The ASC 1846 Göttingen is a German sports club based in
Göttingen
Göttingen (, ; ; ) is a college town, university city in Lower Saxony, central Germany, the Capital (political), capital of Göttingen (district), the eponymous district. The River Leine runs through it. According to the 2022 German census, t ...
. It was founded on 3 August 1846 and is best known for its basketball section having won 3 national titles and 2 Cups and played against
Seattle SuperSonics
The Seattle SuperSonics (commonly shortened to Sonics) were an American professional basketball team based in Seattle. The SuperSonics competed in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the Western Division (1967–1970), and ...
twice in the 1980s. The club currently has basketball and volleyball departments.
Basketball
ASC and its predecessor societies ''SSV Hellas Göttingen'' and ''SSC Göttingen'' played 16 times in the
Federal basketball league (1966–67, 1970–71, 1973–75 and 1976–88). The club became three times German champion and twice in a row
German Cup winner while it won the double in 1984.
The men's team of ASC Göttingen are currently playing in 1 Regionalliga Nord. Venue is the gym of the Georg-Christoph-Lichtenberg Comprehensive School; Main training venue is the sports hall of the Mountain Grove High School, where most of the other league matches will be played.
Titles and achievements
German League
* Winners (3): 1979–80, 1982–83, 1983–84
German Cup
The DFB-Pokal (), also known as the German Cup in English, is a German knockout football cup competition held annually by the German Football Association (DFB). Sixty-four teams participate in the competition, including all clubs from the Bundes ...
* Winners (2): 1983–84, 1984–85
*Runners-up (1): 1978-79
Games against NBA teams
Volleyball
References
External links
*
ASC 1846 at Eurobasket.com
Basketball teams in Germany
Göttingen
Basketball clubs in Lower Saxony
Basketball in West Germany
Basketball teams established in 1947
1947 establishments in Germany
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