Superleague (Ireland)
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The Superleague is the top tier men's basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

 league in Ireland
Ireland
Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

. 10 clubs compete in 2 conferences, North & South with 5 teams in each conference. The competition is currently sponsored by Nivea for men, having previously been sponsored by ESB
ESB
- Organizations :*ESB Reutlingen, a business school of the Reutlingen University in Germany*ESB Customer Supply, the incumbent retail supplier of electricity in Ireland*ESB Group, a multinational energy group based in Ireland...

. The current champions are UCC Demons
UCC Demons
UCC Demons is a basketball club based in Cork, Ireland. The team playsin the Irish Superleague. They have won the Irish Superleague 6 times.Blue Demons were founded in 1966 and are the second most successful club in Irish basketball's history. They were originally based in Sundays Well, Cork City...

 who beat Dart Killester
Dart Killester
Dart Killester is a basketball club based in Killester, Dublin, Ireland. Their senior men's team play in the Irish Superleague. They won the National League in 2007. The team is sponsored by Dublin Area Rapid Transit providers or the DART...

 in the 2009 final in the National Basketball Arena
National Basketball Arena
National Basketball Arena, also known as Tallaght Arena or the ESB Arena, is an indoor sporting arena located in Tallaght, Dublin, Republic of Ireland. It is used mainly for basketball events...

 in Tallaght
Tallaght
Tallaght is the largest town, and county town, of South Dublin County, Ireland. The village area, dating from at least the 17th century, held one of the earliest settlements known in the southern part of the island, and one of medieval Ireland's more important monastic centres.Up to the 1960s...

, Dublin. Neptune have won the competition 11 times.

Past winners

Superleague
SeasonWinnerRunner-up
1999-00 Neptune
2000–01 Killester
Dart Killester
Dart Killester is a basketball club based in Killester, Dublin, Ireland. Their senior men's team play in the Irish Superleague. They won the National League in 2007. The team is sponsored by Dublin Area Rapid Transit providers or the DART...

Star of the Sea
Star of the Sea (basketball)
Star of the Sea is a basketball club based in Jordanstown, Belfast, Northern Ireland. They play in the Irish Superleague. Their home court is in the University of Ulster...

2001-02 Tigers
Abrakebabra Tigers
Abrakebabra Tigers is a basketball team located in Tralee, County Kerry, Republic of Ireland. The team play in the Superleague, Ireland's top tier basketball league.TheTigers have a long and proud tradition of success...

Killester
Dart Killester
Dart Killester is a basketball club based in Killester, Dublin, Ireland. Their senior men's team play in the Irish Superleague. They won the National League in 2007. The team is sponsored by Dublin Area Rapid Transit providers or the DART...

2002-03 Neptune Belfast Star
2003-04 Tigers
Abrakebabra Tigers
Abrakebabra Tigers is a basketball team located in Tralee, County Kerry, Republic of Ireland. The team play in the Superleague, Ireland's top tier basketball league.TheTigers have a long and proud tradition of success...

Killester
Dart Killester
Dart Killester is a basketball club based in Killester, Dublin, Ireland. Their senior men's team play in the Irish Superleague. They won the National League in 2007. The team is sponsored by Dublin Area Rapid Transit providers or the DART...

2004-05 UCC Demons
UCC Demons
UCC Demons is a basketball club based in Cork, Ireland. The team playsin the Irish Superleague. They have won the Irish Superleague 6 times.Blue Demons were founded in 1966 and are the second most successful club in Irish basketball's history. They were originally based in Sundays Well, Cork City...

Tigers
Abrakebabra Tigers
Abrakebabra Tigers is a basketball team located in Tralee, County Kerry, Republic of Ireland. The team play in the Superleague, Ireland's top tier basketball league.TheTigers have a long and proud tradition of success...

2005-06 DCU Saints Limerick Lions
2006-07 Killester
Dart Killester
Dart Killester is a basketball club based in Killester, Dublin, Ireland. Their senior men's team play in the Irish Superleague. They won the National League in 2007. The team is sponsored by Dublin Area Rapid Transit providers or the DART...

Ballina
2007-08 Tigers
Abrakebabra Tigers
Abrakebabra Tigers is a basketball team located in Tralee, County Kerry, Republic of Ireland. The team play in the Superleague, Ireland's top tier basketball league.TheTigers have a long and proud tradition of success...

