About this Site

This is the second draft of the Marathon Basketball Site. In the first year of Marathon Basketball having a site on the net we received over 700 visitors and an excellent response from foreign players wishing to play for the team. We would like to encourage any players wishing to contact the club to do so by click here and signing the guestbook.

Welcome

Welcome everyone. You have reached the Marathon Basketball Homepage. Marathon/Team Burger King have been on the Web for the past year with great success. The purpose of this site is so people can find out more about Irish Basketball and utimatley our team which competes in Ireland premier basketball league, The E.S.B. Superleague. Please feel free to contact the club by clicking here. Alternativley any questions regarding the site design or otherwise may be addressed to the Webmaster.....

Structure

Our club is divided into 2 distinct sections. Team Burger King and Marathon... The difference between these 2 sections is really only name. Team Burger King is the senior section of the club while Marathon is the underage and Intermediate sections. Team Burger King compete in the ESB Superleague and Mens Sprite Cup and have been quite successful in the past few years.
Marathon is the underage section of our club. They compete at U12, U14, U16, U17, U19 and Intermediate Mens age levels.

The Irish Superleague

The Men's Basketball Superleague is a major undertaking in Irish Basketball. The Superleague consists of fourteen clubs from around the country playing on a home and away basis (28 Games) from September to April. The remit of each francise is to increase crowd support, develop television marketing and enhance the semi-professional status of the sport over the next three to five years.

Limerick's superleague team is made up of the top young talent in the area as well as a number of Professional American Players. The teams's home venue is the University of Limerick. The University is currently constructing a new £10.2 million Basketball facility which will incorporate seating for over 700 spectators and includes four basketball courts. This along with other new facilities in the city is proof of the growth of the game in the Limerick Area.

The Limerick Superleague Team is competing successfully with the best that Ireland has to offer. This is borne out by the fact that Limerick has reached the quarter finals of the prestigious National Sprite Cup (The equivalent to the All-Ireland Championships in other sports). Limerick will also appear on National Television during their Superleague Campaign this season.