Roseto Sharks

	Roseto Sharks
Founded	1946 / 2009
Hall	PalaMaggetti ; (4,200 seats)
Homepage	www.rosetosharks.com
president	Daniele Cimorosi
Sports director	Emanuele Di Paolantonio
Trainer	Phil Melillo
league	Serie A2 Est ; 2016/17: quarter-finals, 6th place
Colours	Blue White
home	Away
	successes
	1998 Italian Amateur Cup

Associazione sportiva Roseto Sharks is an Italian basketball club from Roseto degli Abruzzi . The association has its origins in the Roseto Basket association founded in 1946 . He called himself in 2001 in Roseto Sharks, before he ceased his professional gaming operations in 2006 due to bankruptcy. In 2009, after an interlude by Pallacanestro Roseto in 1946, the Roseto Sharks were re-established in the 2008/09 season. In the 2012/13 season, the Roseto Sharks play in the fourth highest Italian division Divisione Nazionale B.

history

Roseto Basket (1946 to 2006)

After basketball teams had participated in competitions in the Polisportiva Rosetana association since 1922, the Roseto Basket Ball Club was founded in 1946. This club achieved promotion to the then second highest division Serie B in 1953 and four years later the promotion to the then Serie A as the highest national division succeeded. After another four seasons, however, the relegation to Serie B took place, to which one belonged from then on, except for a season in 1967/68 when they played in Serie C. After the establishment of the A2 series in 1974, another leap into the second class was achieved in 1982. The A2 series, however, only belonged to one season before being relegated to the table penultimate again. 1985 came the temporary low point when the men's teams had to be signed off from the higher-class game operations after financial difficulties.

As early as 1988, Roseto Basket was promoted to the third division in the B1 series. In 1990 they were relegated from this league and only returned to the third-class B1 series in 1997. In the 1997/98 season, the march into the A2 series succeeded. In the second season in the A2 series, the championship of this division succeeded and thus in 2000 the return to the first class. In the first season after his return, as eighth of the table after the main round, he qualified for the play-offs for the championship, in which there was no chance in the first round against children of Bologna , which this season the triple of national championship, cup win and winning the first ULEB Euroleague . From the following season 2001/02 one stepped then as Euro Roseto Sharks and reached up to the season 2003/04 always the championship play-offs, in which one was however always eliminated in the first round. After the departure of the new name sponsor Sedima in 2005, they reached the league as fourth from last in the 2005/06 season, but received no license for another season due to bankruptcy.

Roseto Sharks (since 2009)

After economic difficulties, the president of the professional team of Fabriano Basket agreed with the organization of LegADue , which had replaced the A2 series, to move to Roseto, where the team was named Pallacanestro Roseto in 1946 in relation to the previous club Roseto Basket in the second highest Started the league. After a decent start to the season, this team slipped to the bottom of the table at the end of the season. After you did not get any eligibility to play in the next lower division Serie A Dilettanti at the end of the season , this team was also canceled from the game.

Afterwards, however, the Roseto Sharks were 2,009 new and reached 2011, the new fourth-highest division Divisione National B. Here you play in 2013 in the play-offs for promotion to the of the League organization LegADue self-organized Legadue Argento with that of the FIP organized previous Divisione Nationale A will replace as the third highest division.