BSC Saturn Köln

BSC Saturn Köln was a professional basketball club based in the fourth-largest city of Germany, Cologne.

History

The club originated in 1977 from the divested basketball department of ASV Köln. Legally, the spin-off took place, however, only in 1978. The basketball department of ASV Köln played already from 1969-70 to 1971-72, in the season 1973-74 and 1975 to spin-off in the National Basketball League.

Saturn have won four German Championships and three national Cup all the titles in the glory days of 80s. The main sponsor was since June 1977 Fritz Waffenschmidt, then owner of the Saturn stores. The sale of the Saturn stores on the Kaufhof department store group in March 1984 it was the end of the funding for the club to the top basketball ended abruptly in Cologne. Attempts to financial cooperation with Galatasaray Istanbul failed miserably. The Club 1989 renamed due to the cooperation in Galatasaray Cologne, introduced in 1990 for bankruptcy and had to stop the game mode. In 1993, the club was formally dissolved.

Highlights in the history of Saturn Köln for the European competitions came to late 80s in FIBA European Champions Cup where they arrived till quarter final group stage in 1987-88 season and face the best European basketball blubs of the era as Partizan, Aris, Tracer Milano, Maccabi Elite, FC Barcelona, Orthez and Nashua Den Bosch. The next season Saturn eliminated in the round of 16 by the Dutch Nashua Den Bosch. Also Saturn after a significant qualification against Monaco arrived till quarter final group stage in 1983–84 FIBA European Cup Winner's Cup where they made excellent performances and eliminated with a 3 wins-3 defeats record by Simac Milano and Cibona.

Titles and achievements

German League

German Cup

Notable players

Notable coaches

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