Up-and-coming clubs like Hamburg’s Veolia Towers require more than just the right talent to compete at the top. “Location, infrastructure, and long-term planning certainly play a decisive role,” the Basketball Bundesliga club said in a recent statement.

Euroleague Basketball for example, as the statement pointed out, does not award licenses based solely on sporting criteria. Therefore, the Veolia Towers are looking for a new venue that offers permanently more space than their current home, the Inselpark Arena with up to 4,000 seats. (For highlight matches they temporarily move to the much bigger Barclays Arena.) “The demand is there. Now we need the infrastructure to meet it in the long term”, the statement said. One option they are considering is the future multi-purpose arena in the Neuer Huckepackbahnhof quarter...» Read more