Kangoeroes Basket Mechelen, also known as Kangoeroes or Kangoeroes Mechelen, is a

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club based in

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. Founded in 2009, the club plays in the

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. Kangoeroes have been playing in the top tier division in Belgium for years, since 2013. Previously, the team played in Boom and

Willebroek Willebroek (, old spelling: ''Willebroeck'', also ) is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Antwerp. The municipality comprises the towns of , Heindonk, , Klein Willebroek, and Willebroek proper. In 2021, Willebroek had a total popul ...

. In 2018, the club moved to

History

The club was founded in 2009, as a result of a merger between BBC Kangoeroes Willebroek and Boom BBC. The team name was BBC Kangoeroes Boom, but in summer 2013 the team was renamed Kangoeroes Basket Willebroek. In the 2013–14 season, Kangoeroes entered the professional first tier

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. The Kangoeroes received a C-licence from the Belgium Basketball Federation. This license allowed the team to play with a considerably lower budget than other teams.

Move to Mechelen

In January 2018, Kangoroes announced it would move the team to the city of

starting from the 2018–19 season. The arena in Willebroek did not fulfill the needs of the Division I. With its merger the club would merge with Pitzemburg Basket and the new team was Kangoeres Basket Mechelen. Since the 2021–22 season, Kangoeroes plays in the

, in which the national leagues of Belgium and the Netherlands have been merged. In the 2024–25 season, Kangoeroes won the BNXT League title, after finishing in the first position of the regular season with a 26–10 record. It was the Kangoeroes' first trophy at the highest level.

Arenas

Names

*'BBC Kangoeroes-Boom (2009–2013) *Kangoeroes Basket Willebroek (2013–2018) *Kangoeroes Basket Mechelen (2018–present)

Honours

* Winners (1): 2024–25 BNXT Belgian Championship *Runners-up (2): 2021–22, 2024–25

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*Runners-up (1): 2020–21

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*Winners (1): 2010–11 *Runners-up (2): 2009–10, 2012–13

Season by season

Players

Current roster

Notable players

* Toarlyn Fitzpatrick (1 season: 2013–14) * Eduardo Hernández-Sonseca (1 season: 2013–14) * Mohamed Kherrazi (1 season: 2020–21) * Jito Kok (2 seasons: 2019–21) * Domien Loubry (2 seasons: 2020–present) * Wen Mukubu (1 seasons: 2021–2024)

Individual awards

; BNXT League Dream Team *Myles Stephens – 2022 * Wen Mukubu – 2022 * Trenton Gibson –

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* Aundre Hyatt –

; BNXT League Player of the Year * Wen Mukubu – 2022 ; BNXT League Coach of the Year *Kristof Michiels – 2022

Head coaches

* Paul Vervaeck (2009–2012) * Tom Poppe (2012) * Aleksander Peldic (2013–2014) * Daniel Goethals (2014–2017) *

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(2017–2018) * Yves Defrainge (2018) * Paul Vervaeck (2018–2021) * Kristof Michiels (2021–2024) * Tony Van den Bosch (2024–present)

Women's basketball

Current roster

References

External links

Official website

Kangoeroes Basket Willebroek at Ethias League website
{{BNXT League Basketball teams in Belgium Basketball teams established in 2009 Pro Basketball League teams