The VIMODROM Baskets will kick off the new season on September 26

Two New Teams in the League

With TS Jahn Munich and the Rhein-Main Baskets, two teams from the regional leagues have been promoted to the South Division and are now part of our league for the first time. Both teams bring a breath of fresh air to the division and set the stage for new, as-yet-unknown matchups—we’re excited to see how they’ll fare against the established teams.

The Rhein-Main Baskets and Jahn Munich play a special role in this regard. Although both are, on paper, promoted from the regional leagues, they are by no means newcomers to the 2nd DBBL.

The Munich team has previously competed in the second-highest division, and the Rhein-Main Baskets were also a fixture there for many years. The Hessian team, which can even look back on several years of top-division experience, has now immediately rebounded from last year’s surprising relegation to the Regional League with an immediate return to the second division.

Ultimately, then, it’s not a pair of inexperienced league newcomers joining the field, but rather two established programs. With their valuable second-division and top-division experience, they’re now returning to where they’ve been at home for years.

Grünberg is moving from the North to join us

Another change concerns the Bender Baskets Grünberg: The club from Central Hesse is moving from the North Division to the South Division for the upcoming season and will thus face Jena for the first time. So this isn’t a promotion or relegation, but a re-division—presumably because Grünberg is geographically closer to many teams in the South than to its previous opponents in the North, resulting in shorter travel distances. This reasoning hasn’t been officially confirmed, but it seems plausible. One thing is certain: We’ll face the Grünberg women’s team twice—on October 17, 2026, at our home court in Lobeda West, and in the return match on February 21, 2027, in Grünberg.

In addition to the two promoted teams and the league newcomer from Grünberg, the Falcons Bad Homburg, Eisvögel USC Freiburg 2, Lou’s Foodtruck MTV Stuttgart, Medikamente per Klick Bamberg Baskets, USC BasCats Heidelberg, TSV 1880 Wasserburg, the QOOL Sharks Würzburg, and ASC Theresianum Mainz round out the field of participants in the South Division.

We look forward to seeing you

A new season means new opponents, new stories, and hopefully many more exciting games in Jena. We’d like to cordially invite all fans right now to come out and get the arena fired up for our home opener on October 3 against Heidelberg. Please note: The listed tip-off times, especially in the home game schedule, are subject to change—we’ll provide a separate update as soon as everything is finalized. Until then: get ready, get excited—and count down the days until tip-off.

As usual, the complete schedule is available at basketballinjena.de/spielplan.