third place in the BBL Cup at the Top Four in Bonn. All playoff and season main round games in the Kuhberghalle and the new Ratiopharm Arena were sold out, which represents a 91.6 percent increase in viewers over the entire season compared to the 2010/11 season.

2012/2013 season: entry into the cup final

In the 2012/2013 season, the Ulm basketball players made it to the BBL Cup final, where they lost to Alba Berlin. In the championship round they reached the semi-finals, where they finally lost to the EWE Baskets Oldenburg .

2013/2014 season: Cup final in its own arena

In 2013/2014, Ulm was able to establish itself again in the top group of the league. Head coach Leibenath's men ended the regular season in sixth place. In the playoff quarter-finals, Ulm then met Alba Berlin . Against the Albatrosses, Ulm was eliminated with 1: 3 wins. In the cup, they made it into the final in their own hall. There, too, the team was defeated by the Alba Berlin team.

2014/2015 season: Participation in the semi-finals again

In the 2014/2015 season, the playoffs of the basketball Bundesliga were reached again. After a 3-2 win in the series against Telekom Baskets Bonn, the team lost 3-0 to Brose Baskets Bamberg in the semi-finals .

The subsequent signings Brion Rush and especially the Greek international Ian Vougioukas , who joined Ulm from Galatasaray in January 2015 , had a decisive influence on the late success of this season . Both players, however, like most of the squad, left the club at the end of the season.

2015/2016 season: return to the final

The beginning of the 2015/16 season was associated with a major change in personnel in the squad - only Per Günther , Joschka Ferner and a few young players were again in the squad compared to the previous season. The start of the season was catastrophic and after a false start with seven defeats from the first nine encounters, the squad was decisively strengthened by the former NBA professional Chris Babb and Pierria Henry .

Nevertheless, the seventh place in the table in the basketball Bundesliga was reached, which was associated with a renewed entry into the playoffs. In the quarter-finals of the playoffs they won against the table runner-up, EWE Baskets Oldenburg with 1: 3 and thus moved into the semi-finals against the third Frankfurt / Main . Surprisingly, Ulm also prevailed 3: 1 there and moved into the 2016 final against top of the table Bamberg . The Ulm team lost this 3-0 and became runner-up for the third time.

2016/2017 season: Ulm chasing records

With 25 victories in a row, the team set the Leverkusen Bundesliga start record from the 1969/70 season on March 12, 2017. On the following match day, a new Bundesliga record was achieved with a victory over Berlin. The victory against Brose Bamberg on March 26, 2017 broke a series of victories for the Bamberg team that had lasted more than two years (at least at home games against German teams). Ulm's Bundesliga winning streak ended on April 8 (68: 83 defeat against Bayern Munich) after having won 27 games. The team was the main round winner and was eliminated in the semifinals against Oldenburg.

2017/18 season: step backwards

During the summer break, İsmet Akpınar moved from Berlin to Ulm. With the development player, Per Günther became the best young player of the 2016/2017 Bundesliga season. The Ulm team recorded 16 wins and 18 defeats during the Bundesliga point round, which was only enough for tenth place in the table, which meant that the championship round was missed.

Season 2018/19

In November 2018, construction work began on the youth, performance and club center on the Neu-Ulm bank of the Danube, the cost of which was estimated at more than 23 million euros. During the current season, namely in March 2019, a change in the sporting leadership was decided with regard to the following season: It was announced that after eight years in office, coach Leibenath will take over the post of sporting director at the beginning of the 2019/20 round In this way, together with sports director Thomas Stoll, to lead “the sporting orientation of the professional team” and, in particular, to promote the promotion of young players. The long-term goal was to be one of the top addresses in promoting talent in Europe. At the same time, the search for a new coach began, whose tasks would include involving the young players. The end of the season overtook Ulm in the quarter-finals, when they failed to win three games against Alba Berlin.

