SPM Shoeters Den Bosch

Eiffel Towers is a Dutch basketball club from Den Bosch. The association has 16 tracks record champion in the Dutch basketball.

History

The club was founded in 1952 as the Eerste Bossche Basketball Club. Ten years later, did not play it for the first time in the highest Dutch basketball league, the Eredivisie, but successful. Since 1974, the club grew steadily and always came into the playoffs without winning the championship. As Nashua in 1979 got in as the main sponsor, scored the first league title of the association. Thank you to the sponsors payments Den Bosch could be continuously developed and dominated from then on the Dutch basketball.

In the period 1979 to 1988 the club won the championship nine times. This golden era has a significant role in ensuring that today's Eiffel Towers may call giants.

During this time reaching the finals of the European Cup Winners' Cup, which they lost in 1979 against Pallacanestro Cantu fell.

After three times Dutch champion was up in 1997, the team lost supremacy in the league and had to wait until 2006 to 14th title. The Association continues to play a very good role in basketball in the Netherlands, reached since 2002 every time the play-offs and was last champion in 2012.

Hall

The club plays its home games from the comprehensive 3500 places Maaspoort Sports and Events.

Achievements

Name history

The club had been founded 12 different names:

  • Eerste Bossche Basketball Club
  • Sperry Remington
  • Remington Den Bosch
  • Falcon Jeans Den Bosch
  • Nashua Den Bosch
  • Pro- Specs Den Bosch
  • Canoe Jeans Den Bosch
  • America Today Den Bosch
  • Libertel Dolphins
  • Canoe Jeans EBBC
  • Tulip Den Bosch
  • Eiffel Towers

Known player

  • United States Jerome Beasley
  • United States Damone Brown
FIBA Saporta Cup
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