Tigers Tübingen

Tigers Tübingen
Leagues	ProA
Founded	1952;74 years ago (1952)
History	SV 03 Tübingen (1952–2003) Tigers Tübingen (2003–present)
Arena	Paul Horn-Arena
Capacity	3,132
Location	Tübingen, Germany
Main sponsor	Zeltwanger
President	Robert Wintermantel
Head coach	Henrik Sonko
Team captain	Till-Joscha Jönke
Website	tigers-tuebingen.de
Home Away

Tigers Tübingen is a basketball team from Tübingen, a college town in central Baden-Württemberg, Germany, playing in the ProA, the country's second tier league.

Founded as SV 03 Tübingen, is affiliated with the multi-sports club SV 03 Tübingen, which was founded in 1903. In 1952, its basketball section was founded. In 2003, the name Walter Tigers Tübingen was chosen for the basketball team after the local Tübingen company Walter AG, a tool manufacturer, became the team's sponsor. The company ended their sponsorship in 2018.

Tigers Tübingen play their home games at the Paul Horn-Arena, which has a capacity of 3,132 people.

Academy

The Tübingen youth teams compete as Young Tigers Tübingen in the Oberliga (U19) and in the JBBL (U16). ^[1] In 2010, under the leadership of then-coach Manuel Pasios, Tübingen made it into the NBBL for the first time. ^[2] Previously, from 2006 to 2009, they played in the NBBL together with BBA Ludwigsburg as SG Ludwigsburg/Tübingen. Later, Kristiyan Borisov and Martin Ströbele took over the management of the NBBL team. ^[3] In 2018, Pasios succeeded Claus Sieghörtner as coach of the regional league team. ^[4] In 2022, the U19 team was relegated from the NBBL after twelve years in the league. ^[5]

Tübingen has been playing in the JBBL since its foundation in 2009. Only in the 2010/11 season did the team fail to qualify.

History

In 1992/93, SV 03 Tübingen became members of the Basketball Bundesliga for the first time, but didn't manage to escape relegation; a second one-season stint followed in 2001/02. After being promoted to the Basketball Bundesliga again in 2004 the name was changed to Walter Tigers Tübingen. In 14 consecutive seasons in the top flight they never succeeded in reaching the play-offs and were finally relegated to the ProA after finishing last in the 2017/18 season. In their first ProA season 2018/2019 the name was changed to Tigers Tübingen and they missed the playoffs by one spot finishing in the 9th place. The 2019/20 season was their second season in the ProA.

Players

Current roster

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Tigers Tübingen roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. No. Nat. Name Ht. Wt. Age PF 1 Pelote III, Bernard 2.04 m (6 ft 8 in) 23 – (2002-08-13)13 August 2002 SG 3 Tention, Miles 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) 26 – (1999-03-21)21 March 1999 SF 7 Oriane, Silas 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) 21 – (2004-11-18)18 November 2004 SF 19 Schwaibold, Joshua 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) 27 – (1998-12-26)26 December 1998 PF 23 Moreaux, Melkisedek 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) 28 – (1997-07-23)23 July 1997 PG 26 Jönke, Till-Joscha  (C) 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) 34 – (1992-01-04)4 January 1992	Head coach Henrik Sonko Assistant coach(es) Troy Culley Legend (C) Team captain Injured Roster Updated: October 29, 2025

Head coaches

Span	Coach
2004–2006	Pat Elzie
2006–2007	Aaron McCarthy
2008–2009	Tolga Öngören
2009–2015	Igor Perović
2016–2017	Tyron McCoy
2017–2018	Mathias Fischer
2018–2019	Aleksandar Nadjfeji
2019	Georg Kämpf
2019–2019	Doug Spradley
2020	Andy Hipsher
2020–2024	Daniel Jansson
2024–present	Domenik Reinboth

Season by season

Season	Tier	League	Pos.	Cup
2000–01	2	2. BBL	1st
2001–02	1	Bundesliga	15th
2002–03	2	2. BBL	2nd
2003–04	2	2. BBL	1st
2004–05	1	Bundesliga	14th
2005–06	1	Bundesliga	12th
2006–07	1	Bundesliga	10th
2007–08	1	Bundesliga	15th
2008–09	1	Bundesliga	14th
2009–10	1	Bundesliga	12th
2010–11	1	Bundesliga	12th
2011–12	1	Bundesliga	12th
2012–13	1	Bundesliga	10th
2013–14	1	Bundesliga	16th
2014–15	1	Bundesliga	14th
2015–16	1	Bundesliga	14th
2016–17	1	Bundesliga	15th
2017–18	1	Bundesliga	18th
2018–19	2	ProA	9th
2019–20	2	ProA	13th
2020–21	2	ProA	13th
2021–22	2	ProA	1st
2022–23	2	ProA	2nd
2023–24	1	Bundesliga	18th	First round
2024–25	2	ProA	7th	First round
2025–26	2	ProA		First round

Honours

2. Basketball Bundesliga

• Champions: 2001, 2004

Notable players

• Bakary Dibba
• Aatu Kivimäki
• Georgios Kalaitzakis

References

1. "Walter Tigers – das Team der Tigers Tübingen". WALTER-Tigers.de (in German). Retrieved 8 January 2026.
2. "Young Tigers Tübingen". Web Archive (in German). Retrieved 8 January 2026.
3. Tobias Fischer. "Unsere anderen Teams im Einsatz – ein Überblick!". Tigers Tübingen (in German). Retrieved 8 January 2026.
4. "Unsere anderen Teams im Einsatz – ein Überblick!". WALTER-Tigers.de. Retrieved 8 January 2026.
5. Tobias Fischer. "Young Tigers Tübingen verabschieden sich aus der NBBL". Tigers Tübingen (in German). Retrieved 8 January 2026.

External links

• Official website