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FCK Rolling Devils
NicknameRolling Red Devils
FoundedSeptember 2009
DissolvedOctober 2022
ArenaSports Hall of Schillerschule Kaiserslautern
LocationKaiserslautern
(Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany)
Team colorsRed/White/Black
ChampionshipsRegional Cup Winner 2010
Regional League Champion 2011
2nd Federal League Champion 2014
Regional League Champion 2019
Websitewww.rollingdevils.de

The FCK Rolling Devils was a wheelchair basketball club located in Kaiserslautern with German soccer club 1. FC Kaiserslautern acted as name sponsor till 2020. Their first team played in the Rollstuhlbasketball-Bundesliga from 2014 to 2016.

History

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The wheelchair basketball team of 1. FC Kaiserslautern was founded in September 2009 as a part of the club's basketball department. The Rolling Devils entered league play of the German Wheelchair Sports Federation[1] in the season 2010/11 on the third-class Regional League (Central Conference) level. The team won the Regional Cup[2] and advanced to the quarter-finals of the German National Cup.[3] The Devils finished the season with the championship and promotion to the 2nd German Wheelchair Basketball Federal League (Southern Conference).[4]

In the next two seasons, the Devils dropped from the German Wheelchair Sports Cup in the group stage but finished as runners-up in the 2nd Federal League. In 2013, the team participated for the German Wheelchair Sports Federation in the International Wheelchair Basketball Federation Euroleague 3 and finished in third place.[5][6]

In March 2013, FCK Rolling Devils was re-established as a separate wheelchair basketball department.[7] In 2013/14, the Rolling Devils again advanced to the quarter-finals of the German National Cup and, in the third attempt, won the championship in the 2nd German Federal League, thereby gaining promotion to the 1st German Federal League.[8] In 2014/15, the Devils made it again to the quarter-finals of the German National Cup and finished their first season in the 1st German Federal League on rank 7 and thereby as the best-promoted team of the last four seasons.

In July 2015, the spin-off of FCK Rolling Devils as an independent club with 1.FC Kaiserslautern acting as name sponsor took place. The wheelchair basketball department at 1.FC Kaiserslautern was suspended at the club's annual general meeting in December 2015. In 2015/16, the Devils again made it to the quarter-finals of the German National Cup and finished the season on rank 7.

In August 2016, the club withdrew its first team from the 1st German Federal League for financial and sports reasons and continued league play with their second team in the third-class regional league. In the next two seasons, the Rolling Devils finished at rank 3. In the season 2018/19, the Devils won the championship and to be promoted to the 2nd German Wheelchair Basketball Federal League (Southern Conference), but decided to stay in the regional league for financial reasons. The season 2019/20 ended ahead of schedule due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the Rolling Devils finished with several games less played than the other teams on rank 4. The COVID-19 pandemic also caused a massive decrease in sponsorship money that the Devils could not participate with a team in the season 2020/21. The club should have resumed training and match operations in the season 2021/22. In October 2022, the club was dissolved and removed from the Rhineland-Palatinate register of associations.

Honors

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National

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  • Regional Cup (Central Conference) Winner 2010
  • Regional League (Central Conference) Champion 2011 (Regionalliga Mitte, 3rd division)
  • 2nd Federal League (Southern Conference) Champion 2014
  • Regional League (Central Conference) Champion 2019 (Regionalliga Mitte, 3rd division)

2nd team

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  • First League (Central Conference) Champion 2014 (Oberliga Mitte, 4th division)
  • Regional Cup (Central Conference) Winner 2014

Season by season

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Season League Position (Teams) W D L Points Baskets National cup competitions International competitions
2010/11 Regional league (Central conference) 1 (8) 14 0 0 28:0 1228:428 Regional Cup: Winner
German Cup: quarter finals
2011/12 2nd Federal League (Southern conference) 2 (8) 11 0 3 22:6 961:767 German Cup: group stage
2012/13 2nd Federal League (Southern conference) 2 (8) 10 0 4 20:8 908:764 German Cup: group stage IWBF EuroLeague 3: Position 3
2013/14 2nd Federal League (Southern conference) 1 (8) 14 0 0 28:0 1050:692 German Cup: quarter finals
2014/15 1st Federal League 7 (10) 6 0 12 12:24 1042:1195 German Cup: quarter finals
2015/16 1st Federal League 7 (10) 7 0 11 14:22 1206:1300 German Cup: quarter finals
2016/17 1st Federal League 10 (10) 0 0 18 0:36 0:360
2016/17 Regional league (Central conference)* 3(11) 15 0 5 30:10 1082:763
2017/18 Regional league (Central conference) 3(7) 11 0 5 22:10 952:817
2018/19 Regional league (Central conference) 1 (7) 16 0 2 32:4 986:801
2019/20 Regional league (Central conference)** 4(11) 7 0 4 14:8 488:459

