Heroes Den Bosch
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Nickname | EBBC Titans | ||
Leagues | Dutch Basketball League | ||
Founded | 18 October 1952 | ||
Arena | Maaspoort | ||
Capacity | 2,700 | ||
Location | 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands | ||
Team colors | Red, White, Blue | ||
President | Bob van Oosterhout | ||
Head coach | Jean-Marc Jaumin | ||
Ownership | Bob van Oosterhout | ||
2018–19 position | DBL, 4th of 10 | ||
Championships | 16 Dutch Championships 7 Dutch Cups 2 Dutch Supercup 1 Ricoh Cup 1 Haarlem Basketball Week | ||
Retired numbers | 1 (12) | ||
Website | heroesdenbosch | ||
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Heroes Den Bosch is a Dutch professional basketball club based in 's-Hertogenbosch.[1] The club plays in the Dutch Basketball League (DBL), the top basketball division in the Netherlands, since 1972. Founded as EBBC in 1951, the club would have several sponsored names the following decades.
Den Bosch has won a record sixteen Dutch championships as well as seven NBB Cup titles. The team has also been a regular at European competitions. Heroes plays their home games at the Maaspoort, which has a capacity of 2,700 people.[2]
History
On 18 October 1952, Eerste Bossche Basketball Club (EBBC) was founded by Cees Vossen, Tom van der Leur, Hans van Oorschot and Frans van de Wiel. In 1962, Den Bosch played in the top division Eredivisie for the first time, but not very successful. Subsequently the team was relegated again. In 1979, EBBC won its first title. In 1980, the team became Nashua Den Bosch after its new main sponsor. Its increased budget led to six consecutive Dutch titles between 1982 and 1987.
EiffelTowers (2005–2013)
Decades later, in June 2005, Den Bosch merged with EiffelTowers Nijmegen to form EiffelTowers Den Bosch. Following the merger the club had one of the largest budgets in the Netherlands, and with that they were able to attract high-quality players. In their first season they had immediate success by winning the Dutch League title. The year after that (2006–07) EiffelTowers The Bosch would win the title again after a clean sweep against the Matrixx Magixx, after losing only four games in the regular season. The two following years, Den Bosch reached the finals, but lost twice to Amsterdam.
In 2012, EiffelTowers won its fifteenth Dutch championship, after beating ZZ Leiden 1–4 in a best-of-seven-series.
SPM Shoeters (2013–2016)
After 13 years playing as the EiffelTowers, the club changed its name to SPM Shoeters in 2013. Along with the name change the club changed the team colors to black, after playing in red since 2000. In the 2014–15 season, Shoeters won its sixteenth DBL championship after Donar was beaten 4–1 in the Finals. The team also performed excellently in the EuroChallenge that season, reaching the Top 16. Star of the season for Den Bosch was Brandyn Curry, who was named DBL Playoffs MVP.
After the 2015–16 season, it was revealed that Shoeters was dealing with serious financial problems which had the team on the edge of bankruptcy.[3]
New Heroes (2016–2019)
In October 2016, the team was bought by Triple Double BV, a sports marketing enterprise. Owner of the company Bob van Oosterhout took over the club which was no longer in danger of dissolution. On 6 November 2016, Den Bosch found a new main sponsor and subsequently was named New Heroes Basketball.[4] In its first season as New Heroes, the club finished fourth in the DBL and was swept by Donar in the semi-finals.
In the 2017–18 season, Croatian coach Silvano Poropat signed a two-year contract.[5] Under Poropat, Heroes finished fourth once again but was eliminated in the quarterfinals by Rotterdam Basketbal. Following the disappointing season, Poropat and Heroes parted ways.
On 31 May 2018, Kees Akerboom Jr. announced his retirement at age 34.[6] Akerboom, who played 11 seasons for the club, had his jersey number 12 retired.[7]
For the 2018–19 season, Ivica Skelin was appointed as head coach. This season, ew Heroes played in the FIBA Europe Cup after a European absence of 3 years. In Group D, Heroes had a 3–3 record and finished in third place. In the DBL playoffs, Den Bosch was once again eliminated in the semifinals, this time by Landstede.
