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The Glasgow Storm are a
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club based in the city of
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History

The club was founded in July 2001. The club currently puts out teams at all age levels, from under 12 through to the Senior Men's and Women's teams. The under 12s and under 14s teams were established with the help of National Lottery funding. Storm Senior Men
The Storm entered the Scottish Men's National League in 2002. Based in the north and west of the city and playing home games latterly at the
Kelvin Hall The Kelvin Hall, located on Argyle Street in Glasgow, Scotland, is one of the largest exhibition centres in Britain and now a mixed-use arts and sports venue that opened as an exhibition venue in 1927. It has also been used as a concert hall, ...
, the team were competitive and a comfortable mid-table team throughout their National League history, with 5th place in 2016-17 their strongest league performance. The Storm withdrew from the
Scottish Basketball Championship The Scottish Basketball Championship (SBC, former: ''Scottish National Basketball League'', SNBL) is the national basketball league of Scotland. The league forms the second and third tiers of British basketball (inline with the English Basketbal ...
at the start of the 2019-20 season, while maintaining their junior and local league presence.


Teams

Senior Squads :Senior Men (National League Division 1) :2nd Men (Strathclyde League Division 1) :3rd Men (Strathclyde League Division 2) :4th Men (Strathclyde League Division 3) Youth Squads :U18 Men (Strathclyde League U18's) :U16 Men (Strathclyde League U16's)


Home arenas

:Scotstoun Sports Centre :Glasgow Kelvin College (formerly North Glasgow College) :
Kelvin Hall The Kelvin Hall, located on Argyle Street in Glasgow, Scotland, is one of the largest exhibition centres in Britain and now a mixed-use arts and sports venue that opened as an exhibition venue in 1927. It has also been used as a concert hall, ...


Season-by-season records


External links

* {{Scottish Basketball Championship Men Basketball teams in Scotland Sports clubs and teams in Glasgow 2001 establishments in Scotland Basketball teams established in 2001