UBC Güssing Knights
| UBC magnofit Güssing Knights | |
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| Club data | |
| Address: |
UBC magnofit Güssing Knights Schulstrasse 21 A-7540 Güssing |
| Website: | www.guessing-knights.at |
| Founding year: | 1957 |
| Chairman: | Reinhard Koch |
| Venue: | Active Park Güssing |
| Capacity: | ~ 1500 |
| Dress colors: | Home games: White Away games: Black |
The UBC magnofit Güssing Knights were a basketball club from Güssing in Burgenland . The Knights were Austrian champions in 2014 and 2015 and cup winners in 2015. In spring 2016, the operating company “ökoStadt Güssing Sport GmbH” went bankrupt and the team's Bundesliga license was revoked.
history
The women's team was founded in 1957 by Paul Mayer, and the men's team entered the championship a year later. After promotion to Bundesliga B was achieved in 1995, the club voluntarily withdrew from the Bundesliga in 2000. In 2002 he was promoted to Bundesliga B again and finally to Bundesliga A in 2006.
In the 2013/14 season , the club won the Bundesliga under the leadership of German coach Matthias Zollner and thus achieved the greatest success in the club's history.
In the following 2014/15 season , the Knights secured their first cup title. They won the final with 90:61 against WBC Raiffeisen Wels. Thomas Klepeisz was awarded as the best player (MVP) of the final tournament . The championship title could also be defended with a 3: 1 in the final series against BC Zepter Vienna . In addition, the Knights also competed in the EuroChallenge for the first time in the 2014/15 season , where they made it into the intermediate round.
In April 2016, during the 2015/16 season, the Knights' Bundesliga license was withdrawn for financial reasons and the game had to be stopped.
successes
- Austrian champion (2): 2014, 2015
- Austrian Cup Winner (1): 2015 (3 Final Four participations in 2008, 2012, 2015)
- EuroChallenge : 2nd group stage ( 2014/15 season )
Bundesliga team 2015/16
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| Attention: The squad information is out of date! (current season: 2020/2021) |
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List 2015/16
| Item | starter | Bank | Bank |
|---|---|---|---|
| C. | Jerrell Wright | Cody Larson | |
| PF | Dane Watts | Luka Gaspar | |
| SF | Bradford Burgess | Sebastian Koch | Marko Soldo |
| SG | Thomas Klepeisz | Davonte Lacy | Bernhard Koch |
| PG | Moritz Lanegger | Manuel Jandrasits | Jakob Ernst |
Former players
Champion team 2013/14
- Philipp Horvath ( AUT , PG, 175 cm)
- Thomas Knor ( AUT , SG, 193 cm)
- Bernhard Koch ( AUT , SG, 190 cm)
- Anthony Shavies ( USA , G, 191 cm)
- Johannes Astl ( AUT , F, 195 cm)
- Ricardo Andreotti ( BRA , C, 203 cm)
Champion and Cup winning team 2014/15
- Christopher Dunn ( USA , PG, 190 cm)
- Matthias Klepeisz ( AUT , SG, 190 cm)
- Marcus Heard ( USA , PF, 201 cm)
- Chavdar Kostov ( BUL , SF, 195 cm)
- Aleksander Georgiev ( BUL , PF, 203 cm)
- Travis Taylor ( USA , C, 203 cm)
- David Hasenburger ( AUT , C, 207 cm)
Web links
- http://www.guessing-knights.at/
- http://www.oebl.at/
- http://www.basketballaustria.at/
- UBC magnofit Gussing Knights at Eurobasket.com
Individual evidence
- ^ Out for Güssing Knights. In: burgenland.orf.at. April 8, 2016, accessed November 2, 2018 .
- ↑ Basketball: Güssing first time champion. In: burgenland.orf.at. May 31, 2014, accessed November 2, 2018 .
- ↑ The Güssing Knights are masters again , website derstandard.at, accessed on June 4, 2015
- ↑ Christopher Käferle: magnofit Güssing Knights license is withdrawn. (No longer available online.) In: www.oebl.at. Archived from the original on October 13, 2016 ; accessed on February 26, 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.
