Zandvoortse Basketballvereniging The Lions, or simply The Lions, is a Dutch amateur basketball club based in

Zandvoort Zandvoort () is a municipality in the province of North Holland, Netherlands. It is one of the major beach resorts of the Netherlands; it has a long sandy beach. It is bordered by coastal dunes of Zuid-Kennemerland National Park and the Amsterdam ...

History

The Lions was active as a professional team from the late 1960s until the middle 1970s in the Dutch first division, the Dutch Basketball League. The club, under the sponsorship name Mars Energie Stars, won the national cup (so called

NBB-Beker The Basketball Cup, formerly the NBB Cup ( nl, NBB-Beker), is an annual cup competition for Netherlands, Dutch basketball teams organised by the Basketball Nederland. Every team in the Netherlands can participate by signing up for the preliminary r ...

) in 1972 defeated Factotum Punch 86–84 in the final that held in Haarlem. Also The Lions, had played once again in the 1969 NBB-Beker final where they lost to

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, 37–52 in

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. The 1973–74 season as Typsoos Lions the club ranked 4th in the league and won the right to participate in the

1974–75 FIBA Korać Cup The 1974–75 FIBA Korać Cup was the fourth edition of FIBA's new competition, running from 5 November 1974 to 25 March 1975. It was contested by 42 teams, five more than in the previous edition. Birra Forst Cantù defeated CF Barcelona ...

. Typsoos Lions was drawn to play in the first round against Bosna and eliminated with an aggregate score 163–201 (81–79 home win and 82–122 defeat in

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Honours and achievements

Dutch Cup * Winners (1): 1971–72 * Runners-up (1): 1968–69

European record

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References

External links

Official site
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lions Basketball teams in the Netherlands Basketball teams established in 1965 Former Dutch Basketball League teams Sports clubs in North Holland Sport in Zandvoort