Tigers Tübingen is a basketball team from Tübingen, a college town in central Baden-Württemberg, Germany, playing in the ProA, the country's second tier league. The team plays their home games at the Paul Horn-Arena, which has a capacity of 3,132 people.
Founded as SV 03 Tübingen, is affiliated with the multi-sports club SV 03 Tübingen, which was founded in 1903. In 1952, its basketball section was founded. In 2003, the name Walter Tigers Tübingen was chosen for the basketball team after the local Tübingen company Walter AG, a tool manufacturer, became the team's sponsor. The company ended their sponsorship in 2018.
Academy The Tübingen youth teams compete as Young Tigers Tübingen in the Oberliga (U19) and in the JBBL (U16). In 2010, under the leadership of then-coach Manuel Pasios, Tübingen made it into the NBBL for the first time. Previously, from 2006 to 2009, they played in the NBBL together with BBA Ludwigsburg as SG Ludwigsburg/Tübingen. Later, Kristiyan Borisov and Martin Ströbele took over the management of the NBBL team. In 2018, Pasios succeeded Claus Sieghörtner as coach of the regional league team. In 2022, the U19 team was relegated from the NBBL after twelve years in the league.
Tübingen has been playing in the JBBL since its foundation in 2009. Only in the 2010/11 season did the team fail to qualify.
History In 1992/93, SV 03 Tübingen became members of the Basketball Bundesliga for the first time, but didn't manage to escape relegation; a second one-season stint followed in 2001/02. After being promoted to the Basketball Bundesliga again in 2004 the name was changed to Walter Tigers Tübingen. In 14 consecutive seasons in the top flight they never succeeded in reaching the play-offs and were finally relegated to the ProA after finishing last in the 2017/18 season. In their first ProA season 2018/2019 the name was changed to Tigers Tübingen and they missed the playoffs by one spot finishing in the 9th place. The 2019/20 season was their second season in the ProA.
Players Current roster
Head coaches Span Coach 2004–2006 Pat Elzie 2006–2007 Aaron McCarthy 2008–2009 Tolga Öngören 2009–2015 Igor Perović 2016–2017 Tyron McCoy 2017–2018 Mathias Fischer 2018–2019 Aleksandar Nadjfeji 2019 Georg Kämpf 2019–2019 Doug Spradley 2020 Andy Hipsher 2020–2024 Daniel Jansson 2024–2026 Domenik Reinboth 2026–present Félix Bañobre
Season by season SeasonTierLeaguePos.Cup2000–012 2. BBL 2001–021 Bundesliga15th 2002–032 2. BBL 2003–042 2. BBL 2004–051 Bundesliga14th 2005–061 Bundesliga12th 2006–071 Bundesliga10th 2007–081 Bundesliga15th 2008–091 Bundesliga14th 2009–101 Bundesliga12th 2010–111 Bundesliga12th 2011–121 Bundesliga12th 2012–131 Bundesliga10th 2013–141 Bundesliga16th 2014–151 Bundesliga14th 2015–161 Bundesliga14th 2016–171 Bundesliga15th 2017–181 Bundesliga18th 2018–192 ProA9th 2019–202 ProA13th 2020–212 ProA13th 2021–222 ProA1st 2022–232 ProA2nd2023–241 Bundesliga18th First round2024–252 ProA7th First round2025–262 ProA 13th First round
Honours 2. Basketball Bundesliga Champions: 2001, 2004
Notable players Bakary Dibba Aatu Kivimäki Georgios Kalaitzakis
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