Newcastle Eagles

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The Newcastle Eagles are a professional basketball club based in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. The senior men's and women's teams play in Super League Basketball, the top-tier professional basketball league in Britain for men and women, and the men's team have previously played in the European North Basketball League. The club also operates an academy program for young players. They are the most successful club in the history of British men's professional basketball, with 28 British professional titles and 3 English titles as of September 2026. The team was originally founded as EPAB Sunderland, based at the Northumbria Centre in Washington, and began competing in the Second Division of the English National Basketball League in 1976. In 1987, Sunderland became a founding member of the breakaway British Basketball League with other top-flight English and Scottish clubs. They remained in Sunderland until 1995, when they moved to Newcastle and renamed to the Newcastle Comets, before becoming...

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