Strasbourg Illkirch-Graffenstaden Basket, most commonly known as SIG Basket or SIG Strasbourg, is a French professional

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club that is based in

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. The club, founded in 1929, competes domestically in the French Pro A League, and internationally in the

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. The club's home games are played at

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. The players wear white and red uniforms.

History

The club was founded in 1929, and reached the top-tier of French basketball for the first time in 1938. Starting from the 2004–05 season, new head coach Éric Girard took over the team. In the regular season, SIG finished 3rd and Giard was named Coach of the Year. Strasbourg won the top-tier French League for the first time in the 2004–05 season. SIG beat its rival

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72–68. In the 2005–06 season, Strasbourg played in the EuroLeague. The team had some outstanding results, as they beat top-tier team Saski Baskonia. In the Pro A, the team was defeated by Nancy 1–2 in the Semi-finals. In the 2006–07 season, the team wouldn't reach further than the Quarter-finals. After some down years, the team started to revived when

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took over as head coach in 2012. The team reached the Pro A Finals for three straight years in 2013, 2014, 2015. Along with that, the team won the 2015 Leaders Cup and 2014–15 French Basketball Cup. Important players for the team were

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and

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, who won MVP Awards in the won competitions. In 2020,

left the team after he had served as head coach for almost a decade. For the 2020–21 Pro A season, the team started a recommencement as new head coach

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recruited almost entirely new players. Strasbourg aims to regain success in both the national league as well as in the 2020–21 Basketball Champions League.

Arenas

The 6,200 seat

has been used as the home arena of SIG for many years. In January 2017, the club announced their building plans for a new arena that is to be finished in 2020, that will accommodate 10,000 people. Later, the date was corrected to the year 2024.

Rivalries

''The Eastern Rivalry''

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. The rivalry has a strong emotional history.

Budgets

According to

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(LNB) guidelines, SIG has to publish its budget for each season.

Players

Current roster

Depth chart

Season by season

Honours

* French League : Winners (1): 2004–05 *

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: Winners (2): 2014–15, 2017–18 : ''Runners-up (2)'': 1998–99, 2021–22 *

Leaders Cup The LNB Pro A Leaders Cup, or French Basketball League Cup, is the annual national league cup competition for teams from the top-tier level of French professional basketball, the LNB Pro A. It was created in its current form in 2003 (after origin ...

: Winners (2):

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, 2019 : ''Runners-up (1)'': 2013 * Match des Champions :Winners (1):

* French Second Division : Winners (1): 1998–99 *Brussels, Belgium Invitational Game : Winners (1): 2015 *Luxeuil-les-Bains, France Invitational Game : Winners (1): 2015 *Besançon, France Invitational Game : Winners (1): 2015

Notable players

Head coaches

References

External links

Official website

Strasbourg IG
at Eurobasket.com {{Alsace topics Basketball teams established in 1929

Sport in Strasbourg