Basketball champion ratiopharm Ulm opens the new Bundesliga season with a home game. Coach Anton Gavel’s team will welcome Niners Chemnitz on September 27, as the league announced.
The dethroned title holder Alba Berlin is a guest at the MLP Academics Heidelberg a day later, runner-up Telekom Baskets Bonn plays at home against promoted Tigers Tübingen on the same day.
Ulm sensationally won the first championship in club history in mid-June.
In the playoffs, Ulm had beaten Alba Berlin, Bayern Munich and Bonn one after the other.