Worthing Thunder

2012/13: 2nd place

Worthing Thunder is a basketball club based in Worthing in England. The club was founded in 1999 after moving the Stevenage Rebels to Sussex as Worthing Rebels and found in 2008 under the Thunder inclusion in the closed professional league British Basketball League (BBL ), but the one belonged only three seasons. Since 2011 to play again in the league system of England Basketball, where you as a seventh in 2013 reached the final of the "English Basketball League ( EBL) Division One ".

History

Roots in Hertfordshire ( 1991-1999 )

The roots of the association are in Hertfordshire. 1991 Rebels of Watford had moved to the goods. In the very first season, we reached a third place after the regular season in the then still " National Basketball League " ( NBL ) said British Basketball League. 1995 and 1996 you were again and reached third after winning the regular season in 1997, the final match of the play-offs of the NBL, which was lost to the Plymouth Raiders with 106:118. Connecting attracted to the Rebels to Stevenage, where she again reached the third place in the 1997/98 season. After the following season 1998/99, however, was followed by the re- moving, this time it went to the south coast to Sussex.

Moving to Worthing (1999 to 2008)

The Brighton Bears were moved to Worthing in 1984 and had largely successfully played here until 1999. In the years 1993 to 1995, the Bears had won in Worthing three consecutive championships. 1999 attracted the Bears to a hall in the neighboring Brighton and left the location Worthing back without crew. In this gap clashed with her ​​move the Rebels. Here we reached a second place after only three defeats in 24 games at first. The following year, you already went to the new name Thunder and was second again after they lost the play-off final of the NBL against the Plymouth Raiders.

After renaming the NBL in EBL were abolished at the third attempt in 2004 to win the League Cup EBL Trophy after it was the two years before lost the final match of the competition. This title could not defend the following year, after four years, lost the final for the third time. A year later they won the 2006 the main round of the EBL, but lost the play-off final. A year later, they lost the finals of the National Cup competitions Trophy and EBL Trophy, after just one season defeat in the championship you won this time but also the play-off final. The following year, in 2008 they lost again to both finals in the cup competitions and in third place in the championship would retire early from the play- offs.

Worthing Thunder in the BBL (2008 to 2011)

The Brighton Bears were suspended in 2006 its gaming operations in the BBL and then gave up a return. In the search for a successor in Sussex, the Thunder against the konkurrienden Brighton Cougars were able to prevail and found from the season 2008/ 09 recording in the closed professional league. In their first BBL game time the Thunder won almost a third of their games, but this was only enough for the eleventh and penultimate place in the final table. In the 2009/10 season it was enough with balanced balance in eighth place just for collection in the Championship play-offs, where defending champions Newcastle Eagles they lost in the first round, the then celebrated their third championship in a row. At the start of the following season the team lost some key players and to the end of the season was reached as a table next to last only five wins this season. After the season they withdrew into the EBL.

Return to the EBL ( since 2011 )

After returning to the EBL was reached in the 2011/12 season a fourth place, but lost in the first play-off round. In the following season 2012/13 one was only seventh after the regular season, but could move into the play-offs to the finals, in which one the Reading Rockets, however, highly lost with 57:88.

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