UBC St. Pölten
| UBC St. Pölten | |
|---|---|
| Club data | |
| Website: | www.ubc-stp.at |
| Founding year: | 2007 |
| Venue: | State sports center St. Pölten |
| Dress colors: | Home games: yellow Away games: blue |
UBC St. Pölten is a basketball club from St. Pölten in Lower Austria . The association was founded in 1955 as UKJ St. Pölten . Between 1993 and 1999 the club won six Austrian championship titles and three titles in the Austrian Cup as the UKJ SÜBA Basketball St. Pölten . Outstanding player in this era was Neno Ašćerić . In the 2006/07 season the team played under the name Basketball St. Pölten.
After the club went bankrupt in 2007, it was re-established as UBC St. Pölten. The Bundesliga place went to the newly founded club. The team played in the 2007/08 season as the only representative of the basketball Bundesliga exclusively with Austrian players. In the first year the "Team Austria" qualified for the first main round and finally reached eighth place.
After a few mixed seasons, the board of the UBC St. Pölten managed to find a new main sponsor. In the course of this, the association was also renamed. As of May 25, 2012, the club was called Chin Min Dragons. The renaming heralded a new era in St. Pölten basketball. Long-term coach and master maker Hubert Schreiner ended his successful coaching career after 30 years and his assistant Uros Vukadinovic became the new head coach. In November 2013, the Finn Jussi Immonen took over from Vukadinovic after a bad start to the season. In 2014 the team was relegated to the 2nd Bundesliga. In the 2015/16 season they won the championship title in the second-highest division, but promotion was out of the question for economic reasons. Master coach Jurica Smiljanic then left the club for personal reasons, followed by Armin Göttlicher . In the summer of 2017 there was a separation between the club and Göttlicher due to different views after they had previously become runner-up in the second division. Andreas Worenz became Göttlicher's successor .
From the 2016/2017 game year, the team started again under the name UBC St. Pölten. In the 2018/19 season they became second division champions. The team returned to the Bundesliga and did so with a new name (SKN) after a collaboration with the football club spusu SKN St. Pölten was agreed in May 2019. Economically, however, there was still independence.
Men's successes
- Austrian champion : 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999
- Cup winner: 1994, 1996, 1998
Web links
- ubc-stp.at
- ÖBL-Basketball-Bundesliga (current table, match results and statistics)
- UBC St. Polten on Eurobasket.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Carpenter no longer a trainer. Retrieved April 23, 2019 .
- ↑ Background. In: noen.at. Retrieved April 23, 2019 .
- ↑ Basketball master, but no promotion. In: noen.at. Retrieved April 23, 2019 .
- ↑ On new paths. In: noen.at. Retrieved April 23, 2019 .
- ↑ SENSATION !!! RAIDERS VILLACH are ÖSTERR. MASTER ! Retrieved April 23, 2019 .
- ↑ The beginning of an era? In: noen.at. Retrieved April 23, 2019 .
- ↑ About us. In: UBC ST. PÖLTEN. Retrieved April 23, 2019 .
- ↑ JENNERSDORF BLACKBIRDS WIN SECOND BASKETBALL BUNDESLIGA. In: ADMIRAL Basketball Bundesliga. Retrieved April 23, 2019 .
- ↑ No license for the Fürstenfeld Panthers. Retrieved September 6, 2019 (German).
- ↑ SKN and UBC St. Pölten will go on a common path in the future. Retrieved September 6, 2019 (German).