Heroes Den Bosch (2019–present)
On 21 August 2019, the club announced it was changing its name to Heroes Den Bosch and it is not planning to change the club name anymore.[8] In June, Heroes signed Jean-Marc Jaumin as its new head coach.[9]
Sponsorship names
Due to sponsorship reasons, Heroes Den Bosch has known a lot of names over the years:
- 1952–74 EBBC
- 1974–77 Sperry Remington EBBC
- 1977–78 Falcon Jeans EBBC
- 1978–80 EBBC
- 1980–91 Nashua EBBC
- 1991–92 Pro-Specs EBBC
- 1992–95 Canoe Jeans EBBC
- 1995–96 America Today EBBC
- 1996–97 Libertel EBBC
- 1997–99 Libertel Dolphins EBBC
- 1999–03 Canoe Jeans EBBC
- 2003–05 Tulip EBBC
- 2005–13 EiffelTowers Den Bosch
- 2013–16 SPM Shoeters Den Bosch[10]
- 2016 Shooters Den Bosch
- 2016–2019 New Heroes Basketball[4]
- 2019–now Heroes Den Bosch
Logos
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2009–2013 | 2013–2016 | 2017–2019 | 2019–now | ||||
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Honours
Domestic
Dutch League (record)[11]
- Winners (16): 1978–79, 1979–80, 1980–81, 1982–83, 1983–84, 1984–85, 1985–86, 1986–87, 1987–88, 1992–93, 1995–96, 1996–97, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2011–12, 2014–15
Ricoh Cup[13]
- Winners (1): 2000
European
- Runner-up (1): 1978–79
Worldwide
- Runners-up (1): 1982
Friendly
- Winners (1): 2006
Players
Retired numbers
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No | Nat. | Player | Position | Tenure | Retirement date |
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Kees Akerboom Jr. | Guard | 2001–2004 | 23 September 2018[7] | |
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Current roster
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Updated: 2 August 2020 |
Depth chart
Pos. | Starting 5 | Bench 1 | Bench 2 |
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C | Thomas van der Mars | ||
PF | Nathan Krill | Stefan Wessels | |
SF | Henry Caruso | Seger Bonifant | Stan van den Elzen |
SG | Elijah Wilson | Norbert Thelissen | |
PG | Siyani Chambers | Elijah Clarence | Ids Rebergen |
Notable players
Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationalities not displayed.
Criteria |
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To appear in this section a player must have either:
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Kees Akerboom, Sr.
Kees Akerboom, Jr.
Tai Wesley
Arvin Slagter
Brandyn Curry
Ali Farokhmanesh
DeJuan Wright
David Gonzalvez
Andre Young
Frank Turner
Leon Rodgers
Matt Bauscher
Damone Brown
Julien Mills
Niek van den Hout
Leon Williams
Jeroen van der List
Sam Jones
Dean Oliver
Travis Reed
Gert Kullamäe
Peter van Paassen
Stefan Wessels
Rogier Jansen
Maarten Bouwknecht
Andrew Sullivan
Kikas Gomes
Season by season
Season | Tier | League | Pos. | Dutch Cup | European competitions | |
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1996–97 | 1 | DBL | 1st | 2 Saporta Cup | RS | |
1997–98 | 1 | DBL | 4th | 2 Saporta Cup | RS | |
1998–99 | 1 | DBL | 4th | |||
1999–00 | 1 | DBL | 5th | Winner | ||
2000–01 | 1 | DBL | 3rd | |||
2001–02 | 1 | DBL | 6th | Winner | ||
2002–03 | 1 | DBL | 5th | |||
2003–04 | 1 | DBL | 2nd | |||
2004–05 | 1 | DBL | 5th | |||
EiffelTowers Den Bosch | ||||||
2005–06 | 1 | DBL | 1st | Eighthfinalist | 4 EuroCup Challenge | T16 |
2006–07 | 1 | DBL | 1st | Eighthfinalist | 2 ULEB Cup | RS |
2007–08 | 1 | DBL | 2nd | Winner | 2 ULEB Cup | RS |
2008–09 | 1 | DBL | 2nd | Winner | 3 EuroChallenge | T16 |
