Newcastle Eagles opening tip-off of the 2025/26 season’s Super League Basketball (SLB) Trophy competition against Caledonia Gladiators will now take place on Sunday 7 December. The move of this away trip over the border to Caledonia from its originally scheduled date of Sunday 9 November means that the Eagles’ Trophy progression will be sealed inside…
The Newcastle Eagles tipped off their third successive European North Basketball League campaign on Tuesday night in The Vertu Arena. Their opponents and visitors were a familiar rival making their first trip to Newcastle, Dziki Warszawa of Poland’s top-flight Oblen League. Newcastle had actually crossed swords with The Poles twice last season in the 2024/25…
A much-improved competitive performance from Friday night’s loss at Leicester almost say Marc Steutel’s Newcastle Eagles put an end to their losing streak. However despite better defence and spreading the scoring load they still came up a little short in a battling effort that they took all the way. They say in a team performance…
European North Basketball League (ENBL) officials have confirmed that Greece’s Iraklis BC will come to Tyneside to face our Newcastle Eagles on Wednesday 3 December. The date of the game was set in the summer with the team we would tip-off against previously unannounced and subject to scheduling. Considered one of the most historical teams…
The end analysis is of course another loss in the L column and a second successive SLB Championship defeat that takes the Newcastle Eagles to a 2 – 2 level record after four games played. Perhaps the more in-depth analysis that will follow will give Coach Marc Steutel positives to take. A question only his…
The Newcastle Eagles came up just short of making it three wins from three in the SLB Championship on Sunday after going down to their first League defeat in Sheffield. It was a game that won’t live long in the mind of basketball purists but it was intense throughout and as hard-fought as they come….
The Newcastle Eagles women are off and running for the competitive season. A tough but excellent road win at Nottingham on Saturday night kept their SLB Betty Cordona Group stage qualification hopes alive. It was a game that Head Coach Chloe Gaynor’s side took control of early and led from first buzzer to last although…
The Newcastle Eagles opened their home SLB campaign with an impressive 88 – 70 win over Cheshire Phoenix in front of a packed Vertu Motors Arena on Friday night. It was a very solid all-round team performance built on the ‘defensive blueprint’ that Head Coach Marc Steutel wanted. It also meant that The Eagles made…
The 2025/26 Newcastle Eagles men’s team tipped off their SLB Championship season with a dramatic and thrilling overtime win over Caledonia Gladiators in Scotland on Sunday. In a high scoring game, it was Newcastle’s defensive stance in the fourth quarter that actually turned the game on its head. Marc Steutel’s men had been behind for…