Season 2019/20

The former captain of the Slovenian national team, Jaka Lakovič , has been appointed head coach. The Ulm team management combined with the commitment the expectation to continue the development of young players. In March 2020, the season was suspended due to the spread of COVID-19 . Until then, Ulm had a balanced record of ten wins and ten defeats in the Bundesliga. That put them in tenth place in the table. After a three-month break, the season was resumed in June 2020 as a tournament. Ulm reached the semi-finals, where the team was eliminated against Ludwigsburg.

Season 2020/21

In the summer of 2020, the management announced that due to the economic uncertainty due to the COVID-19 pandemic , a considerable cut in the team budget was to be expected and major cost-cutting measures were inevitable. In mid-July 2020 the business premises in the youth, performance and club center on Neu-Ulm bank of the Danube were moved into.

homestead

The inside of the ratiopharm arena before the first test and basketball game by ratiopharm Ulm.

Since December 2011, the Ratiopharm Arena in Neu-Ulm, with a capacity of 6,000 spectators, has been the home ground of ratiopharm Ulm. For basketball games, the multifunctional hall offers 4,000 seats, 1,500 standing places on a stand-alone grandstand and 500 VIP seats, spread over business areas, VIP areas and the box balcony.

The impetus for building such a hall came from Ratiopharm Ulm itself. The formerly used Kuhberghalle no longer met the demands of the basketball league . Until the end of the main round in the 2008/09 season, the school sports hall on the Ulmer Kuhberg officially offered 3000 standing and seated seats, with significantly more standing room tickets sold than the officially available 1000 for top games like against Tübingen or Berlin . The unavailable space also ignited the dispute over a new venue for the Ulm basketball players, because the Kuhberghalle had long since ceased to meet the league's growing demands. In the course of this, after long negotiations with the cities of Ulm and Neu-Ulm, it was decided on November 11, 2009 to build a new multifunctional hall on the festival site in Neu-Ulm.

To bridge the time until the opening of the Ratiopharm Arena, the Kuhberghalle was rebuilt for 293,000 euros. The east and west grandstands were completely redesigned and the very narrow entrance area, which was previously on the west side, was relocated to the east grandstand side, creating significantly more space for standing guests. The east stand had already been put into operation during the 2009 finals.

The opening game in the multifunctional arena took place on December 10, 2011, the 12th matchday of the 2011/12 season , with a game against EWE Baskets Oldenburg and was broadcast live by Sport1 . The game sold out within four hours and was won 101-83. A test run for all season ticket holders had already taken place on December 5, 2011 with a test match against the Kirchheim Knights .

successes

The club's greatest successes so far have been the cup victory in 1996 and the runner-up in 1998, which were then achieved under the name SSV ratiopharm Ulm with long-time player Jarvis Walker .

  • Cup wins: 1 (1996)
  • Cup finals: 2 (2013, 2014)
  • German runner-up: 3 (1998, 2012, 2016)

