BC Eindhoven is a Dutch

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club based in

Eindhoven Eindhoven () is a city and municipality in the Netherlands, located in the southern province of North Brabant of which it is its largest. With a population of 238,326 on 1 January 2022,Dutch Basketball League The Dutch Basketball League (DBL), formerly the Eredivisie, was the highest professional basketball league in the Netherlands, run by the Federatie Eredivisie Basketball (FEB). Since 2021, the league has been replaced by the Belgian-Dutch BNXT L ...

(DBL). Its predecessor was EBC Pirates, which was founded in 1961. Later, the club was known as PSV Basketball as the team became a part of football club

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. Due to investments by PSV, the team promoted to the lower national divisions. In 1980, PSV Basketball won the national

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. To play in the national level, the team was separated in 1982 and the BC Eindhoven entity was founded. In the 1987–88 season, Eindhoven promoted from the Promotiedivisie to the first-tier

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. The team stayed here until the 1990s, after the necessary financial support for professional basketball was missing. The current BC Eindhoven club only consists of amateur teams.

Honours

*Winners (1): 1979–80 Promotiedivisie *Winners (1): 1987–88

References

{{Dutch Basketball League Basketball teams established in 1961 Former Dutch Basketball League teams Sports clubs in North Brabant