Birmingham Bullets

Birmingham Bullets
League	British Basketball League
Established	1974
Folded	2006
History	Coventry 1974-1980 Team Fiat 1980-1982 Birmingham Bullets 1982-2006
Location	Birmingham, West Midlands
Team colours	Red, White and Black
Ownership	Craig Bown
Uniforms
Home Away Alternate

The Birmingham Bullets were a basketball team from Birmingham, who competed in the British Basketball League (BBL). The club resigned from the BBL league in the summer of 2006 and soon after went into liquidation, and currently no-longer exist as a basketball franchise.

The future of Birmingham basketball

Birmingham Bullets came to an end in 2006. Team Birmingham did not successfully claim to be the successor side. Worcester Wolves replaced the Birmingham franchise in the BBL in 2006. In 2007. The British Basketball Association, a proposed professional league set to rival the BBL, announced Birmingham Athletics as their second franchise for the 2007-08 season, on 19 February, while a month later, on 23 March, the BBL announced that a new franchise had been awarded to Birmingham, also for the 2007-08 season, called Birmingham Panthers. The Panthers only lasted for one season before folding. In the 2013-14 season a new team, the Birmingham Knights, represented the city.

The new Academy

Team Birmingham have opened a regional headquarters at Northwood Stadium in Stoke-on-Trent. Northwood Stadium is the only athletics centre in the area which is certified by the International Amateur Athletics Federation and is the home of Stoke Athletics Club. The centre also has a large sports hall with, 6 badminton courts, four full sized basketball courts, three 5-a-side football pitches, three squash courts and the facility for many other sports. Also based at Northwood is the full-time training program for gap year students and full-time players.

Housed within the new, £60 million campus at Knutton Lane the Academy offers facilities, including a 4-court Sports Hall, Dance Studio and Fitness Suite for all its players. Other features include a 250-seat auditorium, a large learning resources centre, a skills and technology centre and a suite of conference and seminar facilities. Players attending the Academy will enrol on a full-time, non-sports related course, train for sixteen hours on court, six hours in the Fitness Suite on strength and conditioning per week. The players will also be available to play in the BCS and ESSBA competitions during the week and Senior Men's National League at weekends.

See also

• British Basketball League

External links

• Birmiingham Bullets at Represent Sports
• Birmingham Bullets news archive from icBirmingham