Challenge Sports Rotterdam

Challenge Sports Rotterdam
Leagues	Dutch Basketball League
Founded	1954
History	See Names
Arena	Topsportcentrum Rotterdam
Arena Capacity	1,000
Location	Rotterdam, Netherlands
Team colors	Green, Black, White
Head coach	Ferry Steenmetz
Championships	1 Dutch Cup
Website	Link
Uniforms
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Alternate logo

Challenge Sports Rotterdam is a Dutch professional basketball club based in Rotterdam. The team plays in the Dutch Basketball League and plays its home games at the Topsportcentrum next to De Kuip in Rotterdam. Despite being a team from a major Dutch city, Rotterdam has never won the Dutch championship, though they did win the Dutch NBB cup in 1985.

History

The Rotterdam Challengers in an away match against the GasTerra Flames in 2010

Challenge Sports Rotterdam started in 1954 under the name AMVJ Rotterdam.^[1] The first sponsor of the club was Gunco in 1988, which was their first year in the highest Dutch league. They only lasted a year and demoted to a lower division. In 1991 they returned with sponsor De Schiestreek, followed by the Rotterdam firm Idetrading in 1995. After a sponsorless year, Gunco then again returned as title sponsor in 1999. Johan Haga has made possible following a restart. This created a new name, new look, new logo and a change in the player selection.^[2] In 2002, the team took the name Rotterdam Basketbal, without sponsorname. In 2007 the team was renamed to Rotterdam Challengers, but in 2010 they again took the name Rotterdam Basketbal. Starting with the 2011–2012 season, the name became Rotterdam Basketbal College, to underline the importance of the youth in the team. During the 2013–14 season, the club got a new main sponsor in Challenge Sports and the team's name was changed to Challenge Sports Rotterdam.^[3]

Names

• 1995 – 1999 : Ide Trading
• 1999 – 2002 : Grunco
• 2002 – 2007 : Rotterdam Basketbal
• 2007 – 2010 : Rotterdam Challengers
• 2010 – 2011 : Rotterdam Basketbal
• 2011 – 2014 : Rotterdam Basketbal College
• 2014 – present: Challenge Sports Rotterdam

Team colours

• 2012–2013: Black, Green, White
                
• 2013–present: Grey, Dark Red, White
                

Current roster

Challenge Sports Rotterdam roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. # Nat. Name 1.0 !PG 4 USA ! Anderson, La'Shard (I) 1.5 !G 5 LIT ! Tamasauskas, Vaidas 1.5 !G 6 NED ! Rigters, Don 1.0 !PG 7 NED ! Mladenovic, Stefan 1.5 !G 8 NED ! Filipan, Ivan 3.0 !SF 9 NED ! Theeuwkens, Ties 3.5 !F 10 NED ! Kok, Michael 3.5 !F 11 NED ! van Sliedregt, Vincent 5.0 !C 12 NED ! Stolk, Bart 4.0 !PF 13 SUR ! De Randamie, Sergio (I) 5.0 !C 14 NED ! Krabbendam, Robert 5.0 !C 15 NED ! Steijn, Lucas 3.5 !F 21 NED ! Stolk, Coen 3.5 !F 22 NED ! Onuoha, Naigel	Head coach Armand Salomon Assistant coach(es) Thijs Arisz Muris Agic Legend (C) Team captain (I) Import player Injured Roster Updated: January 5, 2016

Trophies

• Dutch Cup (1):

1985

Runner-up: 2006

Season by season

Notable players

To appear in this section a player must have either: played at least one season for the club, set a club record or won an individual award while at the club, played at least one official international match for their national team at any time or performed very successfully during period in the club or at later/previous stages of his career.

• Arvin Slagter (2003–07)
• Worthy de Jong (2008–09)
• Patrick Hilliman (2009–11)
• Anthony Miles (2012–13)
• Chip Jones (2008–13)
• La'Shard Anderson (2013–14)
• Yannick Franke (2013–15)

References

External links

• Official website (Dutch)