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The Everton Tigers are a professional Basketball team based in the city of Liverpool , in England . Established in 2007 as a start-up franchise of the British Basketball League , the country's elite competition, the Tigers will begin competition from the start of the 2007-08 Season . The club is part of the Everton Football Club organisation and is an amalgam of the Toxteth Tigers community youth programme 1 , which started in 1968 . The team's head coach is Henry Mooney , a former assistant coach to the England National Team 2 . FRANCHISE HISTORY The Everton Tigers was officially presented as the 13th member of the British Basketball League on June 19 , 2007 , after a professional basketball franchise was awarded to the city of Liverpool by the league following fears that the North-west region's only representative, Chester Jets , would fold due to financial burndens. The club is part Bill Kenwright 's Everton FC organisation, who became the sixth Football club in the history of British basketball to field a basketball team, following in the footsteps of Manchester United , Leicester City (Now Leicester Riders ), Glasgow Rangers , Portsmouth and Newcastle United (Now Newcastle Eagles ) 3 . Based around the community work of Everton and existing community basketball club Toxteth Tigers, the new club have specifically targeted youth development as one of the main goal's, while the BBL senior team will be headed by Toxteth coach Henry Mooney . On August 17 , it was announced that Tigers would be using the Greenbank Sports Academy in Sefton Park as their home venue which holds a capacity for 500 spectators, making it the smallest venue in the league. HOME ARENAS : Greenbank Sports Academy (2007-present) PLAYERS Current roster ''The numbers are established according to the official website of Britain's top professional league, the BBL ( www.bbl.org.uk ).'' ''As of September 8 2007 '' SEE ALSO NOTES EXTERNAL LINKS |
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