Gladiators Trier

Gladiators Trier
Founded	2015
Hall	Arena Trier (5900 seats)
Homepage	http: //römerstrom-gladiators.de/
Trainer	Marco van den Berg
league	2nd Bundesliga ProA men
	JBBL U 16
Colours	Green / black
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The Gladiators Trier ( German Gladiators of Trier ) are a German basketball team from the Rhineland-Palatinate Trier , which has played in the 2nd Bundesliga ( ProA ) since 2015 . Marco van den Berg has been Trier's head coach since 2020 . Since August 2016 the team has been called Römerstrom Gladiators Trier .

history

founding

In March 2015, Treveri Basketball AG, the operating company of Bundesliga club TBB Trier , filed for bankruptcy. Because of this and because of a violation of the license regulations, the team was deducted a total of six points from the league. The TBB ended the 2014/15 season on the penultimate place in the table and was therefore relegated to the 2nd Bundesliga ProA .

In March 2015, the Trier ball sports movement UG was founded, which was not legally the successor to the bankrupt Treveri Basketball AG, but de facto took over the sporting legacy. At the end of May 2015, TBB's right to participate in the ProA season 2015/16 was transferred to the UG. At the end of July, the UG was converted into the Trier Ballsport Movement GmbH.

"Gladiators Trier" was chosen as the new team name, the colors green and white of the previous team TBB were adopted. The newly designed coat of arms showed a green gladiator, a basketball and the team logo. The name Gladiators should symbolize "courage, the will to win and passion", announced the then managing director Ronny Höpfner in July 2015 on the occasion of the presentation of the team name and coat of arms.

Inaugural season 2015/16

At the end of October 2015, manager Michael Lang announced that the young company was facing a financial gap due to a lack of advertising income and due to the license purchase. However, this was partially closed in the following weeks.

In their first season (2015/16) Trier reached the semi-finals of the 2nd Bundesliga ProA under the Dutch head coach Marco van den Berg , but were eliminated there against Science City Jena .

Development since 2016

On August 1, 2016, the team changed its name to Römerstrom Gladiators Trier after the Trier public utility company had taken over the naming rights. In the 2016/17 season the playoff quarter-finals were reached, where the Moselans were defeated by Chemnitz with 2: 3 wins. In the 2017/2018 season, the Gladiators reached the playoffs again with sixth place in the main round and met MLP Academics Heidelberg in the first round , which they defeated with 3-2 wins. In the semifinals Trier met the Crailsheim Merlins , who were second in the main round, and were eliminated with 1: 3 wins.

In mid-January 2018, the club announced a change of coach at the end of the 2017/18 season: Van den Berg decided to return to his home in the Netherlands; his previous assistant Christian Held would take over as head coach from the 2018/19 season onwards . Held led the team in the 2018/19 season as sixth in the championship round of the 2nd Bundesliga ProA. In the subsequent playoff quarter-finals, they lost 3-0 to the future finalists Nürnberg Falcons . Held's term of office ended in April 2020 and his successor was his predecessor, the Dutchman van den Berg.

player

Current squad

Squad of Römerstrom Gladiators Trier 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 Guards ( PG , SG ) 3 Kevin Smit 04/06/1991 1.83 m SC RASTA Vechta 5 Rupert Hennen 10/30/1997 1.82 m TBB Trier 2 10 Thomas Green 02/28/1995 1.96 m Sluc Nancy Basket 25th Vincent Hennen 09/27/2000 1.87 m Gladiators Trier II 0 Chase Adams 12/30/1988 1.78 m Rostock Seawolves Forwards ( SF , PF ) 12 Stefan Ilzhöfer 03/22/1995 2.04 m FRAPORT SKYLINERS Juniors 4th Jermaine Bucknor 11/01/1983 2.01 m Olimpico LB 16 Markus Zock 02/28/2002 2.01 m Young gladiators Center ( C ) 8th Kilian Dietz 11/9/1990 2.02 m TBB Trier 2	Trainer Nat. Surname position Marco van den Berg Head coach Assistant coach Legend Abbr. meaning C. Team captain swell League homepage As of September 14, 2019

