Basket Flames

Basket Flames is a professional basketball association and sports club based in Vienna, Austria.

Basket Flames
Leagues2. ÖBL
Founded2012
ArenaMollardgasse
LocationVienna, Austria
Team colorsWhite, Black, Lime Green
     
Head coachFranz Zderadicka
Websitewww.basketflames.at

The teams Basket Flames Union (originally Union Kuenring Flames) and Basket Flames WAT (originally Basket Clubs Vienna Juniors) founded the sports association "Basket Flames" at the beginning of the 2012/13 season. Since the conception of the association, the women's team of the Basket Flames has played in the highest league of professional women's basketball, the Austrian Women's Basketball Bundesliga (also known as the Austrian Slovak Women's Basketball League). Prior to this, the former Union Kuenring Flames team had also been playing in this league as late as the 2009/10 season.[1]

With more than 25 teams and over 350 active players as of the 2017/18 season, Basket Flames are Vienna's largest basketball association.[2]

Achievements

In the 2012/2013 season the Basket Flames were runners-up in the Basketball Zweite Liga, having ceded the top spot to BK Mattersburg Rocks.[3]

References
  1. "Basket Flames in der Austrian Slovak Women Basketball League". Retrieved 10 January 2021.
  2. "BASKETBALL bei den FLAMES!". Retrieved 10 January 2021.
  3. "Zweite Liga: Die Rocks verteidigen ihren Titel". Retrieved 10 January 2021.
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