Bundesliga squad in the 2019/20 season

Per Günther has been playing for ratiopharm Ulm since 2008
Squad of Ratiopharm Ulm in the 2019/2020 season
Attention: The squad information is out of date!
(current season: 2020/2021)
player
No. Nat. Surname birth size info Last club
1 United StatesUnited States Tyler Harvey 17th July 1993 1.93 m United StatesUnited States Memphis Hustle
2 United StatesUnited States Isaiah Briscoe April 13, 1996 1.91 m United StatesUnited States Orlando Magic
3 FranceFrance/United StatesUnited States Killian Hayes July 27, 2001 1.96 m U24 FranceFrance Cholet Basket
5 SloveniaSlovenia Zoran Dragic June 22, 1989 1.96 m ItalyItaly Pallacanestro Trieste
6th GermanyGermany Per Günther 5th February 1988 1.84 m (C)Captain of the crew GermanyGermany Phoenix Hagen
8th United StatesUnited States Zachary Ensminger April 30, 2001 1.91 m U24 / DL GermanyGermany OrangeAcademy
9 GermanyGermany Marius Stoll July 9, 1999 1.93 m U24 / DL GermanyGermany OrangeAcademy
10 GermanyGermany Christoph Philipps September 15, 1998 2.04 m U24 / DL GermanyGermany OrangeAcademy
11 United StatesUnited States Grant Jerrett July 8, 1993 2.08 m Bosnia and HerzegovinaBosnia and Herzegovina KK Igokea Aleksandrovac
13 GermanyGermany Nicolas Bretzel May 29, 1999 2.09 m U24 / DL GermanyGermany OrangeAcademy
15th HungaryHungary Maté Fazekas January 19, 2000 2.10 m U24 / DL GermanyGermany OrangeAcademy
17th GermanyGermany Andreas Obst July 13, 1996 1.91 m U24 SpainSpain Obradoiro CAB
20th United StatesUnited States Archie Goodwin 17th August 1994 1.96 m TurkeyTurkey İTÜ BK Istanbul
21st United StatesUnited States Seth Hinrichs March 24, 1993 1.99 m GermanyGermany Rasta Vechta
27 GermanyGermany Moritz Krimmer August 27, 2000 2.00 m U24 / DL GermanyGermany OrangeAcademy
29 GermanyGermany Nat-Sidi Diallo February 3, 2000 2.08 m U24 / DL GermanyGermany Rasta Vechta
30th GermanyGermany Maximilian Ugrai July 28, 1995 2.01 m GermanyGermany Science City Jena
33 GermanyGermany Patrick Heckmann February 27, 1992 1.98 m GermanyGermany Brose Bamberg
34 GermanyGermany/United StatesUnited States Gavin Schilling November 10, 1995 2.06 m United StatesUnited States Michigan State University
35 United StatesUnited States Derek Willis July 21, 1993 2.06 m GermanyGermany BG Göttingen
77 AustriaAustria/GermanyGermany Timo Lanmüller March 17, 2001 1.93 m U24 / DL AustriaAustria Basket Flames Vienna
Trainer
Nat. Surname position
SloveniaSlovenia Jaka Lakovic Trainer
FinlandFinland Daniel Jansson Assistant coach
United StatesUnited States Tyron McCoy Assistant coach
GermanyGermany Thomas Stoll Executive Partner
GermanyGermany Andreas Oettel executive Director
GermanyGermany Thorsten Leibenath Sports director
Legend
Abbr. meaning
No. Jersey number
Nat. nationality
(C)Captain of the crew Team captain
U24 EU players under the age of 24 according to the rules ProA / ProB
DL Double license for OrangeAcademy
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As of January 31, 2020

Zoran Dragić moved to Saski Baskonia in January 2020 . SpainSpain 

Accesses

Former squad

Trainer (since 1990)

Term of office Trainer
1990-1996 United StatesUnited States Brad Dean
1996-1997 United StatesUnited States Charles Barton
1997-1999 GermanyGermany Peter Krüsmann
01 /1999-10 / 1999 SerbiaSerbia Petar Juric
10/1999-12/1999 United StatesUnited States Scott Fields
12/1999–11/2000 United StatesUnited States Charles Brigham
11 / 2000-02 / 2001 United StatesUnited States Jarvis Walker (player-coach)
02/2001 United StatesUnited States Richard Lien
03 / 2001-06 / 2001 United StatesUnited States Tom Ludwig
2001-2003 GermanyGermany Rainer Bauer
2003-2011 United StatesUnited States Mike Taylor
2011-2019 GermanyGermany Thorsten Leibenath
since 2019 SloveniaSlovenia Jaka Lakovič

Best marks from previous seasons

The respective average per game is displayed as “(value)”.

