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Artland Dragons
Artland Dragons
Leagues	ProA
Founded	1955; 70 years ago
History	QTSV Quakenbrück; (1955–2003); Artland Dragons; (2003–present)
Arena	Artland-Arena
Capacity	3,000
Location	Quakenbrück, Germany
Team colors	Black, Red and White;
President	Marius Kröger
2018–19 position	ProA, 11th of 16
Championships	1 German Cup
Website	artland-dragons.de
Home	Away

QTSV Quakenbrück, widely known as 'Artland Dragons is a professional basketball club based in Quakenbrück, Germany. The club' s home arena is the Artland Arena, which has a capacity of 3,000 spectators.^[1] From 2003 till 2015 the club played in the Basketball Bundesliga and in several European competitions.

On May 3, 2015, the club announced that it would fold.^[2] Ultimately, the management decided to continue operations in the third tier Bundesliga ProB.^[3]^[4]

In 2018, the Dragons were promoted to the ProA.

History

Basketball has a long tradition in Quakenbrück. It was first played in the Artland-Gymnasium school. The basketball section of the sports club QTSV Quakenbrück was established in 1955. In the 1970s, the first men's team got their first achievement, by being promoted to the second German League, where they stayed for three seasons.

After a long time without great success, Günter 'Ice' Kollmann, former German basketball player and junior national team member, supported the QTSV team as a main sponsor. By continuous work on the youth education in the 1980s, the team had major successes in the 1990s. In 1994, the team was promoted to the second regional league, followed by promotion to the first regional league one season later, and promotion to the second national league another season later. In 2003, the promotion to the highest national league was made and the name of the club changed officially to Artland Dragons from QTSV Quakenbrück. QTSV then became a smaller partner club in a lower regional league.

In the seasons 1995–96 and 2002–03, the team was unbeaten in its league.

Starting from the 2003–04 season, the Artland Dragons played in the first tier BBL a long time. In the 2006–07 season, the team managed to end 2nd in the regular season and played in the BBL Finals. The team lost 3–1 to first seeded Brose Baskets Bamberg. Starting from the 2007–08 season, the team also played in European competitions for 8 straight years.

In May 2015, the club unexpectedly announced that it would dissolve the professional basketball club. The reasons for the closure included that the Dragons could not keep up with the growing budgets of other BBL teams, due to the club's small arena and lack of big sponsors.^[5] Eventually, the team decided to move back to the third division ProB.

Logos

The original club logo

Trophies

German Bundesliga

Runners-up (1): 2007

German Cup

Winners (1): 2008
- Runners-up (1): 2007

Season by season

Season	Tier	League	Pos.	German Cup	European competitions
2000–01	2	2. BBL	2nd
2001–02	2	2. BBL	3rd
2002–03	2	2. BBL	1st
2003–04	1	Bundesliga	9th
2004–05	1	Bundesliga	6th
2005–06	1	Bundesliga	5th	Fourth position
2006–07	1	Bundesliga	2nd	Runner-up
2007–08	1	Bundesliga	5th	Champion	2 ULEB Cup	RS
2008–09	1	Bundesliga	9th		2 Eurocup	RS
2009–10	1	Bundesliga	9th		3 EuroChallenge	RS
2010–11	1	Bundesliga	4th	Third position	3 EuroChallenge	QR
2011–12	1	Bundesliga	3rd	Quarterfinalist	3 EuroChallenge	QF
2012–13	1	Bundesliga	6th	Fourth position	2 Eurocup	RS
2013–14	1	Bundesliga	4th	Quarterfinalist	2 Eurocup	RS
2014–15	1	Bundesliga	11th^[a]		2 Eurocup	RS
2015–16	3	ProB	6th
2016–17	3	ProB	2nd
2017–18	3	ProB	5th
2018–19	2	ProA	11th
2019–20	2	ProA	14th
2020–21	2	ProA	8th
2021–22	2	ProA	15th
2022–23	2	ProA	6th
2023–24	2	ProA		First round

^ Resigned its position in the Bundesliga.

Players

Current roster

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Artland Dragons roster

Players

Coaches

Pos.	No.	Name	Ht.	Age
SG	0	Watkins, Anthony
PF	1	Green, Tajh
PG	4	Döding, Thorben	1.89 m (6 ft 2 in)	25 – (1999-03-07)7 March 1999
SG	6	Cracknell, Troy
PG	9	Anthony, Buzz
C	11	Oehle, Robert
SG	12	Johnson, Taylor
PF	14	Thomas, Brandon
PF	15	West, Lamont
SG	22	Möller, Marvin	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)	22 – (2002-09-26)26 September 2002
C	25	Kolo, Yasin
SF	50	Grüttner, Joanic

Head coach

Vincent Macaulay

Assistant coach(es)

Markus Jackson

Legend

(C) Team captain
Injured

Roster

Updated: October 1, 2024

Notable players

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Criteria
To appear in this section a player must have either: Set a club record or won an individual award while at the club Played at least one official international match for their national team at any time Played at least one official NBA match at any time.

Partner & youth team

The Partner club of the Artland Dragons is the local basketball club "QTSV", with a men's team playing in the regional league, and a women's team playing in the second German women's league. There are also a variety of other teams (youth and adults, also wheelchair basketball). The youth team of the Artland Dragons is the "Young Dragons", which plays in the NBBL, the German youth team league (Nachwuchs Basketball Bundesliga).

Cheerleader squad and team mascot

The cheerleader squad is called "The Flames". It is trained by Annette Schone. The team mascot is a dragon called, "Tobi der Drache" (Tobi the Dragon).