Additions for the 2020/2021 season

• Dan Monteroso ( Ehingen Urspring )
• Jonas Grof ( Phoenix Hagen )
• Brody Clarke (Edmonton Stingers)

Departures after the 2019/2020 season

• Jordan spirit
• Kyle Dranginis
• Lucien Schmabile
• Till Gloger (Rostock Seawolves)
• Stefan Ilzhöfer
• Simon Schmitz (end of career)

youth

Furthermore, the “Young Gladiators”, a youth team of the Gladiators Trier, plays in the JBBL . In the 2019/2020 season, the Gladiators youth team managed to qualify for the NBBL for the first time.

Venue

The statutes of the Basketball Bundesliga stipulate a TV-compatible hall with at least 3000 seats as the home ground for every Bundesliga club. The city of Trier therefore had the Trier arena built, which with almost 5,000 seats more than meets the requirements of the league. The maximum capacity for basketball games is officially 5,900 seats, including around 900 standing places. The arena can be expanded with additional stands so that the capacity grows to 6,100 spectators. The number of spectators when a game is sold out varies from game to game, for example the game against FC Bayern Munich on March 17, 2012 with 5,984 guests was sold out.

Trainer

Previous trainer of the Gladiators Trier

Term of office	Surname	function
2015-2018	Marco van den Berg	Head coach
2018-2020	Christian hero	Head coach (previously assistant coach since 2016)
since 2020	Marco van den Berg	Head coach

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Relegation and bankruptcy: How the Trier Gladiators became from the TBB Trier. (No longer available online.) Trier.com, January 29, 2016, archived from the original on April 8, 2017 ; Retrieved April 7, 2017 . 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.  
2. ↑ The arbitral tribunal revised the decision. easyCredit, accessed April 7, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Trier Ball Sports Movement UG - new entry · Address · Managing Director: Christian Rech · Capital: € 100 · Object of the company. Retrieved April 7, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Quakenbrück and Trier play in the 2nd basketball league in 2015/2016. Retrieved April 7, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Trier Ball Sports Movement GmbH · Capital: € 25,000. Retrieved April 7, 2017 . 
6. ↑ The basketball gladiators arrive in the arena. In: WochenSpiegel. Retrieved April 7, 2017 . 
7. ↑ Gladiators reduce the financial gap - managers and managing directors are confident - new development association. volksfreund.de, accessed on April 7, 2017 . 
8. ↑ Season ended: The Gladiators Trier play well, but also lose the third semi-final - 64:73 at Science City Jena. volksfreund.de, accessed on January 27, 2017 . 
9. ↑ Gladiators Trier becomes "RÖMERSTROM Gladiators Trier". In: römerstrom-gladiators.de. Retrieved April 7, 2017 . 
10. ↑ RÖMERSTROM Gladiators lose in Chemnitz and are eliminated from the playoff quarter-finals. Gladiators Trier, accessed April 17, 2017 . 
11. ↑ semi-finals! RÖMERSTROM Gladiators win game 5. Accessed April 19, 2018 . 
12. ↑ Marek Fritzen: Gladiators lose fourth semi-final after a strong fight volksfreund.de.
13. ↑ Change of coach for the coming season… zwei-basketball-bundesliga.de.
14. ↑ 2. Basketball Bundesliga | Table ProA. Retrieved March 30, 2019 . 
15. ↑ Back on the Moselle: Marco van den Berg is the new head coach of the RÖMERSTROM Gladiators Trier. In: Gladiators Trier. Retrieved April 22, 2020 . 
16. ↑ Trier secures JBBL qualification. Retrieved September 14, 2019 . 
17. ↑ Gladiators for the first time in the U19 Bundesliga! Gladiators Trier, accessed on September 14, 2019 .