page_title: Sport in Berlin
section_title: Basketball
hierarchical_section_title: Sport in Berlin / Basketball
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Mercedes-Benz Arena in Berlin; fotografiert von vorn rechts von der Mühlenstraße aus
context_page_description: Berlin is a major sporting centre in Germany and Europe. In 2013 around 600.000 Berliners were registered in more than 2.300 amateur sports- and fitness clubs.
  Berlin has established a high-profile reputation as a host city of international sporting events. The city was host to the 1936 Summer Olympics, the 2006 FIFA World Cup Final and is the venue for several professional sports clubs in Germany's top leagues.
  The largest Olympic training centre in Germany is the Sportforum Hohenschönhausen, at 55 hectares one the largest sports and training centres in Europe. It is home to 19 sports clubs, a school and competitive sports centre, as well as a dormitory for athletes in training.
context_section_description: The main basketball club in Berlin is Alba Berlin, which dominated the Basketball Bundesliga especially in the late 90s and early 2000s. Alba won eight German Championships, nine German Cups, three German Supercups, and the FIBA Korać Cup in 1995. With an average attendance of more than 10,000 fans per game in a season, it is also one of the most popular basketball clubs in Europe.
  The city is also home to ASV Berlin, as well as the now-dissolved LSV Spandau, which won one German Championship in 1939.
  Berlin was one of the hosts of the FIBA EuroBasket 1993 (where the German national basketball team won the gold medal) and one of the hosts of the FIBA EuroBasket 2015.
caption: Mercedes-Benz Arena
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