season Points Rebounds Assists Ball wins Blocks
1998/1999 Adrian Autry 504 (17.4) United StatesUnited States
Tim Nees 234 (8.4) GermanyGermany
Adrian Autry 116 (4.0) United StatesUnited States
Adrian Autry 65 (2.2) United StatesUnited States
Dirk Lommerse 17 (0.6) NetherlandsNetherlands
1999/2000 Abdul Shamsid-Deen 457 (17.6) United StatesUnited States
Abdul Shamsid-Deen 279 (10.7) United StatesUnited States
Štefan Svitek 64 (2.6) SlovakiaSlovakia
Abdul Shamsid-Deen 25 (1.0) United StatesUnited States
Abdul Shamsid-Deen 19 (0.7) United StatesUnited States
2000/2001 Jeff Kent / 395 (12.0) United StatesUnited StatesIsraelIsrael
Jeff Kent / 212 (6.4) United StatesUnited StatesIsraelIsrael
Darnell Hoskins 98 (7.0) United StatesUnited States
Jeff Kent / 43 (1.3) United StatesUnited StatesIsraelIsrael
Norman Froemel / 21 (0.6) CanadaCanadaGermanyGermany
2002-2005 2. Basketball Bundesliga
2006/2007 Jeff Gibbs 512 (15.1) United StatesUnited States
Jeff Gibbs 326 (9.6) United StatesUnited States
Austen Rowland 203 (6.0) United StatesUnited States
Austen Rowland 69 (2.0) United StatesUnited States
Jeff Gibbs 26 (0.8) United StatesUnited States
2007/2008 Jeff Gibbs 479 (14.1) United StatesUnited States
Jeff Gibbs 319 (9.4) United StatesUnited States
Dru Joyce 150 (4.4) United StatesUnited States
Jeff Gibbs 43 (1.3) United StatesUnited States
Jeff Gibbs 30 (0.9) United StatesUnited States
2008/2009 Jeff Gibbs 490 (13.2) United StatesUnited States
Jeff Gibbs 385 (10.4) United StatesUnited States
Dru Joyce 153 (4.5) United StatesUnited States
Keith Triplet 47 (1.4) United StatesUnited States
Jeff Gibbs 26 (0.7) United StatesUnited States
2009/2010 Christian Burns 502 (14.8) United StatesUnited States
Christian Burns 213 (6.3) United StatesUnited States
Per Günther 86 (2.5) GermanyGermany
Roderick Trice 78 (2.4) United StatesUnited States
John Bryant 32 (0.9) United StatesUnited States
2010/2011 John Bryant 498 (14.7) United StatesUnited States
John Bryant 370 (10.9) United StatesUnited States
Per Günther 110 (3.2) GermanyGermany
Roderick Trice 29 (1.2) United StatesUnited States
John Bryant 52 (1.5) United StatesUnited States
2011/2012 Isaiah Swann 646 (15.8) United StatesUnited States
John Bryant 395 (9.4) United StatesUnited States
Per Günther 125 (3.0) GermanyGermany
Roderick Trice 38 (1.3) United StatesUnited States
John Bryant 54 (1.3) United StatesUnited States
2012/2013 John Bryant 656 (15.6) United StatesUnited States
John Bryant 424 (10.1) United StatesUnited States
Per Günther 141 (3.5) GermanyGermany
Philipp Schwethelm 34 (0.8) GermanyGermany
John Bryant 58 (1.4) United StatesUnited States
2013/2014 Per Günther 417 (11.0) GermanyGermany
Daniel Theis 211 (6.2) GermanyGermany
Per Günther 171 (4.5) GermanyGermany
Will Clyburn 29 (0.8) United StatesUnited States
Daniel Theis 45 (1.3) GermanyGermany
2014/2015 Will Clyburn 534 (13.0) United StatesUnited States
Will Clyburn 297 (7.2) United StatesUnited States
Per Günther 176 (4.8) GermanyGermany
Will Clyburn 48 (1.2) United StatesUnited States
Tim Ohlbrecht 46 (1,2) GermanyGermany
2015/2016 Raymar Morgan 698 (15.5) United StatesUnited States
Raymar Morgan 305 (6.8) United StatesUnited States
Per Günther 231 (5.1) GermanyGermany
Pierria Henry 50 (1.6) United StatesUnited States
Augustine Rubit 29 (0.7) United StatesUnited States
2016/2017 Raymar Morgan 745 (17.7) United StatesUnited States
Raymar Morgan 283 (6.7) United StatesUnited States
Braydon Hobbs 221 (5.4) United StatesUnited States
Braydon Hobbs 52 (1.3) United StatesUnited States
Augustine Rubit 21 (0.6) United StatesUnited States
2017/2018 Isaac Fotu 466 (14.1) New ZealandNew Zealand
Isaac Fotu 165 (5.0) New ZealandNew Zealand
Per Günther 114 (3.5) GermanyGermany
Ismet Akpinar 27 (0.8) GermanyGermany
Isaac Fotu 13 (0.4) New ZealandNew Zealand
2018/2019 Dwayne Evans 513 (14.3) United StatesUnited States
Dwayne Evans 229 (6.4) United StatesUnited States
Patrick Miller 144 (4.5) United StatesUnited States
Javonte Green 81 (2.3) United StatesUnited States
Dwayne Evans 17 (0.5) United StatesUnited States

