The Chemnitz Niners celebrated the greatest success in their club's history and won the FIBA ​​European Cup. On Wednesday, the basketball Bundesliga team lost the second leg of the final at Bahcesehir College by 95:105 (38:55) after extra time, but won the first leg last week by 85:74. This eleven point lead was enough for Chemnitz to win the title. Kaza Kajami-Keane led the Saxons with 29 points.

The Chemnitz Club is named after Alba Berlin (1993), Syntainics MBC from Weißenfels (2004), BG Göttingen (2010), Fraport Skyliners from Frankfurt (2016) and telecommunications Baskets Bonn (2023) the sixth German team to win a European Cup. The FIBA ​​European Cup is the weakest of the four current European basketball competitions.

Niners Chemnitz are crowned European Cup champions in a crazy final

The Chemnitz team led 19:18 after the first quarter, but lost pace in the second half. Bahcesehir, for his part, hit his three-pointer and took the lead with a run of 18:4 to take the lead until the break with 55:38. The guests had to accept 37 points in the second half.

After the break, Chemnitz defended better with a zonal defense. Kaza Kajami-Keane also turned the offense around. The playmaker scored 14 points in the third half and made the score at 67:67. The guests dominated the third quarter with 29:12. In the fourth round, the Niners had to let things get away from them more and more, eight seconds before the end of the game the hosts took the lead with 95:84. After Chemnitz's victory by eleven points in the first leg, the match went to extra time.

There the guests had to do without the fourth player of their great base, who was no longer allowed to play after five fouls. However, the Chemnitz team managed to prevent its deficit from growing to more than ten points. In the last attack of the game, Bahcesehir missed a triple that would have given the title to the Turks.