Rockets (basketball club)

Rockets
Founded July 2, 1998 (1998-07-02)
Arena Messe Erfurt
Capacity 3,236
Location Erfurt, Germany
Team colors Blue, White
         
President Astrid Kollmar
Head coach Ivan Pavić
Championships 1 ProB
Website www.rockets-basketball.de
Uniforms

Rockets is a German professional basketball team. It is originally based in Gotha, Germany but plays its home games in Erfurt. The Rockets are the first team of the BiG Gotha basketball club.

In 2017, Rockets promoted to the Basketball Bundesliga (BBL), the German first tier. Following its debut season in the BBL, the professional team of Rockets was dissolved.[1]

History

Oettinger Rockets home game in 2017

The Oettinger Rockets were found as the first team of the club Gotha e.V. which was founded on July 2, 1998. The team started in the Bezirksliga and promoted to the fourth tier 1.Regionliga in 2005.

In the 2009–10 season, the Rockets were promoted to the national third level, the ProB.[2] In the 2011–12 season, Gotha was crowned ProB champions and the team was promoted to the second tier level ProA.[3]

Since the 2016–17 season, the Rockets play in the Messe Erfurt, which has a capacity of 3,236 people.[4] On May 3, 2017, the team earned promotion to the Basketball Bundesliga by beating Niners Chemnitz in the semi-finals of the ProA to claim a promotion spot.[5][6]

Rockets Gotha started the 2017–18 season as "Oettinger Rockets", named after its main sponsor Oettinger Brauerei. However, from January 2018 the main sponsor left and the club would be simply known as "Rockets".[7] In its debut season in the BBL, Rockets ended in the 17th place and relegated back to the ProA. In July 2018, the organization announced that it was not able to play in the professional ProA league.[1]

Honours

Winners: 2011–12

Players

Notable players

Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationality not displayed.

Head coaches

Period Coach
2013–2017Germany Chris Ensminger
2017–2018Germany Ivan Pavić

Season by season

Season Tier League Pos.
2010–11 3 ProB 9th
2011–12 3 ProB 1st
2012–13 2 ProA 14th
2013–14 2 ProA 7th
2014–15 2 ProA 4th
2015–16 2 ProA 3rd
2016–17 2 ProA 2nd
2017–18 1 BBL 17th

Source: Eurobasket.com

Sponsorship names

The logo of the Oettinger Rockets

Due to sponsorship reasons, the team has been known as:

References

  1. 1 2
  2. ↑ Peter Sack. "BiG - Basketball in Gotha: Rockets starten in der Pro B Süd" (in German). Retrieved 2017-03-07.
  3. ↑ Peter Sack. "BiG - Basketball in Gotha: Rockets weiter in der ProB" (in German). Retrieved 2017-03-07.
  4. ↑ Peter Sack. "BiG - Basketball in Gotha: Rockets spielen nächste Saison in der Messe Erfurt". www.big-gotha.de. Retrieved 2016-12-11.
  5. ↑ "Unfassbare Aufholjagd: Rockets siegen und steigen in die Bundesliga auf". 2017-05-03.
  6. ↑ "Oettinger Rockets zweiter Aufsteiger in die easyCredit BBL". zweite-basketball-bundesliga.de. 2017-05-03. Retrieved 2017-05-04.
  7. ↑ "Thüringer Bundesliga-Basketballer gehen letztmals als „Oettinger Rockets" auf Korbjagd" (in German). Thueringer-allgemeine.de. 30 December 2017. Retrieved 9 January 2018.
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