2009–10 | 1 | DBL | 5th | Quarterfinalist | 3 EuroChallenge | RS |
2010–11 | 1 | DBL | 3rd | Semifinalist | ||
2011–12 | 1 | DBL | 1st | Quarterfinalist | ||
2012–13 | 1 | DBL | 3rd | Winner | ||
SPM Shoeters | ||||||
2013–14 | 1 | DBL | 2nd | Semifinalist | 3 EuroChallenge | RS |
2014–15 | 1 | DBL | 1st | Runners-up | 3 EuroChallenge | T16 |
2015–16 | 1 | DBL | 4th | Champions | ||
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2016–17 | 1 | DBL | 4th | Eighthfinalist | ||
2017–18 | 1 | DBL | 5th | Semifinalist | ||
2018–19 | 1 | DBL | 4th | Quarterfinalist | 4 FIBA Europe Cup | RS |
2019–20 | 1 | DBL | 3rd[a] | Fourth round | ||
2020–21 | 1 | DBL | 4 FIBA Europe Cup |
- ^ The 2019–20 season was cancelled prematurely in March 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. No playoffs were played and no champions were named.
European record
Season | Competition | Round | Club | Home[A] | Away[A] | Agg[A] | |
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2018–19 | FIBA Europe Cup | ![]() |
76–86 | 68–66 | 144–152[B] | ![]() | |
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93–97 | 79–89 | 3rd place | ![]() | |||
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102–87 | 85–91 | |||||
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91–58 | 68–64 |
- Notes
List of head coaches
Coach | From | To | Honours |
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2009 | 2010 | |
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2010 | 2013 | 1 Dutch Basketball League, 1 NBB Cup |
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2013 | 2016 | 1 Dutch Basketball League, 1 NBB Cup, 1 Dutch Basketball Supercup |
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2016 | 2017 | |
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2017 | August 2018 | |
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2018 | 2019 | |
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2019 |
References
- ^ "Dukes Unlimited Den Bosch basketball, News, Roster, Rumors, Stats, Awards, Transactions, Details". Eurobasket.com. Retrieved 12 September 2016.
- ^ Zaal en ruimtes Archived 31 August 2015 at the Wayback Machine msedb.nl
- ^ Faillissement SPM Shoeters dreigt, basketbalclub Den Bosch heeft grote geldschulden
- ^ a b "New Heroes is nieuwe naam en sponsor basketbalclub Shooters in Den Bosch". Omroep Brabant. Retrieved 21 August 2019.
- ^ NEW HEROES CONTRACTEERT SILVANO POROPAT ALS HOOFDCOACH
- ^ "Kees Akerboom stopt met basketbal". BD.nl. 31 May 2018. Retrieved 31 May 2018.
- ^ a b "Den Bosch zwaait Akerboom uit". Eredivisie basketbal Nederland, basketballleague.nl (in Dutch). 23 September 2018. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
- ^ "Na 15 clubnamen heten Bossche basketballers voortaan Heroes Den Bosch, geen sponsor meer in de naam". Omroep Brabant. Retrieved 21 August 2019.
- ^ "New Heroes - Jean-Marc Jaumin naar Den Bosch". www.newheroesbasketball.com. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
- ^ "EiffelTowers vanaf komend seizoen SPM Shoeters". www.omroepbrabant.nl. Retrieved 12 September 2016.
- ^ a b "Landskampioenen, bekerwinnaars en competitiewinnaars" (in Dutch). J-dus.com. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
- ^ "Super Cup" (in Dutch). J-dus.com. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
- ^ a b c d Erelijst Archived 4 June 2016 at the Wayback Machine spmshoeters.nl
External links
- Official website (in Dutch)
- Eurobasket.com Den Bosch Page