Wolfenbüttel Dukes

The Wolfenbüttel Dukes eV were a German basketball club from Wolfenbüttel .

The club was founded in 2002 and got the license of SG MTV / BG Wolfenbüttel, which was promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga North. Then the Dukes played six seasons in the second highest German division. Under their coaches Thorsten Weinhold (2002/03 and from February 2008), Vlastibor Klimeš (2003–2005), Nestor Katsagiorgis (2005/06), Halil Coskun (2006/07) and Andreas Hundt (2007 to February 2008), the Dukes achieved always placements in the lower midfield of the league. The race to catch up in spring 2008 will be remembered by fans as particularly spectacular. With only three wins, the Dukes were beaten at the bottom of the table after twenty matchdays, before the newly signed coach Thorsten Weinhold managed to jump to a non-relegation place with nine wins from the remaining ten games.

The most important players of the Dukes were the Dutch center Peter van Rij (140 Bundesliga games, 2,396 points), guard Henje Knopke from Wolfenbüttel (121 games, 809 points) and center Frank Theis (116 games, 1,305 points). Knopke and Theis will continue to wear the colors of Lessingstadt in the future.

Due to ongoing bankruptcy proceedings by the Dukes, a new association was founded in July 2008. In the 2008/2009 season, Wolfenbüttel's top-class men's basketball players will compete in the 2nd Bundesliga Pro B under the name of Duke Wolfenbüttel .