Baskets Oldenburg, for sponsorship reasons EWE Baskets Oldenburg, is a professional basketball club that is based in the city of Oldenburg, Germany. The club plays in the Bundesliga. The club's name is derived from the team's main sponsor EWE AG, which is an electric utility company. The club's home arena is the Große EWE Arena.
History The EWE Baskets Oldenburg club's origins began in the year 1954, as the basketball department of the Oldenburger TB sports club. In the year 2001, the basketball department of Oldenburger TB formed a new separate club, called EWE Baskets Oldenburg. The Oldenburger TB team then started to function as the development team of EWE Baskets.
In the 2008–09 season, EWE Baskets Oldenburg achieved their greatest success, by winning the German League championship title. As German Champion, Oldenburg won the right to play in the EuroLeague, during the next season of 2009–10.History
In 2015, they won the German Cup title, while being host to the Cup Final Four. In the Cup Semi-final, Oldenburg beat Bonn, by a score of 71–77, and in the Cup Final, the team was too strong for Bamberg, as they beat them by a score of 70–72.
Arenas
Oldenburg's home games take place at the 6,200 seat Große EWE Arena, which opened in 2013.
Honors Total titles:
Domestic competitions Basketball Bundesliga Champions: 2008–09 Runners-up: 2012–13, 2016–17 BBL-Pokal Champions: 2015 BBL Champions Cup Champions: 2009
2. Basketball Bundesliga Champions: 1987, 1998, 2000
European competitions FIBA EuroChallenge Third place: 2012–13
Players Retired numbers EWE Baskets Oldenburg retired numbersEWE Baskets – Retired Numbers No.PlayerPositionTenure 6 Daniel Strauch PF 2003–2010 8 Pavel Bečka C 1995–2004 2006 14 Tyron McCoy SG 2001–2007 23 Rickey Paulding SF 2007–2022
Current roster
Depth chart
Individual awards
BBL Most Valuable Player Jason Gardner – 2009 Will Cummings – 2019 BBL Finals MVP Rickey Paulding – 2009 All-BBL First Team Jason Gardner – 2008, 2009 Rickey Paulding – 2008, 2009, 2013, 2016 Brian Qvale – 2016 Chris Kramer – 2017
All-BBL Second Team Tyron McCoy – 2005 Je'Kel Foster – 2010 Adam Chubb – 2013 Julius Jenkins – 2014 Vaughn Duggins – 2016 Rickey Paulding – 2017 Brian Qvale – 2017
Notable players
Season by season
SeasonTierLeagueGerman Cup European competitions 2001–02 1 Bundesliga 12th Runner-up 2002–03 1 Bundesliga 6th 2003–04 1 Bundesliga 5th 2004–05 1 Bundesliga 7th 2005–06 1 Bundesliga 8th 2006–07 1 Bundesliga 9th 2007–08 1 Bundesliga 3rd 2008–09 1 Bundesliga 1st 3 EuroChallenge 10–1–5 2009–10 1 Bundesliga 5th Quarter-finalist 1 Euroleague 1–9 2010–11 1 Bundesliga 6th Quarter-finalist 2 Eurocup 1–5 2011–12 1 Bundesliga 10th Quarter-finalist 3 EuroChallenge 9–3 2012–131 Bundesliga 2nd Quarter-finalist 3 EuroChallenge 3rd 14–3 2013–14 1 Bundesliga 3rd Quarter-finalist 1 Euroleague 1–1 2 Eurocup 5–5 2014–15 1 Bundesliga 7th Champion 2 Eurocup 4–6 2015–16 1 Bundesliga 5th Quarter-finalist 2 Eurocup 8–8 2016–17 1 Bundesliga 2nd Champions League 11–1–62017–18 1 Bundesliga 7th Champions League 10–6 2018–19 1 Bundesliga 3rd Round of 16 2019–20 1 Bundesliga 4th Runner-up 2 EuroCup 8–8 2020–21 1 Bundesliga 5th Group stage 2021–221 Bundesliga 11th Round of 16 Champions League 1–5 2022–23 1 Bundesliga 6th Runner-up 2023–24 1 Bundesliga 10th Round of 16 Champions League 2–4 2024–25 1 Bundesliga 9th Round of 16 2025–26 1 Bundesliga 11th Semifinalist2026–271 Bundesliga
Colors and logos The traditional colors of the EWE Baskets Oldenburg basketball club are yellow and blue. From 2009 to 2018, the team adopted a slightly reworked logo, this time with a white background and which again featured an eagle. In 2018, the club adopted its massively modernized current logo, now round and with a different shade of blue. The eagle however is still on it.
References
External links
Eurobasket.com team profile