Our Eagles Community Foundation clubs are back and players can book in for training sessions now ready for when lockdown restrictions will be relaxed to allow indoor basketball from Monday 12 April. Ready for the return to play for all our young players, in partnership with a new Tyneside-based kit supplier Core 37, we are pleased to…
As they head down the stretch of the regular WBBL season with their eyes on a coveted Play-Offs place, our Eagles have been putting in huge performances both as a team and personally to pick up some crucial wins. One player who has been singled-out from week 17 of the WBBL Championship campaign is Orieoma Chukwu-Etu,…
We’re into the final month of the BBL Championship regular season and the Week 21 All-Star Five features yet another starting spot for our Eagles own Cortez Edwards, who is now just one appearance short of London Lions’ DeAndre Liggins in the race for most places in the league’s weekly pick of the players. Our Newcastle…
Eagles back-court due of Rahmon Fletcher and Cortez Edwards have bagged starting places in the league’s pick of the players for week 20 of the season. Our BBL team held on to the BBL Championship’s second spot after defeating London Lions at the Vertu Motors Arena last Friday night. Fletcher has received this weekly honour…
Today, Monday 29 March, the lockdown restrictions have been relaxed to allow organised basketball sessions for up to 30 people to take place outdoors. To help our Eagles Community Foundation clubs and players across the North East find their nearest outdoor court we have launched our new Court Finder. This interactive map and search tool…
This week our new Vertu Motors name signage was completed and we are pleased to share these fab first photos of it with you!
Check out how much our venue transforms and what goes on behind closed doors right now in this time-lapse of last week’s full arena changeover. On Wednesday morning we hosted Newcastle GP Services with 1,300 jabs being given at our NHS COVID-19 Vaccination Centre on court 1, which was broken-down by our Eagles Wings Team…
Vertu Motors plc, the Gateshead-based motor retail group, has acquired the naming rights to the Eagles Community Arena in Newcastle in a five-year deal. The purpose-built community, events and sports arena, which is home to the Newcastle Eagles basketball club, the most successful British Basketball team of all time, and the award-winning Eagles Community Foundation,…
Our previously postponed BBL Championship away fixture at Bristol Flyers has been set for Thursday 29 April 2021 with a 7pm tip-off. You can stay up to date with our men’s and women’s games and results by having them automatically synchronised to your devices calendar from the BBL and WBBL fixtures pages.