Killester
Dart Killester
Dart Killester is a basketball club based in Killester, Dublin, Ireland. Their senior men's team play in the Irish Superleague. They won the National League in 2007. The team is sponsored by Dublin Area Rapid Transit providers or the DART...

2008-09 UCC Demons
UCC Demons
UCC Demons is a basketball club based in Cork, Ireland. The team playsin the Irish Superleague. They have won the Irish Superleague 6 times.Blue Demons were founded in 1966 and are the second most successful club in Irish basketball's history. They were originally based in Sundays Well, Cork City...

Killester
Dart Killester
Dart Killester is a basketball club based in Killester, Dublin, Ireland. Their senior men's team play in the Irish Superleague. They won the National League in 2007. The team is sponsored by Dublin Area Rapid Transit providers or the DART...

2009-10 Dart Killester
Dart Killester
Dart Killester is a basketball club based in Killester, Dublin, Ireland. Their senior men's team play in the Irish Superleague. They won the National League in 2007. The team is sponsored by Dublin Area Rapid Transit providers or the DART...

Montenotte
2010-11 Killester
Dart Killester
Dart Killester is a basketball club based in Killester, Dublin, Ireland. Their senior men's team play in the Irish Superleague. They won the National League in 2007. The team is sponsored by Dublin Area Rapid Transit providers or the DART...

UL Aughnish


Men's Teams 2011-12

Team Stadium City/Area
North Conference
Belfast Star DLS Andersonstown Andersonstown
Andersonstown
Andersonstown is a suburb of Belfast, Northern Ireland.It is overshadowed by the Black Mountain and Divis Mountain and contains a mixture of public and private housing. It is largely populated by the Irish nationalist and Roman Catholic community...

, Belfast
Belfast
Belfast is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the 14th biggest city in the United Kingdom and second biggest on the island of Ireland . It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly...

DCU Saints
DCU Saints
DCU Saints are a basketball club from Dublin, Ireland. The DCU Saints play in the Superleague, Ireland's top division in basketball.-History:...

DCU Sports Complex Glasnevin
Glasnevin
Glasnevin is a largely residential neighbourhood of Dublin, Ireland.-Geography:A mainly residential neighbourhood, it is located on the Northside of the city of Dublin . It was originally established on the northern bank of the River Tolka...

, Dublin
Killster
Dart Killester
Dart Killester is a basketball club based in Killester, Dublin, Ireland. Their senior men's team play in the Irish Superleague. They won the National League in 2007. The team is sponsored by Dublin Area Rapid Transit providers or the DART...

IWA Clontarf
Clontarf
Clontarf may refer to:Placenames:*Clontarf, Dublin, Ireland*Clontarf, New South Wales, Australia*Clontarf, Queensland, Australia*Clontarf, Minnesota, United StatesOther:*Battle of Clontarf, 1014...

, Dublin
UCD Marian
UCD Marian
University College Dublin Marian is an Irish basketball club with teams in the Irish Superleague and Divisions 1 - 4.- History :Marian Basketball Club was founded in 1968 when a group of pupils and past-pupils of Marian College, Ballsbridge entered a team in the Dublin Minor Basketball league.....

UCD Sports Centre Belfield
Belfield
Belfield is a small enclave, not quite a suburb, located to the south of Ireland's capital city Dublin. It has a distinct identity because of, and is generally synonymous with, the main campus of University College Dublin....

, Dublin
South Conference
Moycullen
Moycullen Basketball
Moycullen Basketball Club, are an Irish basketball club based in the village of Moycullen in County Galway, Ireland. They play their home games at the Kingfisher Sports Centre at the NUIG in Galway city...

NUIG Kingfisher Galway City
Neptune Neptune Stadium Cork City
UCC Demons
UCC Demons
UCC Demons is a basketball club based in Cork, Ireland. The team playsin the Irish Superleague. They have won the Irish Superleague 6 times.Blue Demons were founded in 1966 and are the second most successful club in Irish basketball's history. They were originally based in Sundays Well, Cork City...

Parochial Hall Cork City
UL Eagles UL Arena Castletroy
Castletroy
Castletroy is a rapidly growing and predominantly middle-class suburb of Limerick, Ireland and is the largest suburb in Munster. Its population is estimated at 40,000 as of 2010....

, Limerick
Limerick
Limerick is the third largest city in the Republic of Ireland, and the principal city of County Limerick and Ireland's Mid-West Region. It is the fifth most populous city in all of Ireland. When taking the extra-municipal suburbs into account, Limerick is the third largest conurbation in the...


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