Mitteldeutscher Basketball Club ( en, Central German Basketball Club), for sponsorship reasons named SYNTAINICS MBC, and commonly known as MBC, is a professional

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club based in

Weißenfels Weißenfels (; often written in English as Weissenfels) is the largest town of the Burgenlandkreis district, in southern Saxony-Anhalt, central Germany. It is situated on the river Saale, approximately south of Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Halle. His ...

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. The club currently plays in the

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, the first tier league in Germany.

History

The club has played in the Basketball Bundesliga since the 1999–2000 season. In 2004, the club won the

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, defeating

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in the Final. Later that season, however, the team filed for bankruptcy and the league relegated the team to the Regionalliga (third division).MBC nur noch Regionalligist
(16 July 2004) MBC won promotion to the

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after the 2004–05 season and earned promotion back to the Basketball Bundesliga after the 2008–09 season. In 2010 and 2016 the team relegated again, but promoted back the next season both times.

Honours

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: :Champions: 2008–09, 2011–12, 2016–17 *

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: :Champions: 2003–04

Team

Current roster

Individual awards

; ProA MVP *Wayne Bernard: 2008 *

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: 2012

Notable players

Mithat Demirel Mithat Demirel (born 10 May 1978) is a German former professional basketball player of Turkish descent. He played for Erdemir SK of the Turkish Premier Basketball League before retiring. Formerly a member of Scafati Basket in Italy, Demirel als ...

Misan Nikagbatse Misan Haldin (born 7 July 1982 as Eyinmisan Edward Ogharanemeye Nikagbatse) is a German former basketball player. He played for clubs in Germany, Greece and Italy. Professional career Haldin started his professional career at TuS Lichterfelde B ...

Manuchar Markoishvili Manuchar "Manu" Markoishvili ( ka, მანუჩარ მარკოიშვილი, born 17 November 1986) is a former Georgian professional basketball player. Early career Markoishvili as a young basketball player was very talented, and ...

Giorgi Gamqrelidze Giorgi Gamqrelidze (born February 4, 1986) is a Georgian professional basketball player who last played for Titebi Tbilisi and the Georgian national team, where he participated at the EuroBasket 2011 EuroBasket 2011 was the 37th men's ...

Martynas Andriuškevičius Martynas Andriuškevičius (; born March 12, 1986) is a Lithuanian former professional basketball player. He is a 2.18 m (7 ft 2 in) tall and 113 kg (250 lb) center (basketball), center. Andriuškevičius has noted perimeter skill f ...

Marijonas Petravičius Marijonas Petravičius (born October 24, 1979) is a Lithuanian retired professional basketball player. He was a member of the Lithuania national team. He mainly played the center position, but he could also play the power forward position. Prof ...

Mindaugas Timinskas Mindaugas Timinskas (born March 28, 1974) is a Lithuanian former professional basketball player and basketball coach. He represented the senior Lithuanian national basketball team. College career Born in Šilutė, Lithuanian SSR, Timinskas play ...

Wendell Alexis Wendell Paul Alexis (born July 31, 1964) is a retired American professional basketball player who played for several European clubs, between 1986 and 2004, most notably for ALBA Berlin, where he was voted MVP of the German Bundesliga four times, d ...

Season by season

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mitteldeutscher BC Weißenfels Basketball teams in Saxony-Anhalt Basketball teams established in 1958 1958 establishments in Germany