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Apollo Amsterdam is a Dutch basketball team based in Amsterdam. The club plays its games in the Promotiedivisie, the Dutch second-level league. The club was founded in 2011 and has played in the highest national level for 13 years, from 2012 to 2023. They qualified for the national playoffs four times.
The Olympic Council of Asia does not enforce FIBA eligibility rules when it comes to naturalized players and dual citizens in the Asian Games. However it requires players to reside in the country they seek to represent for at least three years. [5] The eligibility could be claimed by a passport of at least three years of validity. The OCA only ...
This way the league seek to keep developing Dutch talent in the league. For several seasons. Until 2019, teams in the DBL were not allowed to have more than four players without a Dutch passport in their on court team at the same time. 2015–2017: maximum 4 foreign players; 2017–2019: maximum 5 foreign players (1 Dutch player at the court ...
At the beginning, the NBB started with less than a thousand members and 120 teams from Amsterdam, Haarlem and Rotterdam joined. Basketball was a sport that wasn't practiced all over the country, but especially in Amsterdam. It is logical, therefore, that the NBB derives from the Amsterdam Basketball Federation, founded in 1945.
In 2012, Apollo Amsterdam became the first Promotiedivise champion to promote to the next season of the Dutch Basketball League. Lokomotief is the most successful team with three won titles. Ahead of the 2023-24 season, the Promotiedivisie was expanded to 24 teams with two groups of twelve (Group A and Group B).
In 2004–05, the fifth national title was won, after Amsterdam beat Landstede Basketbal 4–0 in the Finals. In 2005–06 and 2006–07, Amsterdam played as the Amsterdam Astronauts and ended in the 2nd and 6th places in the Eredivisie. In May 2007, businessman Roel Pieper got the job of chairman of the club.
In contrast to the summer of 2014, big name players from foreign leagues applied to play for the national team. In the first game at EuroBasket 2015 , the Dutch beat Georgia 73–72 behind Charlon Kloof 's 22 and Worthy de Jong 's 16 points. [ 7 ]
DED has a long history going back in the year 1909, when a group of university students started this basketball club in Amsterdam. They gave it the name “De Eerste Driejarige” ("The First Three Years"). The club holds the 2nd place for the number of national championships in the Netherlands. All of them won in the 1940s and 1950s. [1]