Doncaster Panthers
Danum Eagles Basketball Club is an English professional basketball club from Doncaster. The club has youth teams next level in 2013 with a women's team that competes in the English second division. The origins of the club go back to the Doncaster Panthers, who were founded in 1954 and played their men's team 1973-1985 in the top domestic league championship of the National Basketball League ( NBL ). In this league, the men's team reached the league and cup double. The men's team the Eagles came at the 1993 British Basketball League (BBL ), which is now formed as a closed league, the highest national league. In the BBL, the men's team the Eagles traded as Panthers, before retreating again after three years in 1996 and until 2001 played in the lower division of the NBL. In the senior level, therefore, only the women's team has since remained left. The club name Danum Eagles based on the Danum Academy, which in turn derives its name from the old Roman name for the city of Doncaster Danum.
History
The Doncaster Panthers were founded in 1954 on the initiative of Morris Wordsworth and first played in the sports hall of Balby High School. 1965, formed a women's team. The men's team reached the 1973 promotion to the top flight NBL, which had been founded a year earlier. Here, the team changed its name initially as Wilson Panthers and played in the " Adwick Leisure Centre ". Later they also played in Sheffield in the " Concord Sports Centre ". Under the new name Ziebart team they won the 1979 championship and the FA Cup. The Cup Final was reached in the next two years as John Carr Panthers without being able to win it again. After they had already participated in the Korac Cup 1975/76, it was also qualified for the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1979 and 1980, where to each was eliminated before reaching the group stage. After 1979 in the first round was eliminated as well as 1975 Korać Cup, was reached in 1980 by walkover the knockout stages, where you eliminated against the French representative SCM Le Mans. In 1985, the Panthers a game its operation.
1989 reached the Eagles move up to the second English division and immediately after the walkover in the first division. After the founding of the BBL as a closed league in 1987 by the best clubs in the previous NBL this was not the highest national league more. 1992 was called in cooperation with Morris Wordsworth Panthers in order and applied for inclusion in the BBL, which was granted a year later. Here, the men's team played in the "Dome Leisure Centre " in Doncaster and remained in this league but only three years before they retired again. Best position in 1995 was a fifth place after the regular season. 2000 reached the men's team again promotion to the second division of the NBL before the club completely withdrew his men's team from the league.
In addition to the women's team, the club also runs an active youth work. The former Panthers had won in 1972 and 1975, the national cup competition for youth teams. 2006 won a school team of Danum Academy the English Championships.