New Star Basketball Club is a Burundian

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club. The team plays in the National League of Burundi, and has won the championship in 2021. One of New Stars' most notable players has been

Guibert Nijimbere Joe Guibert Nijimbere (born 26 December 1996) is a Burundian basketball player for Kepler and the Burundi national basketball team. Early life Nijimbere was born on 26 December 1996 in Mutanga-Nord, a suburb of Bujumbura, the largest city in th ...

Basketball Africa League

New Star qualified for the 2022 BAL Qualifying Tournaments. There, New Star won its first four games. The winning streak was finally stopped in the semi-finals by South Sudan's Cobra Sport who won the decisive match 78-76.

Honours

Burundian Championship *Champions: 2007, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2021

In African competitions

BAL Qualifiers (1 appearance) ::

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– Fourth Place

Players

Current roster

The following is the New Star BBC roster for the second round of the

2022 BAL qualification The qualification tournaments for the 2022 BAL season, also known as the Road to BAL 2022, were the qualification rounds for the second season of the Basketball Africa League (BAL). The tournaments began on 19 October 2021 and ended 16 December 2021 ...

Notable players

(3 years: 2014–2017)

References

External links

New Star
at AfroBasket.com Basketball teams in Burundi Bujumbura Basketball teams established in 2002 2002 establishments in Burundi Road to BAL teams {{Africa-basketball-team-stub