Nickname SIG Team colors Red, Silver and White Website www.sigbasket.fr Head coach Vincent Collet Founded 1928 | Arena Capacity 6,200 President Martial Bellon Arena/Stadium Rhénus Sport Location Strasbourg, France Championships 1 | |
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History Strasbourg
(1929–present) Leagues LNB Pro A, Basketball Champions League Profiles | ||
Strasbourg Illkirch-Graffenstaden Basket, most commonly known as SIG or simply Strasbourg, is a French professional basketball club that is based in Strasbourg. The club, founded in 1929, competes domestically in the French Pro A League, and internationally in the Basketball Champions League. The club's home games are played at Rhénus Sport. The players wear white and red uniforms.
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History
The club was founded in 1929, and reached the top-tier of French basketball for the first time in 1938.
Starting from the 2004–05 season, new head coach Éric Girard took over the team. In the regular season, SIG finished 3rd and Giard was named Coach of the Year. Strasbourg won the top-tier French League for the first time in the 2004–05 season. SIG beat its rival SLUC Nancy 72–68.
In the 2005–06 season, Strasbourg played in the Euroleague. The team had some outstanding results, as they beat top tier team Saski Baskonia. In the Pro A, the team was defeated by Nancy 1–2 in the Semi-finals.
In the 2006–07 season, the team wouldn't reach further than the Quarter-finals. After some down years, the team started to revived when Vincent Collet took over as head coach in 2012. The team reached the Pro A Finals for three straight years in 2013, 2014, 2015. Along with that, the team won the 2015 Leaders Cup and 2014–15 French Basketball Cup. Important players for the team were Antoine Diot and Louis Campbell, who won MVP Awards in the won competitions.
Arenas
The 6,200 seat Rhénus Sport has been used as the home arena of SIG for many years. In January 2017, the club announced their building plans for a new arena that is to be finished in 2020, that will accommodate 10,000 people.
The Eastern Rivalry
The Eastern Derby is the name a match between Strasbourg IG and SLUC Nancy is given, because of its strong emotional history.
Budgets
According to Ligue Nationale de Basket guidelenies, SIG has to publish its budget for player salary each season.