Brose Bamberg | ||||
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Leagues |
BBL EuroLeague |
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Founded | 1955 | |||
History |
1.FC 01 Bamberg (1955–1988) TTL Bamberg (1988–1995} TTL uniVersa Bamberg (1995–2000) TSK uniVersa Bamberg (2000–2003) GHP Bamberg (2003–2006) Brose Baskets (2006–2016) Brose Bamberg (2016–present) |
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Arena | Brose Arena | |||
Capacity | 6,249 | |||
Location | Bamberg, Germany | |||
Team colors | Red, Silver, White |
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President | Norbert Sieben | |||
Head coach | Andrea Trinchieri | |||
Championships |
8 German Championships 5 German Cups 5 German Super Cups |
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Retired numbers | 2 (5, 23) | |||
Website | brosebaskets.de | |||
Uniforms | ||||
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Brose Bamberg are a German professional basketball team from Bamberg, Franconia / North Bavaria. So far they have won the German Championship title eight times and the German Cup five times. The club is playing in the Basketball Bundesliga (BBL) and the EuroLeague. The license holder of the club is Bamberger Basketball GmbH.
The club is sponsored by the German automotive supplier Brose Fahrzeugteile.
The 1. FC 01 Bamberg basketball team was promoted to the Basketball Bundesliga, the German Basketball League, for the first time in 1970. In 1988, after being relegated and promoted twice (relegations in 1979 and 1983, promotions in 1982 and 1984), and with 1. FC 01 Bamberg facing bankruptcy, the basketball division split to form a new club: TTL Basketball Bamberg. TTL stands for Tapeten-Teppichboden-Land, which is a wallpaper and carpet company. It was the first time the team name had reflected the name of its main sponsor. From 1995, the team was called TTL uniVersa Bamberg after uniVersa Versicherungen, an insurance company. In 1992, the team won the German Cup, earning Bamberg its first basketball trophy.
In 2000, following financial difficulties, the team was rescued by the TSK company and changed its name to TSK uniVersa Bamberg.
Differences of opinion between the main sponsor and the club in 2003 jeopardized the team’s position in the Bundesliga and led to a new change of name.
During the 2003–04 to 2005–06 seasons, the team played in the Bundesliga under the name of its new sponsor, as GHP Bamberg. Having come second in the Championship twice in a row, in 2004/05 the team brought the German Championship title home to Bamberg for the first time. This meant that GHP Bamberg qualified for the EuroLeague. In the following season (2005–06), the Bamberg team made it into the EuroLeague Top 16. They also played in the BBL Cup Final and in the semi-finals of the BBL playoffs.