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Stefan Kümmritz: Almost a little basketball fairy tale. Accessed December 30, 2018 .
  2. An unforgettable season
  3. Beko Basketball Bundesliga - attendance figures ( Memento of the original from June 16, 2012 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.beko-bbl.de
  4. sportschau.de: Ulm basketball players set Leverkusen's record . March 12, 2017 ( sportschau.de [accessed March 12, 2017]).
  5. Record victory for ratiopharm ulm: 82:76 over Berlin is the 26th victory in a row for the table leaders. Retrieved March 19, 2017 .
  6. 83: 68 victory at ratiopharm ulm: FC Bayern Munich adds table leaders after 27 wins the first defeat of the season. Retrieved April 8, 2017 .
  7. https://www.eurosport.de/basketball/bundesliga/2016-2017/bbl-halbfinale-perfekter-start-fur-bamberg-und-ulm_sto6175643/story.shtml
  8. https://www.swr.de/sport/basketball-playoffs-ulm-scheitert-im-halbfinale/-/id=1208948/did=19650056/nid=1208948/1hv9hjd/index.html
  9. Süddeutsche de GmbH, Munich Germany: Ulm in future with Ismet Akpinar from Alba Berlin - Sport-News. Süddeutsche Zeitung , June 7, 2017, accessed on August 21, 2020 .
  10. Basketball Bundesliga 2017/18 - table total. Retrieved March 22, 2019 .
  11. Sebastian Mayr: Orange Campus: Now we are finally building. In: schwaebische.de. Retrieved March 23, 2019 .
  12. ratiopharm ulm: Setting the course for the future. In: ratiopharm ulm. Retrieved March 22, 2019 .
  13. ^ Pit Meier: Applause for Thorsten Leibenath. In: augsburger-allgemeine.de. Retrieved March 23, 2019 .
  14. https://www.sportschau.de/weiter/basketball/bundesliga/bbl-playoffs-viertelfinale-124.html
  15. https://ratiopharmulm.com/news/jaka-lakovic-ist-neuer-head-coach-457/
  16. Total table. In: Basketball Bundesliga. Retrieved June 24, 2020 .
  17. Tonight was Knight-Night! Ulm retires after an 85-94 defeat: Marcos Knight powers Ludwigsburg into the final. Retrieved June 24, 2020 .
  18. ^ Ratiopharm ulm: painful contract cancellations. In: Ratiopharm Ulm. Accessed July 3, 2020 (German).
  19. Ratiopharm Ulm and BBU ´01 move into the OrangeCampus. Retrieved July 16, 2020 .
  20. Jakob Resch: The hall is coming. ( Memento from July 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Südwest Presse , November 12, 2009.
  21. Sold out! basketball-ulm.com , October 17, 2011.
  22. December 5th - the dress rehearsal. basketball-ulm.com , November 28, 2011.
  23. ratiopharm Ulm releases Mike Taylor from playing and training with immediate effect. basketball-ulm.com , April 20, 2011.
  24. Interview · Mike Taylor: Thanks to the fans. ( Memento from April 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Südwest Presse , April 23, 2011.
  25. Teams overview - ratiopharm Ulm.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. beko-bbl.de (2009 season).@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.beko-bbl.de  
  26. Teams overview - ratiopharm Ulm.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. beko-bbl.de (season 2008).@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.beko-bbl.de