(green highlighting: championship and promotion, blue highlighting: championship, red highlighting: relegation), *: FCK Rolling Devils 2, **: season end ahead of schedule

Management

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Team managers

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Name Period Position
from till
Christa Weber September 2009 March 2013 managing director (within FCK department Basketball)
Sascha Gergele March 2013 November 2014 department manager FCK Rolling Devils
Thomas Lorenz November 2014 December 2015 department manager FCK Rolling Devils
Thomas Lorenz July 2015 April 2016 president FCK Rolling Devils
Sascha Gergele April 2016 October 2022 president FCK Rolling Devils

Head coaches

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Name Nationality Period Contract end
from till
Christa Weber Germany September 2009 March 2013 Withdrawal
Sven Nürnberger Germany April 2013 November 2013 Dismissal
Sebastian Spitznagel Germany November 2013 July 2014 Contract end
Manfred Mikschy Germany August 2014 October 2014 Withdrawal
Sascha Gergele Germany October 2014 November 2014 Interim coach
Clifford Fisher United States November 2014 November 2015 Termination
Paul James Capasso United States November 2015 March 2016 Contract end
Sascha Gergele Germany April 2016 March 2018 Contract end
Robin Kaltenbach Germany April 2018 Mai 2020 Contract end

Notable players and coaches

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Notable players

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Former players

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  • Serdar Antac (Turkey, 2013 - 2015): German champion 2003, Willi Brinkmann Cup winner 2001, Turkish champion 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009, IWBF Champions Cup winner 2008 and 2009, Kitakyushu Champions Cup winner 2008 and 2009, European champion (Group B) with Turkey 2006
  • Janic Binda (Switzerland, 2014 - 2016): Swiss champion 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014, Swiss cup winner 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014, Swiss international
  • Paul James Capasso (United States, 2014 - 2016): US champion 1993, 1995 and 2004, André Vergauwen Cup winner 2014, US international
  • Nico Dreimüller (Germany, 2010 - 2013): German champion 2015 and 2017, German cup winner 2015, 2017 and 2018, Champions cup winner 2015, German international
  • Pieter Dries (Belgium, 2013 - 2015): European champion (Group B) with Belgium 2008, Belgian cup winner 2016
  • Sascha Gergele (Germany, 2009 - 2019): German champion 2003, Willi Brinkmann Cup winner 2001, German international
  • Philipp Häfeli (Switzerland, 2014 - 2015): Swiss champion 2010, 2011 and 2012, Swiss cup winner 2010, 2011 and 2012, German champion 2017, German cup winner 2017 and 2018, Swiss international
  • Matthias Heimbach (Germany, 2013 - 2016): German cup winner 2008, German champion 2009, IWBF Champions cup finalist 2010, European championship finalist with Germany 2011, German international
  • Kai Möller (Germany, 2015 - 2016): Italian champion 2013, Italian cup winner 2013, German cup winner 2018, German international
  • Sebastian Spitznagel (Germany, 2010 - 2014): German champion 2003, German international
  • Klaus Weber (Germany, 2009 - 2013): German champion 1994 and 2003, German cup winner 1993, Willi Brinkmann Cup winner 2001, German international
  • Jacob Michael Williams (United States, 2015 - 2016): US champion 2015, German champion 2018, 2019 and 2020, German cup winner 2019, Champions Cup winner 2018, US international

