Dandenong Rangers (NBL1 South)
Basketball team in Dandenong North, Victoria
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Dandenong Rangers is an NBL1 South club based in Melbourne, Victoria. The club fields a team in both the Men's and Women's NBL1 South. The club is a division of Dandenong Basketball Association (DBA), the major administrative basketball organisation in the City of Greater Dandenong. The Rangers play their home games at Dandenong Stadium.
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Dandenong Rangers
1981–present
Women:
Dandenong Rangers
1984–1991; 1994–present
| Dandenong Rangers | |
|---|---|
| |
| Leagues | NBL1 South |
| Founded | 1981 |
| History | Men: Dandenong Rangers 1981–present Women: Dandenong Rangers 1984–1991; 1994–present |
| Arena | Dandenong Stadium |
| Location | Dandenong North, Victoria |
| Team colors | Green, white, brown |
| President | Paul Jones |
| Vice-president | Luke McLelland |
| General manager | Tamie Harvey |
| Head coach | M: Samantha Woosnam W: Jaysn Harvey |
| Championships | Men: SEABL (2)Big V (2)Women: WBC (1)ABA (2)SEABL (8) |
| Conference titles | Men: SEABL (6) Women: SEABL (3) |
| Website | NBL1.com.au |
Club history
First SEABL stint
Dandenong Basketball Association was established in 1959.[1]
In 1981, the Rangers were inaugural members of the South East Australian Basketball League (SEABL).[2] In 1985, they won their first SEABL championship.[3][4] In 1986, they won the SEABL East Conference championship.[3][4]
In 1984, a Rangers women's team was an inaugural member of the Women's Basketball Conference (WBC).[5] The Rangers won in 1989[6][7] and played in the inaugural SEABL women's competition in 1990[2] after the WBC was adopted by the SEABL.[5] They went undefeated in 1990 and 1991[8] and won back-to-back SEABL championships[3][4] alongside back-to-back ABA National championships.[9] The team withdrew from the SEABL following the 1991 season,[2] which coincided with the Dandenong Rangers WNBL team making their debut in the Women's National Basketball League (WNBL) in the 1992 season.[10] A Rangers SEABL women's team was re-established in 1994.[2]
The Rangers won the men's East Conference championship in 1997, the women's league championship in 2001, and the men's East Conference championship in 2004.[3][4]
Big V
Following the 2004 season, the Rangers withdrew from the SEABL[2] and entered the Big V in 2005.[11] The men's team finished runners-up in their first season in the Big V.[12]
In 2006, the men's team won the Big V championship with a 2–0 grand final series victory over the Sandringham Sabres.[13][14] The women's team finished runners-up in 2006 after losing 2–0 to Sandringham in the grand final.[13][15] Both teams played in the 2006 ABA National Finals,[16] with the men reaching the grand final, where they lost 94–80 to the Geelong Supercats.[17]
In 2007, the men's team won their second straight Big V championship after again winning 2–0 over the Sandringham Sabres in the grand final series.[18][19] At the 2007 national finals, the Rangers again finished runners-up after losing 110–98 to the Cairns Marlins in the grand final.[20]
In 2008, the men's team lost in the Big V preliminary final.[11]
Second SEABL stint
The Rangers returned to the SEABL in 2009.[11][21]
Between 2010 and 2012, the women's team won three straight SEABL championships, becoming the first SEABL women's team to win the championship three times in a row.[22][23][24] The men meanwhile won back-to-back East Conference championships in 2012 and 2013. They lost in the 2012 SEABL grand final to the Albury Wodonga Bandits[25][26] and won the 2013 SEABL championship with a grand final victory over the Mount Gambier Pioneers.[27]
The women's team won back-to-back SEABL championships in 2015 and 2016.[28][29][30] In 2017, the men's team won the South Conference championship and lost in the SEABL grand final to Mount Gambier.[31]
NBL1
After the demise of the SEABL following the 2018 season, a new competition known as NBL1 debuted in 2019 with the Rangers playing in the inaugural season.[32][33] The NBL1 South season did not go ahead in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[34]