Cologne 99ers

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SG Cologne 99ers eV
Logo of the SG Köln 99ers eV
founding year 1999
Club colors Red White
league 1. Regional league men
Regional league women
NBBL U 19
JBBL U 16
Members SG Köln 99ers: 636
(as of December 31, 2009)
Former Bundesliga venues EnergyDome (3,200 seats)
LanxessArena (18,500 seats)
address Girlitzweg 30
50829 Cologne

The SG Köln 99ers eV is a German basketball club . From 2001 to 2009 he was represented in the basketball league . In the very first season the 99ers reached the play-off finals, in 2004, 2005 and 2007 the club won the BBL Cup and became German champions in 2006 . The games were usually played in the EnergyDome. Up until 2007 there were occasional games in the LanxessArena .

history

Former logo of the team as RheinEnergie Cologne

The sponsoring associations Cologne BasCats and DJK Köln-Nord founded the Cologne 99ers gaming community in 1999 . The first men's team received a wild card as regional league champions in June 2001 and thus entered the Bundesliga without any athletic qualification. The team was spun off from the amateur area and led by American Sports GmbH . The declared goal was to continue the tradition and successes of the BSC Saturn Cologne (German champions 1981, 82, 87 and 88; cup winners 1980, 81 and 83).

The team operated under the name RheinEnergy Cologne in the first season , but one year later it was adapted to the name of the main sponsor RheinEnergie and changed to RheinEnergie Cologne . From the 2003/2004 season, the name of the team changed to RheinEnergie Köln . In the summer of 2007, RheinEnergie AG did not extend the contract as the main sponsor, as a result of which the association was renamed Cologne 99ers in July 2007 .

After the shareholder of the GmbH had to stop his financial support in January 2008, the association filed for insolvency. While the three most important players Immanuel McElroy , Aleksandar Nadjfeji and Toby Bailey left the club, the game was able to continue. In February 2008, two new sponsors were found with the Hamburg businessman Jürgen Wollny and the Cologne building contractor Anton Bausinger. The license was transferred in March 2008 to the newly founded Köln 99ers Basketball GmbH & Co KG .

Shortly afterwards, the professionals and amateurs of the SG Köln 99ers and the newly founded wheelchair basketball club RBC Köln 99ers joined forces to form 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.

On July 10, 2009, Köln 99ers Basketball GmbH filed for insolvency at the Cologne District Court. A week later, they announced that they would not participate in match operations for the 2009/2010 season. With that, the sports city of Cologne was back without a professional basketball club.

After bankruptcy

After the professional department left the Cologne 99ers, the amateur area, which is summarized under the SG Cologne 99ers, and the wheelchair basketball department (RBC Cologne 99ers) remained. The SG was also affected by the damage to the professional division, but the game operation could continue. Financially independent, the RBC was less affected by the bankruptcy, but suddenly an important contact person for the young club was missing. Suddenly there was also no longer any internet presence because the website www.koeln99ers.de was offline during the insolvency proceedings. Only later could the domain be regained. For the first time, fans were now also concentrating on these areas of the club.

The 2009/2010 season was the first season without the men's Bundesliga team. In the summer before the season, the U18 failed to qualify for the youth basketball league . The first men's team played in the Oberliga 1 NRW, the women represented the club in the Regionalliga West. Both teams had a successful season and just missed promotion. After the second half of the season, the men took third place behind the newly promoted MTV Köln and the second team from Bayer 04 Leverkusen . The women finished second at the end of the season and failed in the WBV Cup in the semi-finals.

In the youth sector, after the failure of the NBBL team, the focus was on the U16 team, which competed in the youth basketball league . You came under the eight best teams in Germany. The club's male U18s made it into the top 4 of the German championship and ended up in third place.

The Cologne 99ers' U14 team was most successful. The team was unbeaten West German champions under coach Manuel Hauff and remained undefeated in the following final round of the German championship.

In the 2010/2011 season, the U18 team returned to the NBBL.

On June 12, 2013 announced the club was the MTV Cologne the syndicate Rhein Stars Cologne to form. The goal is to lead the club back into the top division. With over 730 members from almost 50 teams, it is now the largest basketball club in Germany , according to shareholder Stephan Baeck .

successes

  • Regional league champions 2001
  • German cup winner 2004
  • German cup winner 2005
  • German champion 2006
  • Champions Cup winner 2006
  • German cup winner 2007
  • German U14 champion 2010

Personalities of the club's history

Fan club

After the championship in 2006, the Flying Flönz fan club was founded ( kölsch Flying Blood Sausage ). At the BBL Top Four 2007, the fan club was awarded the BBL Fan Cup. After the insolvency of the Cologne 99ers, parts of the RBC Cologne 99ers fan club continued to work, which was renamed "Tiger Rollis" a year later .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ex-Meister Köln 99ers has to file for bankruptcy. Die Welt , July 9, 2009, accessed November 22, 2012 .
  2. ↑ "We are in the zero hour". Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , September 19, 2008, accessed on December 13, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Cologne 99ers largest basketball club in Germany (www.rbc-koeln99ers.de, January 13, 2009)
  4. ↑ Cologne 99ers - press release. In: schoenen-dunk.de . July 17, 2009, accessed November 26, 2019.
  5. ↑ Jürgen Timsries: Rhein Stars Cologne - syndicate of Köln 99ers and MTV Cologne 1850. press release. (No longer available online.) In: sg-koeln99ers.de. June 12, 2013, archived from the original on February 22, 2014 ; accessed on July 9, 2018 .