Grab a piece of history and sponsor your favourite Eagles BBL player’s kit this season! Kit sponsors get their name on the player’s page of our website, in our game day programmes (when fans are allowed into games and if programmes can be sold) and the sponsored item at the end of the season. Check the sponsorship availability…
The British Basketball League (BBL) today confirmed the fixtures and dates for the remainder of the 2020-21 season. Following the conclusion of the BBL Cup Quarter Finals, the BBL Championship, which returns to teams playing each other three times, will commence on Thursday 3 December, with a double header live on Sky Sports. This opening…
As the first home tip-off for our Women’s British Basketball Team looms this weekend we are pleased to announce the support of North East based gin distillers, WL Distillery. Founder and managing director Scott Wilson-Laing’s passion for gin and helping others made taking up the opportunity to sponsor our WBBL team for the 2020-21 season an…
The Government has announced a rescue package of up to £4m for British basketball to address the impact of the absence of spectators because of COVID-19. Around £3m of it will go to the British Basketball League (BBL) and Women’s British Basketball League (WBBL), who have been hardest hit by the loss of its crowds at games,…
The 24-man squad for Great Britain’s FIBA EuroBasket 2022 Qualifiers against France and Montenegro this month has been named and includes one of our Eagles. GB go into the games in top form having won eight of their last ten games including a convincing 81-73 victory over Germany last time out at the Eagles Community…
British Basketball League coverage is returning to Sky Sports this season in a two-year deal that will see 30 live games aired each season. Sky Sports will also air the BBL Trophy Final, BBL Cup Final, BBL Play-Offs and live coverage of the WBBL Play-Off final. Coverage tips-off with a double header live from the…
Our replica 2020-21 BBL team Kappa kit is now on sale from the club shop. Celebrating 25 years of Newcastle Basketball, 25 trophies won and our 25th Eagles team our new jerseys, shorts and shooting shirts are available in both our home and away colour-ways. The design is first and foremost a throwback to 1995…
The date for our previously unscheduled BBL Cup Group Stage tip-off against Sheffield Sharks has now been set for Tuesday 17 November 2020 with a 7pm tip-off. Live Stream Virtual Tickets are on sale now from our box office:
Five Eagles players across the BBL and WBBL have landed places in the first All-Star Fives and benches of the 2020-21 season following the action in our opening tip-offs. In the BBL, Cortez Edwards and Rahmon Fletcher received nods from the league for stand-out showings in London and Leicester. Edwards turned in a typically all-action performance…
