Mersey Tigers
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| League | British Basketball League | ||
| Established | 2007 | ||
| History |
Everton Tigers 2007-2010 Mersey Tigers 2010-present |
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| Arena |
Knowsley Leisure & Culture Park (Capacity: 750) |
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| Location |
 Liverpool, United Kingdom
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| Team colours | Black, Orange and White | ||
| Head coach |
Tony Walsh |
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| Ownership |
Steve Brookfield |
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| Website | MerseyTigers.com | ||
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Coordinates: 53°24′28.1″N 2°59′21.3″W / 53.407806°N 2.989250°W
The Mersey Tigers were a professional basketball team based in the city of Liverpool, in England (United Kingdom). The club was established in 2007 as a start-up franchise of the British Basketball League, the country's elite competition. The Tigers started competing at the start of the 2007-08 season, and won the BBL Cup in their second season as well as finishing as runners-up in the league.
After losing all 35 games in the 2012/13 season and failing to provide assurances to the BBL that there would be an improvement, Tigers were expelled from the competition in July 2013.
Previously, under the name Everton Tigers, the club was an Official Partner of the Everton Football Club organisation and an amalgam of the Toxteth Tigers community youth programme which started in 1968. The team's head coach is Tony Walsh. The franchise also operate the Tigers Basketball Academy in partnership with Childwall Academy, founded in 2009. However, in July 2010 Everton withdrew funding the club re-launched as Mersey Tigers.
On 12 July 2013 it was officially announced that the Mersey Tigers franchise had been withdrawn from the up-coming season by the BBL due to financial trouble that had plagued the club throughout the previous season, which resulted in the Tigers becoming the first club to complete an entire season without a single victory.
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