Notable coaches

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  • Christa Weber (Germany, 2009 - 2013): German champion 1994, 1997 and 2003, German cup winner 1993, Willi Brinkmann Cup winner 2001, Coach of German women's national team, Coach of Germany women's under-19 national team
  • Clifford Fisher (United States, 2014 - 2015): Italian champion 2004, 2009 and 2010, Italian cup winner 2004, 2007 and 2010, Italian supercup winner 2008, Turkish champion 2011, André Vergauwen Cup winner 2004, Willy Brinkmann Cup winner 2008, European champion with Italy 2003 and 2005, Coach of Italian national team, Coach of Italian national under-22 team, Coach of Belgium national team
  • Paul James Capasso (United States, 2015 - 2016): André Vergauwen Cup winner 2014

Miscellaneous

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Naming

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The naming in wheel chair basketball at 1.FC Kaiserslautern is influenced by the club's image from soccer: The team name Rolling Devils traces back to the nickname Red Devils of 1.FC Kaiserslautern's soccer team, the wheel chair basketball team like the club's professional soccer team also has a devil at mascot, and like the Fritz-Walter-Stadion in soccer, the home playing site of FCK Rolling Devils is commonly known as hell (of Kaiserslautern).[9]

Fans

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Supporters' choreography for the championship 2014

From 2012 to 2016, FCK Rolling Devils welcomed on average more than 250 spectators at their home games and were thereby one of the most visited wheel chair basketball teams in Germany. Devils fan culture has strong ties to 1.FC Kaiserslautern's club culture in soccer: the unofficial fan club Rolling Devils Supporters overlapped with soccer fan clubs and the fan culture featured many elements from soccer fandom.[10][11]

Media

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FCK Rolling Devils hosted a homepage,[12] one of the most popular Facebook sites in German wheel chair basketball[13] and from 2014 to 2016 also their own YouTube channel.[14]

Awards

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For their social commitment, FCK Rolling Devils in 2011 received the Stern des Sports (Star of Sports) in bronze from the German Olympic Sports Confederation[15] and in 2013 the Brückenpreis (Bridge award) of the federal state Rhineland-Palatinate.[16]

References

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  1. ^ German Wheelchair Sports Federation (Deutscher Rollstuhl-Sportverband) german homepage (accessed on March 1, 2014)
  2. ^ German Wheelchair Sports Regional Cup (Regionspokal) winners Archived 2013-12-24 at the Wayback Machine (accessed on March 5, 2014)
  3. ^ German Wheelchair Sports Cup (DRS-Pokal) pairings Archived 2015-01-30 at the Wayback Machine (accessed on March 1, 2014)
  4. ^ 2nd German Wheelchair Basketball Federal League (Southern Conference) (2. Rollstuhlbasketball-Bundesliga Süd) rankings Archived 2014-02-22 at the Wayback Machine (accessed on March 1, 2015)
  5. ^ IWBF EuroLeague 3 results 2013 Archived 2014-03-13 at the Wayback Machine (accessed on March 1, 2014)
  6. ^ IWBF Eurocup club rankings Archived 2014-03-07 at the Wayback Machine (accessed on March 1, 2014)
  7. ^ 1.FC Kaiserslautern club departments Archived 2014-11-29 at the Wayback Machine (accessed on March 1, 2014)
  8. ^ 1st German Wheelchair Basketball Federal League 2014 (1. Rollstuhlbasketball-Bundesliga) rankings Archived 2015-06-18 at archive.today (accessed on March 1, 2015)
  9. ^ Höllisch scharf: die Rolling Devils (Hellish hot: the Rolling Devils) Rollt., edition 1/2014 (accessed on November 25, 2014)
  10. ^ Kaiserslautern's Red Wall (Kaiserslauterns Rote Wand), Rolling Devils Facebook-Video (accessed on April 9, 2014)
  11. ^ (23.03.14 - Teil 1/8) Rolling Devils 1.FC KAISERSLAUTERN - RSV Lahn-Dill II, Youtube-Video (accessed on April 9, 2014)
  12. ^ Rolling Devils Homepage (accessed on November 25, 2014)
  13. ^ Rolling Devils Facebook site (accessed on November 25, 2014)
  14. ^ FCK Rolling Devils YouTube channel (accessed on November 25, 2014)
  15. ^ Deutscher Olympischer Sportbund - Sterne des Sports (German Olympic Sports Confederation - Stars of sports) (accessed on November 25, 2014)
  16. ^ Verleihung des Brückenpreises 2013 (Bridge awards 2013) Archived 2014-02-22 at the Wayback Machine (accessed on November 25, 2014)
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