Sky Sports will continue to be the home of top-flight British Basketball action for another year in a deal officially announced today. Working together with Buzz 16, production partner of the British Basketball League (BBL) and Women’s British Basketball League (WBBL), this coverage extension ensure elite competition will be broadcast on Sky for a third successive season. As…
A brave new era of cross-city cooperation has the potential to propel women’s basketball in Newcastle to the next level. That’s the verdict of Eagles playcaller Noelia Cacheiro as she embarks on a close-season mission to help develop the game on and off the court. The ambitious Spaniard doubles up as head coach for Newcastle…
Our Early Bird and Renewal season tickets offers are now available so you can secure the best seats for the action in an exciting new era for the Eagles organisation with a new BBL head coach and new-look rosters for the 2022-23 BBL and WBBL campaigns. BBL SEASON TICKETS BBL season tickets offer huge savings to see…
Chloe Gaynor was the big winner at last night’s Newcastle Eagles annual awards event as one of the rising stars of the WBBL scooped two major prizes. The former Nottingham forward inked a deal with the women in black last summer and finished a challenging campaign in style. Gaynor has flourished under new head coach…
Watch two of our Eagles take part in a Cross Sport Challenge against Durham Cricket and Sunderland AFC with Vertu Motors and see how our basketball stars Darius Defoe and Marina Fernandez got on at cricket and football! Six top-flight athletes across three sports battle it out to see who will be crowned the winners….
This Friday 29 April it’s our annual supporters get-together for signatures and selfies with both our BBL and WBBL Eagles players and staff at the end of the 2021-22 seasons. The fun starts at 6:30pm with a buffet, fun and music until late in The Brian Manning Suite at our Vertu Motors Arena. Tickets are just £10…
Starting on Monday 9 May we will be running a two month pilot of two new girls only coaching sessions at the Vertu Motors Arena led by WBBL players. NEW WEEKLY SESSIONS ON MONDAYS U10 & U12 – 6-7pm U14 & U16 – 7-8pm These hour-long weekly sessions are available to book now for just £15…
An incident-packed season punctuated by illness, injury and off-court instability finally caught up with short-handed Newcastle Eagles in St Albans. Second-bottom Oaklands Wolves set the seal on a frustrating campaign for the women in black with a commanding 84-47 homecourt win. But Newcastle can finally draw a line under a difficult year as head coach…
Chloe Gaynor insists she couldn’t be prouder of her Newcastle team mates as the Eagles bring down the curtain on a bruising WBBL campaign. And the battling centre has vowed to play through the pain barrier one final time as the women in black go in search of an eighth league win of the season….
