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Medipolis SC Jena is a basketball club based in Jena, Germany that plays in the ProA. Their home court is the Sparkassen Arena, which seats 3,000. Their current head coach is Dominik Reinboth.
The team was known as Erdgas Baskets Jena through the 2006 season, then as POM Baskets Jena, then Science City Jena in 2007. In the 2015–16 season, they won their first ProA title and promoted to the Bundesliga.
History
Although never a big sport in the former East Germany, basketball was played in Jena since the 1960s. In 1994, a new basketball program was found in the "Turn- und Sportverein (TuS) Jena". Starting in the lower divisions the club gained promotion to the second division (2. Liga Süd) in 2001. Once established in professional sports the club started to become a basketball only organization with the founding of the Baskets Jena GmbH which now holds the license.
The biggest success so far has been the promotion to the 1st division (BBL) in 2007. The stay in the top league lasted only one year with the club finishing last after an eventful year. With the promotion, the team switched to the bigger "JenArena" which allowed attendances up to 3.000 in a temporary construction. Financial difficulties in maintaining the "JenArena" led to a return to the gym "Werner-Seelenbinder-Halle".
In the 2015–16 season, Jena won the ProA championship by beating SC Rasta Vechta in the Finals and was promoted back to the Bundesliga.
In 2021, the team changed its name from Science City Jena to Medipolis SC Jena.
Jena byla založena v roce 2003 jako nástupce týmu BSG Post Jena. Tým rychle postoupil v řadách německého basketbalu a v roce 2008 poprvé postoupil do Bundesligy. Jena od té doby hraje v Bundeslize a v sezóně 2014/15 dokonce hrála v EuroCupu.
Domácí zápasy Jeny se hrají v Sparkassen-Arena, která má kapacitu 3 000 diváků. Hlavním trenérem týmu je Björn Harmsen.
Mezi nejvýznamnější hráče Jeny patří Julius Jenkins, Robert Garrett a Thomas Wimbush.