To celebrate the unveiling of our 2017-18 BBL fixtures we are excited to be able to announce that you can now purchase tickets for the All-Stars Championship on Sunday 24th September 2017 at The O2 direct from us and at an exclusively discounted special offer price. Before the tip-off of the new BBL campaign, the…
The 2017-18 schedule for our Esh Group Eagles’s British Basketball League season has just been announced and after starting with an away game in Leeds our first home game will be against our old rivals the Glasgow Rocks at Sport Central on Friday 6th October with a 7:30pm tip-off. You can download a full list…
The BBL will host a testimonial event at Leicester Arena on July 22nd to celebrate the career of Drew Sullivan in the British Basketball league that culminated in 20 pieces of silverware, across 12 seasons registered in the league. The Great Britain Olympic Captain, who totalled 100 caps in his international career, helped bring silverware…
Many of our Eagles fly away home for the summer break between seasons while work continues behind the scenes at the club preparing for the next BBL campaign and this season has been no different, except that one of our Eagles coaching staff, Ian Macleod, has also been flying out of the North East to…
Molten BBL Play-Off Final Leicester Riders 84 (29,47,72) (Thomson 18, Hampton 14, Bernardini 12) Esh Group Eagles Newcastle 63 (11,27,44) (Fletcher 16, Martin 11, Parks/Behrens 10) Leicester Riders completed a memorable treble in dominant fashion after beating Esh Group Eagles Newcastle 84-63 in the Play-Off Final in front of 14,500 at The O2. Rob Paternostro’s…
Rahmon Fletcher is the Molten BBL MVP for 2016-17 and scoops the prestigious accolade for the second year in a row after winning by a landslide in the voting by BBL coaches/clubs. Once again, they recognised his outstanding contribution to Esh Group Eagles Newcastle who finished second in the BBL Championship, having already secured the…
This Sunday afternoon the top two teams in the 2016-17 BBL Championship will face each other in the 2017 Play-Off Final. A potentially record breaking crowd is expected on Sunday at The O2 in London to see the last silverware of the season handed out. BBL Champions and Trophy winners Leicester Riders make a return…
It’s our Supporters Club End of Season Party on Monday 15th May 2017 at Jury’s Inn on the Baltic Quayside. Join us for the final fling with our 2016-17 Esh Group Eagles Newcastle players before many of them fly home for summer. There will be lots of chances for autographs, selfies and time to chat…
It is with great sadness this weekend that we share the loss of our dear friend Brian Manning, one of the greatest and most loved supporters of both the Newcastle Eagles basketball club and our community foundation. As chief executive of our main sponsors Esh Group since the early 1990s leading the steady growth of…
