TSV 1861 Giants Nördlingen is a basketball club based in

Nördlingen Nördlingen (; Swabian: ''Nearle'' or ''Nearleng'') is a town in the Donau-Ries district, in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany, with a population of approximately 20,674. It is located approximately east of Stuttgart, and northwest of Munich. It was ...

, Germany. The club currently plays in the

ProB The ProB is the German basketball league system, third-tier level Sports league, league of professional club basketball in Germany. The league comprises 24 teams, separated into a Northern and a Southern Division. Officially, the ProB is part of ...

, the German third highest league.

History

The club was founded as ''TSV Nördlingen'' in 1953. In the 1972/73 season TSV 1861 Nördlingen competed for first time in the southern group of the

Basketball Bundesliga The Basketball Bundesliga (BBL) (English language: ''Federal Basketball League''), for sponsorship reasons named easyCredit BBL, is the German basketball league system, highest level Sports league, league of professional club basketball in German ...

. After finishing bottom of the table (5/23 record) the club was relegated.
In the 2007/08 season, under the coach Andreas Wagner, Nördlingen managed to win the championship to the Bundesliga ProA and earned promotion to the

. In the spring of 2008, the club was renamed to Giants Nördlingen Basketball AG.

Results

Honours

2. Basketball Bundesliga The 2. Basketball Bundesliga was the second level Sports league, league of the German basketball league system, German professional basketball league system. Until the 2007–08 season, the ''2. Basketball Bundesliga'' was replaced by two geographi ...

(1): :2007–08

Notable players

External links

Team profile at eurobasket.com
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