Basketball Bundesliga 2009–10

The Basketball Bundesliga 2009–10 was the 44th season of the Basketball Bundesliga. Ten days before the start of the season, Beko was presented as the new main sponsor of the BBL. The sponsorship agreement was made for a period of six years and included a rebranding of the league name to Beko BBL [1]. After topsy-turvy playoffs that saw all of the top four teams in the regular season defeated in the first round, Brose Baskets Bamberg won the title after a 5-game final series against the Skyliners Frankfurt, who had defeated another higher seed in the semifinals. It was the 3rd title for Bamberg, who were also the only higher-seeded team to win a playoff series this season.

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Teams

Giants Nördlingen have decided to withdraw from the Basketball Bundesliga (BBL) and play in the Pro A this season. This resulted in a wild card to be issued by the BBL. The wild card was granted to LTi Giessen 46ers [2]. LTi Giessen 46ers finished on a relegation position the previous season. Mitteldeutscher BC and Phoenix Hagen of the Pro A division have qualified by sportive means to play in Basketball Bundesliga 2009–10. Both received a licence for this season [3]. Phoenix Hagen still has to meet a deadline by 30 July 2009 regarding their arena to maintain the licence, however the BBL expects them to meet the requirements. On 10 July 2009 Köln 99ers have filed for insolvency [4]. On Monday 20 July 2009 he BBL intended to decide and announce its reaction to this insolvency [5]. However on Friday 17 July 2009 Köln 99ers declared to renounce their BBL licence [6]. The created free space resulted in a second wild card being issued to Eisbären Bremerhaven [7]. Eisbären Bremerhaven finished last in the previous season and originally were to be relegated.

Tübingen
BBL 2009–10 – Club Locations
Team City/Area Arena Arena
Capacity [8]		 08–09
Ranking
Brose Baskets Bamberg Jako-Arena 6800 7th / PO
ALBA Berlin Berlin O₂ World 14500 1st / PO / cup winner
Telekom Baskets Bonn Bonn Telekom Dome 6000 4th / PO
New Yorker Phantoms Braunschweig Braunschweig Volkswagen Halle Braunschweig 6800 13th
Eisbären Bremerhaven Bremerhaven Stadthalle Bremerhaven 4200 18th / Rel / wild card
Giants Düsseldorf Düsseldorf Burg-Wächter Castello 3670 12th
Deutsche Bank Skyliners Frankfurt Ballsporthalle Frankfurt 5002 6th / PO
LTi Giessen 46ers Gießen Sporthalle Gießen-Ost 4003 17th / Rel / wild card
BG Göttingen Göttingen Lokhalle Göttingen 3474 2nd / PO
Phoenix Hagen Hagen Phoenix-Halle 3013 Pro A: 2nd / promotion
EnBW Ludwigsburg Ludwigsburg Arena Ludwigsburg 5300 11th
EWE Baskets Oldenburg Oldenburg EWE-Arena 3148 3rd / PO / champion
Paderborn Baskets Paderborn Sportzentrum Maspernplatz 3014 8th / PO
Artland Dragons Quakenbrück Artland-Arena 3000 9th
TBB Trier Trier Arena Trier 5900 10th
Walter Tigers Tübingen Tübingen Paul Horn-Arena 3132 14th
Ratiopharm Ulm Ulm Kuhberghalle 3000 5th / PO
Mitteldeutscher BC Weißenfels Stadthalle Weißenfels 3000 Pro A: 1st / promotion

PO: Playoff; Rel: Relegation; Pro A: Division below BBL

Main round standings

# Team Wins
 Losses
 Points Points
For:Against		 Plus/Minus
[9]
1 EWE Baskets Oldenburg 25 9 59 2564:2292 +272
2 ALBA Berlin 25 9 59 2594:2280 +314
3 BG Göttingen 24 10 58 2786:2511 +275
4 Telekom Baskets Bonn 24 10 58 2561:2475 +86
5 Brose Baskets Bamberg 22 12 56 2660:2443 +217
6 Eisbären Bremerhaven 21 13 55 2755:2631 +124
7 Deutsche Bank SKYLINERS 21 13 55 2561:2467 +94
8 New Yorker Phantoms Braunschweig 19 15 53 2688:2629 +59
9 Artland Dragons 19 15 53 2693:2486 +207
10 Mitteldeutscher BC 18 16 52 2601:2599 +2
11 EnBW Ludwigsburg 17 17 51 2522:2554 -32
12 WALTER Tigers Tübingen 16 18 50 2645:2705 -60
13 ratiopharm Ulm 13 21 47 2662:2826 -164
14 LTi Giessen 46ers 10 24 44 2482:2675 -193
15 TBB Trier 10 24 44 2492:2730 -238
16 Phoenix Hagen 9 25 43 2470:2798 -328
17 Giants Düsseldorf 8 26 42 2399:2562 -163
18 webmoebel Baskets 5 29 39 2384:2856 -472
= Qualification for Playoffs
= Relegation to Pro A

Playoffs

  Quarter-finals Semi-finals Finals
                                                   
  1  EWE Baskets Oldenburg 83 65 66 76 X  
8  Phantoms Braunschweig 67 73 70 78 X  
  8  Phantoms Braunschweig 77 73 82 X X  
  5  Brose Baskets Bamberg 86 82 94 X X  
4  Telekom Baskets Bonn 78 71 82 X X
  5  Brose Baskets Bamberg 80 83 84 X X  
    5  Brose Baskets Bamberg 63 77 97 56 72
  7  Deutsche Bank Skyliners 65 68 52 69 70
  2  ALBA Berlin 71 63 87 58 X  
7  Deutsche Bank Skyliners 76 76 76 69 X  
  7  Deutsche Bank Skyliners 58 84 79 69 56
  6  Eisbären Bremerhaven 75 83 53 76 52    
3  BG Göttingen 91 72 83 83 78
  6  Eisbären Bremerhaven 73 91 78 90 79  

See also

References

  1. ^ Beko is the new main sponsor of Basketball Bundesliga BBL
  2. ^ LTi 46ers bleiben in der BBL BBL (German)
  3. ^ BBL-Lizenzligaausschuss erteilt sieben Klubs "grünes Licht" BBL (German)
  4. ^ Köln 99ers stellen Insolvenzantrag BBL (German)
  5. ^ Köln 99ers: Entscheidung fällt am 20. Juli BBL (German)
  6. ^ PRESSEERKLÄRUNG Köln 99ers (German)
  7. ^ Köln 99ers scheiden aus BBL aus BBL (German)
  8. ^ Zuschauerzahlen BBL (German)
  9. ^ Main round standings BBL (German)

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