RheinEnergie Köln

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RheinEnergie Köln (often RE Köln or REK) is a basketball club based in Cologne, Germany that plays in the Basketball Bundesliga (BBL). The team was founded 1999 as Cologne 99ers. The colours are red and white. The mascot is EnergyMan. Their home arena is in the BBL the GEW Energy Dome and to some special games the Kölnarena. In the European Cup Season 2006-2007 their home place is an arena in Düsseldorf, Germany named Philips Halle.

Address:

American Sports GmbH
RheinEnergie Köln BasketballTeam
Girlitzweg 30
D-50829 Köln
Tel.: +49(0)221/88 882-0
Fax: +49(0)221/88 882-43
E-Mail: info@rheinenergie-koeln.de

Roster of the 2006-2007 season:

RheinEnergie Köln Current Roster
Head Coach: Sasa Obradovic
Assistend Coaches: Philipp Köchling and Drasko Prodanovis
C	30	Ronald Burrell	(last team: Levallois)
G/F	16	Stephan Carduck	(last team: SOBA Dragons Rhöndorf)
F	22	Marcus Faison	(last team: Charleroi)
C	13	Marcin Gortat	(last team: Łódź)
F	31	Guido Grünheid	(last team: ALBA Berlin)
G	20	Demond Mallet	(last team: GHP Bamberg*)
F/C	19	Davis Martens	(from RE Köln youth)
G	23	Immanuel McElroy	(last team: Dodge City Legend)
F	8	Aleksander Nadjfeji	(last team: Telekom Baskets Bonn)
F/C	18	Tibor Pleiß	(from RE Köln youth)
PF	10	Philipp Schwethelm	(from RE Köln youth)
F	32	Mladen Sljivancanin	(last team: Deutsche Bank Skyliners)
G	9	Johannes Strasser	(last team: SOBA Dragons Rhöndorf)
F	12	Janar Talts	(last team: Kalev Tallinn)

GHP Bamberg is today known as Brose Baskets

Titles:
One win of the German championship (Basketball Bundesliga), two wins of the German cup (BBL Pokal) and one win of the German super cup (BBL Champions Cup).

Rivalries:
The games against local rivals Telekom Baskets Bonn and Bayer Giants Leverkusen are among the biggest contests in the BBL. The games against Brose Baskets and ALBA Berlin are the top games in German basketball.^{[citation needed]}