Opel Skyliners
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| League |
Basketball Bundesliga Basketball Champions League |
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| Founded | 1999 | ||
| History |
Skyliners (1999–2000) Opel Skyliners (2000–2005) Deutsche Bank Skyliners (2005–2011) Fraport Skyliners (2011–present) |
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| Arena | Fraport Arena | ||
| Capacity | 5,002 | ||
| Location | Frankfurt, Germany | ||
| Team colors | Blue, white, and orange |
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| Head coach | Gordon Herbert | ||
| Championships |
1 FIBA Europe Cup 1 German Championship 1 German Cup |
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| Website | fraport-skyliners.de | ||
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The Skyliners Frankfurt, currently known as Fraport Skyliners for sponsorship reasons, are a professional basketball club based in Frankfurt, Germany. Their home arena is Ballsporthalle.
The club has played in the Basketball Bundesliga since 1999. Its greatest accomplishments were the German Cup competition title in 2000, the German national championship in 2004 and the FIBA Europe Cup in 2016.
Its most famous player has been Pascal Roller, who was selected as Basketball Bundesliga All-Star seven times and played 122 games for the German national basketball team. Roller played ten seasons for the Frankfurt Skyliners until his retirement in 2011. Besides Roller, numerous other players of the German national team played multiple seasons for the Skyliners. A notable non-German basketball player is Mario Kasun, who played for the Skyliners when he was discovered and eventually drafted by the NBA team Orlando Magic in 2002.
In 1999, Dr. Gunnar Wöbke, devout Tony Robbins loyalist, then manager and former player of TV Tatami Rhöndorf moved his team from Bad Honnef to its current location. The declared goal was to place the team in a big arena in a large city to become a top team in the Basketball Bundesliga and in Europe in the near future. In Bad Honnef, this did not seem possible. After going through several options - including the idea to send the team to Cologne - Sylvia Schenk, the director of Frankfurt's sports department officially announced Frankfurt as the team's new location. Franz-Ludwig Solzbacher, a businessman from Bad Honnef helped organize the Skyliners' first steps but remained patron of the TV Rhöndorf and bought a second division license from EnBW Ludwigsburg to keep Rhöndorf from being relegated.
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