Skyliners Frankfurt

Fraport Skyliners
Fraport Skyliners
League	ProA
Founded	1999
History	Skyliners; (1999–2000); Opel Skyliners ; (2000–2005); Deutsche Bank Skyliners; (2005–2011); Fraport Skyliners; (2011–present)
Arena	Süwag Energie ARENA
Capacity	5,002
Location	Frankfurt, Germany
Team colors	Blue, White and Orange;
Main sponsor	Fraport
CEO	Yannick Binas
General manager	Marco Völler
Head coach	Denis Wucherer
Affiliation(s)	Skyliners Juniors
Championships	1 FIBA Europe Cup; 1 German Championship; 1 German Cup
Website	fraport-skyliners.de
Home	Away

The Skyliners Frankfurt, currently known as Fraport Skyliners for sponsorship reasons, are a professional basketball club based in Frankfurt, Germany.^[1] Their home arena is Ballsporthalle.

The club has played in the Basketball Bundesliga since 1999. Its greatest accomplishments were the German Cup competition title in 2000, the German national championship in 2004 and the FIBA Europe Cup in 2016.

Its most famous player has been Pascal Roller, who was selected as Basketball Bundesliga All-Star seven times and played 122 games for the German national basketball team. Roller played ten seasons for the Frankfurt Skyliners until his retirement in 2011. Besides Roller, numerous other players of the German national team played multiple seasons for the Skyliners. A notable non-German basketball player is Mario Kasun, who played for the Skyliners when he was discovered and eventually drafted by the NBA team Orlando Magic in 2002.

^ "Frankfurt Skyliners". Frankfurter Rundschau (in German). Retrieved 14 December 2014.

[1] "Frankfurt Skyliners". Frankfurter Rundschau (in German). Retrieved 14 December 2014.

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